I know our regular visitors to the public site have noticed that I don’t get to post Seeds Of Faith posts the way I used to, which I greatly miss, but that’s because I’ve been so busy keeping up with my other ministry responsibilities and the private FAM Fellowship website. The Lord has blessed us with so many new members recently (over thirty in the past six weeks), and we have truly been blessed beyond belief to see Him moving so mightily in our midst—and we really don’t know who will be next! But since I know it’s very encouraging to hear the testimonies of others when we are standing in faith and obedience on the power and promise of God’s Word for marriage restoration, and we are called to give God the praise, honor and glory He deserves, I want to share just some of what we have seen God do in the lives of our FAMM family in just the past week.

First, we were all truly blessed beyond words to see the Restored Marriage Testimonies of two of our members this past Wednesday, and then another one the following day!!!

After dealing with years of her husband’s non-covenant relationships including a child born to one of them, herself being unfaithful, and many attempts to restore their marriage, MNO (member name omitted) decided that she had to do whatever it took to provide for herself and her children without relying on her husband. So right after Christmas last year, she sent her children out of state to live with her mother and began an accelerated nursing program and cut her ties with her husband while she focused on doing what she needed to do for her family. And within a few months, her husband left the NCP and was living with friends and relatives, and after a death in his family last April, he came to his wife and told her he was coming home and they have all been back together as a family now for almost two months! And she says that things are VERY different and MUCH better than ever before! Praise the Lord!

After fifteen months of separation, and recently setting up house with an NCP (non-covenant person) she had been involved with years ago, MNO’s wife was very upset when the family went on a vacation without her, because it’s been pretty obvious for some time that she had already fallen in love with her husband again. So he comforted her by telling her that he really wanted to invite her, and that as hard as it was, they would be okay and had to get used to separate vacations given the current circumstances; which she later told him really hit her because she knew that wasn’t what she wanted and that he wasn’t saying it to be mean but because he was accepting her decision even though it wasn’t what he wanted. And soon after returning from their vacation, she spent the day with her family, and during that time, she told MNO that she loved him very much and missed him terribly and that she was sorry for everything. But she doesn’t know how they can get past everything or how to unweave the mess she has created. But He assured her that they had made it together and that the Lord could help them get through it and give them the strength and grace to move forward; that they could just take it one day at a time. And standing in faith on the power and promise of God’s Word, he claimed the restoration of his marriage because he knows that his wife’s heart is home and she will soon follow!

After being an unfaithful wife, the Lord brought MNO back to Him a little more than a year ago and called her to stand for her marriage even though her husband was involved with someone else at that time as well and ended up filing for divorce. And after recently coming home for about three weeks, he left again (to live with family members and not the NCP) because he said that he needed to know what God’s will for his life is and that his desire is to do not what he wants to do, but what God wants him to do! Well, he took her to lunch this week and told her that he wants to stay married and even though he doesn’t know how to work that out, it is what he wants to do. And he has started making plans for them as a family; such as vacations together and even making home improvements he knows she wants! So knowing that and that GOD will bring it to pass, she also stood on the power and promise of His Word and claimed the restoration of her marriage, which we all agree will be very soon!

But God didn’t stop there! In addition to the three wonderful Restored Marriage Testimonies mentioned above, we were also blessed to see God moving very powerfully in the hearts and marriages of seven other FAM members as well!

After three months of separation and quite a bit of hostility, and recently finding out that the NCP is pregnant, one of our newer member’s husband told her that he misses home, but doesn’t know where to start and if things can even “be fixed.” Needless to say, those words were music to her ears and she assured him that they can be!

After a little more than eleven months of separation and a child born to the NCP, another one of our newer member’s husband told her that “the grass isn’t greener on the other side”…but he doesn’t know “how to get back.” Needless to say, those were very encouraging words, and even though her husband continues to be double-minded, she sees God moving in his heart and knows their marriage will be restored!

After not attending church during their separation and divorce for the past year, MNO’s wife has been attending church with him and their daughter since Mother’s Day and even wants to sing in the praise and worship band now! Even though she says they are “just friends,” she displays affection in public, which is something they never used to do! So MNO knows that it’s just a matter of time before the Lord completes the restoration of their marriage; in the same way his wife is now being restored to her walk and relationship with Him! And as God tends to do with all of us, He has really used this time to draw MNO closer to Him too, and there’s no doubt that his wife likes the changes she sees in the new husband God has been making him!

After nine months of separation, being very angry and very little contact, another one of our new member’s husband has called twice this month and they have had pleasant conversations and now they are going out to dinner today, which just happens to be their 18th wedding anniversary! Needless to say, she is thrilled and very excited about what the Lord is doing on her behalf and to see her husband’s heart soften so much! So we’re praying that the Lord will totally melt his heart today and he will just fall in love with his wife all over again tonight!

After nine months of separation and no contact or expression of interest in anything to do with his wife, MNO’s husband asked his mother how MNO is doing and said he knows that she loves him; but she doesn’t like him or his friends. While that might not seem like much, it really is because it demonstrates that his thoughts have turned back to her and their marriage, which means his heart will soon follow, and then his feet…and we know that where our feet go, there our bodies go as well! So that’s just one more husband on his way home! Praise the Lord!

After almost thirty years of marriage and being separated and divorced for almost three years, MNO recently heard from a family member that her husband is no longer with the NCP; which might explain why twice in the past few weeks, he called her with impromptu dinner invitations, during which time they were both in tears as he shared things going on in the lives of people they knew that would naturally cause him to think about his own life. And for the first time in many years, he went on vacation to visit his family and will return today, which he sent a text to let her know and to say that he would call when he returns. So God is obviously working in his heart and life, and as MNO said, we all stand in agreement that he was going home to come home!

Another one of our new members joined the fellowship even though she filed for divorce after years of her husband being unfaithful and even having a child with the NCP, and their final divorce hearing was fast approaching. But God had a totally different plan! I always tell members who have filed for divorce that we can’t stand for marriage restoration while pursuing a divorce because that’s certainly not consistent with walking in faith or being obedient, and I encourage FAM members who have done so to withdraw their divorce petitions. But before I could actually speak with MNO, God intervened and the hearing was postponed. Two days before the hearing, she found out that she is pregnant and the night before the hearing, one of their children was hospitalized with pneumonia and they had to postpone the hearing. Yet, within an hour after doing so, the doctors decided to send them home with antibiotics! And two days later, her husband decided to move away and live with his parents instead of the NCP! Needless to say, God is obviously speaking to both of their hearts and I’d say getting their attention! God’s will and plan will NEVER be thwarted!

It’s so exciting and exhilarating to see how mightily and powerfully God has been moving in the hearts and lives of our members and their spouses recently because they have made a commitment to stand in faith and obedience on the power and promise of His Word for the full and complete restoration of their marriages and families, which means learning to be the spouses God has called them to be, to love and respect their spouses unconditionally and to LET GO and leave their spouses and marriages in the hands of our most awesome and faithful God! Marriage restoration is done in the SUPERNATURAL, so we have to learn HOW to work together with God instead of against Him as the world teaches and promotes, and the ONLY way to do that is according to His Word. But when we stand on the power and promise of His Word in faith and obedience, we are in fact humbling ourselves under the mighty, loving, and ever faithful hand of our great and mighty God and HE WILL LIFT US UP IN DUE TIME…just as He promised in 1 Peter 5:5-8!!! So as we all say as FAM Fellowship members…GOD IS MOVING…SO GET READY!!! And the way to do that is to LEARN WHAT HIS WORD SAYS AND DO IT TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY! And then we will indeed be blessed beyond belief because we will be ready when our spouses come back home!

Posted Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 3:03 pm in Seeds Of Faith.