Recently we talked a bit about how God specially cares for the broken-hearted. We’ve had several letters from those who qualify.
The problem often is a broken marriage, plus a severed closeness to the Savior.
The stores are full of books that tell you what to do; the Bible tells you what to believe:
(a) God has a vested interest in your marriage; He invented the idea in the first place, and it is He who brought the two of you together and made you “one.” If your marriage fails, it is therefore He who will be embarrassed and pained.
(b) Your prayers will become powerful if you can grasp this larger paradigm-shift idea: prayers for Him to be glorified in you take precedence over your own prayer for personal happiness. Tangled thinking becomes clarified. You start walking on air.
(c) Prayer for a spouse becomes more effective because self is now crucified with Christ. You and the Lord Jesus are now united in a common purpose between you—that the Lord’s invention of marriage be honored in your case. Young people watching you will be inspired to build more firm marriages that will actually uplift the world. Don’t despise the idea: you become a “missionary” unconsciously working for the Kingdom of God. Your healed marriage proclaims a magnificent sermon of hope in a hopeless world.
(d) There are tons of practical wisdom and spiritual strength that the Lord would like to impart to you just now, but as Jesus said to His disciples, you can’t absorb it all now (John 16:12); but He is like a teacher who can’t give you the last lessons until you’ve grasped the first ones. Believe that you are a valued pupil in His classroom; He will hear your prayer to heal your marriage, but He will insist on working through you as His agent. It’s not fear that will teach you, but the grace of God will faithfully, persistently “teach” you (cf. Titus 2:11-13). Best “classroom” anyone was ever in!
(e) Yes, a thousand times over, the Lord still works miracles; the greatest of them all may be in your own soul. “Let” Him do it; don’t hinder Him (Phil. 2:4).
(f) He will take your prayers very seriously; don’t back out on what you are praying for. If the slightest adulterous prayer has flitted across your consciousness, pray for heart forgiveness. Healing that brings lasting happiness may hurt for a time, but great and lovely is the peace that you will inherit.
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