It Takes Faith to Let Go
When standing for marriage restoration, understanding and implementing God’s instructions in 1 Corinthians 7:15 to let our spouses go when they want to depart is probably one of the greatest challenges we all face. Yet, that is what God instructs and expects us to do and He knows that the ONLY way we can do that and live in peace as He also expects us to do, is to put all of our faith, hope and confidence in Jesus Christ and the power and promise of His Word. And since we’ve had quite a bit of conversation about that in the FAM Fellowship lately, along with a recent post about Lazarus and the lessons we can learn from his story, I want to share a previous Seeds Of Faith post about that, Believing Jesus is the ONLY Way to Let Go; which I hope and pray will remind us all of just how important our faith is to the Lord. Without that, the odds are that we will never truly be able to let our spouses go and live in the peace of God that really does pass all human comprehension and understanding (Philippians 4:5-7); much less walk in the forgiveness, grace, mercy, and unconditional love and respect which are all so essential for true and lasting marriage restoration. Yet, one of the single most consistent things we hear from returning spouses is what a difference it made in their hearts and circumstances when their spouses finally let them go and began to demonstrate unconditional love and respect.
There is no way to adequately express or explain the awesome SUPERNATURAL power released into our lives and circumstances when we truly have unshakable faith in our Lord; yet there is no doubt that it is the most essential principle of marriage restoration–both before and after our marriages are restored. And as I shared in the above post, there is no way to read John 11 and the story of Lazarus’ miraculous restoration to life without seeing how vitally important faith is to Jesus and how much it troubles his heart when we don’t believe Him. And the pages of the private FAM Fellowship website are filled with testimonies of the miraculous ways God has worked and continues to work in the restoration of marriages once men and women have learned and finally understood the SUPERNATURAL power of faith and praise. What a blessing it is when we get that and can walk it out in our day to day lives; because that’s when we will be blessed and encouraged beyond anything we could ever ask or imagine as we see the mighty hand of God move to miraculously restore our marriages and families!