My Devotional Today. God's Timing Ie Awesome

[Anthonette]

Is It Too Late?

. . . in Him we live and move and have our being . . .

Acts 17:28

How difficult it would be to have had your dreams of companionship and love destroyed by your husband. Destroyed by that one who was to nurture you, to protect you, to love you sacrificially. To watch your children leave home scarred, embittered, rejected, empty, void of the love they never received from "Dad." Never seeing the relationship develop between your son and your husband that you knew your son was searching for, longing for . . . that you knew should be there.

You wanted so desperately for your home to be a good home, a happy home, a haven . . . just a home. But it's not. It's just a house. A house with people living in it who don't even know each other. Who don't really care to know each other. Separated. Islands. Walls. High walls. Imposing barriers that lock people in and lock people out!

Quite unexpectedly your husband comes to you and says,

"I'm ready to change, but I'll need your cooperation!"

My cooperation? The nerve of the man! How can he expect anything that has been so nonchalantly, and yet so carefully, so deliberately, so callously, and so deeply ingrained through the many hours and years of hurt and pain to be forgotten and undone so easily, so quickly?

"I'm ready."

Just like that!

One thing I know. In my marriage and in your marriage . . . in every marriage, God has the same desire to reveal Himself to those around me that He had to reveal Himself to those surrounding His beloved Son. I find it really pretty easy to allow Christ to manifest Himself through me to those with whom I "casually" come in contact, with those who can't hurt me. The difficulty lies in my own home . . . overlooking, giving, forgiving, ministering . . . when I long to be ministered to . . . giving, loving when I don't feel loving, touching, or giving. Being gentle, being kind, being faithful, and giving over and over and over. Things I am completely incapable of doing, of being!

That's when I find myself saying, "Lord! I cannot! You must!" He hears me, and He does.

I choose to believe that not only has my husband said, "I'm ready," but God has said, "My precious child, your husband needs you now. I have been preparing you over these empty, loveless, desert years for just this moment."

And I can say with quiet confidence, "I, too, am ready. You have taught me, Lord, strengthened me, prepared me for just such a time as this, and it is by Your mighty power dwelling within me that this moment will find me more than a conqueror!" (Romans 8:37)

And you find in your trembling heart just a glimmer of hope . . . maybe it isn't too late.

 

[Articles]

May God hear your request and grant it according to his will. In Jesus Name, Amen.

 

[Action238]

My dear sister in Christ. Unfortunately your explanation of how you see life in the flesh is quite on target...it is unfortunate that through it all, the story that God places before us..the one where he puts us together and what starts out with so much love and so much excitement...fizzles away because we forget, as people who usually walk by flesh, we forget that this story we live....is all about Him.

when we get caught up in our own personalities and frustrations and we allow "things" to come in and cover us or try to give us some kind of relief from this flesh of ours...when we realize that another human being can not give us what we need and want...it makes it most difficult to stay friendly for so many reasons..tired is one of them, failure another emotion, so for relief the thought is "if I just get away" a lie from Satan but one of relief.

Your husbands feelings are equal to yours, you may blame him for not living up to your expectations and being all that you needed and wanted him to be , I assure you, he is on the same page about you. If you could see him like that, an equal with just as many hurts and confusions and needs, needs that he feels you did not fulfill, an inner need, if you can think of him like that, it does make him human at the very least..

as I read your prayer it seems he has been inside himself for years and withdrew years before, it is his story, he just hasn't been able to figure it out or himself out...not a good place for anyone, and you are right once again, God has knocked on his door and he must have rejected it's call...he is still lost and dying and now making more of a mess following the lie into outer darkness. Also leaving a family behind..

Pray for your husband, for the principalities in HIGH places that have finally, after many years of torturing his mind...your husband has decided and is headed to the call of the Liar and the Father of Lies...you two may have lost the battle but the war is not over. SEE sister in the eyes of faith... or you are not going to be able to fight (principalities) for your marriage, emotions will take over and they will make you loose this battle also...

walk by faith and not by sight..be honest with your husband of what God places in your heart, don't be afraid to speak truth about YOU...admit your faults, admit you still love him...reason with him through the Holy SPirit and His guidance...let your husband "FEEL" in his heart your love...not desperateness or anger or fear...let him feel the love that was so apparent in the beginning...let it shine, unconditional love.....there is nothing to loose but everything to gain..no matter what happens, you have nothing to loose God will bless your efforts either way....don't be afraid of love don't be afraid of rejection..you already "feel" that....it is just that and emotion a feeling...something that would change in an instant a microsecond..by a word from your husbands mouth, everything would change...it really is just a feeling...walk by faith not by what you see....

Lord bless her and guide her to be the conqueror that You need her to be in such a time as this...continue to strengthen her and fill her with Wisdom, cover her with grace and may mercy lead her into the blessings of restoring her marriage. Touch his mind and open it into freedom in You..Lord touch his heart and cover it with divine love restoring their marriage as one that serves You in Spirit and in Truth. Lord heal his mind and speak Peace to his heart. Lord thank You for touching this family and allowing Your will and Your purpose to be done in Jesus name...God bless you sister may GOD continue to guide you and all is well no matter what...you are a child of the King...focus and fight in the spirit for your family be the jewel that you are a blessing to your family

 

[bluebirds38]

dear lord i pray that you hear her plea and answer her prayer in jesus name amen

 

[TINAAM]

I will stand in pray with you and for you. This is a heavy load but God promises never to leave us and he is there for you. I am standing for my family and I stand on this That nothing is impossible for God.