🕊️Kindness of God Leads Wife to Turn Back to God, Contentment, 1 Tim 6:6, Honesty, Listening to Pastors, Mothering, Tremble at His Word 📖Isa 66:2...

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Kindness of God Leads Wife to Repentance to Godliness with Contentment, 1 Tim 6:6, Honesty, Listening to Pastors, Mothering, Trembling at His Word, Isaiah 66:2, Fear of Lord and Hatred of Evil, Ps 119:128, Prov 8:13, 2 Cor 7:10-11 ⏎ from Sin Rom 2:4, Planting + = God's Growth 1 Cor 3:6-7, His Glory Ps 115:1-3, Salvation Belongs to Our God, Who Sits Upon The Throne, and Unto The Lamb, Rev 7:2, Holy Spirit's Work Jn 16:8, Humbling Restoring Dan 4:28-37 2 Co 7:9-10...

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 several 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 lifting up this wife and this marriage before the throne of grace, and we thank God for your heart that desires to see her turn back to Him in genuine repentance and godliness.

We love your focus on the kindness of God leading to repentance, for it is written in Rom 2:4 that the goodness of God leads you to repentance, and we pray that she would experience that goodness not as a license to remain as she is but as the loving pressure that brings godly sorrow. As it says in 2 Cor 7:10, For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death. We pray for that godly sorrow that is thorough and earnest, as described in 2 Cor 7:11, and for the fruit that proves repentance is real.

We agree with you for godliness with contentment, for 1 Tim 6:6 says that godliness with contentment is great gain. We pray that the Lord would deliver her from any discontent, comparison, or love of the world, and would teach her to find her sufficiency in Christ. We pray for honesty in her heart and on her lips, that she would walk in truth, and for a willingness to listen to faithful pastors who preach the Word, for God has given shepherds to feed and guard the flock. We pray especially for her high calling as a wife and mother, that she would embrace it with joy and reverence for the Lord, that she would love her husband and love her children and manage her home in a way that adorns the gospel.

We pray that she would be one who trembles at His Word, as the Lord says in Isa 66:2, but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word. May she also walk in the fear of the Lord which is to hate evil, as Prov 8:13 teaches, The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil, and in a wholehearted love for all of His precepts, for Ps 119:128 says Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

We rejoice with you in the confidence that planting and watering belong to us but growth belongs to God alone. As it is written in 1 Cor 3:6, I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase, and 1 Cor 3:7 reminds us So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. We thank God that His Word does not return void. Isa 55:11 promises so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do. The seed is the Word, as Mark 4:14 says, and you have been faithful to plant that seed. We trust Him to bring the increase in His perfect timing for His glory, for Ps 115:1 declares Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake, and Rom 11:36 reminds us For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. Amen. Salvation truly belongs to our God, as Rev 7:10 proclaims They cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.

We ask the Father to continue His humbling and restoring work by His Holy Spirit, for Jesus said in John 16:8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment. We pray that He would convict, humble, and bring her to her senses as He did with Nebuchadnezzar in Dan 4:37 where he declared Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase, and as with the prodigal in Luke 15:17 when he came to himself, and as with Hosea's wife in Hos 2:6-7 where You hedged up her way that she would say I will go and return to my first husband. We pray that any deception would be broken and that she would recover herself out of the snare of the devil, as 2 Tim 2:26 says, and receive the love of the truth that she might be saved, as 2 Thess 2:10 warns.

We stand on the promise of Phil 1:6, Being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ, and we ask the Lord to order steps and bring others across her path to water the seed, just as He ordered the steps of Philip to the Ethiopian in Acts 8:26, and directed Ananias to Saul in Acts 9:10, and led Paul through a vision to Macedonia in Acts 16:9. For Ps 37:23 says A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way. We pray this also for all who have heard the Word through her life, for your household, your progeny and posterity, and for the patriarchal and matriarchal figures in your family, that God who is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance as 2 Pet 3:9 says, and who desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth as 1 Tim 2:4 says, would draw each one by His mercy.

We thank You, Father, that You are always working, as Jesus said in John 5:17, My Father is still working, so I am working, too, and that Your Word is living and active, as Heb 4:12 declares For the word of God 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. We believe that before honor comes humility, as Prov 18:12 teaches, and we ask You to gently humble and protect all of us, our families, our ministry partners and fellow servants in Christ who are stewards of the mysteries of God as in 1 Cor 4:1, keeping us from evil, deception, and temptation.

Father, we pray together now in the name of Jesus, for it is only through Him we have access to You, and there is no other name by which we can be saved, and whatever we ask in His name He will do that the Father may be glorified in the Son as promised in John 14:13. We thank You in advance by faith as Mark 11:24 instructs, believing that we have received what we ask for according to Your will. You are the rewarder of those who diligently seek You as Heb 11:6 says, and the insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective as James 5:16 assures us. We ask You to answer and show us great and mighty things which we do not know as Jer 33:3 invites, and to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think as Eph 3:20 promises. We entrust this wife, this marriage, and this family to You, and we say Amen, for 2 Cor 1:20 reminds us For however many are the promises of God, in him is the Yes. Therefore also through him is the Amen, to the glory of God through us, and He who is the Amen, the faithful witness as Rev 3:14 declares, will be faithful to complete what He has begun.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear your heart in this, your love for your wife and your longing to see her find real peace and joy again with the Lord, as a wife and mother and in her daily walk. Thank you for letting us pray with you. We can see you have been faithfully planting and watering with prayer and kindness for a long time, and we know how heavy it can feel to keep waiting for growth only God can give.

One thing that has helped others in this kind of waiting is to remember that true turning of the heart is usually a process, not a single moment. It often grows slowly as truth is heard in different ways, through different people, and as kindness makes room for honest reflection. Your steady, patient love at home and your own continued walk with the Lord and with trusted pastors matters more than you may see right now. It keeps the ground soft without trying to force what only God can do.

We are joining you in asking God to keep working gently in her heart, to draw her toward contentment and honesty and a tender responsiveness to Him, and to surround you both with wise, caring voices. We also pray He sustains you with strength and hope as you continue to love her well.

Father, we thank You for this husband's faithful love and prayers. We ask You to keep working in his wife's heart with Your kindness, to guard their family, and to give them both wisdom and peace as they look to You. Grow what has been planted in Your time and for Your glory. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your prayer is a right and weighty one, and it is well that you have brought it before the Lord after this manner, for you ask for that which God delights to give.

You plead for repentance unto life, and herein you ask aright. There are many false kinds of repentance which tremble for a season and then return to folly, a carnal repentance that is of the flesh and after the manner of sinful nature. But the repentance which is the work of the Spirit of God gives God glory. It is practical, it yields works meet for repentance, and it lasts. It makes a rainbow with tears of grief for sin and glances of hope at the love of Christ and His great finished work. Such repentance is not to be repented of, for it is godly sorrow that worketh repentance to salvation. You do well to pray that the kindness of God may lead this wife to such repentance, for it is written that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance, Romans 2:4, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name, Luke 24:47. Repentance is the gift of God, and faith and repentance are inseparable. The repentance which ejects sin as an evil tenant is ever joined to the faith which admits Christ to be the sole master of the heart. Pray then that she may look out of self to Christ, and to Christ only, for there alone is salvation, and salvation belongeth unto our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

You pray also for godliness with contentment, and this is great gain, 1 Timothy 6:6. Contentment is one of the flowers of heaven, and if we would have it, it must be cultivated. A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come, 1 Timothy 4:8. It secures not always health or riches, for some godly men require sickness for the perfection of their godliness, and some will be content always to be poor, yet godliness begets honesty, sobriety and economy, and it brings the highest blessedness of life because it submits to God's way of salvation in Christ. Pray that she may tremble at His Word, as Isaiah saith, to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word, Isaiah 66:2, and that she may learn the fear of the Lord which is to hate evil, Proverbs 8:13, and to esteem all His precepts concerning all things to be right, Psalm 119:128.

You ask for honesty, for a hearkening to faithful pastors, and for grace in mothering. These are fruits meet for repentance. A true mothering, a true keeping of the home, is a holy stewardship when it is done in the fear of God and in the covenant of marriage as God ordained it from the beginning, one man and one woman in lifelong union, wherein purity and fidelity are kept. The Lord will be honoured when truth is loved and when the Word is received with meekness.

You have well said that the Word shall not return void, but as the rain cometh down from heaven it shall accomplish that which He pleaseth, Isaiah 55:10-11. The seed is the Word of God, and one planteth and another watereth, but God giveth the increase, 1 Corinthians 3:6-7. Continue therefore in planting and watering, and leave the increase with Him, to whom be glory for ever, Romans 11:36, Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to thy name give glory, Psalm 115:1. The Holy Ghost must do His own office, for He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment, John 16:8. And before honour is humility, Proverbs 18:12. As with Nebuchadnezzar who was humbled till he came to his senses and blessed the Most High, Daniel 4:34-37, and as the prodigal who came to himself in the far country, Luke 15:17, so the Lord can humble and restore. He can hedge up the way as He did with Hosea's wife, that she may return.

Therefore we will join you in prayer that the Lord will perfect that which concerneth her, and will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ, Philippians 1:6, that He will bring others across her path to speak truth in love, and that fervent prayer being made, the living and active Word, sharper than any twoedged sword, Hebrews 4:12, may judge the thoughts and intents of the heart and bring forth that repentance which needeth not to be repented of. Remember that repentance lives as long as faith lives. Sweet sister Repentance is charming company and should walk with us all our days, not for a season only.

May the Lord grant you grace to wait patiently, to sow in hope, and to believe that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, Hebrews 11:6, and that what you ask according to His will in the name of Jesus, He will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son, John 14:13.

 

[Sparklee]

Father, humbly ask for Your power to intervene. Please meet deepest spiritual, physical, emotional, financial needs according to Your Will and timing in Jesus Name Amen
"May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you his favor and give you his peace." Numbers 6:24-26

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Windwold]

Praying with you for this in Jesus' name, Amen