Thank you for taking the time to talk me through my meltdown of how to approach that issue. It worked out much better than I could have ever anticipated.
His niceness to me.......well, let's just say it's refreshing.
HUGS AGAIN WOMAN!!
Amy not post.....phbttt.
EXCELLENT!
Now that went MUCH better than flippin your lid would have, I take it!!
Just caught up on your recent posts. So excited about your 'new' walk with the Lord. Everybody thinks they can outrun God. Ha! He will pursue you with reckless abandon!
Wanted to comment on this you posted earlier:
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When you stand on faith everyone has a tendency to split thinking there's nothing they can possibly offer since you have God. They couldn't be more wrong. It's often an isolated walk, especially through the week when we have so much exposure to the world.
I read a wise comment on a blog I frequent:
Leaders usually find themselves alone. It's the nature of the position. When you lead, you are out in front, and it can be lonely out there. You have left the pack behind and followed the course He now leads you on. Keep your eyes on Him and you will not go astray. As He leads you, so you will lead others.
I Peter 2: 21To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
Amen. Amy, so many people have read your posts, and respected what you had to say BEFORE re-dedicating your life to the Lord and His will for you and your family. The witness you bear for Him now is tremendous! Even when you DO hit someone over the head with that proverbial 2x4, you are respected as a wonderful, wide lady who cares about the people on this board and who is willing to share Christ with all of us. Thank you for being you.
Yeah our S12 goes to a christian school so he has bible class everyday,he has read me scriptures about marriage and divorce and committment.
He has let his mom know how he feels about what she is doing and while she got mad at him,I know the things he has said are working on her insides.
I am reading the book The Power Of The Praying Husband and it is very good,like you talked about standing in that gap and praying for her and showing her Gods love in me.
I have gone through allot of changes in myself during this time apart,I know God has a plan for us and I know he has perfect timing,he has taught me alot about patience,faith and trust,I have along way to go before I am who he wants me to be but I know I am on the right path. I believe we will get through this valley and come out the other side with a new and better marriage.
I couldn't find the post that you mentioned.
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Married 28 yrs Seperated 6 mths Rec D Papers 11/24 W Canceled D Moved Back Home 3/1/08 2 Kids D23 and S16 Trying 2 Put R Back Together
I have some comments for you, but did not want to take them up on Amy's thread. Looks like your last thread locked. Do you have a new one?
BTW, here's a link to FH's latest. He has not posted in around a month and the default search setting is only the last week, so that's why he probably didn't show up.
Exerpt from an old post of mine - about 2 years old!
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I have to tell you, I am NOT "amazing". I am just a person that got tired of running away from the truth. Nothing was happening for me. I was still "stuck" after 2 years of trying to get out of my marriage, alienating my husband and "claiming" my "freedom". Yet nothing really changed. The final straw was when I was FINALLY on the verge of renting an apartment and that was the SAME DAY I lost my job. UNBELIEVABLE! But at that point, I was left with no alternative but to consider that the problem might lie in ME. It seemed once I considered that that might be the case, God just started opening my eyes. It was a months-long process. Very painful. Growth always is. The entire duration of my own MLC was over 2 years and girl, I RAN like my LIFE depended on it. I would literally COLLAPSE into bed EVERY SINGLE NIGHT and be asleep within a couple of minutes. I became physically exhausted, worn out. The ONE thing I think saved me was that THROUGH IT ALL, I prayed "Lord, YOUR will be DONE" and I meant it. But I had thought it was His will for me to be divorced. WHAT A LIE FROM HELL THAT IS!! When I considered the problem might be me, I prayed "Lord, SHOW ME myself as YOU see me". That's when the walls came tumbling down and it was NOT pretty. I firmly believe had I not SO wanted to be where GOD wanted me to be, even when I was lost, I would never have made it out. He never left my side but He didn't once stop me (that would be IMPOSING His will upon me - and God will NEVER do that). He waited for me. He walked it with me. Yes. I believe that. And He let me run myself ragged. Then the MINUTE I wanted to see the truth, He showed it to me. He reached right down into the hell I'd made for myself and picked me up out of it the minute I was ready. So I am not amazing. I was just broken. And mostly by my own hand. I'm being healed - my marriage is being healed, by His. He is amazing.
Maybe you already know(I could be using the wrong words).
After you get about 10-15 pages of posts on your thread, it will 'Lock' - meaning no one can add any comments to it. You will see only a little 'Notify' box in the bottom right of each comment instead of the typical 'Reply', 'Edit', etc.
In order to continue on, you have to begin a new thread. Many will put a link to their old thread(s) in their signature to make them easier to find.
Hope that helps. If I have left anything out, someone please feel free to add or correct this.
In our role as believers it is our responsibility to know God's will. His Word is His Will. We pray effectively for the salvation of our marriages because we KNOW that divorce is NOT God's will.
That others HAVE 'free-will' is a given since the garden when God clearly stated to Adam and Eve to NOT eat of that ONE tree. Why else would He have even had it be there except to illustrate that mankind would have the freedom to choose? He also states in Deuteronomy 30 ..."I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live...." So there you have it again, Him giving us free-will yet telling us it is HIS WILL that we "choose life".
In this, the age of grace, I don't know that God is hardening hearts. I know He will do that again in the "end times" but although we are close, I don't think we're there yet. He still wishes, like you said, that "all come to repentence". THAT is HIS will. We pray His will over those we love. We pray for God to send ministering spirits to them, we pray for them to have "eyes to see and ears to hear", we pray that God reveal Himself to them. Since our prayers are all within what He STATED to be His will...that's our assurance in His answer. That is why when we pray that prayer that is over in the separated forum, we are praying so much of His Word right back to Him. Not because He doesn't know what He said, of course He knows, but so that HE KNOWS WE KNOW what He said and that we know also that His Word "doesn't return to Him void".
Everybody thinks they can outrun God. Ha! He will pursue you with reckless abandon!