I will start my next one on wednesday.. thank you ... I did feel in my heart something about wednesday.. But I didnt think it would have been the best to fast from sat to wed. I feel much better doing it this way giving my body a couple days to nourish.
We have been in counceling for close to 3 years..
It has gotten better but sometimes I dont see the progress..
I want to share with you something powerful to do in prayer, also, in addition to all these other wonderful suggestions. On your marital issue: go through the Bible and choose key scriptures that speak God's Word & promises re: marriage & love. Write them on index cards, & pray them together with your husband every night. You will be amazed at the result.
A living example: my husband & I did this re: our infertility (in our eighth year of THAT barren wilderness) and we told no one; it was our private thing with God. Hannah's story/prayers comprised the majority of our index cards, and as you know her son was named "Samuel," which means "God has heard (my prayer)". Our adopted son came to us after praying this scripture-promise prayer for many, many months. And he came to us with a beautiful confirmation from God: his birth mother named him, "Samuel" on the birth certificate..."God has heard."
this will come.. right now we are not talking much.. you know better to say nothing at all.. We have read scripture together in the past but it didnt stick.. I will take this to heart. And in the meantime I will have to use intercession.
I am positivly joining in on the fast. My DH says its a waste of time but I know through God, ALL things are possible. Smom, glad you found that website helpful, I've been reading it for over a year now. It took awhile before I was brave enough to stand up for my marriage and tell my husband I was prayer for our restoration. PM me if you ever need to talk.
I am with you all on this. I will also fast on Wednesday and keep you all in my prayers. As well I will keep each and every one of you in my prayers. Even if I don't know you personally or by name, I will pray for all my BYC friends that your families are well taken care of and that God looks down on you and gives you each successes that you need in your lives. God knows what each of us need (whether we think that is what we need or not) I also agree wherever 2 or more are gathered in his name, it will be done according to God's will. So I counted way more than 3 so lets get to it.
I am sorry you are going through this and i hope it goes away fast.
Remember this. A wise woman once told me this. "If the Devil is knocking down your door then that means you are a threat to him! If he has left you alone, you are not a threat to his power and he is attacking someone more powerful."
Keep that in your thoughts, if the devil has left you alone for very long. I always think if the Devil is not concocting something on me, I must not have been acting like a very good Christian.
Another great forum for marriage is The Marriage Bed forums. I assume you're Christian because of details in the original post. You may find some good advice there; I really like that site, myself.
God works in mysterious ways --- Even through strangers who are now friends on a site for Chickens!!! My prayers and thoughts are with you too. Short term problems are hard enough but recurring problems seem to be more that we can bear sometimes. Give your problem up to God and let him bear it. Sometimes that takes some time but when you really really give it up, It will be like a weight lifted off you . The problem may well still be there but when God takes weight of the problem from you you will feel like a new person. I sat on my porch swing one time for three days (not 24 hours a day) swinging and asking God to not take my burdens away but for him to take the weight of them. When it came ,I felt like I was a new person.
I hope this made sense - expressing my self in writing is not my strong suit. Wayne in Huntingdon Tn
Just said a prayer for yall having troubles in your marriage. I pray that God would be there in yall's marriage cause "Marriage takes Three". Have faith and patience cause God works in His time not ours.