From Rejoice Marriage Ministries:
How many people do you and I trust in a day's time? We trust everyone from professionals to shop keepers. We trust people we do not even know, but why are we so afraid to trust God for marriage restoration? Charlyne explores that question in this teaching. She also addresses the reason that some standers give up, because they do not know how awesome and mighty our Lord God is. Are you walking in fear or trusting God for your marriage to be all that God wants it to be?
Trust The Lord - He Knows Your Future!
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. Proverbs 3:5-7
Will you trust the Lord every day for your entire life, marriage and future? Are you trusting your Lord to provide for your emotional, spiritual and physical needs while your spouse is gone or you are having marriage problems?
O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you. Psalm 84:12
The Lord wants you to trust Him completely! Regardless if your spouse is home threatening to leave, living in sin or you are divorced. Trust the Lord daily and thank Him that He is speaking to your husband or wife. While you wait, ask the Lord to direct your every footstep. Your Lord wants your husband or wife to turn from their sinful habits and lifestyle in which they were seduced, deceived and tempted by the enemy.
A vital key to marriage restoration is "trusting your Lord." Every day may I suggest you surrender your life minute by minute, day by day until you are truly walking and trusting the Lord to lead you on the journey toward your marriage being all that the Lord has planned.
You have a choice every day if you are going to follow the world's way about marriage and divorce or choose to unite with the Lord to follow His plan and purpose for your life, marriage and your future. Then as you follow God's will and way, you will want to start praising and thanking the Lord for all that He is doing in your life and in your family's lives. You will be learning to trust your Lord in a new and more personal way than ever before.
Praise be to the LORD, for he has heard my cry for mercy. The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Psalm 28:6-7
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8
The Lord knows everything about you, your beloved spouse, your marriage and your children. God knows everything! God created man and He said it was not good for man to be alone. He understands your loneliness even if your spouse is home. Are you standing firm for your covenant marriage and for your marriage vows, knowing that God hates divorce? Have you asked the Lord to remove the loneliness from your heart? Could the Lord be allowing your loneliness to remind you to pray for your husband or wife? Are you standing strong and praying at least two or three scriptures with your spouse's name in them daily?
Is God possibly wanting you to serve Him while you are waiting for your marriage to be restored? If you have time, get involved in your church or a local ministry or volunteer at a nursing home. The list is endless, but ask the Lord where He wants you to help minister to others. God wants you to serve Him, instead of becoming depressed or hopeless about your marriage problems. The Lord can use you while you are praying and waiting for your beloved spouse "to come to their senses." Do you see how your loneliness can be removed by helping others? This summer offer to help at your church's Vacation Bible School.
The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you. Psalm 9:9-10
Do you know how many husbands and wives feel lonely and forsaken? May I remind you that there are so many children who feel like their father or mother have forsaken them as they do not talk to them daily, let alone weekly. Your spouse may appear to love and do things more for the other person's children than your own. This is just one more reason that I and our family hate divorce as children are too young to understand why their mommy or daddy does not live at home or why they do not see them every day. May I interject quickly, that there are many men and women who are not allowed to see or communicate with their children because of their spouse's unforgiveness. You are in a spiritual battle, fighting and praying that your beloved husband/wife will want to forsake their own selfishness or another person and return home to be the husband/wife and father/mother God created them to be.
I can tell you from being in the ministry for many years, the children all want their parents to be together, get along, love each other and have a happy family together regardless of their age, being young or an adult themselves. There is no child who wants to learn to adjust to a "step parent" because of a divorce that destroyed their family. You may know this personally, as you may have been raised by a single parent. You may still remember all the pain and suffering that there was in your own parent's divorce. How many people say that they will never divorce, because they were from a divorced family? I believe the children are truly the silent victims in every divorce. Will you stand firm and trust the Lord for you and your children's future for marriage restoration?
Hear my voice when I call, O LORD; be merciful to me and answer me. My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, LORD, I will seek. Do not hide your face from me, do not turn your servant away in anger; you have been my helper. Do not reject me or forsake me, O God my Savior. Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me. Teach me your way, O LORD; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors. Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence. I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm 27:7-14
Have you cried out to the Lord for His wisdom and knowledge for your many different problems? Please do not forget to write down your questions now, and then wait for His divine answers. When you receive answers to prayers, write down your answers in your journal so later you will be able to share with others what the Lord has done for you, your husband/wife and your marriage.
The LORD is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made. The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. Psalm 145:17-19
The Lord is right there beside you. He will never forsake you or your beloved husband or wife. Will you choose to trust your Lord for your marriage and your future?
"...Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" Hebrews 13:5b
Be blessed,
Charlyne Steinkamp
Rejoice Marriage Ministries, Inc.
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