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Righteously Redeeming Your Spouse

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“Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”

~~~1 Peter 3:1-7 (ESV)~~~

“Redemption means I’m doing the right thing for you when you’re doing the wrong thing for me,…Jesus paid a price for us that we could not pay,…” Jimmy Evans.

“…our first response always is anger,…frustrated,…the pity stuff,…I look at what God went through just to redeem me,…I mean I should at least give that to you,…You blamed me for everything. You would never take responsibility,…there’s two sides to every marriage,…You definitely have issues as much as your husband does, but what I did is I asked the Lord to change me,…and then I just started praying,…constantly in my prayer closet.,…I didn’t lose faith that God could change both of us,…” Karen Evans.

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Together, You & God Outwitting the Devil

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“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”

~~~1 Peter 5:8 (ESV)~~~

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“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

~~~James 4:7 (ESV)~~~

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Walking Out Our Two God-Given Purpose Commandments

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There is never an age or a stage of our life that we are not to identify our God-given purpose and to fulfill it to the best of our ability. How? Always default to the two greatest commandments, and then ask God what it is we should be doing to fulfill both of these commandments in the proper order at that specific time.

“‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.’”

~~~Matthew 22:36-40 (ESV)~~~

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Stop Making Everything All About You!

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“Self-centeredness is the foundation to all bitterness and hurt and pain. It’s what goes on in marriages when you’re self-centered, you have a problem almost with everything because you have yourself in the center. You have to remove yourself from the center in the midst of an attack and it won’t bother you, because you are not in the center of it” Creflo Dollar.

“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”

~~~James 3:14-16 (KJV)~~~

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MARRIAGE STANDING

Moving On With My Life, NOT!

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“We’ll all get over our divorce” is such a well intended yet foolish statement made by a person who either doesn’t really have a clue about the devastations of divorce, doesn’t really care about the devastations of divorce, or wants to merely pretend to themselves and those closest to them, especially the children (no matter the ages) involved that divorce has no destructive repercussions. Have you honestly stopped to take a good look ALL around you!?!

How I wish I had a dollar for every time someone has said to me that I just needed to get on with my life. I especially remember hearing this early on and wondering just what it was they were telling me to move on from. Crazy as it sounded then and still does, those who had my best interest at heart were trying to introduce me to someone nice, someone good looking, someone wealthy, someone whatever,…Often this was done all the while vehemently listing all my husband’s narcissistic tendencies, why he could not be trusted ever again, how he was incapable of changing, how he isn’t deserving of me,…even how my being revengeful is justified. Don’t think so. And yes, change happens all the time and can be a good thing, a very good thing.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV).

Honestly, our son has already been through more than enough with our marital issues to put him “on the couch” for many years to come, without me messing with his head and heart even more by turning my back on my husband, his father, by getting on with my life for selfish reasons no less. I know in my heart of hearts that my amazing husband is going through a transformational process, just as I have, and will soon be home. I am committed until my last breath, if need be, to stand for the healing and restoration of not just our marriage, but of our family as well.

“Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee” Deuteronomy 31:6 (KJV).

What we have been through is akin to a very painful death, grieving must take place. So while it is the death of the destructive aspects of our marriage, it is not the death of our marriage, but the rebirth as new life will emerge from the ashes as our marriage and family slowly, but surely heal and are restored to better than before. Yep, I still do love my husband and take our wedding vows very seriously. Why on earth would I want to be selfish and get on with my life!?!

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” 2 Peter 3:9 (KJV).

Wedding Day, August 6, 1983

First Baptist Church, Winchester, Illinois

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Trusting in the Lord, Humility vs Pride

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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart,…Trust in the Lord with all your heart, say this out loud with me, humility, that’s what that is. Lean not to your own understanding. Well what if you’re leaning on your understanding, pride. You think you can do it, without the help,…” Keith Moore.

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

~~~Proverbs 3:5-6 (KJV)~~~

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Faith, the Real Stuff

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“Now sometimes in churches, unfortunately there is a lack of faith. Faith only comes one way, by hearing, and hearing what? the Word of God. So faith doesn’t come by emotion, faith doesn’t come sometimes when people are in churches and so forth, there’s a lot of emotion, a lot of sensation, faith doesn’t come by talking about politics and so forth, faith doesn’t even come by people trying to expound theology. You’ll find that even if you, I want to qualify that, I’m just saying that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Once you get the word of God, for you to get faith, you’re going to have to move from information to revelation. And once you move to revelation, faith cometh on that level. And so you’ll find when revelation decreases so does faith, and so God want us to go from faith to faith to faith to faith. Say amen to that” Dr. Bill Winston .

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”

~~~Romans 10:17 (KJV)~~~

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The Boomerang Effect of Love Overflowing

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“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

~~~Luke 6:37-38 (ESV)~~~

“Don’t pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults—unless, of course, you want the same treatment. Don’t condemn those who are down; that hardness can boomerang. Be easy on people; you’ll find life a lot easier. Give away your life; you’ll find life given back, but not merely given back—given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity.”

~~~Luke 6:37-38 (MSG)~~~

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What Do You Treasure Most?

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“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

~~~Matthew 6:19-24 (KJV)~~~

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By Their Fruits You’ll Know

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“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”

~~~Matthew 7:15-20 (KJV)~~~

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