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Restoration testimonies
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GIGATT247... Thank you so much for your prayers. You are absolutely right, only the Lord can change a person and prayer does change things...MichaelGIGATT247 said:
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GIGATT247 said:
Thank you for your comments. One thing I didn't mention. While I was praying for my husband's heart to be softened and our marriage restored, God put a new desire in my heart: to let him use this heartbreaking situation to change my heart and to do a work in me. Even those words don't accurately describe the intense dialog that took place in those days between myself and my Lord. From one of the most devastating events in my life came the sweetest interaction with the Spirit. I was so personally attended to, comforted and carefully instructed. I never imagined my relationship with God could ever be THAT personal. I wouldn't trade it for anything, even my marriage.
Take courage and stand for your marriage. You know you're really standing when the accuser is attempting to knock you down. Though you may only find support from a few, you only need the One who created you. No matter what the outcome, challenge yourself to let God use your situation for his Glory! Restored marriages are not the only testimony that glorifies Him.
The Lord put a woman in my life just about the time I met my husband that told me a story that changed my view of sacrifice forever. It set the stage for my heart change several years later when my husband left. Her husband left her and her daughter for another woman. He abandoned them in a foreign country with nothing and no resources to get back to the States. They eventually made it home. God put it on her heart to stand for her marriage. That was about fifteen years ago. God has not released her from the marriage, even though he was eventually granted the divorce and has since remarried. Still, she stands. To this day, she would take her husband back without hesitation. I can't even imagine how many have been blessed by her testimony. How many marriages have been saved by her story?
She was young when her husband left her. Maybe some are thinking, "What a waste. She still had time to be happy." I dare you to tell her that her life was a waste or that she couldn't possibly be happy! I dare you to tell her that she's letting herself be punished for something God has forgiven! The meaning in her life did not end the day her husband left nor did she stop living.
Praise God for the amazing way he uses each of us to bless each other!
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sarah marie... What an incredible story and situation. I am so glad that you are out their with the voice of reason...and godly reason. This isn't about what we (humans) think; it's about what our Lord says in His Word (and to us personally). I have said it before, but many people find it very uneasy (unsettling) to do things that are contrary to their fleshly feelings/thoughts/emotions. If it doesn't make sense to them, then they may not support the position of the one who is "standing" (for whatever God is calling them to stand for). The crazy thing is, they are not in contrast with the Lord, yet people have trouble with it. Often, the one's who have the trouble with it can't clearly support their own position with the Bible. Thank you again for your personal story as well as those of others you know...Michaelsarah marie said:
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AMEN!!!!sarah marie said:
And another AMEN!
God can and does restore marriage. God also uses painful experiences such as divorce to show HIS love, HIS grace, HIS promises!!! I have nothing but respect, honor, admiration and awe for this woman - she truly has a heart for God! I can only pray that 15 years from now, my "stand" is at strong as hers...
Praise God!
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OK!! This is a testimony about some friends of mine...it is very inspirational in showing what God can do...the impossible...they got married young,,19 and 20 or around about...they had only dated each other. About a year and a half later they had a son..they were married about 6 years and she became pregnant again, this time they had a daughter...3 months later they sepaerated...during the whole course of their marriage they were great friends with another couple...always going and doing stuff together and hanging out...where you saw one you saw the other...well the other friends husband and this girl I am talking about were having an affair the entire time..overthe course of prpobably about 5 years..the daughter she had belonged to the other guy...her best friend's husband!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so she and her best friend no longer speak....the guy does not want to see the child and they go to court and he sighns over his rights...the guy and his wife stay together...they have 2 small daughters together. The other couple divorces and the husband gets custody of the son and the girl takes her daughter with her. The husband was hurt but he still loved her. He stayed in church...she dated and done some clubbing, but was soooo bitter towards her (ex) husband....she hated him and the affair was all his fault and she should have not married him etc. She also got bitter towards the guy she had the affair with...BUT eventually she got back into church...she and her ex husband remarried and he is raising the little girl as his own...just shows how god can soften hearts and restore families. She says now she realizes she blamed stuff on her husband that she shouldn't have and that she sees him in a whole different loght now and that the first time she did not really give him a chance! And the time apart helped her realize that...PRAISE GOD for his goodness!!!
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I wish I could contribute something very positive to this thread. Perhaps mine will be a story of restoration in another sense of the word. After my husband and I split up I spent alot of hours in my "prayer closet" begging the Lord for wisdom. I had tried separation after my miscarriage. I lived with my parents for three months and maintained only necessary contact with Jared. After hearing a sermon on marriage and encouraging people to not throw in the towel, I went back to him. He gave me flowers, promised things would get better. I promised to change alot of my attitudes. Everything was great for a few months, and then the abuse came back worse than ever before. I had tried to be a good wife. We had tried counseling. We tried prayer. Nothing worked. When it was all over, I prayed that if it were God's will for us to reconcile that he would get his life together and come back for me. Then I got tied up in my new job and moved away to escape everything. I later found out that during the course of the next six months he searched high and low for me, even as far as Alabama, but I had an unlisted phone number. He had also attended regular Christian anger management counseling. After almost a year of searching for me, he moved on and married the girl he cheated on me with and they had a baby. He named their baby girl Elizabeth, the name he and I had said we would name our first girl.
On the third anniversary of our divorce, I felt bold and made an attempt to contact him. It was successful and a three hour in length conversation ensued in which we both cried and asked one another for forgiveness. Sure, it felt good to reconcile in that manner, but it ached to hear him say, "I'm very much in love with my wife and baby girl so, while I still obviously have feelings for you, we could never be together again." It was almost as if he had read my mind, as I would have never vocalized my thoughts on total reconciliation and present a stumbling block in his marriage.
Not a day goes by that I don't wonder where he and I would be now if we had both fought harder to preserve the marriage. But I can't live in the past. All I can do now is look ahead and hold onto God's unfailing grace and love.
On the third anniversary of our divorce, I felt bold and made an attempt to contact him. It was successful and a three hour in length conversation ensued in which we both cried and asked one another for forgiveness. Sure, it felt good to reconcile in that manner, but it ached to hear him say, "I'm very much in love with my wife and baby girl so, while I still obviously have feelings for you, we could never be together again." It was almost as if he had read my mind, as I would have never vocalized my thoughts on total reconciliation and present a stumbling block in his marriage.
Not a day goes by that I don't wonder where he and I would be now if we had both fought harder to preserve the marriage. But I can't live in the past. All I can do now is look ahead and hold onto God's unfailing grace and love.
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