Someone says, “I’m not the one breaking up our marriage; it’s my spouse! (And to tell the truth, we’re both to blame!)”
When people asked the apostle Paul what to DO to be saved, he liked to tell them, “BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus Christ ...” (Acts 16:31). He didn’t mean do nothing; but a change of heart is what works, not just outward behavior. The change accompanies an effective prayer for marriage-healing. That healing is what the Author of love and marriage likes to do for us when we ask Him.
What we know for sure:
(a) The Lord wants your marriage to be solid and happy as long as you both shall live. He says He “hates divorce” (Mal. 2:16). Therefore it follows that your prayers for your marriage to be healed are in harmony with God’s will for you, and that means your prayer is being heard for He has promised that whatever prayer we ask that is “according to His will, He heareth us” (1 John 5:14, 15). Big truth!
(b) That means in turn that you and the Lord are together in this; and two out of three are a Majority. Work with Him; stay with Him; be loyal to Him and His truth.
(c) The Bible doesn’t guarantee 100% success, for humans have the power of choice and they can “frustrate the grace of God” (Gal. 2:21; if that must happen, the Lord is as pained as you are). But He also assures us that it’s possible for a believing spouse to win an unbelieving one (see 1 Cor. 7:10-16). Miracles still happen; the greatest is in our own hearts when we “LET this mind be in [us] which was also in Christ Jesus ... “ (Phil. 2:5ff).
(d) The best news in the world today is a change of vision in God’s people—transferring their concern for self to the Lord Jesus from “what can I do to be sure I am saved and I can wear a crown ?” to “how can I help crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords?” The miracle of a new kind of love (agape) is taking over many human hearts.
God’s last days’ message for us all is His “everlasting Good News” (Rev. 14:6-12).
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