♕ Today's Promise: “The LORD supports the afflicted; He brings down the wicked to the ground.” Psalm 147:6
☊ PR Podcast Adina
Dear Brides, Chapter 1 "What Is the Abundant Life?" You don't have to live a defeated life full of hurt and pain. There is an abundant life waiting for you during your RJ and after restoration. No man can satisfy your heart, protect you, provide for you and love You like your HH. You need to know Him like this even after restoration.
He is my Husband, the love of my life, my everything. I do not need a man to make me happy or to make me feel precious when His perfect love is in me. I do not have to walk on eggshells if my marriage does get restored or be fearful because I have my HH. If I have Him, all the principles will follow automatically and I will not be afraid. I will be able to live abundantly even if my marriage never gets restored or if I choose not to.
I've really struggled with letting go, even to try and see things through His eyes. My imagination would run wild regarding my fh and the ow. But after living 3 weeks of complete brokenness and defeated, I decided no more. My HH filled me with His love before so I knew how it felt, but because of the battle in my mind and brokenness I felt like everything was hindering me feeling His love again.
On New years eve while I was missing my fh, I said no more, and I listened to praise music until my mind settled and His love slowly crept in again. I really am concentrating now on replacing every thought of my fh with a "I love You, I need You, I can't life without You" or just sweet nothings to my HH. And the LOVE is coming back, I can start looking at my "single" future and be excited...And even if He did promise restoration and asked me plenty of times if I'll take my fh back if he's broken, I find myself asking my HH to give US a little more time to be alone...
I still have to really concentrate on replacing thoughts of my fh in my mind, and every now and again hurt creeps up again, but I'm learning to replace my thoughts and imagination with thoughts of Him, my love for Him, His love for me etc. It will be a journey on its own but learning with my HH guiding me and loving me.
Let us pray together now, speaking to HH about the things that we struggle with in our minds : My beloved Husband, please change my perspective of my situation, because I am still struggling with my imagination running wild. Please let me see with Your eyes. Help me to deal with the hurt that still wants to creep up, help me to keep my eyes on You and concentrate on Your love for me. Give me unconditional love for my fh and ow and feel love and compassion for them no matter what they do. Let me see them as You see them. And help me to reach the place where I can truly say and mean "Your will be done."
Dear Bride, there is an abundant life for each of us who's been rejected, abused and abandoned. This life is found in Him, your Heavenly Husband. A life where you can find joy and peace during trials. Be cherished, loved and protected every day. And a life you can live with your HH. Even after restoration you need this life and relationship with Him.
"Therefore, thus says the LORD, ‘If you return, then I will restore you—Before Me you will stand; And if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman. They for their part may turn to you, But as for you, you must not turn to them.” Jeremiah 15:19
I must be restored to my HH first before He will restore anything else in my life. I must find what matters most in this life, my life in Him, that is precious. And if I completely reach that place, my fh for example will turn to me, but if he does I must help him to find what I have and not lose it myself again.
“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace, In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
All we ever focus on is “in the world you have tribulation,” since that is how we live day in and day out.
When you live holding His hand, drawing close to Him, tribulation will be so much easier to deal with and won't affect you as much as it did before.
If you think your future looks miserable and lonely without your fh/eh read this book. You can find an abundant life, a life filled with peace and joy. And you can find this life with your HH. Read the FAL book to teach and guide to towards an Abundant life.
~ Adina in South Africa
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