Last night my husband and I along with two other amazing couples kicked off the start of the Marriage Builders series at our church.
We had nearly 100 couples show up to give specific attention to their marriage.
We broke down into smaller groups that night and God gave us 23 marriages to journey with the next 14 weeks.
Marriages that where good, fair and in crisis.
We had a couple divorced already for 2 years but because of their faith in God and Gods ability to change their individual hearts, they're looking to be fully restored! WOW!
The stories around the table amazed us both.
I was also grateful to share our personal marriage testimony and SPREAD hope in every heart present! Whether the marriage is good or bad God wants us to be growing with other marriages.
This is the key to success.
Marriage takes practice and consistent growing.
Marriage can be very hard.
Marriage is all about love and respect.
I know what you are going through if you are in a time of pain.
Pain is real and feels like vinegar on an open sore. But remember today friend that...
PAIN, PROBLEMS AND PEOPLE PERFECT THE VERY CORE OF OUR BEING.
I also know for a fact that WITH JESUS, HE CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS.
In Today's daily reading it states: "I WILL COME AND HEAL HIM"
Matthew 8:1-19 speaks of Jesus healing the infirmities in many lives. I want to stress today that God wants to heal your marriage and all the infirmities that have piled high and wounded both hearts.
You may say, "that Jesus stuff is not my thing," well...I am hear to say ..."It better become your thing!" I was the one that denied the Jesus stuff for a long time friends. If I can help you get out of the wilderness of defeat, I encourage you to just get serious with God. Its the best thing that will ever happen in your life.
God says he will never forsake us and will help us through all our circumstances.
God did not say Ill take you over the problems or under them. He said I will take you THROUGH THEM.
God wants us to cast our cares on Him (1 Peter 5:7).
God is using this time to REFINE an individual.
He wants us to TAKE OUR EYES off of our spouse and OFF OUR CIRCUMSTANCE.
We need to have FAITH and TRUST HIM that He will do what he says in His word.
Hebrews 11:1 says: Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Always Remember, THERE IS NOT A MARRIAGE God cannot heal....no marriage he cannot restore.
Stamp that in your heart. All it takes is to believe what God said and have faith in His word.
Nothing is too difficult for God. You need to persevere and believe Him. Take God at his word.
God longs to restore marriages..but more than that he longs for you to KNOW HIM intimately Utmost!
God wants a relationship with you.
He wants you to receive His love and love Him in return.
He wants you to receive His peace and joy so you can be a light to let others know what they can find in JESUS.
Never give up believing God for your marriage healing.
God is able and very willing to restore your marriage, because the day you said your vows, you covered it with His blood.
A three-legged stool provides one picture of marriage; one leg represents the husband; another the wife; and the third, God. All three legs are necessary for the marriage to stand.
If one leg breaks, the stool topples.
How is your relationship with God my friend?
When My marriage was a mess, I admit so was my consistency with my spiritual walk.
When God is not working in our personal heart by faith there can be no hope of making the stool stand.
Where does that leave us if our husband or wife is not presently interested in his own healing? We can act on our individual requirement to seek healing for ourselves, and we can ask God to use that process to cause our husbands to yearn for their own healing. This is exactly how our marriage healing played out.
Nothing will solidify your marriage more than strengthening your walk with the Lord together. Turn to Him; trust Him. He won’t let you down.
Here is something else to think about. 99.9% of the time, the cause for problems in a marriage is due to sin. Sin is a fancy word for not doing things the way God would.
We can sin in our thoughts, actions, and speech. The first step to solving any problem is to define what the problem is. Once this is done, the solution then becomes tactical and prescriptive.
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil." (Proverbs 3:5-7)
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" (1 Peter5:6-8)
Today's Journal Entry
Prayer: Dear Jesus please touch the hearts of every reader today. May they have a heart the yields and desires to get serious with you. Please touch the marriages in our class and the blog readers today. I pray you draw the couples together stronger and if the couple is seperated I pray you glue them with grace back together as you draw them individually to you.
Praise: Thanks for bringing all the couples last night to class. Thanks for healing our marriage. Thanks for using our mess to glorify your name!
Plan: I am excited to invest in our marriage for 14 weeks and do
the work consistently. I plan to respect my husband and love him better. I also plan to come along side any couple and pray their marriage to full recovery!
Please read all of today's daily bible reading located above and find a verse that spoke to you! journal a letter to God and make a few applications!
If you need prayer over your marriage please email me today, my husband and I will pray over your circumstance.
heather@hbministries.com
God has a plan!
Blessings,
