We Have Lost Our Way
Florencia, how did your restoration actually begin?
A friend of mine had told me about how God had restored other marriages and relationships. That's when His words reminded me how important God is in my life. He is my Father, who loved me and wanted to lead me to all prosperity. He wants to make sure all goes well with my soul. Then I later had this confirmed with audiobooks I listened to in Spanish from the author Erin Thiele that spoke everything I had been asking Him about.
How did God change your situation Florencia as you sought Him wholeheartedly?
God used the testimony of my friend who assured me that God can restore a
marriage or relationship. Her witness and what He had done in her life, restoring her marriage when she listened to the audiobooks, relieved my anxiety. Later more was confirmed when God took me along my journey using the book I bought from RMI.
What principles, from God's Word (or through our resources), Florencia, did the Lord teach you during this trial?
He taught me to speak kind and loving words.
Do not investigate what your husband is doing.
Do not confront your husband with your suspicions but believe only in what He says or explains.
Look to God, read the Bible!
Stand in the gap.
What were the most difficult times that God helped you through Florencia?
Testing, a lot of testing, during which He gave me His grace at the time I needed it. He wanted to shield me from so many things He didn’t want me to see or know about. In my foolishness (before knowing the principles of the book God can and will restore your marriage) one day I was trying to follow my EH in my vehicle. It was right in front of me but because God loves me, I lost sight of it before I had time to do something even more foolish.
Florencia, what was the “turning point” of your restoration?
I think my restoration was more of a process. It’s difficult to pinpoint a single moment because there were so many, but I always think back to the dream that God sent me, before my journey began, long before I knew of my husband’s unfaithfulness. That was the turning point for me.
Tell us HOW it happened Florencia? Did your husband just walk in the front door?
We were in communication after a time when he’d contacted me, requesting certain dates for him to visit. During these visits he said he had noticed so many amazing changes in me and in my life. Then later he started looking to me to help him with the pressures of his work. Very soon he realized he wanted me for his wife again.
Florencia, did you suspect or could you tell you were close to being restored?
Yes. During some tests while reading the section on Contentment, I found contentment but God spoke to me about restoration that He said was about to happen and I needed to find Contentment in the challenges of being restored because it was about to happen.
Would you recommend any of our resource in particular that helped you Florencia?
Number one is How God Can and Will Restore Your Marriage. With this alone, listening to the audiobooks and reading the book as a roadmap, any marriage can be restored as long as you have the right heart and follow the principles, not skipping any.
Do you have favorite Bible verses you would like to share with women who read your testimony? Or promises he gave you?
Daniel 10:12 “Do not be afraid, Daniel. From the very first day that you began to pursue understanding and humble yourself before your God, your words have been heard. I have been sent in response to what you’ve said.”
Joel 2:12 MSG ”But there’s also this, it’s not too late— God’s personal Message!—“Come back to me and really mean it! Come fasting and weeping, sorry for your sins!”
Luke 7:38 “and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.”
Luke 7:44 “Turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, ‘Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.’”
Would you be interested in helping encourage other women Florencia?
Yes
Either way Florencia, what kind of encouragement would you like to leave women with, in conclusion?
There is a reason for this pain and brokenness you’re experiencing. It’s how God, our Father and Creator, calls us in order for us to return to Him. Our foolish ways bankrupt us, but for women to understand their perfect design and embrace that we need to find and follow the narrow path, we must first realize we have lost our way and cry out to Him to change us.