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My own private hell
GODSown1:
I jus Thank the LORD,
4 u All & all ur mighty upliftn comments, Yea Gena it is not 4 us 2 understand but 2 jus xsept! muchLOVE!! sister, & yep Cindy u r ryte, But! wot i hav learn't is its not wot goes in d@ really matters its wot cumz owt! Thank u so much 4 ur kind & az Ive sed very upliftn comments, I can neva stop sayn hw much Ive cum 2 Love Uz All in dis forum Thank YOU FATHER! dey r all Amazing!!, Big! Hugz & kisses 2 U all n CHRIST JESUS, Peace!!.
muchLOVE!! Pera
skydreamers:
Hi James and Pera,
My heart goes out to you guys. Situation like yours are truly tragic, especially when children are involved, and it's obvious that both of you are loving men who want to do what's right for your families. My prayers are with you both.
Jesus sermon on the mount comes to mind. These are truly mysterious words of Jesus, because they go against everything that is carnal in us:
Blessed are those who mourn...
Matthew 5:4
I have read that and thought, "Excuse me?" When you look up how "blessed" is defined, here is what it says:
* supremely blessed, fortunate, well-off, happy
I am sure neither of you would say you feel like this right now...but Jesus assures us that you are blessed in your mourning....why?
...for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:4
There is something about situations like these in which Jesus can reach down and comfort us in the deepest depths of our souls. So you ask, how can he comfort?
Are you not the greatest comfort to others, when they know you yourself have been there, completely understand what they are going through, and so are not alone in their pain?
Are you not the greatest comfort to someone when you identify with their pain?
If you are in emotional pain, so is your Creator. Not just in the sense that He's been there, done that....but He IS there, right there with you, in the depths of your pain...in fact, it is my deepest sense that any of our pain is no match for the suffering of our Father.
I do not believe that it is the Father's ultimate will that we should suffer through broken relationships, but it is His temporary will, as it is necessary to get us to where we are going and to teach us by experience the very depths of God...who is suffering at present through more broken relationships than our Father??
The brokeness you feel for your wives and children in the suffering they go through is only the slightest inkling of what a purely loving Creator feels for His creation, and in this, is there not comfort?
When I have been in pain, my truest friends have been those who cried with me, and in this there is a strange kind of comfort, because we all carry the baggage of a million hurts as we struggle through this life. And so there is unity and purity, there at that place of mourning....a place of comfort. God is there with you, not just as a Father patting you on the shoulder saying "there, there", but as a friend saying, "I weep with you, your pain is mine..."
So, if we look down at the face of our Savior, who is washing OUR feet, and who is weeping over the brokenness of OUR relationship with Him, our hearts can go out to Him...if we can see that His pain is greater than ours...would not this move our hearts to....want to comfort Him...and this changes our hearts...melts our hearts...causes us to want to give all of our hearts to Him, who is suffering...
I think that is why Jesus says:
Matthew 25:35-40
For I was hungry and you gave ME food, I was thirsty and you gave ME drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed ME
I was naked and you clothed ME, I was sick and you visited ME, I was in prison and you came to ME.
...Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to ME.
To the carnal, it is a contradiction, to the spiritual it is poetry, to the heart it is comfort...
Much luv and respect to both of you,
Peace,
Diana
GODSown1:
Diana wow!,
U neva sies 2 Amaze! mE wit ur GOD given gift of great knowledge of rightiousnesS alwayz U say such comforting wordz, & alwayz da right 1z 2 :), GOD so has BlesSed U gurl lol! :), & az U c urVe put a big grin on ma face :D, GODBlesS! U ma sister in CHRIST JESUS.
muchLOVE!! Pera
Robin:
Hi Shmeggly and Pera,
My heart goes out to you. I've been through some heartbreaking times with my son's alcoholism. I've also been shown truth that had to be shown to me through pain.
I remember one night. My son was just out of rehab and was wonderful and sober for 3 months. He was living with me at the time. He started drinking one night and became violent. I had to lock him out of the house. I called the police and they wouldn't do anything. It was freezing outside and raining and my son was out there in the cold. He kept knocking on the door and I couldn't let him in. I was so afraid he would die that night. I felt so guilty I turned my heater off because I should be cold too if he was so cold.
I sat in my kitchen in the cold praying for my son and praying that he would live through the night. My heart hurt so terribly bad that I felt something inside me just shut down. It hurt to the point that my heart just turned off. I felt a peace after that and felt God's love. I thought of Jesus and for the first time thought of the Father and thought of what he must have gone through watching his only son suffer. I started thinking of how little I knew about the Father and then I saw great truth. If you have seen me you have seen the Father. My heavenly Father revealed a little of himself to me that night when I was sitting in my kitchen in overwhelming emotional pain. I would never have known that without the painful experience my son and I went through that night.
My son lived through the night. I handed him a cup of coffee and a couple of sandwiches in the morning and sent him on his way. I could tell you 20 years worth of stories like that one. My son is doing well for now, but I just take it a day at a time. God is working in his life and in my life and we are not in control.
I was taught the greatest truths through the worst pain imaginable. If I could go back and change it I wouldn't. There was irreplaceable treasure in years of emotional pain. I didn't know that at the time. Keep seeking God. He knows what he is doing and it is all in his control and all for our good. He changes the desire of our heart to seek him above all else. He will drive everything out that stands in the way if we are chosen. He will become the only desire of our heart. It's a painful process with fiery trials.
Hugs,
MG
GODSown1:
THANKS 4 d@ MG,
d@ was Orsum! it was Amazing actually, hw out of all d@ GOD revealed His pain! HE goes thru & has been thru, man! I Loved d@ sO much Thanks so much 4 sharing MG Thank YOU FATHER. And U r right 2 MG wen U look bak U wuldnt change n e fing, d@ is sO right az it is AlL the FATHER preparing uS 4 bigga & better fingZ! GODS WilL b done, alwayZ has & alwayZ! Will. I Pray MG GOD keeps U & ur son safe & true! in HIS Word! az I c U hear HIS voice az many in dis forum do.
muchLOVE!! Pera
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