Please leave some encouragement for this bride who filled out an MEQ "Marriage Encouragement Questionnaire." Before commenting, please remember to:
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- Speak to your Husband, your Maker, to know what He wants to say to this brokenhearted bride.
- Keep it SHORT.
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| Country: |
| United States |
| What language do you speak? |
| English |
| I'm here: |
| Seeking restoration for my marriage. |
| What is your current marital status? Please be sure to choose the one that BEST describes your situation. |
| Husband has remarried. |
| Have you read the book "How God Can and Will Restore Your Marriage?" |
| No |
| How did you find our ministry? |
| online |
| Now, please tell us about your situation and why you have come to us for help and what has your husband/partner said are the main issues or problems he has with you and your relationship? |
| I was married for 18 years to my husband, 20 years together, and two children. Our issues began when his personality changed the last 2 years of our marriage. He is a pastor and took over a second church, and from then on he became very arrogant and begin to have major conflict with me. We divorced recently, but continued to be intimate and i thought we were trying to reconcile, however, I found out that he remarried and is having a baby with the new wife all within 5 months of our divorce. I had no idea and was devastated at the news. Even with all the bad, I do want my marriage to be restored. |
| Please use the space below to simply speak to God, in your own words, pouring your heart out to Him. |
| Heavenly father, I would like to thank you for blessing me, and keeping me during this time. I know only you can restore my marriage , and bring my husband back to Jesus and his family. I ask that you bind pride, arrogance, unforgiveness, and that you loose forgiveness, and humility. I ask that you restore my marriage back , and bring our families back together. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen |
| In order for us to minister more effectively to you, please check what concerns apply to you: |
| Custody issues. Depressed. Abused or molested as a child. Fallen into adultery, need help. |
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Dear Bride, I am so sorry to hear what happened, it is devastating to say the least, I know, I’ve been there as well and my fh got remarried just as unexpectedly.
I want to assure you that nothing is impossible with God, He can restore your marriage and family, but for this season I would like to encourage you to let go and focus on your relationship with the Lord. The more you hold on, the further your fh will want to get away from you. This is not letting go like the word teaches, but letting your situation go into the loving hands of the Lord to do what only He can do. (https://hopeatlast.com/c2/d15-the-freedom-of-letting-go/)
I saw that you also have custody issues, I lost custody of my children for more than a year, but the Lord turned it around for good. I would like to share my custody novellette with you: https://narrowroadpublishinghouse.com/rjn-adina/
I would like to share these verses with you:
“Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame.
Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth
and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
For your Maker is your husband—
the Lord Almighty is his name—
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
he is called the God of all the earth.
The Lord will call you back
as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,
only to be rejected,” says your God.
“For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with deep compassion I will bring you back.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2054%3A5-7&version=NIV;NKJV;NLV;KJV
Hi dear Bride, I am so sorry for the pain you are going through at the moment. Like Adina, my former husband also remarried. Looking back, I can see how the Lord brought me through so much when I was able to just focus on Him alone.
I saw that I needed a lot of healing and still do because I was molested as a child, there was a lot of hurt in my past that I took into my marriage. Because my focus was so much on restoration, I also went through a terrible time of depression, but once my focus shifted to God alone, my depression lifted.
I urge you to do our courses and let your healing start. I want to ask you to do something very difficult, but also rewarding. Take your focus off your former husband and what he is doing and just stay focused on God and His will for your life. I have a lesson that I want you to read from our He Healed Me series:
https://loveatlast.org/hhm/
The lesson is: “They don’t have it”
https://loveatlast.org/hhm/tdh/
Dearest Bride, because what you are going through is so similar to what I experienced, I am able in a lot of ways to say: “I have been there” Each of our journeys is different and yours will be a wonderful testimony as you focus on the Lord and let Him be all in your life.
Dear precious bride I am so very sorry for what you are going through, I know how you are feeling, because my husband also remarried and had a child with the other women and we were also intimate after divorce and I can honestly tell you that it left me more broken so I please want to encourage you to never be intimate with your former husband after divorce – https://hopeatlast.com/c2/d8-my-husband-remarried/
Dear precious bride I also want to encourage you just like Adina and Yvonne to please put all your focus on our Darling Lord because He can do far more than you can ever imagine – “Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us.” E3:20 https://biblehub.com/ephesians/3-20.htm
Please also read my restored marriage testimony – https://encouragingwomen.org/restored-marriage-testimony-classic-remarried-sober-after-15-painful-years/
I look forward to what our Darling Lord is going to do in your life and testimonies that you are going to come and share with us.
Thank you
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