"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you." Isaiah 43:2
Dear brides, today I'm here to share a little of my journey and the difficult times I've been through, but even in difficult times we have to praise our Beloved Lord and be attentive to His voice that He does infinitely more than we can imagine!
I had already praised our Beloved in our fellowship meeting, but I needed to come and bring this praise to all those who are here and those who are arriving, and I hope to encourage them in some way with my report.
I would like to praise my Beloved, about everything He has spoken to my heart in the last month, which for me was a very challenging month, due to difficult circumstances in my health and soon after the loss of my earthly father.
Dear ones, at all times I could feel His care and love.
About the loss of my earthly father, despite him not being so close due to the separation when I was still a child, the pain of grief is not easy, as it has the affection and paternal love that our Beloved Lord was rebuilding when entering this journey, and today I would like to praise my Beloved precisely for this, for having healed me from the pain of abandonment by an earthly father, when He became my Heavenly Father, my Love and my Everything!
I praise Him, because even in the face of these difficult situations, He was with me all the time, He was by my side, and as I read the lesson "A Symbol of My Love" from the Facing Divorce course, my Beloved Lord spoke more about this to my heart, saying that He is by my side, and that I am never alone, no matter what happens to me.
And dear, I felt this very much, that no matter how much I was going through during this difficult situation, He spoke, I could hear His voice, and something remarkable that He reminded me of was that my earthly father lived very far away, and when he passed away, there was a question as to whether we would bring him here or not, but we ended up agreeing that he should stay there, out of respect for his wife and children (siblings from the new relationship) and another, whether we should go or not, but seeking the Lord, He gave me a yes. At the moment I didn't really understand the purpose, because it was just a material body as the world says, but it was a body of a father who, no matter how distant he was, God was rebuilding our relationship. Because He promises us that He will restore each and every relationship. And as we made the trip there, I felt my God providing everything so that we could get there on time, because that was His will, and I could understand that He wanted to show me something.
My earthly father lived in a riverside area, in the interior of Marajó and as we went there we looked at the immensity of the sea that separates us, and the Lord spoke to my heart that that distance meant nothing compared to what He had done, rebuilt our relationship, and It was reminding me that in January of this year He allowed my earthly father to be with us, something that was very rare to happen, due to the distance he lived. I have a birthday in January so I was able to reflect that I was gifted by my Beloved Lord with the arrival of my father (it was the last time he came here with his children), I was able to welcome him into my home with his wife, treat them with love, cooking for him and having his presence on my birthday (I didn't have this memory of my earthly father passing my birthday) could only come from a Heavenly Father, don't you think?!
They were very good days, in which I was able to enjoy the presence of an earthly father, feel his love, him laughing with his grandchildren and much more...
My Beloved allowed me to build this memory that I didn't have with my father! And the Lord kept reminding me of all the blessings He was already giving us with the rebuilding of our relationship. And I said even more to my heart, that despite the loss, many promises were being fulfilled in my life, and one in particular was that when I started my journey and began to pray for my family and relatives, I declared that wherever there was a drop of the blood of my offspring, it would reach the Lord. My Beloved showed me, that in the immensity of that sea that separated us, He went there, reached my father, so for me to receive the fulfilment of that promise was wonderful, it was for me a symbol of His love, and I went there, He took me to witness in the little church that was his funeral, people witnessing God's actions in his life. (Based on his past, his conversion was something impossible in human eyes, but not for God). He was serving the Lord in a little church by the sea, I was very moved and couldn't contain my tears, not of sadness, but of joy for everything my Beloved did.
So I just have to give praise for this moment, for the salvation of my earthly father and because even in the face of the difficult situations I went through, He was with me and said that with Him there is no loss, but rather the fulfilment of promises as proof and symbol of His Love!! Wow!!! I have a story of saving a loved one and proof that all things work together for our good! My father went from death to life and one day we will meet in Glory!
Dear brides, I end this report by encouraging each of you to trust in our Beloved's promises for our lives, because no matter what circumstances we face, He will be with us and His plans are perfect for our lives.
“When you cross deep waters, I will be by your side, and you will not drown. When you pass through the fire, the flames will not burn you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy God of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba as payment so that you would be mine.” I43:2-3
“Show us, O Lord God, your love and give us your salvation!” Psalms 85:7
Be encouraged🌷
Psalm 103:3 ESV
[3] It is He who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases;
https://bible.com/bible/103/psa.103.3.ESV
Dear Elizabeth… only Our Beloved, heals the hearts and relationships that the enemy separated.
What a beautiful testimony of His Goodness, and that you were able to enjoy the company of your earthly father, to give you healing and that he was led to the ways of Our Lord.
This is a story of Salvation, which testifies to the Power and wonderful Love of Our Husband.
Thank you Liza, for your message 🌷I am very grateful for everything my Heavenly Husband has done in my life, and that for the world means loss, for Him it is much more, only He can rebuild any lost relationship 🙏
that is such a beautiful testimony! As someone who has also felt that abandonment from an earthly father, I can only imagine what you you must have felt in knowing that The Lord gave your father a new heart and restored your relationship! he is so faithful and good. oh my heart is so happy thank you for sharing this !!
Thank you dear Rasa for your message! Our Beloved does infinitely more than we can imagine 🙏 He makes the necessary transformations in our lives and in the lives of those we love for His eternal love!
Dear Elisabete, thank you for sharing what our Beloved Lord did and how He restored your relationship with your earthly father. My mother and I always had a strenuous relationship. This was long before my journey with my Beloved Lord started, but during the year before she passed away, He started restoring our relationship. I didn’t see His hand in it at that time because I was far away from my Beloved Lord, but now looking back, and can see that it was Him and only Him who turned both our hearts and gave us that last year of having a beautiful relationship.
Thank you dear Adina for your message and for joining me and sharing how our beloved was kind to you, restoring your relationship with your mother and providing you with these moments together🌷Only He can do wonders for us and our loved ones!
Dear Elisabete, thank you for sharing this testimony. I am so grateful to you that He showed you what your father’s life was like. My father also passed away, but none of his children had a good relationship with him. He passed away in a horrible way while we had not seen or spoken to him for years, after he passed away we discovered what he was doing, it left us with deep pain because he had fallen so deeply into sin. The enemy had a grip on his life and destroyed it. It still affects me so much. But I can also let it go and give it to my Heavenly Husband. That is why I am so grateful to you that He showed you what your father’s life was like. Nothing is more wonderful than seeing our loved ones serve Him.
Dear Hanna, the best thing you can do is hand this whole situation over to our Beloved, because only He has control over everything and can heal us from everything that ails us! Thank you for being here!