Never, Never, NEVER Give Up On God!
There’s ONLY one way to be defeated or lose in our stand and spiritual battle for the restoration of our marriages and the salvation of our husbands, and that’s giving up on the promises and power of God! And we have assurance that we can rely on God’s faithfulness to deliver on His promises in Numbers 23:19, which says God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? That’s why it’s so important for us to make up our minds whether we believe the word of God or not, and if we can’t accept and believe the truth of this verse and every other verse found in the Bible, we might as well give up right now, because if we don’t take God at His word, we have NO right to claim its power and promise, and shouldn’t be using His name as we stand for marriage restoration. And we certainly won’t have the grace we need to glorify the Lord while we do it! God WILL do EVERYTHING He says He will do, and the ONLY thing that could possibly keep us from receiving ALL that He’s promised is our inability to trust Him and our failure to WAIT for Him to fulfill His promises, which He WILL do when the time is right according to His perfect plan.
Since the Lord’s already blessed me with an awesome testimony and praise report of my own about NEVER giving up on His faithfulness, I hope sharing it encourages someone else not to EVER give up on any miracle they’re praying and waiting for. My desire and burden for my husband’s salvation and walk with the Lord has always been even stronger than my desire for marriage restoration. And even though it took almost 14 years of praying without end, including nine years without a word from him or knowing where he was, God faithfully answered my prayers about a year and a half ago, and even used me to lead Him to the Lord! And despite my natural disappointment when he was convinced that being saved meant he should marry the woman he was living with at the time, I can truly say that the Lord has even given me the grace and peace needed to face that too. And in recent days the Lord has rewarded my faithfulness and prayers with the greatest gift of all, which is giving me a glimpse of the man of God He is molding and shaping my husband into, because that’s still the greatest desire of my heart. So NO matter how hopeless or impossible our situations look, we must keep our eyes on the Lord and continue praying, keeping Colossians 4:2 in mind, because it says Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And there’s no better way to state the importance of waiting on the Lord than the wisdom expressed by my husband recently when he wrote “…as we know God’s timing is very slow and calculated. He waits for all the pieces to fall into place just right…..when WE LET HIM that is.” So let’s wait on the Lord and let Him do what it takes to put all of the pieces in place for the restoration of our marriages, because He IS working behind the scenes in ways we can’t possibly see or understand, and IF we wait on Him and humble ourselves under His mighty hand, He WILL lift us up in DUE time just like 1 Peter 5:6 promises!
So it is my sincerest hope and prayer that my personal testimony of God’s faithfulness when we persevere in standing on the power and promise of His Word encourages and blesses any of you who might be struggling with thoughts of giving up on God instead of standing with Him for the restoration of your marriages! He’ll NEVER forsake us or leave us and He WILL answer our prayers, though in His perfect time and not ours. SO NEVER GIVE UP ON GOD!!!