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I see a lot of posts from married people feeling deeply hurt by some issues in your marriage. Issues that leave you wondering where to go from here, or how in the world you can focus on God with such heavy emotions weighing you down. You know that getting closer to God is the answer, but right now you just can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know because I was there.
God can fix your marriage and he wants to.The key to getting closer to God through the pain is to just talk to Him and be yourself. I think sometimes we get so wrapped up in being super-spiritual that we forget that we can just be real with God. When you pray, you don't have to say a bunch of 'thee's and 'thou's and 'blessed is hes'. God wants to know us for who we are, not some religious front we try to put on when we pray. Open up to Him and tell Him exactly how you feel instead of torturing yourself thinking about it. If I'm so mad at my husband that I want to choke him, I tell God just that. If he has done something that really offended me and I really don't WANT to let it go, I tell God and I ask Him to help me want to let it go. Yes, you can ask God to give you the desire to move forward and let things go even if you're not quite ready or you don't even see how it's possible. It's okay to tell God that you need help keeping the faith because you feel hopeless. You're not offending Him and you're not telling Him anything He doesn't already know. He knows how you feel and he wants to comfort you and make things better. If you hurt so badly that you feel like you can't even pray, that's okay. It doesn't have to be a long prayer. Just tell God that you don't even have the energy to pray and that you need Him. That's enough to open the door for Him to work.
I have also read books to teach me some things about love, marriage and prayer and I would definitely recommend you do the same. Get any resource you need to help guide you and show you what to do on your part while God works on your spouse. Some that I have read, or plan to read are: The Five Love Languages, Praying Through the Deeper Issues of Marriage, The Power of a Praying Wife, The Love Dare, and The Five Languages of Apology.
These two scriptures comforted me when I felt like I was going through the worst time:
1 Peter 5:10
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man that he should change His mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Be blessed and Be encouraged! Your problems are not too big for God and he is not too busy with the "bigger issues" to worry about yours. He loves you and so do I!
God can fix your marriage and he wants to.The key to getting closer to God through the pain is to just talk to Him and be yourself. I think sometimes we get so wrapped up in being super-spiritual that we forget that we can just be real with God. When you pray, you don't have to say a bunch of 'thee's and 'thou's and 'blessed is hes'. God wants to know us for who we are, not some religious front we try to put on when we pray. Open up to Him and tell Him exactly how you feel instead of torturing yourself thinking about it. If I'm so mad at my husband that I want to choke him, I tell God just that. If he has done something that really offended me and I really don't WANT to let it go, I tell God and I ask Him to help me want to let it go. Yes, you can ask God to give you the desire to move forward and let things go even if you're not quite ready or you don't even see how it's possible. It's okay to tell God that you need help keeping the faith because you feel hopeless. You're not offending Him and you're not telling Him anything He doesn't already know. He knows how you feel and he wants to comfort you and make things better. If you hurt so badly that you feel like you can't even pray, that's okay. It doesn't have to be a long prayer. Just tell God that you don't even have the energy to pray and that you need Him. That's enough to open the door for Him to work.
I have also read books to teach me some things about love, marriage and prayer and I would definitely recommend you do the same. Get any resource you need to help guide you and show you what to do on your part while God works on your spouse. Some that I have read, or plan to read are: The Five Love Languages, Praying Through the Deeper Issues of Marriage, The Power of a Praying Wife, The Love Dare, and The Five Languages of Apology.
These two scriptures comforted me when I felt like I was going through the worst time:
1 Peter 5:10
And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man that he should change His mind. Does He speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Be blessed and Be encouraged! Your problems are not too big for God and he is not too busy with the "bigger issues" to worry about yours. He loves you and so do I!
