It is with a great deal of excitement and anticipation that I announce a big change coming to Faith And Marriage Ministries in the next few days. We are no longer a marriage restoration ministry for women only, and we’re currently in the process of setting up another private and secure website for our men’s FAM Fellowship! So there will be some modifications to our public website in the coming days, but they shouldn’t be very significant, even though some additional features are possible as we make such a tremendous and momentous transition. And since the Lord has given me many other visions of ways this ministry can be used to bring healing and restoration to many as we lift up His name and bring glory to His kingdom, I eagerly look forward to seeing them all come to pass!

The Lord has blessed and worked through this ministry in ways I never dreamed or imagined when He first sowed the seeds of it in my heart just sixteen months ago. And the things He’s done in the ten months since this website went up are indeed nothing short of miraculous and an awesome testimony of God’s faithfulness to honor His word when we honor Him with obedience by walking in His ways and living in accordance with His word! That means I’ve actually seen total confirmation of one of my favorite passages of scripture, which is Psalm 37:4-6, because it promises Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

And I’ve certainly seen that confirmed over and over again in the past ten months, especially when four husbands returned to their marriages and families, keeping a total of nine children from living with the consequences of separation and divorce! Then in addition to that, the Lord put a halt to the pending separation of three other families with a total of seven more children, which were definitely on the brink of disaster. And the power and grace of God’s love and mercy have literally transformed troubled relationships between countless other husbands and wives, so many other families now appear to be very close to restoration! And I personally witnessed the most awesome power of God’s word at work, as I saw how it changed the hearts and attitudes of many of the women involved with the ministry in the past year. And most recently, the Lord used the wonderful men and women associated with this ministry in one way or another to bless two families in need this Christmas, which made what would have been a naturally disappointing Christmas for two women and their four children a Christmas they’ll probably never forget! And despite all of the incredible miracles I’ve been blessed to witness, the thing that NEVER ceases to totally blow my mind is the Lord’s amazing faithfulness and willingness to confirm everything! I see that almost every day of my life and quite often many times a day! But one of the most awesome miracles of all, is the one the Lord has done in my own heart and life! Very few people can honestly say that every day of their life just seems to be better than the one before, but that’s the only way I know how to describe my life and relationship with the Lord! I just can’t wait to get up every day to see what He’s going to do next, and it is ALWAYS so much more than I could ever ask or imagine! I’ve seen the Lord perform so many miracles that I don’t even share them all now, because after a point it just sounds too incredible to believe! And I’ve actually experienced instantly answered prayers, which is something I don’t recall happening in the past. And the list could just go on and on, but the bottom line is that we serve the most awesome God and His wonders NEVER cease, so I just want to give Him all praise, honor and glory for ALL I’ve seen Him do and ALL that I know He’s yet to do!

But I couldn’t possibly count and give thanks for my blessings in the past year without thanking every one of you for your interest, participation and support of this ministry, because without you it would be nothing! The Lord has certainly blessed this ministry with some of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing; ALL of you are very special to me, and I thank the Lord for each and every one of you. So the following prayer from Ephesians 3: 14-21 is my heartfelt prayer for each of you as we come to the close of one year and enter into the glorious and victorious year I’m certain God has planned for all of us in the coming New Year!

for this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Posted Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 8:22 pm in Seeds Of Faith.