The Lord has been active in my life this week and I wanted to share it with someone, so here it is.<P>On monday I began to get nervous for no reason. I took two long walks instead of the one I usually take each day. These walks are when I do much of my praying and praising to the Lord. Monday night I had trouble sleeping and woke up several times during the night needing to pray protection and healing for my wife without knowing why.<P>Tuesday during the day I was even more nervous and prayed for her many more times than usual. Although I only had time for one walk I felt a need to go again. By tuesday night I was too nervous to talk to our older daughter even, and went to bed early, about 10:30. All during the night I was awakened 2-3 times an hour by an urgency to pray for protection and healing for my wife without knowing why.<P>I finally stayed up at 6:30 wednesday morning, said my morning prayers and continued praying for her protection and healing every little bit, still with no idea why it was so urgent at this time. Suddenly, in the evening I relaxed for the first time in three days. I still had no idea what was behind the urgency to pray this intently, but knew that whatever it was had passed.<P>For those of you that have not read my posts in the past, I have had no contact with or from my wife since mid-December at her choice. I have no idea where she is, who she is with, or what she is doing unless our older daughter sees her or hears something about her at school.<P>Our older daughter called me from school thursday morning and said her mother and younger sister were in the paper. They had been crossing a street on wednesday, and a car turning right hit the two of them. Our fourteen-year-old daughter was thrown on the hood of the car, and my wife was knocked to the ground according to the article. My daughter had no serious injuries, and my wife was treated for a wrist injury and released.<P>What had the potential of being a deadly encounter had been reduced to minor injuries. I know in my heart this was the reason for the urgency I had been feeling when praying for almost three days before it happened. I thank and praise the Lord for His protection of my family. <P>For anyone that wonders if it does any good to pray for our wives or husbands, I hope this helps to show why we all need to stand in faith and pray for our spouses. When we feel like it does no good and want to give up is when we need to stand the most, and pray the hardest. The enemy is trying to capture our spouses and destroy our families. He would like nothing more than for us to quit and surrender them to him. Even if we never think we see results, the Lord is moving in their lives and we need to be faithful to Him with our prayers and thanksgiving.<P>Father, I thank and praise You for watching over us, our children and our wives or husbands that we are unable to be with during this time of growth and healing in our lives and marriages.<BR>Father, I thank and praise You for all the things, seen or unseen, big or little, You do in preparation for the day of restoration in our marriages.<BR>Father, I thank and praise You for Your quiet voice and comforting presence in the night when we can feel discouraged and so alone in the world.<BR>Father, I thank and praise You for bringing the people we need for support, prayer and Your wisdom into our paths when we need them the most.<BR>Father, I thank and praise You for providing us the strength, courage and faith we need to be able to stand for the restoration of our marriages.<BR>Father, I thank and praise you for the shed blood of Jesus, who offered Himself willingly as sacrifice for our sins.<P>Ron<P>
