Meeting #1 forthcoming!

[JR2007]

OK guys, it happened this morning. The Spirit finally got through my thick skull (and my hard heart) and let me know everything is going to be OK (one way or the other ;))! This is truly a breakthrough. I was having such a hard time the last week and now I'm at peace, finally! You will not see another negatively-slanted post from me again

Here are some pasages that really helped me with this:

Behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.
And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.

The family is an eternal organization, God doesn't want this family broken up.

And now, because ye are compelled to be humble blessed are ye; for a man sometimes, if he is compelled to be humble, seeketh repentance; and now surely, whosoever repenteth shall find mercy; and he that findeth mercy and bendureth to the end the same shall be saved.

This is for me, I've been compelled to be humble and I've found that humility. I have repented of my sins and the Lord has forgiven me. THAT is the best feeling of all. THAT will shine through to my W, if she decides to give our family another chance. And it's there for me to help me be a great dad if she doesn't.

And now as I said concerning faith—faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true.
And now, behold, I say unto you, and I would that ye should remember, that God is merciful unto all who believe on his name; therefore he desireth, in the first place, that ye should believe, yea, even on his word.
And now, he imparteth his word by angels unto men, yea, not only men but women also. Now this is not all; little children do have words given unto them many times, which confound the wise and the learned.
And now, my beloved brethren, as ye have desired to know of me what ye shall do because ye are afflicted and cast out—now I do not desire that ye should suppose that I mean to judge you only according to that which is true—
For I do not mean that ye all of you have been compelled to humble yourselves; for I verily believe that there are some among you who would humble themselves, let them be in whatsoever circumstances they might.
Now, as I said concerning faith—that it was not a perfect knowledge—even so it is with my words. Ye cannot know of their surety at first, unto perfection, any more than faith is a perfect knowledge.
But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

Faith and trust in GOD is what gets us through our afflictions (and being cast-out, like me :-)) We awake and arouse our faculties to experiment on the word of God, EXERCISE a particle of faith until you believe enough to give place to the word of GOD!

I like the part about little kids being given words to confound the wise. That's my son. He's amazing.

No amount of earthly skill or tactics can top that. That, in addition to fervent prayer has me feeling peace in my heart for the first time in a long time.

Cast out the fear and doubt you guys, replace it with true love, faith and trust in God. Do that and He will NOT let you down, regardless of what your spouse does.