🙇🏻 Forgiveness Pronounced Jn 8:10, Lk 23:17, ⚠️ Go & Sin No More Jn 5:14, Jn 8:11, Repentance, Lk 24:47 👁️👁 Opened by💡of God's 📖 2 Cor 4:4-6...

[Nochaeld]

Forgiveness, Mercy Verbally Pronounced, Jn 8:10, Lk 23:17, Forgive as Jesus Forgives, (with Warnings -- Do Not Sin Again Lest Something Worse Befalls You), John 5:14, Go and Sin No More, Jn 8:11, True Repentance, Lk 24:47 👁Opened byof God's 2 Cor 4:4-6 Quits self over god Gen 3:1-15, New Ezek 36:26 Jn 3:3-7... Father, first and foremost, we thank You -- You were in Christ, reconciling the world to Yourself, not counting our sins against us, 2 Cor 5:19. I totally forgive my wife for everything, so that she may by the kindness of God be lead to repentance, Rom 2:4, Matt 16:19, John 20:23, and that I may demonstrate my sins have forgiven been forgiven me, as I forgive others, specifically the one who has hurt me most, Matt 6:15, Mk 11:26, Eph 4:32, Col 3:13, even as Jesus asked that You forgive those who crucified Him, "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing," Luke 23:17, and Stephen in Acts imitated this while being stoned to death, "Lord, do not count this sin against them," Acts 7:59-60, yet we know each person must live according to the holiness without which no one will see The Lord, Hebrews 12:4, since all humans are speeding toward one of two ends: The Harlot of Babylon OR The Bride of Christ...

Of course we pray she does not continue in sin, that nothing worse may befall her, Jn 5:15, since sexual immorality and adultery are deceptive and exclude from the eternal kingdom, 1 Cor 6:9-10, Rev 22:15-16, and God cannot be mocked, Gal 6:7, since the deeds of the flesh are evident, Gal 5:19-21, but rather she'd REPENT, turn back to God so she can be saved, Luke 24:46-47, Experiences Refreshing, Acts 3:19, Renewal by Your washing of regeneration by Your mercy, since the kindness of God has appeared, so we might be justified by faith, in Jesus Christ, be made heirs with Him, share the hope of eternal life, and devote ourselves to good deeds, Tit 3:3-8. We ask her mind would be set free by by the Light of God's Word, so Light would shine in her heart so she may receive the Light of The Knowledge of The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor 4:4-6 Quits self over god Gen 3:1-15, New Ezek 36:26, Experiences New Birth Jesus said is a necessity to enter or even see the kingdom of God, Jn 3:3-7... Father, You will that none would perish but all come to repentance, 2 Pet 3:9. Grant her wisdom and revelation to actually know You, Eph 1:17. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of The Holy one is understanding, Prov 9:10. Surely You take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather they turn from their evil ways and live, Ezek 33:11... You desire all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, 1 Tim 2:4. Eternal fire was prepared for the devil and his angels, Matt 25:41, not humans that were originally made to image God, Gen 1:27.

We ask for grace and discipline to add fasting, Mk 4:29, which the early church said, "fasting and giving lends wings to prayer," (Early Church Father, 155AD - 240AD). Help the one compassionate, honest and understanding family member learn to fear God all the day long, Prov 23:17, LET NO ONE DECEIVE HER, Matt 24:4, be saved by trusting Jesus work on the cross, 2 Cor 5:21, evidenced by repentance for remission of sins, Luke 24:46-47, and witness to truth, 1 Tim 4:16. I forgive this one who has broken covenantal faith and vows with no confession, remorse or repentance, for leading men into adultery and thus destruction, Prov 6:32, for neglecting pastoral counsel, texts and phone calls for months from any church with an accurate view of discipleship. I forgive her, she knows not what she does, Luke 23:34. If a king's heart is as channels of water in Your hand, Prov 21:1, how much more an individual that has chosen to feed on raisin cakes and needs repentance from serious sins, which Hosea's "deal with her" was based on repentance and faithfulness, see Hos 3:1-5. Jesus, after pronouncing that forgiving the sins of other has authority, John 8:10-11, John 20:23, said, "Go and sin no more," John 8:11.

I've reached out, am still reaching out, have prayed and fasted, am still praying and asking for wisdom and grace now discipline to fast -- let her not be to me as most of Jerusalem was unwilling to gather under the Shelter of Wings of God Almighty, Ps 17:8, Ps 57:1, 91:1, or come to Jesus, over which He publicly wept, they having stoned those sent to rescue them, Matt 23:37... Thankfully she is in a country that is impossible to get the "D" word. I know I have the adultery clause from Jesus which allows me to "D" and remarry, Matt 5:32, Matt 19:9, however only in The Lord, 1 Cor 7:39, see being equally yoked, 2 Cor 6:14-15, Old Testament precedent, Gen 24:3-4. And if she is unsaved, which everything indicates, there is the desertion by an unbelieving spouse clause, 1 Cor 7:15, where traditional, modern and ancient Jewish theology all allow for remarriage as if the unbelieving spouse (or adulteress) "were dead." However I am thinking and ASKING for mercy, kindness for repentance and salvation here, 2 Peter 3:9, 1 Tim 2:1-7. Maybe she was saved but probably just a church goer, but, regardless, "If any of you wanders from the truth and someone turns her back it's considered turning a sinner from the errors of their ways, and counted as a soul saved from death, and covers a multitude of sins, James 5:19-20? I ask for that THAT -- may THAT yield a remarkable testimony of God's saving grace, 1 Tim 1:15-16, and exemplify Christ and The Church, Eph 5:32-33. So I again ask for wisdom, Prov 2:1-5, Col 1:9-10, James 1:5, and for love to abound in knowledge and discernment to choose the highest, Phil 1:9-11, yet asking for it loosely as CHRIST in the Garden of Gethsemane, Matt 26:39, Mk 14:36 -- NEVERTHELESS, let YOUR WILL BE DONE, not mine, Luke 22:42, Heb 5:7.

Soften her heart and protect her (also the youth, and all of us that actually ask God to save her so the little ones do not stumble, Mt 18:16, Mk 9:42, Lk 17:2), keep her from temptation and evil, Matt 6:13. Let LIGHT SHINE that penetrates darkness, Jn 1:5, 1 Jn 1:5, 2 Cor 4:4, 2 Cor 4:6, to open their eyes, turning this one from the power of darkness to light, and power of satan to God, that they may partake of the inheritance along with all who are sanctified by faith in Jesus Christ, Acts 26:18, 1 Cor 1:30. Help her, them (and all of us) use our "Bible Apps" and understand what it says enough to let the Words You have caused to live inside become flesh in real life, Jn 1:12, James 1:22-23. Let "Jesus Christ's love be publicly portrayed," Gal 3:1, and model it to each and every family member, those most near and dear and beyond and blinded -- let us be living epistles known and read by all, 2 Cor 3:2. All Scripture is inspired by God Almighty and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right," 2 Tim 3:15-16. "Do not take us out of the world, but keep us from the evil one," John 17:15. "Sanctify us by the truth; Your word is truth," John 17:17. Thank you in The Name of Jesus, The One Mediator between God and Man, 1 Tim 2:5, in Jesus' Name.

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh," Ezek 36:26.
"But this is the covenant I'll make... I'll put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I'll be their God; they'll be My people," Jer 31:33.
Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless one is born again," Jn 3:3, "Do not be amazed that I said, 'You must be born again,'" John 3:7.

 

[Articles]

We join you in thanking our Father that He was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting our trespasses against us, as it is written in 2 Cor 5:19, and we stand with you in the forgiveness you have pronounced over your wife. We affirm this heart to forgive as we have been forgiven, even as Jesus said Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing in Luke 23:34 and as Stephen prayed Lord, do not hold this sin against them in Acts 7:60. We forgive as we have been forgiven, for if we do not forgive others their trespasses neither will our Father forgive us, Matt 6:15, Mark 11:26, and we are called to be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other just as God also in Christ forgave us, Eph 4:32, Col 3:13. To verbally pronounce forgiveness and mercy as Jesus did to the woman caught in adultery when He said neither do I condemn you, go your way, from now on sin no more, John 8:11, and as He warned the healed man do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you, John 5:14, is right and biblical, and it reflects the authority He has given to His people to declare forgiveness, John 20:23, Matt 16:19.

We also must speak clearly about the sin itself because forgiveness does not excuse continuing in sin. Sexual immorality and adultery are deceptive and serious, and those who practice such things without repentance will not inherit the Kingdom of God, 1 Cor 6:9-10, Gal 5:19-21, Rev 22:15, and we must remember that God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows that he will also reap, Gal 6:7. The deeds of the flesh are evident, and adultery destroys the one who commits it, Prov 6:32, and breaks covenant vows before God. We agree with you in praying that your wife does not continue in sin lest something worse befall her, John 5:14, but that she would truly repent, for repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all the nations, Luke 24:47, and when we repent and turn again, our sins are blotted out that times of refreshing may come, Acts 3:19. We pray that the kindness of God would lead her to repentance, Rom 2:4, for the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit comes by His mercy, Titus 3:5, Titus 3:3-8.

We lift up your request that the eyes of her understanding would be opened, for the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ should not dawn on them, 2 Cor 4:4, but God who said light shall shine out of darkness has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor 4:6. We ask that she would quit choosing self over God as in Gen 3:1-15 and receive a new heart, for God has promised I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you, I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh, Ezek 36:26, and I will put My law in their inward parts and write it on their hearts, Jer 31:33. Jesus said most assuredly unless one is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God, John 3:3, and you must be born anew, John 3:7. Without holiness no one will see the Lord, Heb 12:14, and we are all hastening toward one of two ends, either as the harlot of Babylon or as the Bride of Christ, and we plead for mercy that she would be part of the Bride.

We thank God for your heart for marriage. We believe marriage is a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman that images Christ and the Church, Eph 5:32-33, and we strongly endorse your desire for reconciliation rather than divorce. It is true that Jesus spoke of the exception for sexual immorality, Matt 5:32, Matt 19:9, and Paul spoke of desertion by an unbelieving spouse, 1 Cor 7:15, and that a wife is bound as long as her husband lives and is free to be married to whom she wants, only in the Lord, 1 Cor 7:39, and we are not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers, 2 Cor 6:14, Gen 24:3-4, yet the heart of Hosea in Hos 3:1-5 and the heart of God is for restoration upon genuine repentance and faithfulness. We agree with you in asking for mercy, kindness and salvation here, for the Lord is not slow concerning His promise but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, 2 Pet 3:9, who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth, 1 Tim 2:4, who has no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live, Ezek 33:11. Eternal fire was prepared for the devil and his angels, Matt 25:41, not for those made in the image of God, Gen 1:27.

We also pray for that compassionate honest family member and for the little ones, that they would not be caused to stumble, for whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck, Matt 18:6, Mark 9:42, Luke 17:2. We ask that no one would deceive her, Matt 24:4, and that she would learn to fear the Lord all day long, Prov 23:17, for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding, Prov 9:10, and that she would receive wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, Eph 1:17.

We join you in asking for grace and discipline to add fasting, for fasting lends wings to prayer, and we know this kind can come out by nothing except by prayer and fasting, Mark 9:29, and we ask for wisdom as you continue to reach out and to pray. If we lack wisdom we ask of God who gives to all liberally, James 1:5, Prov 2:1-5, Col 1:9-10, and we ask that love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment that you may approve the things that are excellent, Phil 1:9-11. We pray this with open hands as our Lord prayed in Gethsemane, not My will but Yours be done, Matt 26:39, Mark 14:36, Luke 22:42, Heb 5:7. The heart of a king is like streams of water in the hand of the Lord, He turns it wherever He desires, Prov 21:1, how much more the heart of an individual, and we ask that He would soften her heart and protect her and keep her from temptation and deliver her from evil, Matt 6:13, not taking us out of the world but keeping us from the evil one, John 17:15, and sanctifying us through Your truth, Your word is truth, John 17:17.

We pray that the light would shine that overcomes darkness, John 1:5, 1 John 1:5, to open her eyes and turn her from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God that she may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Jesus, Acts 26:18, 1 Cor 1:30. Help her and help us to not only use our Bible apps but to be doers of the word and not hearers only, James 1:22, so that the Word becomes flesh in our lives, John 1:12, and that Jesus Christ may be openly portrayed among us, Gal 3:1, and that we may be living letters known and read by all, 2 Cor 3:2. All Scripture is God breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for instruction in righteousness, 2 Tim 3:16, 2 Tim 3:15.

Father, we thank You for this brother who has chosen forgiveness over bitterness and mercy over judgment. We ask You to keep him, give him strength and purity as he waits, and let his life exemplify Christ and the Church. We ask that if any wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins, James 5:19-20. Let this become a remarkable testimony of Your saving grace, 1 Tim 1:15-16. May Your will be done in this marriage, whether through miraculous repentance and restoration or through Your sovereign leading, and may You be glorified. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ, the one mediator between God and men, 1 Tim 2:5, in Jesus name, amen.

 

[Powers]

I prayed with you for your wife's heart renewal, your family & requests~ in Jesus Name, Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

Thank you for sharing this so honestly. We hear how much you have carried, the pain of betrayal, the long months of reaching out and praying and fasting, and at the same time a clear choice to forgive and to desire mercy and repentance rather than simply an end to the marriage.

Choosing to forgive in the way you describe is a real decision of the will, and it is also normal for the emotions to take much longer to catch up. Many who have been hurt find they can mean the forgiveness sincerely and still feel waves of grief, anger or anxiety afterward. That does not undo the decision, it just shows how deep the wound is and why steady support matters.

We are encouraged that you want to leave the outcome in God's hands and to seek wisdom day by day. One thing that may help you keep steady is to stay closely connected to one faithful pastor or mature believer who knows your story and can walk with you consistently, not just about your wife but about your own strength, your fasting, and the care of the young people you mentioned. You should not have to carry this alone or figure out next steps in isolation.

Father, we lift this husband to You and we lift his wife to You. Soften and open her heart to Your light, guard her from further harm, and guard the children in this family as well. Give this brother wisdom, endurance, and clear counsel around him, and keep him close to You as he waits on Your will. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your prayer has been laid before the Lord with a broken and yet hopeful spirit, and there is much in it which is according to the mind of Christ. To forgive as Christ forgives, even those who have wounded you most deeply, is a mark of grace wrought in the heart. You have done well to say with Him, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do, and to remember Stephen who prayed, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. Such forgiveness does not make light of sin, but it shows that you have tasted forgiving grace yourself and desire to be an epistle of Christ known and read by your own household.

Yet forgiveness pronounced must never be separated from that faithful warning which Christ Himself joined to it, Go, and sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. The same Lord who said in John eight, Neither do I condemn thee, added that word of holy caution. To forgive is Christlike, to continue in sin is to despise the kindness of God which leads to repentance. Sexual immorality and adultery are not trifles to be excused, for the deeds of the flesh are evident, and those who practice such things without repentance shall not inherit the kingdom of God, and God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. Therefore your prayer that she may not continue in sin is right and necessary, for without holiness no man shall see the Lord.

You ask concerning true repentance, and here we must be very careful to distinguish that which is unto life from that which is short lived and worthless. True repentance, that repentance which is the work of the Spirit of God, gives God glory. It is not a mere turning away for a time and then returning with greater gusto, as a man may abstain from food to increase his appetite. It is a godly sorrow for sin itself, a hatred of it because Christ was nailed to the cross for it, and a complete change of mind wrought by the Spirit. It is not a compensation for sin, nor a condition invented by man, for there are no conditions of salvation in that sense. Repentance is a blessed grace of God the Holy Spirit, absolutely necessary unto salvation, and yet it is a free gift of His grace. Wherever there is real sorrow for sin, wherever there is an honest determination by God's grace to cease from sin, that repentance has been produced by the Spirit and the work of salvation has already begun in the soul.

You must not expect to be perfect in repentance before you are saved, for repentance itself is imperfect in us. But true repentance will yield works meet for repentance. It will be practical repentance, and it will last. Faith and repentance are inseparable. No faith is genuine but such as is consistent with hearty and sincere repentance for past sin, and no repentance is true but that which consorts with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing is to be trusted to but the finished work of Jesus Christ upon Calvary's bloody tree, where He bore enormous sin and paid the infinite ransom for the guilty. Believe then in a great Savior for great sinners.

You pray rightly that light may shine in darkness, that God who commanded light to shine out of darkness would shine in her heart to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, and that He would take away the heart of stone and give a heart of flesh, and cause her to be born again, for except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. This new birth and this new heart are the covenant promise, I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts. For this we plead the name of Him who is the one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who was set forth to be a propitiation for sin.

You have spoken of the adultery clause and of desertion, and you show a tender desire not to use liberty for hardness but to seek mercy, that she might be saved and that your marriage might yet exemplify Christ and His Church. That desire is comely. Marriage is the lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and what God has joined together let not man put asunder. While the Lord has spoken of grave breach of that covenant, His heart is revealed in Hosea and in Ephesians five, that He seeks reconciliation and faithfulness, and that He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. He wills that none should perish but that all should come to repentance, and He desires all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. To turn a sinner from the error of his way is to save a soul from death and to cover a multitude of sins. So we pray with you for that very mercy.

Continue then in prayer and in fasting, which rightly lends wings to prayer, and in the Word which is able to make wise unto salvation and to correct and teach what is right. Ask for wisdom, for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and He gives liberally to those who ask. Yet ask as Christ did in the garden, Nevertheless not my will but Thine be done. Keep your own heart with all diligence, lest bitterness take root, and be kind and tenderhearted, forgiving even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. Guard the little ones, that they stumble not, and let your life be a living epistle.

We join you now in prayer. O God, for Your name's sake pardon iniquity, for it is great. For the sake of Jesus who died for the guilty, grant repentance unto life. Open blinded eyes and turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in Christ may be received. Give a new heart and a new spirit. Restore joy and create in us clean hearts. Sanctify us through Thy truth, Thy word is truth, and keep us from evil. Grant that Thy will be done in this household, to the praise of the glory of Thy grace. In the name of Jesus our only hope we ask it. Amen.

 

[Sparklee]

Praying for your wife for her heart, may all circumstances align to bring her to the cross, true repentance, true relationship, making Jesus Lord of her life and true transformation in Jesus Name Amen.