My first thought was, “How could I possibly owe taxes?” I’ve been prudent about this, and I don’t like having debt. They gave me three days to pay with a 50% discount. I’d never received an email notifying me of this debt before, so I was a little annoyed that I hadn’t been warned ahead of time. After seven years, the penalties and interest should have been much higher…
I encourage you with this testimony to continue surrendering every area of your lives, trusting that He knows better than we do how to treat our hearts and those of each of our family members, to surrender your feelings to your Heavenly Husband, and allow Him to show you the path to follow. We can use our feelings as a warning to have a time of deep intimacy with our Beloved.
What if I could rebuild my life with someone else? Isn’t it unfair that he “can” and I can’t? I’m still too young… Do I have to stay alone while he can “enjoy” a new relationship? What if he finds another woman “better than me” and converts to God… would he be saved and then be able to live with the other woman in marriage?
Lord, would you still honor my marriage?
No matter what valleys we have to go through in life, by His side we can walk on the waters of the storm, so just continue seeking your Husband, persevere in letting HIM be the first in your heart because that is the safe place where nothing can affect us to a level where we are destroyed
That made me think, He sleeped through the storm, that means He had complete confidence that His Father was in control, and in reality his silence to His disciples meant that He was waiting to see what they would do, that moment of silence revealed their unbelieving hearts, when He spoke to the storm He taught them [and teaches us] that we must speak to the problem with authority and not let ourselves be diminished by what we see by begging again, but trusting that He supports us.
When he said it, I felt like he was talking to me like in the past when he had “bad news” for me, but I didn’t pay attention and decided to think positively. On Monday after lunch, while I was washing the dishes, he said, “I have a letter for you. Here it is for you to read.” And he said goodbye as usual, but my spirit told me something was not right.
I was very sad because my husband agreed with them. Of course, I didn’t say anything and I don’t think my expression showed how disappointed I was either —or so I hope.
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