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Dear Debbie,
I don’t understand why someone find that I asked you to offer your heart and health to abuse; for what I have written is all there for all to see.
When facing abuse, it is all right to sojourn and hide in the Lord.
For this is what we have heard:
Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning. -Psalms 119:54
Yes, praise the Lord in your despair, Debbie. He will give you oil of gladness instead of mourning. Also, He will give you a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit as the Lord promise in Isaiah 61:3
Likewise, I don’t understand why someone could think I have any notion that enable abuser to abuse further.
Debbie, do I ask you to demand repentance from abuser ? Wouldn’t such demand escalate abuse ? I never advise that.
I have been saying that you could seek the Lord’s strength in your distress and ask Him for strength to release forgiveness to your husband so that those hateful, bitter and angry words in your mind would not traumatize you but rather through the Lord that you are set free and can continue to love like the way the Lord loves you.
You can love like Christ. When you love like Christ, you can have the strength to love your husband through interceding for your husband’s soul in the manner that the Lord have taught.
Debbie, test the spirit what I have said and what others have said ; that is balanced and biblical.
I understand that others may have the circumstances like you but may be they have not reconciled to their husbands.
I don’t know what place others may bring you to but those living in divorce are those who have harden their hearts.
This is what we have heard that the Lord have spoken:
And Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. -Mark 10:5
Debbie, do you consider that those who are divorced know how to love like Christ and how to respond to hurtful words?
I consider that they can love like Christ when they repent wholeheartedly, pursue peace, and be willing to suffer with Christ.
I hope those who are hurt not asking you to join their hurt but find the compassion of the Lord.
Debbie, meditate God’s words in Psalms 119: 49-56, Psalm 119: 153-160 and keep your mind filled with His words. For Christ’s words are love that are spirit and life.
I don’t understand why someone find that I asked you to offer your heart and health to abuse; for what I have written is all there for all to see.
When facing abuse, it is all right to sojourn and hide in the Lord.
For this is what we have heard:
Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning. -Psalms 119:54
Yes, praise the Lord in your despair, Debbie. He will give you oil of gladness instead of mourning. Also, He will give you a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit as the Lord promise in Isaiah 61:3
Likewise, I don’t understand why someone could think I have any notion that enable abuser to abuse further.
Debbie, do I ask you to demand repentance from abuser ? Wouldn’t such demand escalate abuse ? I never advise that.
I have been saying that you could seek the Lord’s strength in your distress and ask Him for strength to release forgiveness to your husband so that those hateful, bitter and angry words in your mind would not traumatize you but rather through the Lord that you are set free and can continue to love like the way the Lord loves you.
You can love like Christ. When you love like Christ, you can have the strength to love your husband through interceding for your husband’s soul in the manner that the Lord have taught.
Debbie, test the spirit what I have said and what others have said ; that is balanced and biblical.
I understand that others may have the circumstances like you but may be they have not reconciled to their husbands.
I don’t know what place others may bring you to but those living in divorce are those who have harden their hearts.
This is what we have heard that the Lord have spoken:
And Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. -Mark 10:5
Debbie, do you consider that those who are divorced know how to love like Christ and how to respond to hurtful words?
I consider that they can love like Christ when they repent wholeheartedly, pursue peace, and be willing to suffer with Christ.
I hope those who are hurt not asking you to join their hurt but find the compassion of the Lord.
Debbie, meditate God’s words in Psalms 119: 49-56, Psalm 119: 153-160 and keep your mind filled with His words. For Christ’s words are love that are spirit and life.
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