🕊️Kindness of God Leads Wife to Repentance ⏎ from Sin Rom 2:4 🥜 Planting + 💦 = God's Growth🌱1 Cor 3:6-7, His Glory Ps 115:1, Salvation Is God's

[Nochaeld]

Father, we thank You that Your Word does not return void, but like the rain and snow come down from heaven to water the earth and make it vivacious, so is the Word effective in fulfilling the purposes You have ordained for it to accomplish, Isa 55:10-11. Thank You the seed is the Word of God, and that seeds have been planted, Mark 4:14, Mark 4:26, Mark 4:27, Mark 4:28, Mark 4:29. From You and through You and back to You be all glory, Rom 11:36. Please continue working on this wife's heart by bringing fresh truth, restraining evil and carrying any work You've begun on to completion until the day of Christ, Phil 1:6.

CONTINUE to bring others into her path to water seeds, speak truth and show the kindness of God, Rom 2:4, and across the paths of all who have heard the word from all time, especially the last 14 months, especially for our patriarchal and matriarchal figures, progeny and posterity. Since the steps of the righteous are ordered by You, Ps 37:23, as evidenced by the evangelist and the foreign official reading Isaiah 53 in Acts 8:26-31, the believer in Acts 9:10-11 who was told to go find the future Apostle to the Gentiles, and the Apostles directed to go help a certain man, Acts 16:6-10. You, being perfect AND patient, not willing any perish but rather that all come to repentance, 2 Pet 3:9, and desire all to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, even using prayer to that ends, 1 Tim 2:1-4.

Thanksgiving for our prayers that You are actively using, as "The Word of God is Living and Active and Sharper than any Two-edged Sword, Piercing as far as division of Soul and Spirit, and Judging the Thoughts and Intents of The Heart," Heb 4:12. "My Father is Always Working Even Until Now, And I Myself am Working," Jesus, John 5:17...

Thank You we and they ARE currently hearing Your Word by The Holy Spirit, John 16:8, we believe before honor comes humility, Prov 18:12, You are humbling those who need to be humbled, Dan 4:37 that they come to their senses, Dan 4:34, 2 Tim 2:26, as the prodigal in Luke 15:17, and Hosea's wife in Hos 2:6-7, and we are experiencing Your Protection as YOU Keep us, them, progeny, folks, ministry partners, fellow servants of Christ and stewards of The Mysteries of The Word of God, 1 Cor 4:1-2, and us ALL from evil, deception, lies, temptation, sin, evil people and the evil one by receiving the love of the truth that we may be saved, 2 Thes 2:9-10. Thank You in advance, Mk 11:24, thank You for being a rewarder of diligent seeking, Heb 11:6, and that fervent prayers of those made righteous by faith avail much and prevail, James 5:16. Thank You for all this and more, great and mighty things, Jer 33:3, beyond all we can ask of imagine, Eph 3:20, in Jesus’ Name, John 14:13-14, The Amen, Faithful Witness, Originator of God's Creation, Rev 3:14, in Him are all the Promises Inherited, Yes and Amen, 2 Cor 1:20.

 

[Articles]

We join you in thanking our Father for His kindness and His sovereign grace in this marriage and in the hearts of all who have heard the seed of the Word planted over these many months.

We love your confidence in the truth that salvation is of the Lord and that our calling is to plant and water while God alone gives the increase. As it is written, I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 1 Cor 3:6-7. And we give all glory to Him alone, for it is written, Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake. Ps 115:1. From Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to Him be the glory forever. Rom 11:36.

We agree with you that the goodness of God leads to repentance. Rom 2:4 reminds us, Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance. We pray that this dear wife, as a beloved spouse in the holy covenant of marriage which God ordained as a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman, would experience that goodness not as permission to remain in sin but as the loving call to turn from sin and turn to Christ with a humbled and contrite heart. Before honor comes humility. Prov 18:12. As with Nebuchadnezzar who was humbled until he came to his senses and blessed the Most High, Dan 4:34, Dan 4:37, and as the prodigal came to himself and returned to his father, Luke 15:17, and as Hosea's wife was hedged in so that she would return, Hos 2:6-7, we ask the Lord to do whatever is necessary in love to bring her to repentance and to faith.

We also stand with you on the power and faithfulness of the Word. So shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do. Isa 55:11. The seed is the Word and once sown it works according to its kind, Mark 4:14, Mark 4:26-29, even when we sleep and rise, the seed sprouts and grows, we know not how, because God is at work. We are confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Phil 1:6. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Pet 3:9. And He desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, and calls us to pray for all, 1 Tim 2:1-4.

We pray now together in the name of Jesus, for it is only through Jesus Christ that we have access to the Father, and there is no other name by which we can be saved. Jesus said, Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. John 14:13-14.

Father, we thank You that Your Word is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Heb 4:12. We thank You that You are always working, as Jesus said, My Father is still working, so I am working also. John 5:17. We ask that You continue to convict through Your Holy Spirit, who convicts the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment, John 16:8, and that You would restrain evil, deception and the schemes of the evil one, and cause all who have heard the truth to receive the love of the truth that they may be saved. 2 Thes 2:10. Order the steps of the righteous to cross her path and the paths of our patriarchal and matriarchal figures, our progeny and posterity, and all who have heard, just as You directed Philip to the Ethiopian official reading Isaiah, Acts 8:26-31, and Ananias to Saul, Acts 9:10-11, and Paul through a vision to Macedonia, Acts 16:6-10, for a man's steps are established by Yahweh. Ps 37:23.

We ask You to water every seed planted over these fourteen months and over all time, to bring fresh laborers to speak truth with kindness, to show Your kindness that leads to repentance, and to keep this family, these ministry partners and fellow servants and stewards of the mysteries of God, 1 Cor 4:1-2, from evil and temptation. We thank You in advance by faith, for whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them, Mark 11:24, and that You are a rewarder of those who diligently seek You, Heb 11:6, and that the insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. James 5:16. Do great and mighty things which we do not know, Jer 33:3, far beyond all that we ask or think, Eph 3:20, and let every promise be Yes and Amen in Christ, 2 Cor 1:20, who is the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God's creation. Rev 3:14. We entrust this wife, this marriage, and every soul You have ordained to hear, into Your perfect and patient hands, asking that You would be glorified in repentance, restoration, and new life in Christ. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.

 

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We hear the weight and the hope in your prayer, and we thank you for sharing it with us. Fourteen months of faithfully planting and watering while you wait for God to give the growth is a long road, and we are grateful for your steady love for your wife, your family, and those who have heard the Word through you.

What encourages us in your words is that you are resting the outcome where it belongs, with the Lord. We have found that spiritual growth so often happens gradually, almost imperceptibly, over a lifetime with highs and lows. Our part is to stay faithful in the simple, core ways we meet with God through His Word, through prayer, and in worship and fellowship with other believers, and to trust the Holy Spirit to do what only He can do in a heart. You are already doing that so well as you keep praying and keep asking God to bring others across her path to speak truth with kindness.

We will keep standing with you in that. We pray you will have fresh strength and peace as you wait, and that you will stay surrounded by faithful brothers who can encourage you and water your own faith in this season.

Father, we thank You for this husband's faithful prayers and for the seeds of Your Word that have been planted. We ask You to continue Your work in his wife's heart in Your perfect and patient way, to bring truth and kindness across her path and to guard their family from evil and deception. Give him wisdom, endurance, and hope as he trusts You with what only You can do. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Zedekiah]

May Father God bless your request that your dreaming of. We wait on the Lord and we cleave to his name and to his word and to prayer night and day. Everyday. All the time. No matter what. Faithfully. May God bless ### who pray in Lord Yeshuas name amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your prayer is comely and according to the mind of God, for it seeks not your own ease but His glory and the soul's true good. You have planted the seed which is the Word of God, as our Lord describes in Mark 4, and you have asked that He who alone can give the increase would water it, and this is right, for one plants and another waters but God gives the growth, as it is written in 1 Corinthians 3:6-7. From Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever, Romans 11:36, and His Word shall not return void but shall accomplish that which He pleases, even as the rain comes down from heaven to make the earth fruitful, Isaiah 55:10-11.

We join you in praying that the kindness of God may lead to repentance, Romans 2:4. Yet let us remember what true repentance is. There is a carnal repentance which is of the flesh and after the manner of the sinful nature, produced by fear of judgment, and it gives no glory to God. True repentance, that repentance unto life spoken of in Acts 11:18, is the work of the Holy Spirit in the renewed heart. It gives God glory. It makes a rainbow with tears of grief for sin and glances of hope at the love of Christ and His great finished work. It is not a preparation for grace, it is the first result of grace working within the soul. We are to preach repentance in the name of Jesus, which means we are to preach it as the gift of God, one of the free gifts of His grace, and whoever has it may rest assured that the hand of the Lord has been upon him for good.

Do not think that some eminent degree of repentance is necessary before a soul can be saved. There are degrees of faith and yet the least faith saves, so there are degrees of repentance and the least repentance will save the soul if it is sincere, when it leads a sinner to look out of self to Christ and to Christ only. Faith and repentance are inseparable graces, both necessary unto salvation, yet neither is to be trusted in. If you trust to your repentance or even to your faith, you might as well trust to your sins. Nothing is to be trusted but the finished work of Jesus Christ upon Calvary's bloody tree. Salvation is without money and without price, Isaiah 55:1, and the way of salvation is simple and instantaneous, Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, Isaiah 45:22. He that believes on Him shall not be ashamed, Romans 10:11.

Therefore we pray with you that the Lord would continue the work He has begun and carry it on to completion until the day of Christ, Philippians 1:6, that He would order steps as He did when He sent Philip to the eunuch reading Isaiah 53 in Acts 8, and Ananias to Saul in Acts 9, and called Paul into Macedonia in Acts 16, for the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, Psalm 37:23. We ask that He would bring others across her path and across the paths of all who have heard the Word in these months, and especially those of your household, your patriarchal and matriarchal figures and your progeny and posterity, to speak truth and to show that kindness which leads to repentance. For the Lord is perfect and patient, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9, and He desires all to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth, 1 Timothy 2:4.

We thank God that His Word is living and active and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit and judging the thoughts and intents of the heart, Hebrews 4:12, and that the Father is always working, John 5:17, and the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, John 16:8. May He grant that godly sorrow which needs not to be repented of, and where there is true repentance may there be the full and free remission of sins in the name of Jesus, Luke 24:47. And as repentance lives as long as faith lives, may He restore unto all who have fallen the joy of His salvation and uphold them with His free Spirit, Psalm 51:12, keeping you and yours, and all fellow servants and stewards of the mysteries of God, 1 Corinthians 4:1, from evil and deception and the evil one, as you receive the love of the truth that you may be saved, 2 Thessalonians 2:10.

We commend this wife, and all those for whom you intercede, to the sovereign mercy of God, praying that He would humble whom He must humble, that they may come to themselves as the prodigal did in Luke 15:17, and as Nebuchadnezzar did when he lifted his eyes to heaven, Daniel 4:34, for before honor comes humility, Proverbs 18:12. May the Lord keep your marriage as He ordained it, a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman, and make it to reflect the unbreakable covenant love of Christ for His church. We ask great and mighty things which we know not, Jeremiah 33:3, beyond all we can ask or think, Ephesians 3:20, trusting that the fervent prayer of the righteous avails much, James 5:16, and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him, Hebrews 11:6, in the name of Jesus, the Amen and faithful witness, in whom all the promises are Yes and Amen, 2 Corinthians 1:20.