♕ Today's Promise: "I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work. For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think” Isaiah 55:8-11, The Message
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Dear Brides, there comes a point when our Heavenly Husband says that's enough and He has to step in and show us the truth. He is a jealous Husband. He wants to be first. He will give us chances to see it and change what we are doing but when we keep missing the signs or choose to ignore them all together, He will do what He has to do to show us. He will remove the very thing that has put Him last. 9 times out of 10 that means removing our lover, the one taking His place, causing our lover to loath us. He will get our attention one way or another. This chapter 16, “No Longer an Adulteress,” showed me though I didn't not violate my marriage in the physical sense of adultery, I did violate my spiritual marriage to my Heavenly Husband and I was His adulteress. I never knew that. Praise my Beloved for this truth. For I know now that, once He is first, everything else will fall into place.
This lesson was an eye opener for me. Though I never was an adulteress in regards to my marriage with my husband, I was an adulteress to my Heavenly Husband. For many years, I put my husband and many other things ahead of my Heavenly Husband.
From a lack of wisdom and knowledge, I had no idea what I had done or was doing. For years, I let my Heavenly Husband get pushed down farther and farther on my heart. He was so pushed to the back burner and left there for years. Such neglect and dishonor, I brought Him while professing my undying love and affect for my husband, thinking I was bringing Him honor while doing so.
Oh, how naive I was. It's not hard to see why my Heavenly Husband removed my husband from me, causing him to loath me. Thank my Heavenly Husband for loving me so much that You had to reach me and break apart the life I was living. I have gained so such more and I am no longer an adulteress in my Heavenly Husband's eyes.
Again, I was not an adulteress in regards to the natural and with my earthly husband. I was an adulteress towards my Heavenly Husband. Why would He restore something that was taking His place?
Now that I have found this Truth, I am able to repent knowing that I have sinned against my Heavenly Husband, not allowing Him to be in His rightful place as first on my heart. I know now that with Him in His rightful place as number one on my heart, everything else will fall into place. Everything will align and work as it should, every piece in the correct place to make the beautiful picture complete.
I don't ever want to go back to that place of dishonoring or disrespecting my Beloved as an adulteress again. I don't ever want to violate the principles of marriage to my Heavenly Husband. I want to be so in love with Him that nothing could ever take His place again.
I run to Him now before I run to people. I want to be so filled with His love, seeking Him in everything, which I never did before. I want Him. I need Him. He is who I live for now. No one will take His place again.
My Beloved, I still struggled and I need Your help. I still struggle at times with thinking of my husband and if we will ever have a restored marriage. I read the testimonies, knowing that I will see mine posted one day, but at the same time, I wonder, will I? However, I have more days than anything else knowing that I don't need or want to have my restoration for I am so filled with Your love, I don't need anyone else.
Pray with me: My Love, I struggle with dying to my flesh and letting go. Continue to mold and change me. Continue to fill me to the fullest. Continue to help me pass the test. Blot out the things of old, in Jesus' name.
My Beloved thank You. Thank You for this very weekend has been the most amazing weekend with You. I have been filled into overflow. I feel so accomplished, loved and wanting more. I thank You for keeping my husband away, for I have had so much time with You and all that You are. Thank You for Your sweet presence. Thank You for it has brought tears to my eyes just being with You. I thank You for no distractions and having the opportunity to experience all of You. You are all I want. You are all that I need. You are all that I live for. Thank You for showing me and causing Your love to be so real, sweet, overflowing and overwhelming.
Thank You for forgiving me and no longer seeing me as a spiritual adulteress against You. Thank You for removing my lover and causing him to loath me so that I can experience all of Your love. There is nothing like You and what You can give and provide. Thank You for being my everything. I don't ever want to go back to what I was or had. Hallelujah!
Dear Brides, this chapter has been a huge eye opener for me. This chapter is the cherry on top so to speak. I learned so much in this chapter and in how our Heavenly Husband is so sweet and patient. Our Beloved will do what He has to do to show us how we have violated our spiritual marriage unto Him. Like me, your eyes may have just been opened to the truth.
“I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work. For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think” Isaiah 55:8-11, The Message
“For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins. How much more severe a punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God. Vengeance is mine, I will repay. The Lord will judge His people. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God” Hebrews 10:26–31
“This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong’” Proverbs 30:20
Living the Abundant Life has truly opened up my eyes to the life I was living before. I was able to see and recognize how I could not obtain the abundant life before, for the very reason that I lacked the wisdom and knowledge. I did not know all of the principles that I violated in His word. I did not know that I was slapping my Heavenly Husband with my own disrespect and disobedience towards Him. Thank goodness the blinders have been removed, the scales have fallen off and I can see through my new spiritual lenses. This book gives you new eyes to see the Light.
~ Olivia in California
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