If we truly understood the awesome SUPERNATURAL power released into our lives and circumstances when we faithfully trust God, it would be the easiest thing we ever do. But the sad reality is that when it comes right down to it and when it usually matters most in our lives, most Christians don’t truly trust God. So, as someone ministering to men and women standing against all earthly odds for marriage restoration, I know that helping them truly understand the greatness and faithfulness of our God and that He loves us with such an awesome and everlasting love as they develop a personal and intimate relationship with Him is the single most important thing I will ever do. And with every passing day of experience in marriage restoration ministry, I am more convinced than ever that the root of every moment of fear, despair, anger, frustration and many other negative emotions often experienced when standing for marriage restoration is our failure to know, understand and faithfully trust God. So with that in mind, I recently started writing a post about what it means to really acknowledge God in all our ways, which I hope to complete and publish soon.

However, as the ministry continues to grow very rapidly and so far beyond anything I ever imagined when establishing it over four years ago, writing Seeds Of Faith posts is something I rarely have time to do these days, so I apologize to everyone who has been concerned and especially appreciate hearing from those of you who have called or written to find out why I haven’t done that for the past few weeks. But since the FAM Fellowship was blessed to add twenty-one new members to our family last month, and since there’s little doubt that we will continue to grow, one of the main items on the agenda for tonight’s FAMM Board meeting will be finding ways to better manage such rapid growth and better meet the needs of our members. And it is my goal, though not all that realistic, to free up some of my time to be able to write more, because that’s something I truly love doing. In the meanwhile, I encourage everyone to make use of the option to search and read the archives, because they contain posts on most topics of interest and importance when standing for marriage restoration. And please keep the growth of the ministry and our ability to effectively manage it without losing all that we love about it in your prayers.

As always, God’s faithfulness to confirm the messages He wants to get across to us and the way we see recurring themes in the ministry keeps me in a continuous state of awe, and yesterday was no exception! As I said, two or three days ago, I started a post about the vital importance of understanding what it means to acknowledge God in ALL our ways (based on the instructions found in Proverbs 3:5-6), which focuses on the importance of trusting and obeying God and how it’s not really possible to truly do that without studying and knowing His Word. So I really appreciated Glenn Jackson’s Life of Faith message when I received it by email last night, which I encourage everyone to read at this link, where you can also sign up to receive them by email. It’s a very powerful message and one I hope and pray every man and woman standing for marriage restoration will read and take to heart. And I couldn’t help smiling when I saw the topic because earlier in the day, I had received a message from Rich, who noticed that I haven’t posted a Seeds of Faith post in a while and wanted to suggest sharing Why Waiting is Really Trusting by Daniel Darling. And since “waiting” is one of the greatest challenges many men and women standing for marriage restoration face, it’s a perfect follow up to Glenn’s message, so I hope an pray the Lord will use both of the above messages to speak to someone today, because the lasting restoration of troubled marriages really depends on our ability to FAITHFULLY trust God NO MATTER WHAT, as we acknowledge Him in ALL of our ways and learn not to lean to our own understanding and TRUST Him WITH ALL OF OUR HEARTS; heeding the warning found in Hebrews 10:38, which declares…But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.” So let’s focus on learning to “live by faith” and we will indeed be blessed and encouraged!

Posted Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 7:48 am in Seeds Of Faith.