An update to 'meeting in 2 days...". Last week the paperwork was begun to file for D. H is doing the petitioning. I can tell, and I have heard from the friend of the OW that he still has feelings for me. Praise God.<BR>OW has said she will not marry him and is going to return ring. <P>H keeps asking question about one area of my life that deals with my son from previous marriage. I'm positive that if this were to be resolved soon, D might be put on hold, or dropped.<P>I've been doing Plan A whenever possible.(he has his own apt.) Also have been using Restore materials. <P>Pray that things here at home will be resolved and that H will soften and lose interest in any OW.<P>Prayers for son's recovery from broken jaw, and that he will be able to go to Army.<P>God bless you all. I'm praying for each of you.<P>Committed

Dear Lord, Your awesome love for us gives me such great hope. Thank You for being there for us to call out to. I know you hear are cries, and see our tears. I praise You Lord for comforting those that are hurting. You saved us from certain destruction by Satan, a "thank you" will never be enough. Lord, I praise Your Name in the highest, You are always first. YOu are the Name above all Names, Praise You Jesus. Lord, thank you for the evidence of your work in Committed's and her husband's lives. Help Committed dear Lord to maintain faith, to hope for the things unseen. Give her an over-abundance of your Faith. Lord, we ask in Jesus' name that You bind Satan and cast him away from this husband. Loose the spirits of Fidelity, honesty, love, and trust in her husband. Lord we believe we are praying according to your will for the restoration of this marriage in that your word tells us "God hates divorce". Father, I pray that You will divinely intervene and cause this divorce to be stopped. Turn this husband's heart and soul first to You then to his wife, the wife of his youth. Lord, please cause this OW to lose interest in Committed's husband and leave him alone, permanently. Please remove any feelings or desires Committed's husband has for the OW, forever. Thank You Lord for working in this marriage. In Jesus' name I pray, AMEN

Alcoholic's Wife,<P>Thank you for your prayer. You have a unique gift that is sorely needed. <P>Heavenly Father,<P>Thank you for blessing us with all these wonderful friends. Thank you for the promises that you hear and answer when we pray, that where 2 or 3 are gathered together, you are in the midst of them.<P>Lord, we are keenly aware of our need for strong faith and ask that you will sustain Alcoholic's Wife in her home and make her a blessing that will touch all around her.<BR>Give her the wisdom to speak to her husband in the way that would give him a desire to abstain from this powerful 'drug'. We ask that you would take the desire for this away from him and fill him with the desire for the milk of your Word. Thank you Lord for her precious life. Bless her, we pray, Amen.<P>Tonight my H came and worked on my computer. He is the administrator of it. I do not claim to know enough to 'work' on it except to use a few programs.<BR> <BR>He was friendly, yet slightly distant. He told me that the paperwork has been filed.<BR>I should be served within ten days.<P>My throat choked up, but I made it through the 2 1/2 hours without becoming emotional.<BR>He hugged me at the door, like a friend.<BR>I know I must be patient, and wait for God's timing. Sometimes I want to 'run away' to a state 1,000 miles away from here where my daughter and sister live. My H has stated that he would like me to stay awhile.<P>Praise God, that my son's jaw is healing.<P>God bless you,<BR>Committed

Thank you Committed for your kind words and beautiful prayer. I hope you are doing better tonight. I will be praying for you and your husband. It is always God's will that a marriage be restored, and we are definitely praying within His will because His word tells us that he hates divorce. I pray that the divorce papers filing will be blocked and your husband's heart turned to the Lord. I know that feeling of wanting to run away. Felt like that a lot a year ago right now...... my H was deep in his downward alcoholism spiral and his affair. Most nights I was a nervous wreck, until I started giving it to God to handle. He is still working on us. We are together, and I am trying to be the kind of Christian wife the Lord wants me to be. Haven't seen much evidence of the Lord working in my husband's life, other than he is still here..... so I keep clinging to Jesus, and having faith in Him because "faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen". God bless you!

A.Wife,<P>Thank you again. I see in another thread that your H is coming home on Monday after a business trip. I will be holding you up in prayer. Having been married to a similar type in my first marriage, I can feel the anxiety. I became very frightened for the w children and myself and divorced him. It was a relief at the time, however, we moved 19 hours away (by car), and neither of us felt we could afford the trip back each summer.<BR>Result, of course, is that my 2 children feel very little family bonding. They are not happy with my present husband, although they know it is my life and I have to do what I think God wants. Looking back, it would have been much better to have kept praying and trusting God. He remarried, and then I did, so here we are. I just want the cycle to stop. (divorce) This is what my H and I agreed to before marrying. --That whatever came up, we would work out together. Today he came over and said he is tired of the lawyers' stance and that we should work out our own agreement. He couldn't elaborate, as I had a piano student arriving soon. He does seem to talk more freely about his work and hobby. I'm trying not to listen to others and keep praying and listening to scripture.<BR>I do not want to be double-minded about this.<BR>I just want God's will to be accomplished for His glory.<P>Thank you,<BR>God bless you,<BR>Committed

Father in heaven, I thank You for giving me the opportunity to see the uplifting posts and received prayers from these two wonderful people, as well as all the others that have prayed for and are still praying for a restoration in all the marriages we see that are troubled and near the end. I lift thses two women up to You at this time. Father hear their pleas for strength, courage, widsom and peace. Protect them with Your never ending love and comfort. Father, bless these women and all the other wonderful people we all find together at this site, Blessed by YOUR spirit. Father I pray for, and claim in the name of Jesus, the miracles that my family needs to bring it back together, I bind the powers of the enemy that are present in my iife and rebuke the temptations of his gifts. I claim back all the things he has taken from this family and allowed or helped me to squander. I rebuke the devil and his demons of depression, despair, hoplessness and guilt. Father, heal my mind, body and soul. Help me defeat this clinical depression Father. Bless my counselor and my psychiatrist that together with Your divine healing and teaching, I can be healed, cured, and never face these thoughts of suicide, worthlessness and fear, ever again. Lead us, guide us, fill us with the joy and peace of the holy spirit. Bless this website Father. May it continue to strengthen and enrich the lives of all who come here for refuge and prayer requests. I truly believe this site was ordained by You GOD and I thank you for the comfort and the love that can be felt here. Forgive me of my sins, cleanse my soul, I surrrender everything that I am, or ever hope to be to you Lord. All these things I pray for and ask in the precious name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.<BR>Amen and Amen.<BR>

An update!!<P>Yesterday, I had lunch with my H. He invited me into his apt. to have a soda and visit a while. Said he was glad I wasn't moving right away.<P>Today was his birthday. Expecting that OW would spend it with him, I was surprised when he called and asked where we would be having dinner. We spent 5 hours together, although I know he is struggling with hurt about OW. Please keep praying for his return to the Lord. It appears that OW has told him the relationship is either over or cooled a lot. He said it was too early to say one way or another. <P>I am thanking God for this time.<P>Please pray also for my son that his jaw fractures will heal well. He has to keep wires on for another week and a half. He wants to be on his way to a life of his own.<P>Thank you for all your prayers.<P>Still praying for you, AW, and LK.<P>Committed