Every Wed. we are to pray and fast for one another. Every Weds we can check in and let everyone know we have prayed for the group. Prayer does mighty things and group prayer is even better.

Right now we are I am doing "Experiencing God Day by Day" and Lupolady is doing "Power of a Praying Wife" for the ladies. You can use this as your prayer or have your own or combine them.

I think it will be great to see how God works in our lives and heals our marriages and us.

If you want to pray with us I will be more than happy to add your name to the list below.

Prayer Warriors who are praying and being prayed for: cajunky,Ezra, Willgetthruthis, Godisincontrol, Natasha79, JohnC, c++_guy, Wallace, relady, steadfast and committed, morriggs,lupolady, stillwaiting, Broken Hearted, PasDeDeux, hopeful_person,GinnyF, Not peachy in Ga, cry2much,SNL,LostAgain(Dave&April), Dodger, gloriachu, LoveNcare,JMF,WEN, NiteHawk, Absurd, LetSTry,AgainsttheWind,cemmerson, getting better,kellidiane,Terrified, BeeLee,idostylin, Resilient, thiscantbehappening, day by day, Jloves, broken x3, Sue with Hope, sunrise1, shepette, Malc, Faithfulwife, timbo-e,Angelia,FeelingAllAlone,broken_joe,dopey,awake,truly a friend, Is it to late, stilltryingtosaveit

Prayers Answered: Lupolady(air conditioner),Steadfast(first string again),cry2much(sucessful surgery), Movingonwithlife(Wife coming home),WGTT(accepted into mentor program), betrayed and desparate (sucessful cancer surgery),Againstthewind(Got job), Free ( Marriage Restoration begun ), cajunky (wife not engaged & did something with family, told me she loved me), Stillwaiting(neice is o.k.)

Love in Christ
Cajunky

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I got to the end of "Power of a Praying Husband" last week so this week I will be starting to post some daily devotionals from "Experiencing God Day by Day" by Henry Blackaby. He is great and I know you will get so much out of the devotions. I did theses all last year and they were very uplifting and powerful.

Please pray for me because I have really been struggling this week about my wife and I. I am just mentally drained and I need prayer to help me out of this rut I am in. I love my wife so much and it hurts to not get the love back that I feel. I know God wants me to stand for my marriage.

I have been thinking all week about last weeks response from Faithfulwife and I have cried several times this week because I know how deep I have hurt my wife and I want God to heal her so bad some how. I needed her response to show me again how my wife is hurting and to give me new strength to understand better.

Love in Christ
cajunky

Cajunky,

I have posted a problem under "Just Found Out" titled "I don't want to be the OW". I know that my friends love each other. When I say discuss problems - it is in general - not specific. When the H talked to me, he was not running the W down, and told me over and over He still loved her and I know he does. I don't know what I feel about why he told me he loved me other than all of us have always been close. WE really do not see each other often at all. I talk to the W on the phone about every other week and if I call her at home and the H answers, I talk to him for just a sec. before I talk to W.

We are all people who have never had an A. Including the H. I believe the H and W are in a situation that an EA could be possible given the right circumstance. I pray now for both of them daily - before I get up in the morning and when I think to in the evening. I ask for peace and kindness in their home and for the H to seek and find the desires of his heart at home.

Would you suggest Power of Praying Wife and PoPHusband for this couple? I do know they both should read LB and HN/HN. Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Truly a friend.

I didn't mean to send without adding Truly a Friend's - friends to the prayer list - for peace in their home and to restore the love they have had in the past and strenghten their marriage.

Thanks,
TAF

Hi! I would love to be added to the prayer group. I know the power of prayer. My story is on this site.

Thank you everybody! I haven't had this much support the whole time. I am so touched.

Sincerely,
Is is too late?

Caj,

I know what you mean. I can't explain it, but I have been missing my H terribly lately. No explanation, just feeling "blue" and missing talking to him....wondering what he's doing....if he's OK. That sort of thing.

I was talking to God about H, praying for him, asking about what to pray for....that sort of thing. I have struggled with when to pray. In other words, wondering if it's "necessary" to pray unceasingly, or if knowing that God is going to answer prayers it's OK to stop praying for restoration? I know this is confusing, but it's all been getting jumbled up in my head....this whole debate about whether or not to stop praying when you feel you have an answer to prayer, or if God wants us to continue praying, just b/c you haven't seen your prayers answered yet....is that unbelief - that sort of thinking.

I think I have an answer to my quest now....I believe the answer can be found in Exodus 17. Our pastor preached from it....

The story goes that the Israelites were to fight against the Amalekites. Moses sent Joshua and "some of the men" to fight while he (Moses) stayed on top of a hill and prayed. The story goes that as long as Moses had his arms lifted in prayer, the Isrealites were winning the fighting, but when his arms became tired and started to drop, they were losing. Moses had to have Aaron and Hur hold his arms up when he tired so that the Isrealites could be victorious in battle. I believe this is God's way of telling me that "Yes," I am to pray continuously....this is a spiritual battle, and we can not just pray and believe and now can quit.

Some thots.....

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His Past:

The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn. We are to forget "those things which are behind" and reach "forward to those things which are ahead" and we're to "press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Phillipians 3:13,14). God is a redeemer and a restorer. We need to allow Him to be both. He can redeem the past and restore what was lost. He can make up for the bad things that have happened. (Psalm 90:15) We must trust Him to do those things. We can never move out of the present into the future of what God has for us if we cling to and live in the past.

Your H's past not only affects him, it affects your offsping as well. More is passed down to your children and grandchildren than just the color of your hair and eyes. We can leave a legacy as painful and damaging as the one we experienced ourselves. We can bequeath a heritage of divorce, anger, anxiety, depression, and fear, to name a few. Whatever you and your H can free yourselves from will mean more freedom for them. As long as you dwell in the past, you not only lose some of what God has for your future, but for your children's future as well.

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PRAYER:

Lord, I pray that You would enable (H's name) to let go of his past completely. Deliver him from any hold it has on him. Help him to put off his former conduct and habitual ways of thinking about it and be renewed in his mind (Eph. 4:22-23). Enlarge his understanding to know that You make all things new (Rev. 21:5). Show him a fresh, Holy Spirit-inspired way of relating to negative things that have happened. Give him the mind of Christ, so that he can clearly discern Your voice from the voices of the past. When he hears those old voices, enable him to rise up and shut them down with the truth of Your Word. Where he has formerly experienced rejection or pain, I pray he not allow them to color what he sees and hears now. Pour forgiveness into his heart so that bitterness, resentment, revenge, and unforgiveness will have no place there. May he regard the past as only a history lesson and not a guide for his daily life. Where ever his past has become an unpleasant memory, I pray You would redeem it and bring life out of it. Bind up his wounds (Psalm 147:3). Restore his soul (Psalm 23:3). Help him to release the past so that he will not live in it, but learn from it, break out of it, and move into the future You have for him.
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SCRIPTURES:
Isaiah 43:18-19
II Corinthians 5:17
Ephesians 4:22-23
II Corinthians 4:16

lupolady,

Several of the things you wrote in your quote REALLY struck home with me, and so I felt I really had to share this. Okay...God hit me on the head with a fry pan on this one! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> In your quote (which I realize is a copy from the book) you wrote:

<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn. We are to forget "those things which are behind" and reach "forward to those things which are ahead" and we're to "press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Phillipians 3:13,14) </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I looked at the "The Living Scriptures" version of this verse (v.13), and it pretty much bowled me over: "No, dear brothers, I am still not all I should be but I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead..." This verse could well be the story of my life!

I know that in God's eyes I am already seen as perfect, but in my humanness here on earth, I just am NOT perfect yet! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /> haha <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> But even as an imperfect human, I am using all me energy to actually become the woman God wants me to be...become the wife God wants me to be...become the mother God wants me to be. But there is one important lesson that God is REALLY hitting me on the head with: FORGETTING THE PAST.

The past is just that...PAST. It's gone. He has the power to free us from our past, and as a human, I've been embracing my past too afraid to let go of it and move FORWARD. I have been dwelling in the past, even though it is painful and hurt me SO MUCH, because it is familiar and I know it. While I have been stuck in the past, God, in His power and strength, has been moving in the present to create the future that He has ordained, and where am I?? Still in that OLD PAST!!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"><strong> God is a redeemer and a restorer. We need to allow Him to be both. He can redeem the past and restore what was lost. He can make up for the bad things that have happened. (Psalm 90:15) </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Once again, I looked up this verse in "The Living Scriptures", and look at what it said: "Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good." Oh Lord!! I am so imperfect! God has the power to REDEEM and RESTORE! "Redeem" means "recover, reclaim, liberate, free, deliver, rescue, and ransom" and "Restore" means "reinstate, re-establish, revive, renew, replace, rebuild, reconstruct, renovate, and recover"...and what have I been doing? Clinging to the past as if it is precious. As I said, God has the power to make my heart glad in the same proportion to how much it was HURT--He can replace the years that were filled with evil with years that are filled with GOOD and HIS WILL!

DUH!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"><strong> We must trust Him to do those things. We can never move out of the present into the future of what God has for us if we cling to and live in the past. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">AMEN, sister. Amen. We need to HEAR these words, and I'm first in line to hear them! I can not move into the future that God has for me--and my marriage can not move into God's future--if I hold onto that past as if it were a lifesaver.

Imagine a woman in the sea, clinging to a lifesaver...thinking that if I let go, I will surely drown and die. I am afraid! Oh, LORD, am I afraid. But God has promised me that if I let go and reach for Him, I will be saved...and if I let go--even though every cell of my body thinks that if I let go I will die--in fact, I will LIVE! Clinging to the lifesaver of the past, I will stay where I am (in the past) which will be dwelling in pain and evil. But if I will have faith, trust God, and LET GO, He will take me into the future He has for me...which is gladness in proportion to the the former misery!

Isn't it funny that we human beings, in our weakness, want to hold onto the misery?? We are so funny. Oh Lord, give me a heart willing to let the past go so you can move me into your future.

* * * * *

Then, lupolady, you copied the prayer for your husband, and you know what is funny?? Yes, this prayer DOES need to be prayed for our spouses, but this one time, that prayer needs to be adapted for ME--the spouse standing for my marriage, but also the W who's H had so many A's that it broke my heart:

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NEW PRAYER:

Lord, I pray that You would enable ME to let go of my spouse's past completely. Deliver my spouse from the hold I have had on him/her because of his/her past. Help ME to forgive his/her former conduct and habitual ways of thinking about it and be renewed in MY mind (Eph. 4:22-23). Enlarge MY understanding to know that You make all things new (Rev. 21:5). Show ME a fresh, Holy Spirit-inspired way of relating to negative things that have happened. Give ME the mind of Christ, so that I can clearly discern Your voice from the voices of the past. When I hears those old voices...voices from the affairs and the verbal abuse, enable ME to rise up and shut them down with the truth of Your Word. Where I have formerly experienced rejection or pain, do not allow them to color what I see and hear now. Pour forgiveness into MY heart so that bitterness, resentment, revenge, and unforgiveness will have no place there. May I regard the past as only a history lesson and not a guide for MY daily life. Where ever the past has become an unpleasant memory, I pray You would redeem it and bring life out of it. Bind up MY wounds (Psalm 147:3). Restore MY soul (Psalm 23:3). Help ME to release the past so that I do not live in it, but learn from it, break out of it, and move into the future You have for ME. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">CJ

<small>[ February 02, 2003, 10:20 PM: Message edited by: FaithfulWife ]</small>

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"><strong> Please pray for me because I have really been struggling this week about my wife and I. I am just mentally drained and I need prayer to help me out of this rut I am in. I love my wife so much and it hurts to not get the love back that I feel. I know God wants me to stand for my marriage. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, creator of restoration and peace. Bring Your peace to Your servant, cajunky, and fill him with Your serenity. Surround him with Your ministering angels, and lift him into Your presence and restore him. Fill your servant with the entirety of YOUR love so he does not so harshly feel the lack of love from his wife right now. Remind cajunky that he is not being patient for himself...his patience now is for his wife and for You to work in her heart in YOUR time.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"><strong> I have been thinking all week about last weeks response from Faithfulwife and I have cried several times this week because I know how deep I have hurt my wife and I want God to heal her so bad some how. I needed her response to show me again how my wife is hurting and to give me new strength to understand better. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Cajunky, do not be discouraged. Do not allow your progress to be brought to a halt because you feel guilt and sadness over your past. It is natural for your W to feel afraid of trying again...it is natural for your W to cling to the past and use it as her reason to not move forward. You just stay the course, my friend. God WILL work in His time...of this I am 100% positive. Pause and rest for a while in His presence, if you must...you don't always have to be moving forward, just don't fall back! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> But by God, cajunky, stay the course.

As always, I will speak to you from my heart. My H has indicated that he would like to talk about reconciling, and of course I love him and want our marriage to be restored, but cajunky, I am SCARED TO DEATH to try again because my heart can not be broken even one more time with another affair. As a woman, I need to feel secure, important, loved and wanted--and I'll tell you that every single infidelity chipped away at those needs...now I'm standing on my tip toe and have no more that can be chipped away! The funny thing is...I have been standing on my tip toe when there's a whole solid pillar to stand on if I would just have faith and jump.

Cajunky, your W is going to need to stand on her tip toe until God starts to work in her heart and shows her that she needs to let go of the past. It may take quite a while...the wound has been quite deep! But she hears the whisper of God's voice now and then, doesn't she? And eventually she will also read Psalm 90:15 just as I did tonight. Cajunky, God has PROMISED me that He will give me gladness in proportion to my former misery...that He will replace the evil years with good--His good.

How many years were you in your addiction? It wasn't just ONE year was it? It was longer than that, wasn't it?? Well those were the years that evil had a grip on you. Now God has PROMISED you that He will replace the evil years with good--but you may need to be faithful for more than ONE YEAR to reach His promise. So far, I've been at it for 3 years, cajunky. Have patience...have faith...and hug a teddy bear when you miss the love of your W. That's what I did! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

I know you want God to heal your W and remove her pain. I know that you love her and would give ANYTHNG for her to feel the love and dedication you have for her...if only she could see. Right?? But she is in the corner with her eyes tightly shut because she is afraid to open them. Cajunky, your patience and gentleness and dependability NOW will lead to building trust. Not pushing her now, will lead to building trust. Being there for her and being her friend right now, will lead to building trust. Okay??

Do not dispair. Do not give up. Do not doubt. Be her friend.

Your true and faithful friend,

CJ

From "Experiencing God Day by Day" by Henry Blackaby.

Raising Our Expectations

Jeremiah 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you so not know.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Too often we settle for much less than what God wants to do through us. We read in Jeremiah 32:27: " I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for Me?" and we answer, "No Lord." Ye, when we face difficult situations we begin to qualify our belief in God and lower our expectations of what God will do. It is one thing to believe God could perform a miracle in the Bible, or a thousand years ago, or even in the life of a friend; it is quite another matter to wholeheartly believe God can do anything He chooses to do in our lives!

When almighty God speaks to us, what we do next proves what we believe about Him, regardless of what we say. God revealed to Moses His plan to orchestrate the greatest exodus in human history, and He wanted to use Moses to accomplish it. Moses responded by arguing with God! Moses was overwhelmed by what he heard and began to make excuses for why he could not participate in God's activity. Moses would have readily acknowledged his belief in Gods power, he simply did not believe God could do His miraculous work through his life. Moses' argument with God limited his minstry for the rest of his life (Exod. 4 13-16) Do you sense there may be far more that Gods wants to do through your life than what you have been experiencing? Ask God to show you what it is, then be prepared to respond in Faith and Obedience to what He tells you. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Remember to pray for your own marriage as well as everyone elses.

Love in Christ
cajunky

<small>[ February 02, 2003, 11:15 PM: Message edited by: cajunky ]</small>

cajunky- I would like you to add me to the list. Every day I pray for guidence and strength to make it through these tough times. I want my M to work but I fear that my WW does not, I pray for the guidence to do whatever it is that God has planned for me.

I got the divorce papers last week and don't know if I still want my M or not. That is why I pray for guidence and strength.

Thanks you
STTSI

Thanks to everyone here for your continued prayers. I still don't have any 'good news' as far as any sort of reconciliation opportunity at all.

This week my exH again told me he didn't want to try. Now he's saying it's not so much about my A, but about the years of marriage where I made him feel bad--before the A. I can't believe it, how he's now saying this. He says too he doesn't wish to try as it will mislead the children if it doesn't work. Please continue praying for us, as I will for all of you.

God Bless,
H_P

Please add me to the list once more!
This Sat my exH's son will be 1 yr, and that is the fact I can hardly deal with. The whole family will be there, my YD nwill not come to me this weekend cause of that and I....I am devastated with that. WE were together 22yrs, we have 2 great daughters (21 and 13) and we almost don' t talk to each other now. He is happy, going on with his life and I am alone, had cancer surgery....
I have to find peace within me but with all the triggers....I have not enough strength.

And one more thing: Last yr I met a man,15yrs older, divorced and became a very close friend with him,. We spent some very nice days together and then he went on sea (he is a lawyer but works last 10yrs on ship. He came back in Dec but didn't make any contact. I can't find out what happened. I miss him like a friend who made me feel good and attractive and to whom is so interesting to e with.
I would like to see him again to have these nice talks. Nothing more.
Please include him in your praxers.
I have some informations that something happened to him while was at sea.

Thank you all
Love
D

cajunky, lupolady, and faithful wife,
I just wanted to thank you all for your contributions to this thread. The prayers you quote are so helpful. They lift me up and sustain me.

And cj, your adaptation is perfect for me too. I haven't had contact with my H for nine months and under the circumstances, that's a good thing, but I am still far from healed from the effects of his betrayal and abandonment along with the verbal and emotional abuse.

Although I'm not looking for the restoration of my marriage, I also need to have faith to let go of the hurt and pain of the past and step forward into the future trusting in God to </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">"Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good."</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">

Prayer warriors -

I got this email on Feb 2nd & it really struck a cord with me and most likely with many others on these boards.

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PRAY FOR SPOUSES TO BE SET FREE

"To open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and
from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive
forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified
by faith in me." Acts 26:18

May you and I pray in agreement that all spouses and prodigals at
large will surrender their bodies, souls and spirits to their Lord
God, crying out to their Lord God to be set free from the bondages of
sins that they are in. Sunday is the Lord's Day, nothing is too hard
for our awesome mighty God. Every man of God is preaching and calling
each sheep home to their Great Shepherd. You and I need to remind
ourselves daily that our Lord Jesus Christ came to this earth to set
free all sinners from sin and for each of us to become slaves to
righteousness. May you and I examine our own heart to continue to
cleanse ourselves from any transgressions and all iniquities.

"For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under
law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are
not under law but under grace? By no means! Don't you know that
when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you
are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin,
which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to
righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be
slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to
which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and
have become slaves to righteousness." Romans 6:14-19

Our goal every week is to pray that thousands of sinners will repent
and turn from their life of sin and surrender their life over to
their Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. May you and I never
forget to pray for all sinners around the world and all marriages up
and down each street, in each city, in each county, in each state and
around the world to have their hearts of stone turned to a heart of
flesh. That they will leave their life of sin and come home to their
Lord, their spouse and family.

"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become
slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the
result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 6:22-23

Your Lord God can set your spouse free from all their sins. He can
set you free from any bondages of sins or any illness that the enemy
has put upon you. You and I need to know who we are in Christ and
all His benefits. "Who forgives all your sins and heals all your
diseases." Psalm 103:3

"When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her,
"Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." Then he put his
hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God."
Luke 12-13

"They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never
been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave
to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a
son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will
be free indeed." John 8:33-36

Believe today for a mighty harvest of souls around the world. Nothing
is too hard for your God. Believe that your spouse will hear your
Lord's voice calling them to a life of righteousness, be obedient, and
flee from the enemy. Your Lord Jesus Christ was sent to this earth to
save the lost. May you and I never forget or give up on the power of
our Lord God. Do not give in to your weariness, your tiredness, your
unbelief. Stop being double minded. Believe in your Lord's power,
believe in the Name of Jesus and the Sword of the Spirit!

"This is what God the LORD says—he who created the heavens and
stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes
out of it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who
walk on it: "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I
will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to
open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to
release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness." Isaiah 42:5-7

May we never stop praying for all our lost loved who need to be set
free from the bondages of sin through our Lord Jesus Christ.

God bless,
Charlyne Steinkamp
Rejoice Marriage Ministries
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Pompano Beach, FL 33061
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God Bless,

D.

My prayers are with you all....
Love in Christ, SW

Please pray for some friends -
John and Amy & their daughter Alex.

Amy told John to leave that she had some things to work out. John was devastated & stayed with his sister, but is now back home.

Pray that Amy is able to work thru some things from her past and for thier M. Alex, needs to build self confidence

God Bless,

D.

Praying for you all.

Please pray for me, for strength in the weeks ahead, my WH is still determined to see this D through and will not consider anything else. I pray that God would touch his heart one more time, and open his eyes.

My YD is having a great deal of difficulty in school, grades are way down, anxious, sad. Please pray for her.

Thank you all!

Dear Heavenly Father, I come before you this morning lifting each one of these broken hearts to you. It breaks mine to read the hurt and anguish that each person is dealing with, so I can only imagine your pain. Lord you did not intend divorce, you intend love and peace in our homes, but he devil has come to steal and destroy these marriages. Lord I pray for the BS's right now, that You will give them all Your strength and endurance in these times. Help each one of us to see Your Will in our lives, not ours, not the devils but Yours. Many people here are unsure of whether or not to get divorced, but Lord you hate divorce, help them to see that.
Loneliness is such a tough issue, and makes us think about finding someone else rather than waiting on You to work in our marriages. Help each of us to be willing to allow Your work to be done in our lives, to change us into who You want us to be. As difficult as our circumstances can be, help us to be open to Your changing our hearts as well. Help those who are struggling to trust in You, to give our spouses over to you completely. May Your awesome power change all these hearts into hearts that trust You, and that want to do Your will. Lord make us a people that follow You all the way. I pray a hedge of protection around the families involved here, that satan will have no power over them whatsoever! Be with the children Lord, help them to turn to You, that they may find the missing parent in You. May they be surrounded by Your Holy angels, may they seek you and find you.
May You give the WS's new hearts and remove from them their hearts of stone. May you give all parties involved new eyes to see with, and may they see the sin for what it is. May we all fall to our knees in repentance before you, that we may be a people holy and pleasing to You O Lord Jesus! In Your awesome and Powerful name I pray Jesus, Amen.

Still,

Amen to that. Believe it or not I was praying pretty much the same thing on my way to work as you were typing this out.

Blessings to all.

S&C