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For Better or Worse: Marriage When It's Tough
Nancy and guest Holly Elliff answer questions about marriage from a studio audience. Through these shared personal experiences, you’ll be pointed to key verses in God’s Word that will help your marriage be what God desires.
http://reviveourhearts.com/topics/series.php?series=171&topic_name=Marriage
Topics:
Marriage, Audio, Women's Ministry, Nancy Leigh Demoss, Revive Our Hearts, Holly Elliff, Marriage Problems
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I need pray because I think my husband is habing a affair. I love my husband and want to save our marriage, but if it’s not ment to be or God’s will I will let him go.
I believe the same thing with my wife.
I will pray for you please also pray for my Robert K.
PRAY FOR MY SISTER IN LAW. HER AND HER HUSBAND ARE TALKING ABOUT GITTING A DIVORCEPRAY THAT IT WORKS OUT.
I will pray for each of you and your loved ones. Please help me pray for my husband who wants to divorce me. I love him very much, but he wants to leave whenever we have a disagreement.
I’ve been separated from my wife for years now. We’ve finally moved back in together and the transition is tough. I had an affair, but I still love her. Trust issues and negative outside sources are preventing us from moving forward. Our role as husband and wife needs to be conducted for us to succeed. We’re talking about divorce, but we have a daughter from this union and I would hate to break her heart. It’s frustrating because I want things to work. It seem that we don’t know how to love each other at the same time.
MR KKAPONE>>>> The fact your talking about what you must do, is an indication to me that you aren’t willing to do what’s necessary. If you don’t want to hurt her or your daughter again, then don’t. To follow Christ is a decision that we all must choose to do, and if it is your intent to adhere to the Law of the Lord, and obey his commandments, then you should learn to put God first place in your life, and decide right now that nothing will ever stop you from becoming the Loving, compassionate husband, you always should have been. You might say I have no idea what i’m talking about but I tell you this my wife has been gone for nearly a year and a half, and everyone tells me i’m nuts, and that i should give up on my stand for marriage restoration, that my marriage is dead and gone, but I won’t give in to all the nay sayers because i’m “Being stubborn” and should just move on and find someone new. Your wife is at home, but your to stubborn to realize that God has reunited the two of you, so are you going to let it fall apart, or are you going to stand up and be the man of God you are supposed to be? I don’t have it all figured out, and i know that i must continue to work at loving God and letting him worry about all the other things in my life, things I can’t do a thing about. Remember the first commandment? Love the Lord they God with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your soul. Read in 1 corinthians 7 and in Colassians 3 what it is your supposed to do as a husband, and understand that if you wish to be first you must be last. Don’t worry about what you aren’t getting in the relationship, and just as someone told me I shouldn’t do, “Don’t be a rug when she does come back” My reply was what do you mean a rug, you mean just like Jesus Christ was? If you look at the comparison, Jesus Christ was beaten, whipped, spat on, talked about, ridiculed, cursed, stoned, persecuted and all other sorts of terrible things, and why? Because he loved us more than his own life! WOW!!! Pretty Deep huh? Give it some thought, figure out what will hurt more, being without your wife and possibly hurting your little girl more than you ever thought you would, or your EGO? Let me tell you hurting your child is not worth it, much less hurting your wife. Give it some thought, and then give it over to God and tell him to strengthen you for this journey and don’t turn away, no matter how hard it get’s.
Mr. Kapone-
Doing the right thing isn’t always easy. I too went through an ordeal but I stayed faithful and in return God preserved my marriage. God had to show us a few things and now we are loving each other with God’s love ‘Agape’ love, which is the only way to love one another. Don’t talk about divorce as I don’t believe it is God’s will for the both of you to separate. Any thought that is not of God should be replaced immediately. Do not give the enemy a foot hold. Hang in there and keep communicating. God Bless,
Sally
i have been married 9 yrs and there are several oppositions i am dealing with, 1st my wife wants me to continue helping her son who goes too jail then tells us he is ready, and that he understands his errors, but because he`s not asking for prayer or salvation, how can i help him!!!. so i am finding that i have been putting in place what i believe would help rather than waiting for him too ask for help!!! I believe my wife is fooled because its her son!! we are christians and god`s word says that the spiritual man makes judgment on all things, and the natural man doesn`t understand. so until he get saved!!!! I ask that you pray for my marriage Diane&Demont Oliver God Blesss!!!!
Well I am also in need of pray. My husband has been seeking the attention of other women. He tells me that he has not had any sexual relationship with them but did admit to having sexual thoughts about them. He has also gone as far as to by condoms with the intention of having sex with one of these women. I don’t know what to do because I just gave birth to twin girls and all this happen while I was pregnant. I love my husband and I want this marriage to work. My husband says he loves me and the girl and don’t want to lose his family but his actions says differently. How can I trust him and rebuild our relationship. I pray to GOD for an answer and I am willing to leave if that will make both of us happen. I just don’t want my husband to be with me because of the girls. Please GOD help me because I am so confused. Do anyone have any advice on my next step?
Trust in God….i went thru a terrible ordeal i put it in GODS hands and he is working it out….My husband made alot of bad decisions in our marriage I let go and let God and now God is working on him.
Please pray for my husband and I. He has just asked for a divorce. I am devastated. We have 3 month old son. I am willing to do what it takes to make it work. I love him with all that I have.
After 20 years my husband wants to divorce me. I am not the poster for the perfect Godly wife,but never would I have seen this coming. I started going back to church regularly back 2 years ago. Not just there but THERE. I have prayed every prayer for my marriage to be restored yet he refuses to come back seemingly determined to to do just the opposite. I guess the military deployment seems to not make the heart grow founder. Despite what I think happened while he was away, I really want to work our marriage out. We have not lived together for 2 years. I have talked to him, prayed for me, him , and us and still things seems to get worst.
I am involved in a situation where my wife decided to leave our marriage. as difficult as it has been, I am still committed to restoration in her life with God, as well as mine, n a daily basis. Some say they will stay if it is Gods will….His word is his will, or at least that is what I believe. At the end of the day, we all have a choice, which is to pick up our cross and carry it, or not. That is Gods way, and he gave us free will to choose. If my wife continues down this path (by choice), it is out of my control, but God will still be in control!
I need some good council. My wife and I, married for 24 years, are trying to rebuild our marriage. 5 years ago, she threatened to leave me, because I was not being the husband or father I should have been. This time in my life and our marriage was a real wake-up call for me. I desperately wanted and still want to save my marriage! Although she decided not to leave, there has never been the same “feeling” of love and emotion. I know feelings are deceptive, but at the same time, there seems to be such a lack of emotional desire on her part, that I sometimes wonder we are doing. After 5 years of work, it sometimes feels like we are stuck in limbo. Sure, things are better than they were, but there seems to be resistance on her part to “commit” to loving me again. Small things like sleeping with a large pillow between us, hardly ever initiating intimacy (hand holding, hugs, seeking me out for a kiss). If any of that happens, it is because I initiate OR I guilt her into it. I have such a fear that once of children are grown, she will leave me. She is a Godly woman, and that is comfort to me, but she seems indifferent to engaging in moving forward or being sensitive to doing things that she knows “makes me feel loved and valued”. I have considered what I need to do in order to win her back and everything I do seems not to bring back any feelings of love, on her part. I pray for her heart DAILY and fear it is only a matter of time before she leaves. What should I do?