I Have an Idea How
The speaker said that we should be doing this prophesying/encouragement (see previous post) every day. Our Father is always at work and all we have to do is join him. And here I had my insight regarding my husband, marriage and how to solve the problem described in the post “Alas! I don’t Know How to Get There.”
I had been grieving over the state of my marriage—not only does the brokenness of my marriage harm my husband, myself and our kids, I had begin to realize that week that it harms those who walk through our door and it harms those who we might have brought through our doors but can’t or won’t because this isn’t a healthy place to be. We are harming the advancement of the Gospel. But how can we change that? How do we break down the barriers? The wife of the seminar speaker (on the persecuted church) told me to pray that we would be united in Christ and promised to pray for this herself. But how in the world could this happen? How could we become united? It seemed impossible.
But what if I began to do what the speaker for the conference on living supernaturally was saying and what, in fact, I have done for others? What if I began to speak words of encouragement and life into my husband? What if tried to see in my husband what God sees. What He sees is a great invitation. What if I stopped looking for what isn’t there—what’s lacking, what’s wrong—but rather look for the plans God has for him and what He wants to call forward, to get outside myself, look at my husband and ask, “Lord, what do you see that you love and how can I say that so my husband will know its from you?” What if I started doing this on a daily basis?
I’m thinking that it just might begin to change everything. Do you see what’s happened? I saw what’s possible. I’ve known of God’s promise to heal my marriage but I haven’t seen HOW this could happen. Now I do. It’s kind of scary to contemplate and I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to do this but as the speaker pointed out, we often don’t know what God wants to say through us to someone until we open our mouths in obedience and start talking so I’m going to step out in risk (faith = risk) and begin to be obedient in this. I’m really quite excited!
I had been grieving over the state of my marriage—not only does the brokenness of my marriage harm my husband, myself and our kids, I had begin to realize that week that it harms those who walk through our door and it harms those who we might have brought through our doors but can’t or won’t because this isn’t a healthy place to be. We are harming the advancement of the Gospel. But how can we change that? How do we break down the barriers? The wife of the seminar speaker (on the persecuted church) told me to pray that we would be united in Christ and promised to pray for this herself. But how in the world could this happen? How could we become united? It seemed impossible.
But what if I began to do what the speaker for the conference on living supernaturally was saying and what, in fact, I have done for others? What if I began to speak words of encouragement and life into my husband? What if tried to see in my husband what God sees. What He sees is a great invitation. What if I stopped looking for what isn’t there—what’s lacking, what’s wrong—but rather look for the plans God has for him and what He wants to call forward, to get outside myself, look at my husband and ask, “Lord, what do you see that you love and how can I say that so my husband will know its from you?” What if I started doing this on a daily basis?
I’m thinking that it just might begin to change everything. Do you see what’s happened? I saw what’s possible. I’ve known of God’s promise to heal my marriage but I haven’t seen HOW this could happen. Now I do. It’s kind of scary to contemplate and I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to do this but as the speaker pointed out, we often don’t know what God wants to say through us to someone until we open our mouths in obedience and start talking so I’m going to step out in risk (faith = risk) and begin to be obedient in this. I’m really quite excited!
posted by Magdaleine at 6:43 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home