When God told him, Go to Nineveh, he said, I think Ill go to Tarshish instead., God said, Go east. Luke 10:19 In just a few sentences Prodigal Yet captures the plight of the straying child who isnt quite ready to give up the high life in the far country: Muck of the sty, reek of the trough, So they started the first interfaith prayer meeting in the Bible, each man crying out to his own god. And sometimes we feel that our spouse is the enemy, so we have to love them; they need our love because they have been taken captive by the enemy. 2015 The Prodigal Spouse Moriah Shires . Who was going to stop me? Also notice she went into a very heavy seeking mode by searching out every good book she could find on marriage, prayer, and spiritual warfare. How else can you explain a mans reckless behavior in having one affair after another? Jake. Monday, January 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am in Seeds Of Faith. God bless you as you continue to heal with your husband and family. This is just what I needed, so thank you for sharing your testimony. He hates it! We claim to have access to the God of the universe. Thank you for your testimony, encouragement and hope. So I leapt in and did the wrong thing; knowing what I was doing was wrong, and knowing I was sinning against God. It's faith that moves mountains (Matthew 21:21). (Ezekiel 34:11). For the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory. I know God was working on him and sent him home to me. Please support our ministry by giving here. With much love and gratitude to you all, God is also working in ME as I wait, and I like who I am becoming in Him and understand that He has to complete His work in me before reconciliation occurs. promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. The days went by and he didnt call so on December 5th 2010.I called him..he refused to take my calls so I texted him only to be told that he wasnt interested in me and I should go on with my life.that I should never call or text him again..that was like a dagger through my heartI felt as though someone had literally ran a knife straight through my stomach and was twisting it repeatedly..but that isnt the worse yet.. I NEED YOU!!! All Bible verses are from the New International Version 1984 unless otherwise indicated. But I would have been drawn to that peace and it would have woken me up. I know I tell you life is excellent and that Im so much happier, but the thing is, Im not! I was very unhappy in my marriage and I didnt believe I loved my husband anymore; we were always either arguing or giving each other the silent treatment. No matter what you may think about the way your friends are living, no matter how angry you may be at the choices they have made, the root problem is never on the outside. The Prodigal Wife. I got a bad report that rocked me and then felt horrible because I wondered if Id learned anything in all this time, so my faith needed strengthening. All Rights Reserved. Ive done all I can to restore my marriage and now I am surrendering it all to God. Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish (v. 6). The next thing she did right was to enlist the aid of three powerful prayer warriors to help her with her prayers to the Lord. Even though I was fighting the drugs, I still woke up every morning and read a chapter in my BibleIf nothing else good happened in my life, at least I was going to hear God every day. Ashley Smith. Please ponder these four words: We never sin alone. Hebrews 4:16 No one gets a free ride on the Ship of Fools. Notice several key things Crystal did to get God to move on her behalf. Thank you so much for responding to my blog in such a positive way. He told me that after he spoke to me on Thursday.he went to God himself and talked to him and asked him to speak and show him what he should do..he said from the time he said that everything just went crazy..everything he saw reminded him of me.. when he went to sleep his dreams were constant replays of our life together.. he started thinking about stuff that happened before and after our marriage that were nothing short of miraculous.. I just lost my job. Eventually, through her interaction with the humble pastor and his wife, and her study of the Bible, Rosaria came to the conviction that God was real and worth believing. Amazing, isnt it, how when you want to run from God, you can always find a boat going where you want to go. Prayer to Heal Broken Relationships. And: God is worth the sacrifice. I had reached my mountaintop, onlythe view disappointed me. I pray I find a way to have God move on my behalf. God was, but I didnt know that!! I went through a very long and difficult time before I got a second chance to step in faith and make things right in my life. My heart has gone bitter. All Rights Reserved. Im glad I found this site and that it even exists. So began the arduous, years-long journey of one determined mother who prayed and trusted God to save her drug-hardened, cold-hearted son, even while Christopher ran further and further into sex, drugs, and illegal activities. Im scared; Im tired; I have thoughts of ending my life to stop this pain. Muck of the sty, reek of the trough, Unlike most of the people on this list, Nabeel was not a prodigal in any outward way. There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked. And when we finally realize that it doesnt matter what we see and hear about and from our spouses and their plans and lives because Gods Word and Will can NOT be thwarted, we can walk in the confidence declared in Isaiah 8:10, which says Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us. If they were scared, it must have been a truly terrible storm. Faith is often fed through (true) stories. Our hearts are broken. We are two completely different people today then we were back then, so there is no reason to ever look back. And Ive needed to read something like this for some time now because Ive wanted to do something to win my wife back, and people keep telling me to put her in Gods hands. I cant seem to get ahead; people are angry with me; my life is upside down. Stephanie, thank you so much for sharing your testimony, which has encouraged me and has to have blessed many, many others too. You tell us what we are doing is wrong. I think I either bought or borrowed every book on marriagewarfare.prayeryou name it .every website I could think of.. And I just wrapped my husband up and prayed what ever pray I could even verbatim from some of those same books.I became like a one man army.. At times the devil whispered in my ears and unbelief and doubt settled in.I would call my prayer warriors for encouragement and go to God crying and in a few hours would be right as rain and ready again to go up against the gates of hell for my boo. *Book title/movie links are affiliate links unless otherwise noted. For those of you who have been on the receiving end of adultery, you know exactly what I am talking about. He put on my feet the shoes that miss Thats always step one for the prodigal. My marriage is falling apart. It gives me hope for the restoration of my marriage. I dont want to apportion blame too much here but suffice it to say we had some in-law issues which contributed greatly to our demise.but that is another story and I want to concentrate on how God showed up and showed off in the mist of my situation. The hurt that I caused them was far beyond any words that I could use to describe. Today Im 12 Years Sober and Still Starting Over, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, about to be re-released (preorder link, non-affiliate). I thought I had to continue on the path that I started because in my mind nothing would ever be the same again. It moved me to put on the armour of God and pull my Boo back from the Pit as well. But Chad found that his victory was strangely empty. Or where can I flee from Your presence? What you can see is someone who left you, hates you, and wants nothing to do with you, right? I know my marriage is being restored; Im giving it all to him and he WILL restore it as promised in his word. God will bring them home. Thank you so much! I wanted desperately to come home in one sense, because it was the only peace I could truly find. (After the knowledge gained from his experiences debating Nabeel, David today continues to wrestle with Muslim ideology through his ministry, Acts 17 Apologetics). I have read all of your post on here and some of them multiple times. If you have a spouse that has left you for another person, it would be our recommendation to plead the blood of Jesus around them, and then plead the blood of Jesus against any demons who are trying to get in the middle of this, along with pleading the blood of Jesus directly against the person they are having the affair with. Though Nabeel has graduated from this life, his ministry continues to live on in his wife, and his friends. This is just what I needed today! I also never thought that the change that I was seeing in my wife was permanent. Sometimes, when my own faith is flagging, it is encouraging to read stories about (and usually by) people who have struggled usually with tougher situations than mine and overcome. How else you explain a mother who abandons her own children? But forgiveness is not something we can (or want to) muster up on our own. I could not understand why God was leading me to go home. Jonah was the sinner in this situation, and yet his foolish rebellion endangered everyone around him. 2. Its all a LIE, but we dont know that. Will you pray that God grants me a new heart, and I can come to know him again? Thanks so much. He can send the storm of financial collapse. While Susan knows this deeply wounded her son, he never talked about it much or acknowledged it bothered him. But then Louis heard the message of the gospel, and turned into an entirely different person. These stages will develop you to walk into the promise and help you to see the anointing God, I am done standing in your way. Writer, musician, reader, daughter. We are all prodigals, in some ways, and at some times. Get up and call on your god! RUN as fast as we can!! So The Prodigal Perspective section of The FAM Fellowship website is a great source of encouragement because it contains the very revealing and powerful testimonies of those who had once abandoned their marriages and/or were once caught up in adulterous relationships and how the Lord spoke to them and brought them back to their senses and their spouses. So we are all blessed that the Lord has worked so mightily in the hearts, minds, spirits and circumstances of our prodigal members and that they are willing to share their unique Prodigal Perspective and give us a much clearer understanding of what REALLY happens on the other side of the mountain; because just As declared in Genesis 50:20, what Satan intended for harm and evil, God ALWAYS intended for good and for the saving of many livesand in this case, for the saving of many marriages and families as well! Yet at the same time, I thought I had "done too much" or "wandered too far," and I couldn't forgive myself. Your testimony helped me to know that God is not done and that the promises He gave me for the restoration of my marriage, my husband and me still stand . In Arms I have monitored your site daily since I found it, hoping you would post something new as I need encouragement . It has become hard because the enemy deceived me, and the entire time I was running, I knew it was wrong. Our God is infinitely creative. We have 7 children who were blindsided as badly as I was. We know God is in control, and we are praying and waiting, but nothing seems to be happening. Delve into the lusciousness of life, (aka The Scylighter). In my own journey, I hurt people before I knew the Lord. (Note from Linda: Stephanie shared this powerful message on the private site last night and I have no doubt that it will be a blessing to everyone standing for marriage restoration, especially when another person is involved. Some went to a Christian college. It was all working out like he had planned. The problem is always on the inside. How many times have we returned with our head hung to our Lord, full of shame, yet found Him with open arms ready to separate our sin from us as far as the East is from the West if we only repent? When you are hurt, love them (they hurt too). Copyright 2005-2023 Faith And Marriage Ministries. Copyright by Michael Bradley and Chris Bradley, Prayer Secret #6 The Prayer of Agreement., When People Let You Down: Dealing with Disappointment. That moment of sheer surprise will be forever etched in my mind. I dont even know if this is still an active thread. I long-God help me!-to wallow to-night. Sign up to join over 20,000 subscribers receiving our weekly sermon email. We cherish our marriage and our relationship with God and He is doing wonderful things in our lives because of it. 2 Peter 2:19 The world doesnt care about our religion, but the world wants us to pray. He knows exactly how to get in touch with you. Its not his will for divorce. But, please, dont stop! Believe it or not, I still have to remind myself of these things when I get all worked up and emotional. I am working hard at being the person God wants me to be and try not to focus on my husband or the NCP. And the prodigals instinctRUN!!! My wife told me she wanted a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage. My husband and I were able to rebuild trust and heal together from our difficult past. My marriage was over. I was an example of a prodigal wife, just like so many others, who had run from my husband and abandoned my family for months at a time, just to fulfill my selfish desires. He filled my body with meat and wine, He flooded my heart with love's white light; Yet deep in the mire, with sensual swine, God crushed me and brought me to my knees and after countless hours of repentence, the fog cleared and things became crystal clear. Proverbs 16:9 The world generally doesnt care about what we say and do on Sunday morning. Our sin, our compromise, and our deceit always injures our spouse, our children, our friends, and our family. We praise, worship, give thanks, and march our way to the battlefield, knowing all well that God will deliver his promise to us. I had built my life around my husband and now he was goneI felt like I lost the better part of me..I couldnt eat.I couldnt eat .I didnt want to socialize and I forced myself to go to work..but God had a plan.even though all seemed lostGod was turning my situation around even as I was hurting..what the devil meant for evil God was turning around for good. I cried DAILY AND HOURLYI felt all hope was gone.I mean how do you get someone to love you again when that person is saying I never loved you at all..YOU CANT.BUT GOD CAN. Every step we take out of the will of God hurts those around us. Are you living married? Its not true! Thank You for Following the Lords leading to share your story. My husband of 1 year and 5 months left me on November 30th, 2010 .BUT. How else can you explain a politician who breaks the law and then lies with impunity? He wanted to give our marriage a chance and he loved me and wanted to be with ME. In spite of all this , I believed he loved me just as much as I loved himyou could imagine my surprise and heart break when one day after a short disagreementand I mean short.lasting no more that a few minutes..my beloved husband packed his clothes and walked out of my life. My story has so many things in common with all here. Every prodigal is shown the way out, but chooses to turn their back on what is right. Why? (LogOut/ I need to Let go and Let God take over, but being a control freak makes that all the more difficult. Shes in Gods handmy family is in Gods hand and He will restore my marriage in Jesus name! About two weeks ago, I decided to give it all to God and just as told would happen, a remarkable peace came over me since giving it to Him. Consistently being received with love, consistently seeing Christ in my wife, consistently finding an attitude of unconditional forgiveness and compassion is what won the battle. That scorches deeper than fires of wrath. Remember I wasnt rooted in God so my prayers wasnt as flowing as other people but everyday I gain more and more strength and my faith began to soar..I prayed that God would soften my husbands heart and remind him of the love we once sharedI asked God to send Godly people in his life to speak to him even when I couldnt and God heard me. You cry, you raise your voice, you act desperate, you act mean, etc. We already have an article on how powerful of a strategy this is with the Lord. Thats really good news because there is only one person in the universe who can change the heart, and he specializes in divine heart surgery. My husband prayed for me and was the one standing for our marriage during that time. In many ways you have shared my own story. And if they get our prayers, they might one day listen to our sermons. A lifestyle publication. It was also hard to hear him (the crowd was large and he was an old man at that point). Let your prodigal GO!!! This really encouraged me. Hes going to seduce you with anger, bitterness, sex, and anything else he can to eliminate your will to press forward in this battle. He put on my neck a chain to hold It seems so boring and mostly irrelevant, which is why this Sunday and every Sunday most people will not be in any church anywhere. Yet she did it anyway. Prodigals think CRAZY things. Now my prodigal wife wants nothing to do with God, which is extremely frustrating and heart breaking. Oh my word! There is a voice within every prodigal that tells them what they are doing is wrong. RELINQUISH your spouse to God. We claim to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Ashleys story was eventually made into a movie. He brought me home to a man I SWORE I didnt love, didnt want to be with, and didnt want to be in the same room with if it could be avoided. 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