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8 months ago, I met an amazing girl named Bitia. She is so passionate about God, she has this big heart! We've been talking since Aug 2015. She lives with her aunt, due to issues with her parents. From the beginning her aunt had some rules (which I respected) Weekdays, we could talk til 9:30, weekends until 11. She would only allow Bitia to hang out once every other week. Even with that, it seemed like her aunt liked me. She let us go as a group to knotts berry farm, she had her son in law help me get a seasonal job at UPS, everyone, even her son in law seemed to like me. I got invited, at her insistence, to her house for Christmas and ended up going over to a party at her daughters house later that night. Everything seemed great! Me and Bitia were getting closer, it'd been 4 months and we started holding hands, her aunt was letting her hang out a lil more, up to once a week. Then in January, her aunt changed, she decided she didn't want Bitia to talk to me anymore. She was saying stuff like "you could do better" making fun of my appearance, to the point where she was making Bitia cry. They moved churches, and it all seemed to happen out of nowhere, we had planned a trip to six flags and the day before we were supposed to go her aunt did that. Me and Bitia had created a pretty close bond in a few months and we didn't really want to give it up, i mean it wasn't like either one of us wanted to end it, her aunt just didn't like me suddenly. I've thought maybe I did too much, but we only ever held hands and very little in the few months of our relationship. We've continued, through text, talking and praying together etc and last week i thought i was hearing from God, to "go!" Since this happened, and even before i wanted to talk with her aunt, let her know my intentions and what kind of a person i am etc, but Bitia was really scared, she was scared of what actually happened, that we wouldn't be able to talk or hang out. Part of me believes it was due to my inaction, from me not "being a man" and talking to her, so I've been praying about it and a story that keeps coming to mind and i keep hearing reference to is David and Goliath. There you have an army scared to take on this man, and David, a young guy saying BUT GOD is with us, what is there to fear? He doesn't go out in armor, he goes out with a sling and some stones, and knows that God is with him, and he through God defeats Goliath. So right now her aunt is in a sense our Goliath, she is someone we fear, that could take away what little we have left. Through hours of reading prayer and taking notes on sermons, i read about how God opens doors after i was told by a good friend and fellow believer to pray for her aunts heart to be softened and a door to be opened to be able to talk to her. It got to the point where i almost went down to her aunts house and as i was asking if she was home, Bitia and her sister were both very scared and told me they didnt think it was a good idea. I dont want to do anything if its not of God, if we are supposed to be patient and wait, i can do that, but what i also dont want to do is ignore God, and like one of the sermons i heard, miss the "promised land" out of fear. Due to this ban on me i've missed Bitia's last high school basketball game, a few dances, id potentially miss her last high school volley ball games, her graduation and graduation party etc. Not that any of those have significant spiritual value, but they mean something to her, and i really want to be there for those things, and id like to clear up any misconceptions her aunt may have about the type of man i am, as i believe, maybe the reason she reacted like this is due to someone spreading a rumor about us going farther than we should. I guess what im asking for is prayer for the situation, and maybe for some verses or your guys views on it to hopefully see God move! thanks for anyone who can reply!