Please pray for me and my wife Kitty. We are in a divorce. She is 230 miles away in Youngstown, Ohio with our 7-1/2 year old son, Noah. Her dad died on Easter. She started going back home to "visit" her mom, only she was also visiting her old high school boyfriend to whom she had been engaged and her mother had made her break up with, 22 years ago. It started the day her dad died when he called to express his sympathy. She left June 8th and moved in with her mom, leaving Noah there with me for most of the summer. She was given custody of him as a matter of course,on August 13. The judge allowed him to be taken away from me, and his 4 older siblings (mine from previous marriage) and the only home, church, school, and friends and family he's really ever known. I would have had to prove her an unfit mother which is not true. Her attorney made me out ot be a Bible beater, among other lies and distortions of the truth. So she got him. We are all devastated because it looks hopeless that we'll get him back since he's now in school there and she's intent on this divorce. She started a new job as a teacher there and just moved into a new apartment. She's still seeing the boyfriend and running around like she's back in high school with some of her old friends who are not chrisitians. She is very angry at me and blames me for everything. So, it seems restoration looks hopeless. She hardly talks to me unless she wants to yell at me for something or she wants something. She's like a stranger, but, God is in control.

l thank God for last night, she was actually somewhat nice for a few minutes on the phone. Next Friday September 13, We may be staying together out of town as Noah has qualified to be in a special soccer event. She said she'd consider sharing a double room, that she'd check it out. So I am asking for prayer, that God would turn her heart, that He would put my name in her heart and on her mind, that she would turn to Him and that no weapon formed against our marriage would continue to prosper. that He would rekindle the love in her heart for me. That I would be the image of Christ to her and that she would forgive me for all I've done to make her do this wether real or not.

According to His word,God hates divorce (Malachi). "What therefore God has joined together, let no man seperate" (Matthew 18) I love my wife and pray for restoration, I ask that you AGREE WITH ME IN PRAYER that the Lord rebuke and bind Satan in the name and by the blood of Jesus and that he put a hedge of thorns around my wife so that she can not find her way to her lover and that ANYONE who is interested in her will lose interset and leave, PRAY then she would say, "I will go back to my husband. For it was better for me then than now!" For I believe: Then the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman, yet an adulteress." (Hosea 6) According to (2 Corinthians 5) God gave us a ministry of reconciliation..... Also throughout history God turned, and hardened the hearts, and put things into and out of the mind of kings and men, inorder to carry out His will.

Please PRAY IN AGREEMENT that the Lord would tear down any stronghold of the enemy, and destroy all authoritys, principalitys or spirits of adultry, lust, greed, drunkeness, deception, deceit, unforgiveness, anger, pride, selfishness, or any other marital discord that have come upon this marriage and Kitty's mind, body and soul. Please PRAY that God would not let her fall to any more temptation. Please PRAY that God would cleanse her of ALL sin of a sexual nature that may have come through her eyes, ears, body, or mind. Please PRAY that God would bless her and forgive her and restore her to her husband, family, church, and home. Please pray that my prodigal wife would come home. That I would be the man of God He wants me to be. I will give Him all the praise and the glory and what a celebration we will have! I thank Jesus for what he's already doing in each of our hearts and lives, I praise him above all names and all powers and all kings, and all wealth and all nature, and above the heaven and the earth. Blessed be the name of the Lord, who Was and Is, and Is to come. My precious Saviour, Jesus Christ the Lord, in whose name we pray, Amen. Thank you for your prayers and support.

Geoffrey

Geoffrey,

Prayed for you and your family and for your W. We already know in the end that the enemy will be defeated. Claim that part. As for all of the praying and stuff in front of W, you could be simply pushing her towards the new friends and OM.

My StBX has said firmly that he doesn't want anything to do hearing from me about God anymore or that. He is, to the best of my knowledge a Christian also. We were once very active at our church before all this A stuff began. You must not bash her with our beliefs now. Show her Godly actions in your everyday walk. Live differently.

Have you done the A/B thing here? Are you up on MB principles? Got a counselor that can apply this stuff? These are good questions. Remember, I read earlier this: We pray to God but we also row ourselves to shore.

God's given us alot of wisdom and alot of learned professionals wisdom also. Combine that with prayer and following His will reasonably and that may make alot of difference. I am attempting to do this daily. H and his OW supposedly broke up but only after 11/2 years and putting my family through *ell. Learn all you can here on the other areas. Harleys have dealt with A's successfully. But keep praying as you go along and live the life of faith and let your W see your actions. She's in fog and may not come out for quite sometime...Remember, the number stats are in our favor (worldly information) but also that we know that satan will be defeated (spiritual information). So either way it is a biiig win here friend. Buck up and know others are praying.

J,
Thanks for the response. I don't get to pray in front of her as we are so far apart. I did send her a letter apologizing for my part in the marriage and our problems, because she really let me have it a couple nights ago, blaming me for everything and denying A. I have not done A/B yet. I'm pretty new to this post. Will try to get up on the stuff. Especially pray for me to truly forgive my her and OM involved and let go and let God move in her and turn her heart and that He may establish peace, faith, and hope in me. I pray I would be just like Jesus to her. I pray that I would be a more Godly man and employee and a better father and husband, Even though we are seperated by so many miles. I pray for faith, hope, strength and peace in the midst of the trial. Also pleas pray for me to sense the presence and will of God and be filled with the Holy Spirit, and with His power and the wisom to know His will and the desire and endurance to do His will.

geoffnu