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anniej:
Thanks to everyone for replying to me. It means more than you know.
I have felt very alone during these last few months of intense study, prayer and worship. The whole situation with my husband is so ironic because he's the one who prayed so hard for to become a Christian 27 years ago. And even as I've grown closer and closer to the Lord, it seems he has not wanted any part of it. I once asked him to worship with me at home and he said he can only worship in a church setting.
He and I have a great deal of things we really connect with; love the same foods, enjoy the same movies, like the same activities, etc. While this is great, I would trade all of that to feel one with him concerning spiritual things.
I will be praying for all of you who also have spouses that have not yet seen God's truth. I know firsthand how difficult it is to share the same home with someone who has been terribly deceived yet doesn't seem to have a clue.
Annie
Deborah-Leigh:
Hi Annie
I think it is very painful to have a spouse who cannot share or believe as we do, especially something as central to our core being that is our understanding of God’s Word and relationship to His Spirit.
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It is also extremely difficult to find ourselves to be among the few, very few, as we learn the Truth that sets us apart from the many.
The process of God’s judgment is a fiery encounter that only the endurance of His Spirit can bring us to receive the learning and training in patience and self control that thankfully are also accompanied by the fruits of His Spirit being love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness.
Arc
anniej:
Hello Arc,
You really zeroed in on why it's so difficult for me and my husband to not be in accord concerning spiritual truths. These lay the foundation for everything I do, say, think and believe. So in many ways, I feel like my husband doesn't really "know" me, if that makes sense.
The thing that has amazed me most on this journey of spiritual understanding is how it seems that everyone who has come to recognize and believe the things that Ray teaches share the exact same thoughts and emotions about it. I have always believed that when people genuinely see what's correct, they all will be in accord with that.
I love God and Jesus from the depths of my soul and my heart's desire is to be the light I've been called (or perhaps chosen) to be. As you know, that's not always an easy task in this mixed-up world, but we must stay the course at all times.
This Web site and all of the wonderful people I have been meeting here in the Forum (including yourself) have been a tremendous encouragement to me. And I hope I can be the same for all of you.
Wishing you joy! Annie :)
Deborah-Leigh:
Blessings to you Annie
If I may just share with you a few encouragements.
We have to help our husbands not teach, lead, council or train our husbands. I have personally found that it works far better to grieve in private with Jesus and lay on Him the concerns, tribulations and any trials or heart dissatisfaction, that if expressed, only opens wounds of inferiority and disappointments, sorrow and sadness.
God teaches us so much through our husbands. I recognise that God both blesses and trains me through my husband. Life is not easy for either husbands or wife's. It is not meant to be. God is working out our differences, deficiencies and corruptions. If we try to correct, criticise or oppose our husbands, we bring hardship upon ourselves. If we thank God for our husbands and petition Him to give our husbands deeper understanding and appreciation for HIM, then we do well. It is wonderful to have a husband. So many are alone, emotionally remote, distant, cold, cynical and faithless.
Our differences are in the Plan of God, causing us too, as God's Daughters to be trained in the purging Fire of God as we learn submission, trust and dependence on God for our needs and blessings. I have personally seen amazing blessings when I thank God for my husband and ask Him to bless him.
In one of Rays teachings, Ray mentions that women want power. Well, you know the Scriptures do place the three sins right at Eve's door step, so to speak. It was she who erred and was deceived, and Adam, for his love of his wife, he subsequently disobeyed God too. That is not good. We are not Eve, we are children of God so we have the opportunity to excel through the Spirit of Christ into the Works of God that obey, submit and Trust Him for everything and then His Peace and Joy can reign in our homes. If you treat your husband like the king that he is, no matter how deaf or blind the fellow is, then certainly the royal sceptre of God, that is the Power of God, can give you the blessing of being received as the Queen of your husbands home, in God through you. Now that's real power. 8) Learning to be humble and patient, trusting and obedient to God, is only accomplished through God's Spirit both for you and I and everyone. There is much rest in that understanding. So much so, that you don't need power anymore. Peace is sufficent not in complacent depression but in joyful understanding.
margo:
Thanks again Arc,
Margo
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