Trust in Him at All Times
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“Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge.” Psalm 62:8
Trust in God – it sounds so simple but how do we do that? I have found it difficult sometimes, but I have learned from my own experience that He is to be trusted. He is our God; we are His people. He created us to come unto Himself. We are His. He cares for us, and loves us.
Many years ago my husband and I started having trouble in our marriage. We were only two years into it. Outside forces began tangling themselves in our lives, and quickly, we separated.
I had not walked with the LORD as I should for years. I got off His track, and took my own. I still loved Him, I talked to Him, and prayed. But I went my way, not His way.
When this trouble came, my heart was broken, and I did not know where to turn. I was raised to know God, and to know that I was to go to Him first. One day I picked up my dust covered Bible. I began to read the scriptures, ending up in Psalms. That book is one of the best places to hang out. It brought me comfort and hope and it convinced me that I needed to be on my knees!
I did just that. I began to pray, to ask forgiveness, to ask God to save my marriage, to show me how I needed to change. Me, not my husband. Barely a week later my husband came back to me, asking forgiveness from me, and expressing the desire to start over, and to bring God back into the center of our lives, our home, our marriage.
We did just that, and God worked a miracle. Eighteen years later we are still in love, and we are serving God together.
Yes, we can trust God. We can trust Him in the small things, and in the big things. And when we do, we bring Him honor and glory. We bring Him ourselves. And isn’t that exactly what He wants of us?
Question: What signs appear to alert us that we are not trusting God in our difficult times? How can we change that?
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I am one that likes to put the cart before the horse. I do it all the time, but is patiently working on that with me.
There are times I tithe, but not the whole amount, but expect God to help me out when it is needed. He will but he wants be to ask Him first and continue on with His leading me down His path and then all things will be made new.
Trisha…I’m glad I could share with you. I’ve not lost a child…suffered that, which I cannot imagine, but I’ve known a black pit, where there was not a speck of light…and for a long time. I’ve known hopelessness to the point of not wanting to face another tomorrow. After turning my back on God for several years, hitting total bottom, somehow in starting to climb out of that pit, I could do nothing more but numbly sit at his feet, in silence and wait. Even then, I had nothing to say to Him. In time, ever so gently, I began to slowly come back. He didn’t zap me and make me happy. He didn’t take away the heartache. I even had to be hospitalized again and again…but I began to sense Him gradually once again and I found myself being used, little by little and began seeing tiny bits of my faith coming back. My friends didn’t come back, my family still didn’t understand and some never to this day will speak of my “crazy” days…they just ignore it. God didn’t fix those things, but in looking back now, I know He walked thru those times with me. If He hadn’t, I would have died…literally.
No, you are not alone Trisha….in fact there are no doubt, many here that hear your heart. I found women here that ministered to me during a time…later, that I fell again into depression and began having so many doubts.
As you walk thru these times, take time for you. Pamper yourself when you can…know that you are special and worth taking that time for you. Know you are in my prayers and thoughts, my friend.
Patti, you are someone who understands where i’m coming from. Being a Christian isn’t always about the miracles and blessings and having everything work out the way we want. There are those who have no idea what it’s like to suffer. Their parents have priviledged them to life’s finest. They have never broken bones, spent a night in a hospital, received stitches, had major depression, lost someone they loved with all their hearts,ungrateful kids and the list goes on. God has basically stripped me of everything and everyone that’s ever mattered in my life. i feel just like your “seashell fragments that went out to sea never to return.” The Father has me in that silent still place and i’m waiting and waiting and waiting. i know the enemy hates it when we’re patient with the LORD yet i’m determined to hang in there and not give up on Him or me. Seems like you and i and people who have been to the dephs of despair learn to Trust in GoD in and entirely different way. Thank you so much for sharing. i really don’t feel so absolutley alone in my feelings. Bless you!
Trisha…I want to share one of my journals during that time. I did journal my feelings when I felt so deeply in the darkest hole..I don’t usually share these..but..
” BROKEN
Lord…
My heart…..stilled, saddened, shattered, broken…….
Like a seashell on the shore.
Tides come and go
Tiny fragments out to sea…Lost forever
No hope of renewal
Darkness comes…
Stranded…..awaiting sunrise
No matter…
No hope”
Trisha, I truly sat at His feet…like this, with no or little hope for so long..years even, until I was so broken..until I became, in a sense, so limp, I was totally spent….and little by little, He began a slow but sure healing in me. I wish I could tell you it happened overnight or in a week or a month…but it was all In His Time.
I thought I was lost forever…had fallen from grace or had sinned the unpardonable sin…I simply had given up. If anything I have shared has given you hope…then you, my new friend, have blessed me.
TO Patti, your last 2 posts have soothed me and given me hope. Thank you.
You know….when I was coming out of 4 years of…well, I don’t even want to go into all that had happened, but so much that I felt there could not be a loving God….Anyway, as I began to barely come back spiritually, I wanted Him to show himself to me…in some way…But…there are times that He allows trials..terrible trials, to teach us, hopefully..not to punish us, there are times that He blesses us and I have learned that there are times that we are to sit quietly at His feet…sometimes for a long long time, pray, read and be silent..soaking in the Word….Until He decides when we are tender and ready to be used as He intended in the beginning.
I’ve been watching the comments on this devotional for several days..and as I have been thinking, one scripture came to my mind, Isaiah 43:2….”When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” The Lord didn’t promise we wouldn’t go thru trials and grief in our lives, but He did promise that He would walk with us. When I was walking thru some very terrible times that lasted over 4 years. I turned my back on God….It was only toward the end of that horrible journey that I finally broke down and cried out to God. I was trying to do it all myself…making a mess of things…relationships. Finally, I sat before His feet for a while, quietly and began to sense a healing. I wonder now if I had allowed Him into my life to walk with me thru that time, if those relationships, I would not have severed, those fiends, I would not have lost, and my children would not have had those memories of those years in their hearts forever. God didn’t fix things for me….I had to walk thru those rivers and fires…but He was there with me, if only I had taken His Hand.
Trusting that God is good even when circumstances are not so good is a tough place to get. You are absolutely right to look to the Holy Spirit for guidance on how to find contentment no matter what your circumstances. He helps us get to the place that you describe as “I just want to be close to Jesus.” My heart leapt for joy when I read that phrase. That is my desire as well. My prayer echoes Paul’s when he writes, “I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge– that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:16-19) To be rooted deeply into the love of God through Christ is the pursuit of all of His followers and, as you have said, becomes more important than anything in our day to day life. Thanks for sharing how God is doing that in your life, and may He accomplish that more and more in us all.
Trisha, I do understand your feelings. God does not choose me above you. There are many things in life that have brought great disappointment to me, regardless of my faith in God. He does not always say yes to me. But when He does, I of course must respond with rejoicing and praise. I have had to learn much from my disappointments. He uses our circumstances to teach us. I have much more to learn, and I am learning thru my conversation with you that I need to remember all of us are different, with different experiences and losses and heartaches, as well as praises and joy and successes. We are all in it together, and women should uphold one another and we need to be encourages in the faith for one another. I will pray for you, and I ask that you pray for me too. Thanks for your honesty. It means alot to me.
To Jamie: i’m not positive i understand your comment about “tongue and cheek” or me being “honest”…let me ASSURE you…i MEAN EVERYTHING I SAY! My point is, i, apparently have been totally off the mark for making wise choices even when i thought i DID “hear” from the LORD. B/c of the life i’ve lived, i let circumstances control me. i am now learning through the Holy Spirit, to “see” things the other way around. i’ve been born again since 1983 and have, over the years, delved very deeply into His Word. For what ever reasons i couldn’t get past the negatives in my life, over and over again. It’s just now i seem to be getting a breakthrough. There are times i don’t even care about all the terrible things that have happened to me, i just want to be close to Jesus. If this means being alone then so be it. “Better is a handful with quietness then both hands full with travail and vexation of spirit” ECC 4:6. i know God is a BIG God and we are mere bugs whom He could just step on if He wanted to. Since being born again all i kept trying to do was “please” Him and STILL…the, shall i say “big rewarding” blessings still eluded me! Then i would get frustrated and mad at God. i guess you could say it’s been an acceptance problem with me. i always wanted better than where i was or dissatisfied with what He handed me. i didn’t like my “lot” in life. EVER! So now, i’m learning to “see” things differently, to relax and just “be”. Thanks for your input. Blessings~
Trisha, I love your honesty. You are right that part of the reason for this site is to allow people to share honestly where they are at. I am so glad you feel the freedom to do that. The way you bluntly state your experience with God reminds me of Job. The only difference is, Job’s friends were the ones who were blaming Job for the problems that he was facing but it sounds like you are the one who is pointing at yourself (although I haven’t figured out if that is tongue-in-cheek or truly what you feel). One of the things I love about the story of Job is that God commends Job’s honesty. Job’s friends were afraid of Job’s honest, blunt declaration that God’s treatment of him was not fair. They quickly came to God’s “rescue” and defended God’s actions by accusing Job of some sin that thus warranted God’s displeasure. You will remember that the afflictions that Job was experiencing was not because he had done something wrong but that he had done so many things right. At the opening of the story God was bragging about how wonderful Job was. It was then Satan who accused Job of being a ‘fair-weather friend’ of God. “If you let me take away all of the good stuff from Job’s life he will curse You to Your face!” was Satan’s assertion.
Now Trisha, I don’t know if what you are experiencing is because you have been doing so much right or because you have been doing so much wrong. What I do know is that if you continue with your honesty to God joined with your very Job-like acknowledgment of God’s sovereignty in all things (there are some tremendous songs of praise found in the words of Job that declare the wondrous power of God) you will experience the same thing that Job experienced, which ultimately is the purpose of God for you. What was it that Job discovered? “I had heard about you before, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.” (Job 42:5) What Job found out of all of his trouble and pain was the face of God; and that was enough. Jesus defined eternal life as “knowing You, the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom You sent.” (John 17:3) If you have not yet seen God’s face, you will likely still say, “Yeah that’s great but what I really want is…” If you have seen His face, your response will be “How Great Thou Art!”
So don’t stop being honest with God. Don’t stop surrendering to His authority and goodness. Keep actively seeking after Him and pursuing His favour. When the time is perfect and God knows you are ready…it will be more than enough!
To Miranda, thank you so much for your compassionate reaching out to me. i’m just on here commenting on devos, like everybody else. It’s OK not everyone sees or feels things like i have and do. It’s variety and we are all different in our own ways. You are right, i DO have to be careful not to let this horrible, filthy world harden my heart towards the LORD. It’s just that i don’t look through rose colored Christianeese glasses. i DO lift my hands and Praise HIM JUST FOR WHO HE IS! Just b/c my life has been hard and lonely doesn’t mean i give up on my faith. i am very “open” to have HIM bless me. i look for blessings everyday even the one where my car starts up every day and gets me to my part time job. i feel bad about myself whether you tell me a thousand times that God loves me SO much. Apparently i must have made all the wrong choices through out my whole life. Guess i “missed” all those blessings He had for me. i am NOT mocking the LORD either. These thoughts i am sharing are from deep within me and is why i continue to subscribe to this site. i get help from people like you and Linda and the honesty of Pat who see through eyes of compassion, not self defense and like i’m attacking them. You say “He WANTS to bless me” OK…then why doesn’t He in the ways that would mean the most to me? Like marriage and family and being in a financial position to give to others? Again, Miranda, i don’t expect you to have the answers for me. i read HIS Word every single day searching for answers. Apparently, there must be so much wrong with me(regardless of how “precious He says i am) that He has yet to deal with and it causes me many, many tears and a sad heart. It just plain hurts when i see so many around me with so many of those Blessings you say He wants to give to me. Thank you again for caring enough. JESUS IS LORD OF ALL! ~Hug
To Lili, i mean no disrespect at all to you. You are my sister in Christ. i don’t even mean to argue your points. This is a blog for all of us to comment on. You’re right…you didn’t use the word “fix”…I did. Yes, things could have turned out differently for you YET they didn’t. My POINT of comment was comparing what God did for YOU to answer YOUR prayers POSITIVLEY and mine, although i trusted HIM too, kneeled before HIM TOO, and yet mine answered in the NEGATIVE. So was Pat’s and i KNOW there are hundreds elsewhere. My POINT was how sad it is when God says “Yes” to some and not to others thus making ME, TRISHA, feel like God MUST have favorites (after all, wasn’t David the “apple of HIS eye”?) When i was growing up, my earthly Father had his favorite. Seemed the same plan here, TO ME. i thought HIS Will was marriage and keeping families together like what you got Lili…i prayed for the same thing. Your devo made me feel like “what was wrong with me that God didn’t bless me like He blessed Lili”, is all i’m saying. It produced inside of me a feeling of YOU must be better than me thus making me feel the “favorites” emotion again. You say you “chose to trust HIM” which makes me feel like maybe I didn’t? God has told me “NO” more times than i can count. So maybe there is so much wrong with me that HE keeps doing this? i don’t expect you to have the answers for me…i’m voicing my comments b/c that’s what this site is all about. Many times i say what someone else is thinking yet would never say for whatever reason. Good for you that God loves you that much. i’m going to keep loving HIM even though HE doesn’t shower me with “Yes” answers. It’s hard to believe i must be asking for all the wrong things. Yes…Blessings to us all in Christ Jesus.
Trisha, when I read your comment I thought of that song by Laura Story called Blessings. It’s an amazing song that I thinkmay help you right now. I know its hard to see God’s blessings, but remember that God loves you even if you have a hard time believing it. I’m not saying that to be harsh, I’m saying it because it’s true. It’s so easy to let our harts become hardened by this world. Stay strong in your faith and know that God only wants to bless you if only you’ll be open to seeing his blessings. Love in Christ, Miranda.
Thank you all for your comments. I wish to clarify that I never said God would ‘fix’ anything. Things could have turned out much different for me. But I chose to trust Him, and decided to accept His will for my life. That’s why I asked Him to change ME. Not my husband. We can’t bully Him, we can’t buy Him, we can’t force Him to do anything. He loves us simply because we are His. He is pleased by us when we trust Him and accept His will. Blessings come, no matter our situations. I have been in even worse
circumstances than my marriage troubles. Not all things are perfect in my life. But my love and trust for God are. I always have a form of peace, in the worst of times. That’s what faith is all about. Blessings!
Hi Trisha, Oh once more I wish I could hug you and tell you that you ARE LOVED!!! I just would love to share so much with you to try and encourage you as I so feel where you are coming from…but I think that is where we have to Let Go And Remember We Live By Faith. It is late and I am off to bed but I will be praying for you Everyday, honest I will put your name on my prayer list. Trisha if you ever want to email me and talk I am here and would more than love to correspond with you. My email address is lrohne@shaw.ca I can honestly say I Love You With The Love Of The Lord…I truly mean that as my heart aches so much for you.Hugs, Love & Prayers, Linda
Dear Linda, thank you very much for sharing your stories with us. Of course, there will ALWAYS be a worse story by someone else. You asked me what right do i have to question God? i feel i have every right b/c He’s the one who created me. i don’t believe He gets mad when we do either. And yes, i know the scripture about “He’s the Potter and we’re the clay”…this is why i said what i did about it not mattering why something happens to us. He’s Sovereigh and controls it all. Of course things could have gone worse for me in the marriage yet we’ll never know will we? The pain was still the pain, the loss still the loss. i’ve never found happiness nor was it ever given to me by the LORD in any relationship. God just contiunes to keep me set aside. i’m not ugly by any means and don’t look at all the age i am. In the natural, it was my younger sister who was my dad’s favorite. My boyfriend was more interested in my older sister than in me. i just don’t know what it is. i only know it hurts and makes me feel so unwanted by people AND by God. i am so sorry you lost your daughter. It’s like my son has died as well. He lives in another state and neither one of us can afford to travel. Our relationship is so separated it’s like we’re dead to each other. God may love us yet i’ll tell ya what…i’ve never found it harder than to be so hurt by someone who “loves me so much”. Can you say you understand God’s “kind” of love? i thought true love wasn’t supposed to hurt this much? i know what His Word says, i’ve studied the Bible for over 30 yrs. i always return to Him. i do believe He takes care of me. i do know Jesus lives in a way higher dimension them we do and i continue to seek it even in my not understanding and my hurt. It’s not just me, there is way too much hurt going on down here on earth. Thank you for your prayer. May God richly Bless you Linda.
Trisha it is Linda again I went to pray with you in my last email and I lost it so I will try again…
Dear Loving Heavenly Father I pray for Trisha right now asking That You Would Wrap Your Arms Ever So Tightly Around Her, Hold her close to You. Jesus I Pray That You would fill her to overflowing with Your Joy, Peace and Everlasting Love. I also Pray In The Name Of Jesus that satan would stop telling her she is not loved as much by You as others and help her to recognize his lies and to Hold Tightly To You and Your Love. Help her to remember You are Always there with her and Never, Never Leave Her or Forsake Her. I just Pray All These things in You Most Holy and Wonderful name of Jesus! Amen and Amen…Hugs, Love & Prayers, Linda
Dear Trisha, My Heart just breaks for you and oh how I wish I could be there with you to give you a big hug and some how help you understand God Does NOT have Favorites even though I will admit it does seem that way sometimes. Trisha the reason I say that is because my life hasn’t been a bed of roses either and yet I look at my siblings or friends and say WHY Did this Happen to me??? I lot my first husband at the age of 21 and our daughter Lee-Anna was 10 months old. Four years later I did remarry a wonderful Christian man and we had two more children (boys). Life seemed Great again, we always had just enough money to get by and never did without life’s necessities. Then when Lee-Anna was 15 3/4yrs old…August 24th she was killed Instantly in a car accident. The driver walked away and My Daughter DIED!!! WHY ME, WHY US hadn’t I been through enough already? Trisha I have had to learn that God is in Control of ALL that comes into my life Good or Bad. HE NEVER EVER MAKES A MISTAKE…NEVER. About 6yrs after my daughters death I fell down the stairs…long story short I now have Severe Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, and Bipolar Depression. Life has Not Been Easy but God has been with me each step of the way. Now why He choose to not save your Marriage you might Never know but Believe me He had His reasons and who are we to question God. Maybe life would have ended up being worse than you can ever imagine…But God said He would Never Leave You or Forsake You and He wants you to TOTALLY Trust, Love & Depend On HIM! I truly pray That The Lord will help you Totally understand His Great Love For YOU and YOU ALONE! If You were the Only Person in the World He Still Would Have Died On The Cross For Your Sins! Thank The Lord you have had the Priviledge to come and know Him as Your Lord and Savior. I just want to say that when Lee-Anna passed away my husband and I didn’t have a lot of support or help to deal with our Loss and it used to hurt me because I would read books on others who had lost a child and it seemed like support came out of the woodwork for them…and it continued and continued and I would ask God where is my support? I learned to realize The God was There All The Time and I needed to keep my eyes focused on Him. I pray in some small way this will encourage you and help you to realize God Does Not Have Favorite…thank the Lord for what he has given you and pray through all what you have been through He can use you to encourage some one else who is going through and feeling how you feel. Everything happens for a reason, there are Never Any Mistakes or Oh That Wasn’t suppose to Happen with Him. He Loves You More Than you can imagine.
Hugs Love & Prayers, Linda
God loves us. And he only wants the best for us. In studying the Bible, I have really studied the lives of the men and women that lived during the time it was written. David, Abraham, Moses had their struggles. These were men and women just like you and I. For years I thought that if God loves me, and after all Ive gone through, he will give me anything I ask for. Because he loves me, he doesnt.I was a mess and God is the God of righteousness and love. And He cannot and does not divert from character. He loves us the way we are and we should want to love him enough to be what he wants us to be. Christ like. Christ is not a blank check we should want to bring to the Father and say, “Give me, give me, give me. you promised. Im going to be as selfish and messy as I desire but you promised”. Please really get to know and love God his desire is to truly bless us. ” Satan is a liar”, He would if he could see all mankind miserable, misled and in hell with him for eternity. Each day I try to get to know him a little more and a little more, and I thank him for everything in my life. yes to even ever breath of air I breath.
Like Pat who totally understands what i’m saying here…it’s easy to trust God when HE fixes everything for you. It’s when He chooses NOT to for WHATEVER REASONS…you feel you just weren’t worth it. God always will be off the “hook” (and i mean NO disrespect at all) no matter what. He’s the Creator and is Sovereign. “Though You slay me, i will serve You.” It is us who can, like Job’s wife said,”Curse God and die” or continue to hold on and HOPE He “fixes” something else for us. Like Pat, i haven’t any more expectations of God answering ANY of my prayers anymore. i held on for 14 yrs with hope and prayer and tears and begging. My exhusband also married 2 yrs after the divorce and even still i just kept on believing God would save him and bring our family back together with Him at the center, you know, just like all those episodes from the 700 Club. You can pray the skin off your knees and fill thousands of glasses with your tears…doesn’t mean a thing to God when the answer is “NO”. There is so much evil in this world…i long for Jesus to return sooner than later. i am still alone and fight off bitterness and resentment almost every day of my life. So many of us have walked such a hard and unfullfilling life here on earth. Heaven HAS to be better than this!
I wish that I could agree with you. I prayed for my marriage but it didn’t happen. I admit that I made a lot of mistakes, but I felt that with my trust in God things would turn out alright. My husband married someone else 2 years after he walked out the door. I still have faith in God, but do not expect my prayers to be answered.
My personal sign that shows me I am not trusting God is when I am impatient with others at home or while driving and I have a red light to wait for
Yes,I have been trusting God for so long to help me with my marraige and I want to give up, I have been praying and waiting and praying and waiting and also fighting with God, when I read your e-mail it seems so easy to trust.
Trisha,
I cannot begin to know or understand what you are going through. It’s hard when you see someone get something that you desperately want and I can totally see how you think God is picking favorites. But I want you to know that God does love you and he only wants good for you. May I recommend a mentor from our site? We offer free and confidential mentoring. If you would like someone to talk to and get help here is the link to mentoring: http://powertochange.com/discover/talk-to-a-mentor/
I will be praying for you,
Leah
I get so frustrated sometimes with people who think that loving and trusting God mean that we dont hurt asnd life isnt challenging. It is. I entered nursing school because my mom died in childbirth at 21 years of age because medicine was highly prejudice, I entered Bible college to become a counselor for young people because, after my mom died in childbirth I was raised by a evil granmother that got her kicks from abusing me and making me fodder for the perversion of her 18 children, other granchildren and friends and my father either ignored my cries or joined the crowd. No child deserve that. I know that God saved me from insanity, suicide and death. I know that there is hope for other. I know that in striking out and anger at God for what we take as his not intervening, doesnt mean there is not a faith in in there some where, It needs to be nutured. I was told that God didnt love me when I knew he did, something in me knew he did.I know that this does not exactly quote symptoms of a lack of fath,but what Ive discovered is that what is often mistaken as a lack of faith is pain and anger at god because we feel he didnt swoop in and save the day.
Just read what TA Steinmetz wrote and once again it proves my point about God having favorites! i can’t believe it! She admits she did NOT choose to turn to God for help, so that makes it more plausible that her marriage fell apart. i DID turn to God, a church, prayer groups, and on and on yet how is it i, Trisha, got NO “new wonderful family and husband”? I JUST DON’T GET IT AND I SURELY DO NOT FEEL LOVED BY GOD… ONLY SHUNNED LIKE A PIECE OF DAMAGED GOODS!
Lili, when i read your kind of stories, it almost convinces me God DOES have His favorites! When my first marriage starting going bad, i TOO got on my knees and did ALL the things you did even sending money to the 700 Club thinking this would get my prayer answered. i loved my husband very much and didn’t want my son to be from a broken marriage like i was. i stayed single for 14 yrs hoping and praying and crying and begging God to fix the marriage. Well…UNlike yours…He NEVER fixed it. As a matter of fact, even as the LORD brought me into change, none of my relationships got BETTER. Why do you suppose God gives YOU the miracle and not someone else? Why did you get to stay married to YOUR love and get God’s miracle and i got to experinece having my heart torn out? What was it about YOU? i thought God was “no respecter of persons?” Reading stories like yours doesn’t give me hope, only makes me so sad, angry and feeling like God cares more about others than He does about me. Blessings~
I have been getting these devotionals for about two months, and none has resonated with me so much as this one! It was just over two months ago that my husband told me he wasn’t happy in our marriage. I was beyond devastated. I had pushed away my faith, didn’t know how to relate to God and wasn’t putting him first. My husband had many other issues that I couldn’t help, but I knew what I needed to do to get right with God and I did just that. I began thinking like Jesus Christ and started taking positive steps and action, beginning with the Bible and with Psalms, then John.
Now, I am getting baptized this coming Sunday and I finally found employment after many months of struggle. I can bring money to our home, relieving much stress. I also began to network with others in a way I never saw myself doing. I shared my story. I was prayed for and prayed for others. I read my Bible on a more regular basis and turn to Him first for guidance. I am at peace and am thrilled to take these next Christian steps in my life. Thank you for this devotional. I sent it to my husband to read. I hope we can pull through this difficult time. I am confident and I have much faith.
And today, for the first time, I brought my Bible to work. This is a new me…and it feels awesome!
very true. .
This is a GREAT message and I can only pray that others having difficulty would know how to talk with God for advice and help. I too some 20 years ago was in your same situation and did not choose to turn to God as I new was right. After a few years of thinking I could control my life w/o God’s help I turned back to Him and have a wonderful new family and husband of 14 years.
Thank you for sharing this message!