♕ Today's Promise: “Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.” Ephesians 3:20
~ Anissa in Slovakia
Dear brides,
Even I am already 17 years out of my parents’ house, our village and most of that time also out of my country. My big desire has always been to come back to live in my village with my own family, but the most I wanted to be close to my parents when they will be getting older and take care of them. I have only one sister and she lives far away from them, so I did not want to let them be alone.
This big dream was for me so huge and important, that this was one of my conditions for my future husband. I will marry someone who will live with me in that village. This deal I did also with my EH (earthly husband) before our wedding. Yes, very far away from behavior of a WW (wise woman), who should be submissive and follow her husband. For a long time we could not find any area to build the house but at the end, 2 and a half years ago we bought a house close to my parents.
It seemed that my dream had come true but it is not like that. That house we own already 2.5 years, but we do not live in yet and the enemy started to use it to hurt me. Since the beginning when we were buying it, my EH (earthly husband) was telling me, that anyway we will not live there and we will sell it. He was telling me this during each small discussion and when he was in a bad mood. It was hurting me so much. You may say, like a WW (wise woman) I should be quiet and to agree. Yes, I knew this principle in my head, but my desire to live close to my parents was too strong and I was not able to be quiet about this topic and even kindly and many times also not kindly I tried to argue and persuade my EH to live there.
My Beloved knew, that it must become for me too heavy, otherwise I will not able to surrender to Him. So, one day I was crying to Him. I asked Him, if my desire is not His will, that He take it from my heart, to give me power to surrender it, to be submissive and to go where my EH (earthly husband) will want and that He takes care of my parents. I pleaded with Him to remove the pain of imagining to not be with them when they will be old and to make me trust Him that He will care for them.
Ladies, He is so faithful, when we ask Him and trust Him. After this surrendering the situation changed. During next conversation, when my EH (earthly husband) was saying the same things how we will not live in that horrible house etc...my Beloved gave me the power to agree. I agreed and said we can live where he wants. All Praise to My Beloved already for these words and power to say it. 🙂 I love the Lord´s sense of humor. Soon after that, somebody in our building started to rebuild his flat. You can imagine the noise, drilling, drubbing, dust etc. My EH is working from home due to corona and he started to tell me that he wants to be already in our house. 🙂 The elevators start to break from time to time and when I went to walk with our baby I have to ask him to help me with the baby carriage. Neighbors in some flat put very loud music and lately somebody started to smoke and due to opened windows because it's summer and very hot, the smoke comes in our flat and this really annoyed my EH (earthly husband) a lot 🙂 No, I’m not laughing because all this is bothering my EH, but I have to smile how the Lord works.
Dear brides, we have still 6 months to move to our house (because we have some people living there - what is a great praise topic for my next praise) and I really do not know, if this will happen and if yes, for how long we will live there. But I know that the Lord has it in His hands and that whatever will happen it will be fine, as long as I will hold His hand and I will not fight on my own, because He will take care of us and my parents also. AMEN!
"And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19
“‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.’” Jeremiah 29:11
“Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of—infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes.” Ephesians 3:20
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