Is it possible to convert your family member?

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naomibelieves

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Hi everyone,

sometimes i ask myself this question, whether i should stop talking to my husband about God.

I was brought up as a Russian Orthodox( similar to Roman Catholics), and my husband is of the same faith. I changed the church, just as i could not feel God in my old church. Right now, i am at peace, as i have a more personal realtionship with God, while before priests were presenting my requests to him.

My husband being very stubborn, and he does not want to hear anything about the new church, he does not even go to the old one. Right now, when i read something and i have revelations, i try to share with him. He only says:"Stop preaching to me! I know the Bible."

Yes, it is true he posses a Bible, but it is just there on a shelf, he never opens it. What is the purpose to keep the light away?

So, would you think i should really stop talking to him about it and let the Power of God to reveal the truth to my husband. Or i should also try to educate my spouse? If i do, whould it mean that i intervene, and God has to stop back?

Thank you.
Blessings,
Naomi
 

doodles91

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@Naomi , I know many people who struggle with your same problem - having an unsaved spouse can be one of the most trying things ever.

In answer to your question: "Can you convert your family?" My answer is no. Only God can do that - but your job is to share God both through your actions and words. It's not Paul, or Apollo, or Naomi who is going to save your family - but it's still your job to plant seeds. I encourage you to keep persevering, and i'll pray for your family.
 
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asamanthinketh

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i do not have a husband, but it has been my experience with others that anytime you are not getting through stop what you are doing because you are only wasting your GOD given breath, life,and energy. I have been harmed in the process of trying to love and change my family. And this person that i speak of has such great influence over my life and spread her beliefs about me to everyone else that i have no love left for her and do not even care to give her my knowledge or the love of God


so be careful and just make a decision and go with it

Hi everyone,

sometimes i ask myself this question, whether i should stop talking to my husband about God.

I was brought up as a Russian Orthodox( similar to Roman Catholics), and my husband is of the same faith. I changed the church, just as i could not feel God in my old church. Right now, i am at peace, as i have a more personal realtionship with God, while before priests were presenting my requests to him.

My husband being very stubborn, and he does not want to hear anything about the new church, he does not even go to the old one. Right now, when i read something and i have revelations, i try to share with him. He only says:"Stop preaching to me! I know the Bible."

Yes, it is true he posses a Bible, but it is just there on a shelf, he never opens it. What is the purpose to keep the light away?

So, would you think i should really stop talking to him about it and let the Power of God to reveal the truth to my husband. Or i should also try to educate my spouse? If i do, whould it mean that i intervene, and God has to stop back?

Thank you.
Blessings,
Naomi
 
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asamanthinketh

Guest
#4
HOW CAN ONE CONTEND WITH ONE STRONGER THAN THEE, NOT POSSIBLE

Hi everyone,

sometimes i ask myself this question, whether i should stop talking to my husband about God.

I was brought up as a Russian Orthodox( similar to Roman Catholics), and my husband is of the same faith. I changed the church, just as i could not feel God in my old church. Right now, i am at peace, as i have a more personal realtionship with God, while before priests were presenting my requests to him.

My husband being very stubborn, and he does not want to hear anything about the new church, he does not even go to the old one. Right now, when i read something and i have revelations, i try to share with him. He only says:"Stop preaching to me! I know the Bible."

Yes, it is true he posses a Bible, but it is just there on a shelf, he never opens it. What is the purpose to keep the light away?

So, would you think i should really stop talking to him about it and let the Power of God to reveal the truth to my husband. Or i should also try to educate my spouse? If i do, whould it mean that i intervene, and God has to stop back?

Thank you.
Blessings,
Naomi
 
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asamanthinketh

Guest
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UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE LIKE THE PEOPLE I LIVE WITH, UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE A PROUD, UNHUMBLE WOMAN THAT TRIES TO MANIPULATE AND CONTROL OTHERS LIVES, IT PROBABLY IS BEST THAT YOU STOP

BE AWARE OF THE POWER THAT YOUR HUSBAND HAS TO HARM YOU, IF YOU EVEN THINK HE WOULD OR IS CAPABLE OF IT
Hi everyone,

sometimes i ask myself this question, whether i should stop talking to my husband about God.

I was brought up as a Russian Orthodox( similar to Roman Catholics), and my husband is of the same faith. I changed the church, just as i could not feel God in my old church. Right now, i am at peace, as i have a more personal realtionship with God, while before priests were presenting my requests to him.

My husband being very stubborn, and he does not want to hear anything about the new church, he does not even go to the old one. Right now, when i read something and i have revelations, i try to share with him. He only says:"Stop preaching to me! I know the Bible."

Yes, it is true he posses a Bible, but it is just there on a shelf, he never opens it. What is the purpose to keep the light away?

So, would you think i should really stop talking to him about it and let the Power of God to reveal the truth to my husband. Or i should also try to educate my spouse? If i do, whould it mean that i intervene, and God has to stop back?

Thank you.
Blessings,
Naomi
 
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SeekinHIM

Guest
#6
Precious Naomi,

Personally, the only way I have discovered, (told to me by the LORD) is to get closer and closer to GOD...................Focus on HIM, AS MUCH AS YOU CAN............Constantly, ..........pray without ceasing...........What does that mean. It means always have your mind on GOD. In other places in the WORD it says things like : SET YOUR MIND ON THINGS ABOVE NOT ON THINGS ON THE EARTH.............This includes your husband in matters of reaching him for CHRIST............I was able to do this in two of my family members so far.............And they were both involved heavily in drugs and alcohol...............To the average eye, looking in HOPELESS............

The LORD, simply showed me to FOCUS ON HIM................And then in time, HE spoke through me as he will with you as well...........

Be encouraged, I will continue to pray for you and your husband..............

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SeekinHIM
 
May 21, 2009
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You can't change but God can. Your bugging one to be saved will only make them upset. You keep praying and trust God to do his job. The bible says me and my house will be saved. House is your family. Pray for God to sen d someone to your husband. He will listen to someone else. Its best to go about keep loving and reading your bible, going to church an all for him to see you honoring God. He'll see your light shinning. And he'll see God working in your life.
 
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greatkraw

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<< 1 Peter 3 >>
New International Version Wives and Husbands
1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. 4Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God&#8217;s sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
 
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naomibelieves

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#9
Thanks for all your input!!!
I think I got the idea, I will step back and pray for God to shaow him a way through another person.
Blessings
 
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butterflymom3

Guest
#10
Thanks for all your input!!!
I think I got the idea, I will step back and pray for God to shaow him a way through another person.
Blessings
Not just through another person, Naomi but through you just without words. By your actions, and the way you run your household you are an influence to him without even knowing it. Please read Proverbs 31:10-31. This is the kind of woman I pray to be. Whatever you do, don't stop praying for your husband. It may take years of prayers, but God is faithful! I go through the same thing with my husband and I just make sure that I am an example, and the changes I have made in our lives are testimony themselves. God bless you, and you are both in my prayers.