Prayer for family
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Jonathan_M
Beloved of All
Praying for this request in Jesus Name.
Silas
Beloved of All
The weariness you are carrying from this constant strife is real, and you do not bear it unnoticed. There is a particular pain when the attack comes through family and when lies find listening ears. Yet I want you to see something that your own words have already named: God is working. The turning of your husband to Christ is no small thing. That fresh hunger for Scripture and for a relationship with God is itself evidence of a true faith taking root, a faith that overcomes the world.
Trials like this one are never sent by God to destroy that new faith but to prove its substance. The proving of faith is never really for God’s benefit. He already knows the truth of what He has planted. The proving is so that we can see what He has done, so that faith might become solid and palpable in our own experience. When a man says he believes, his life will begin to conform to that confession. That is not works producing faith; it is faith doing what faith always does. Your husband reading Scripture and seeking God is the natural work of the faith he has received. Pray that this faith would not only continue but would grow into a life of steady obedience, because a living faith will always demonstrate itself in a changed life.
The strife your sister-in-law stirs up is the wisdom of the world, a wisdom that breeds every evil thing. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle. You know this by contrast because you are living in the blast of the other kind. Do not answer that strife in its own currency. Instead, take to heart the ancient proverb: better a dry crust eaten in quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. Let your home be a place of a quiet morsel with the Lord. You cannot control what she says or who believes her, but you can set a table of peace in the home where God has placed you.
And that peace is not a fragile absence of conflict. It is anchored in something unshakable. Because you have been justified by faith through our Lord Jesus Christ, you have peace with God that is not a shifting mood. It does not rise or fall with the day’s news or a relative’s poisonous words. That peace is the gift given to everyone who trusts in Christ alone for righteousness, not by works. Your past failures do not break that peace, and neither do the schemes of those who oppose you. Access into this grace in which you stand is constant because the Savior who died and rose again is constant. So when the turmoil outside rages, return your mind always to that fixed peace. It is from that quiet center that you will find the gentleness not to retaliate but to entrust yourself to the One who judges righteously.
Faith itself sees what the natural eye cannot. The world looks at your circumstances and sees only the harm of lies and the exhaustion of battle. Faith sees the God who hears, the God who accounts righteousness to those who believe, and the God who will bring His purposes to pass. Your husband’s newfound faith is a greater work than the tongues of a thousand false accusers. Keep your eyes on what God is building, not on what the enemy tries to tear down. The same faith that looks back at the cross and forward to the promise is being formed in him and strengthened in you through this very trial. Not considering your own weakness, but looking full into the face of God’s faithfulness, is the secret of enduring.
So continue to pray, but let your prayers be soaked in the confidence that God has already given you the substance of what you hope for. Ask Him to protect your husband’s tender faith, yes, but also ask that He would fill your own heart with such a deep awareness of His grace that peace becomes your natural breath. As much as it lies within you, live peaceably, without bending the truth or pretending the lies are nothing. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. And as you bear that fruit, you will reap a harvest that no strife can steal.
Trials like this one are never sent by God to destroy that new faith but to prove its substance. The proving of faith is never really for God’s benefit. He already knows the truth of what He has planted. The proving is so that we can see what He has done, so that faith might become solid and palpable in our own experience. When a man says he believes, his life will begin to conform to that confession. That is not works producing faith; it is faith doing what faith always does. Your husband reading Scripture and seeking God is the natural work of the faith he has received. Pray that this faith would not only continue but would grow into a life of steady obedience, because a living faith will always demonstrate itself in a changed life.
The strife your sister-in-law stirs up is the wisdom of the world, a wisdom that breeds every evil thing. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle. You know this by contrast because you are living in the blast of the other kind. Do not answer that strife in its own currency. Instead, take to heart the ancient proverb: better a dry crust eaten in quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. Let your home be a place of a quiet morsel with the Lord. You cannot control what she says or who believes her, but you can set a table of peace in the home where God has placed you.
And that peace is not a fragile absence of conflict. It is anchored in something unshakable. Because you have been justified by faith through our Lord Jesus Christ, you have peace with God that is not a shifting mood. It does not rise or fall with the day’s news or a relative’s poisonous words. That peace is the gift given to everyone who trusts in Christ alone for righteousness, not by works. Your past failures do not break that peace, and neither do the schemes of those who oppose you. Access into this grace in which you stand is constant because the Savior who died and rose again is constant. So when the turmoil outside rages, return your mind always to that fixed peace. It is from that quiet center that you will find the gentleness not to retaliate but to entrust yourself to the One who judges righteously.
Faith itself sees what the natural eye cannot. The world looks at your circumstances and sees only the harm of lies and the exhaustion of battle. Faith sees the God who hears, the God who accounts righteousness to those who believe, and the God who will bring His purposes to pass. Your husband’s newfound faith is a greater work than the tongues of a thousand false accusers. Keep your eyes on what God is building, not on what the enemy tries to tear down. The same faith that looks back at the cross and forward to the promise is being formed in him and strengthened in you through this very trial. Not considering your own weakness, but looking full into the face of God’s faithfulness, is the secret of enduring.
So continue to pray, but let your prayers be soaked in the confidence that God has already given you the substance of what you hope for. Ask Him to protect your husband’s tender faith, yes, but also ask that He would fill your own heart with such a deep awareness of His grace that peace becomes your natural breath. As much as it lies within you, live peaceably, without bending the truth or pretending the lies are nothing. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. And as you bear that fruit, you will reap a harvest that no strife can steal.
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