♕ Today's Promise: “Because of the Lord's faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness!” Lamentations 3:22-23
I just can't stop giving God praise for all the ways He shows His love for me and continues to redeem/restore my life from the enemy!
Since I have been on my Restoration Journey with my Beloved, He has astonished me with His loving care that He uses to not only supply all of my needs and my daughters' needs, but He gives us the desires of our hearts. With my last separation, which resulted in divorce, my daughters and I had to live with my mother once again. Even though we all slept in her extra room and I was blessed to buy a set of double bunk beds for us to sleep on, space was limited and it was a cramped fit.
During the 2 years we lived like this, I poured out my heart to my Beloved because I desired to make a home for myself and my younger daughters where He would be the head of our household and continue to be our Spiritual Leader. While I waited, my Beloved enabled me to pay off some passed rental debt that I had from my marriage due to several separations which left all of the debt in my name (I had to repeatedly put all of our apartments, rental houses, utilities, etc in my name). As long as I had that bad rental debt, it made it nearly impossible to rent the apartment that I wanted to move into with my daughters.
But God! He did exceedingly and abundantly above all that I could ask or think in leading me to pay off my rental debt and worked it out so that I was approved at the complex I wanted to live in after being denied twice due to the delinquent rental debt. But He didn't stop there. I was told when I toured the model apartment that some of them had wood floors (which I really wanted) and some had carpet throughout. My Beloved made sure ours had wood floors. My daughters' room is spacious with a large walk-in closet and they have their own bathroom.
My master bedroom is spacious and so is my bathroom where my own walk-in closet is located and I have the soaker tub I always wanted. I have my own space where I can spend time with my Beloved in prayer, quiet times, reading my Bible, etc. My Beloved gave me everything I spoke to Him alone that was in my heart!
I am so grateful for all that He has done for myself and my girls. My adult children have a place to come and spend time with us as a family. I can do devotions with my girls and train them up in the Lord without criticism from my mother that I encountered while living with her. I am looking so forward to this next phase in my Restoration Journey with my Beloved. He is the absolute best and better to me than any earthly husband can be! I love Him more and more each day and not just because of what He can do for me but for His heart that I am pursuing and learning more about daily. There is truly no one like Him.
So Brides, when you are faced with an unexpected outcome in your marriage or life, trust in the fact that our Heavenly Husband will never leave you or forsake you, nor will He leave you in want. He didn't bring you this far to leave you and His plan for your life far exceeds anything you can ever desire or dream for yourself or loved ones. Trust in Him, pursue Him, love on Him, submit your heart to Him and life to Him. He is faithful and He is beyond good!
I look forward to fulfilling His every purpose in my life in our new home as I lead my girls by example in pursuing the One who loves us best and pointing my girls to seeking Him with their whole heart. When God makes a way, He leaves no stone unturned and He knows how to remove what needs to be removed that is hindering our walk with Him. I trust Him with every area of my life and I am grateful that I am His and He is mine.
Ephesians 3:20 (ESV) Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly that all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us ,to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.
Lamentations 3:22-23 Because of the Lord's faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness!
~ Rita in Louisiana
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Hi Rita, We saw that you said:
| Protection & Prosperity | I don't understand tithing and would like help to understand |
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But, Rita, you are the epitome, the perfect example of someone who not only understands—but lives these principles fully—your praise report confirms that!!
It's thanks to your faithful tithing for so many years, sowing seeds into tear-drenched soil (as Erin says) that you are not only reaping the well-deserved blessings you're praising Him for—but each and every praise, each language being translated for women around the world, each life being changed is part of the "treasures" He's also storing up for you in Heaven dear Rita!!