Praising The Lord For Revelation
The following is a response to the post yesterday about the false doctrine of free will, which I want to share so everyone can pray for Fran’s husband’s salvation and for the Lord to give her the faith, grace and strength she needs as she stands for his salvation and waits for the Lord to answer her prayers:
“I have been married for almost 26 years to an man who is an atheist. My son and I and many of our Christian friends pray regularly for his Salvation. The concept and verses on “free will” were eye opening to me as I have been raised to believe in free will and as a discipleship leader to women have described this concept many times. Having said that I have, just this day, been engaged in conversation and had made a commitment to myself to investigate free will. The verses listed will help me to begin this scriptural quest. Please pray for me. And thank you.”
There are members of the FAM Fellowship who have stood for the salvation of their husbands for years (including one who later admitted that he considered himself an atheist), who have witnessed the salvation of their husbands, so we want to support and encourage Fran with our prayers. WE all know from our own experience that our Lord and Savior is in the business of turning stony hearts to hearts of flesh! And what an awesome testimony of how faithful the Lord is to answer us when we seek Him! The following is my response to Fran’s post, which includes a prayer I hope will encourage and help others too:
Fran, thank you SO much for sharing your experience. It’s so exciting when the Lord leads us to a new revelation and understanding of His word, because of the awesome promise we have in John 8:31-32, which says To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Your story provides an awesome example of exactly how that works too, because there’s no way we can reconcile the false doctrine of free will with “ALL things are possible with god”, which would obviously keep us from walking in the faith God REQUIRES to have our prayers answered, especially when our prayers concern someone else, such as prayers for marriage restoration and the salvation of our husbands. I know that having that stronghold of deception lifted will release supernatural power into your situation, and I sincerely believe you WILL see the salvation of your husband! And PLEASE let Romans 4:17 encourage you to expect and confess his salvation, which says As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
Dear Lord, we thank You for the awesome power of Your word! We thank You for the supernatural power it releases and for Your promise in Isaiah 55:10-11, when You said As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. We thank You Lord, that when we read Your word, You speak to us and give us the grace, wisdom and faith needed for ALL situations. We thank You that You will NEVER leave us or forsake us! We thank You that we can bring our petitions before You with boldness and confidence and that You will hear us and answer our prayers. We thank You that when two or more of us are in agreement, whatever we ask for will be done. We thank You for literally giving us the keys to the kingdom of heaven and promising us that the gates of hell can not prevail against us or our husbands, with whom we are one, that whatever we bind on earth will be found in heaven and whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Therefore, we thank You that Fran’s husband is released from any and all forms of bondage and strongholds, all manner of deception and demonic activity that would keep him from coming to the saving knowledge of You as his Lord and Savior, because we bind them and cast them off of him in the most powerful name of Jesus Christ! We loose Your spirit of truth, grace and love to fill him and set him free, to release him from captivity, because we know that’s why You came Lord Jesus. You came to give us victory over every weapon Satan fashions against us, so that it will not prosper. You came that none would perish, but that ALL would have everlasting life. We know that Satan came to kill, steal and destroy, but that you came to give us abundant life. Your word promises us that Your power is greater than Satan’s power and that NO wisdom, insight or plan can succeed against You. And Your word promises us that your thoughts and plans for us are for good and not for evil, to give us hope in our future. And You promised us that if we delight in You, You will give us the desires of our hearts. And that if we commit ourselves to Your ways and if we trust in You, You will make our righteousness shine like the dawn, and the justice of our cause like the noonday sun! So we thank You for the encouragement, wisdom and instruction provided for us in 1 Peter 3:1-6, in which You said Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear. Lord, we know that apart from You, it’s not possible to be such a wife, so we thank You that it is You who will give us the grace and strength to commit ourselves to this teaching and experience the promise it holds for the salvation of our husbands. We thank You that when we seek to understand Your word, especially when it is so contrary to our flesh, You will lead us through the power of Your Holy Spirit. We thank You that when we are weak, You are strong, and that we CAN do ALL things through You, because You will strengthen us! We thank you for the awesome promise You give us in Revelations 12:11, which says They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. And we thank You for peace that passes all understanding. I pray Lord Jesus, that Fran will be filled to overflowing with that kind of peace, which comes only when we REALLY trust and believe in You and Your promises, and that nothing she hears or sees can shake her from the bold and faithful stand she’s taken for her husband’s salvation. I pray that You will lead her into the truth, knowledge and wisdom of Your word concerning the faith and confidence she needs to believe that her husband IS saved and that You have answered her prayers and that she and her son will be blessed with the husband and father they desire. Fill her with the joy of salvation, Lord, and the absolute knowledge that the same power that worked in her heart and spirit to save her is now at work in her husband. I thank You that her husband will begin to see a peace in her that draws him, that he will see the light of Your love in her and that she will see him through Your eyes Lord, and NOT through the eyes of her experience. And, Lord, please give her the encouragement she needs at this time, and bless her with a most awesome testimony to use for your glory. AMEN.