What A MIGHTY God We Serve!
Today’s post is a little different, because of all the things I might think of to write about today, the only thing on my mind is just how awesome our God REALLY is! And I just want to give praise to His holy name!
First, my day started with one of the FAM members posting an AWESOME, God glorifying testimony about the healing and restoration the Lord has been working in her marriage and family! And for those of us standing for marriage restoration, hearing such a miraculous testimony and praise report is just about the most encouraging and uplifting news of all! And that’s because we have God’s word that what He did for her, He will do for us, based on Acts 10:34, which says Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. And Romans 2:11 says For there is no respect of persons with God. But one reason this particular testimony means so much to me personally is because I know all too well just how faithfully and consistently this woman has walked out the principles of marriage restoration in accordance with what the Bible teaches, which is just TOTAL confirmation of what the word tells us, especially concerning how important it is for us to know and understand God’s word and then to be DOERS, and not just hearers only.
And then this afternoon, one of our members had a final divorce hearing scheduled, and according to the world’s expectations, the odds of it going through were pretty good, since it had already been postponed for over a year for one reason or another…BUT WE NEVER GAVE UP! We said one last prayer together just before she left to meet her husband in the parking lot at the courthouse and the next call I got from her was very difficult to understand, because all I could hear in my ear was a lot of squealing! Praise the Lord, the hearing was put off until February, because her lawyer, who hadn’t returned her calls for two days was VERY sick and her husband agreed to and even suggested the postponement! Then after walking her to her car, much to her surprise and delight, he told her that he’d meet her at home…saying that she owed him!!! What an awesome God we serve!
Well, now we know why we can always rely on God’s promise in Romans 8:28-39, which the NIV Bible so appropriately titles More Than Conquerors, because it says:
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So, no matter what lies or weapons Satan brings against us and the restoration of our marriages, we just have to remember to tell that wicked devil what Proverbs 16:1 says, which is To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue. And we know what God says goes, because Isaiah 55:10-11 says As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. And we know nothing Satan does against us will prosper, according to Isaiah 54:16-17, which says “See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc; no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the LORD.
And Mark 9:23 makes it very clear why it is vitally important for us to believe that God CAN and WILL restore our marriages, even in the face of what in the natural realm looks totally impossible and hopeless, because it says ” ‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for him who believes.” And When we have a hard time believing, that means we’re NOT spending enough time reading and studying the Bible, because Romans 10:17 says So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. And that’s because it’s not possible to read the Bible and get to know the Lord without realizing what a MIGHTY God we serve!