My phone rang. It was an unknown number. I only picked it up because I felt an inner prompt to answer the call. Before I did, a strange sense of overwhelming love washed over me. It was directed towards the person on the other end of the call. The only thing was…I hadn’t even talked with them yet.
I answered. They wanted to schedule my kids for an orthodontic appointment at a local office. I didn’t need that. I already had an orthodontist to handle my kids. Before I knew it, I told the lady on the line that I didn’t need those services at all. I forgot about the overwhelming love I felt right before the call, until I hung up the phone. Then, I remembered how God had prompted me to answer the call and then filled me with overwhelming love.
I dialed the phone number back.
“Uh… I’m looking for the lady who called me,” I said.
“Who is that?” the operator asked me.
“I have no idea,” I replied. “She called me just a minute ago.”
“Hold on.”
Before I knew it, the woman I originally talked to was back on the phone. I told her how I felt God’s love for her. I asked her if she needed prayer. She said she did…
“The problem is my marriage. I don’t know if it is going to last,” she conveyed.
I prayed. She cried. I encouraged her, saying that we cannot look on day #2 and know what resurrection life power God has planned to bring on day #3.
“He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.” (1 Cor. 15:4)
Can you even imagine how bad things looked when Jesus went into the tomb? But, in just 3 days the whole story was going to change.
Friends, there have been days where I’ve been convinced my marriage is over. Where I’ve thought it’s dead, only to experience the next day — Jesus’ resurrection power!
All this to say: Don’t give up. Don’t give in.
Nothing is ever over with the power of Jesus behind it.
On my heart, I feel the desire to equip the saints to stand for service. This hour, the enemy is coming like a flood, but we are to raise up a standard.
I am holding a “Help, for my Marriage” Workshop. I want to invite you. Not only will this workshop support you, but it will help keep Purposeful Faith alive and going, as there have been some hosting charges that have popped up, recently.
The “Help, for My Marriage” Workshop (which will also help with other difficult family relationships, too) will include:
1. Detailed ways to walk in wisdom in a hard situation.
2. Strength that helps you stay hidden in Christ and wise in words.
3. Practical strategies to believe God when everything looks dark and dim.
4. Breakthrough testimonies and stories.
5. Prayer strategy that defeats the devil’s schemes.
6. Ways to set up boundaries that safeguard your heart and your children.
7. Prayer and encouragement.
Friends, the devil would love for you to think your marriage (and family relationships) are over. I say, they have only yet begun! The best is yet ahead!
Register here: “Help, for my Marriage” Workshop
December 14, 2023 at 6:00 ET via Zoom.
*Recording available.
$25.00
You do not need a spouse to attend; this session is meant for you and it will help you. Don’t give up faith.
Prayer: Father, you are the Creator of all things! Create something new in my family relationships. I ask for the resurrection life power of Jesus to heal every relationship that needs healing. Help me to take responsibility for me. Help me to do things a new way. May I release all that I cannot change. And, most of all, may I trust you. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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