Need Help Staying on my Feet, Pt. 6

[Still_Standing]

Hello Amy, I am finally back here posting the more recent developments (or lack thereof) in my sitch.

You need my help to strengthen your resolve? Well let's see...are you willing to stop at this point and spend the rest of your life wondering what would have happened if you'd waited just a little longer? That helped me in the early months when everything in the world told me there was no hope.

I am ABSOLUTELY NOT willing to stop at this point and spend the rest of my life wondereing.... I have decdided that I am NEITHER ready, willing, NOR able to give up on my W, my M nor keeping my family intact! Not yet!

To this day, with divorce papers likely imminent, I still stand and proclaim that "YES! THERE IS HOPE!" If your spouse or my spouse, for whatever reason does not choose to grab onto that hope that's their choice, but for as long as we claim to be believers and witnesses it is our responsibility to stand.

I am with you, Sister Amy. I, like you, still stand and proclaim that "YES! THERE IS HOPE!

Some would say "am I supposed to wait forever?".
How should I know?
That's between you and God so you'd best be cultivating a relationship with Him so YOU will know.

I don't know either. I do know that I have not reached the end of my patience, hope, love and FAITH.

We, no matter our past mistakes, have been redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb and although the enemy stands ready to see us convicted every day for our sins, we have an Advocate in Jesus Christ.

Think of it like this: God is sitting on His Throne as Judge and satan, the prosecutor, is on one side telling Him all the things we are guilty of...it's not looking too good for us and we're facing the death penalty...

But then the Defense takes the floor and He makes the shortest argument in the history of the judicial system..."It is all under the Blood".
That's it.
Case dismissed!

I now finally believe that I have been redeemed and convicted by the blood of The Lamab. What I work diligently each day is to keep in the forefront of my mind and deep in my heart that I strive to keep my M and family together because I know that doing so is in concert with His word! This is His will and He wants our restoration and reconciliation more than I do!

God cannot look at us while we are in this sinful flesh.
But through Christ, we have been redeemed.
God now sees us THROUGH the Blood.
He looks at us, the redeemed of the Lord, and He sees Christ!
Can you imagine?
It still gives me chills...

Chills me too. I see that I am worthy of His grace and mercy because of Christ's sacrifice.

...but here's the kicker...precisely because of our newly strengthened faith, our redemption through Christ, our release from death row, if you will...we stand worthy to claim and receive EVERY SINGLE PROMISE GOD EVER MADE. Health, joy, peace, success, love, prosperity.... ALL OF IT is ours, BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD.

I see that I am worthy because of His sacrifice and because I have made my choice to be saved.

But the enemy has now gotten wind that we know who we are in Christ, and he's raising up all of hell against us because when he lost control of us, he lost our entire family units.
THAT'S RIGHT!
You can claim the salvation of your children AND your wife. The Bible says the unbelieving spouse is sanctified (MADE HOLY) by the believing spouse.
That's you.

YES! That IS me!

Tell me it's not your place to stand longer.

I will NOT. I CANNOT!

I'll tell you that you've been deceived.

The enemy often makes me feel weakened. I often FEEL defeated. And THEN, by the grace of God, he strenghtens me and my resolve and I am emboldened to get up for yet one more round in this battle with the enemy with God in my corner strategizing and cheering me on! I will continue to fight the good fight until the fightin' is done and we stand victorious, TOGETHER, in this spriitual battle for our lives and souls.

When we have been blessed enough to have the knowledge to choose, God says "choose life".

That, to me, means "STAND".

Me too!

He never said we wouldn't be battered, bruised and bloody when we finish this race. He just promised us He'd see us through it.

I am battered, bruised, and bloody and truly see that WE are still in the early rounds of this 'CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT' for my, my W and my family. As Jeremy Camp sings, "I will walk by FAITH, even when I cannot see!"

Sometimes, I don't know how. But I know what He said. And that is good enough for me to keep one hand reaching towards the sky come hell OR high water.

Again, my sentiments so closely mirror yours.

In my case, they usually come together AND often .

Me too, Amy love!