Post by rt on Dec 22, 2023 15:20:50 GMT -6
Hello everyone,
First I want to wish you all a blessed Christmas.
But I also am in need of some prayers for encouragement. My husband and I both got sick this week with a nasty bug, be it flu or covid I don't know, but we had to cancel our Christmas plans with our adult children. Our Daughter was going to be flying into town from Maryland. So now we have postponed to mid January instead. It is very much a downer for me. Yes we are on the mend, thankfully. But there are other things that have me in a place of discouragement. My husband and I were very wounded in our home church many years ago and he is not willing to attend church anywhere anymore. Sadly I have watched him slowly drift away from his faith. He would never admit this himself, and I know that he doesn't see how he has fallen, but I see it in his actions, the old nature has creeped in and taken over and I barely recognize the man I married who was in love with Jesus and loved serving Him. Now he spends hours indulging his own self interests online watching youtube. I cannot broach the subject with him at all, he will not hear any criticism from me whatsoever and becomes very defensive if I try. Our relationship if you ask him is fine, mostly because I have learned to not say much or expect much from him. It is a peaceful coexistence as long as I continue along those lines. Don't get me wrong, he is not mean spirited, it's just that he is not walking in the Spirit, and he doesn't even realize it, that his flesh is in control, the fruits of the Spirit have grown dull in him and it makes me increadibly sad. He needs a spiritual revival!
I feel alone, spiritually and emotionally and am really finding it hard to keep up the good fiight.
So please if God leads, say a prayer for my husband, that some how God would speak to him and that he would be convicted of his need to repent and return to His first love. And say a prayer for me, that God would send some tangible encouragement my way to help me through it all as I wait on Him to do a work in my husband's life.
God bless you all and much thanks
Stacey
First I want to wish you all a blessed Christmas.
But I also am in need of some prayers for encouragement. My husband and I both got sick this week with a nasty bug, be it flu or covid I don't know, but we had to cancel our Christmas plans with our adult children. Our Daughter was going to be flying into town from Maryland. So now we have postponed to mid January instead. It is very much a downer for me. Yes we are on the mend, thankfully. But there are other things that have me in a place of discouragement. My husband and I were very wounded in our home church many years ago and he is not willing to attend church anywhere anymore. Sadly I have watched him slowly drift away from his faith. He would never admit this himself, and I know that he doesn't see how he has fallen, but I see it in his actions, the old nature has creeped in and taken over and I barely recognize the man I married who was in love with Jesus and loved serving Him. Now he spends hours indulging his own self interests online watching youtube. I cannot broach the subject with him at all, he will not hear any criticism from me whatsoever and becomes very defensive if I try. Our relationship if you ask him is fine, mostly because I have learned to not say much or expect much from him. It is a peaceful coexistence as long as I continue along those lines. Don't get me wrong, he is not mean spirited, it's just that he is not walking in the Spirit, and he doesn't even realize it, that his flesh is in control, the fruits of the Spirit have grown dull in him and it makes me increadibly sad. He needs a spiritual revival!
I feel alone, spiritually and emotionally and am really finding it hard to keep up the good fiight.
So please if God leads, say a prayer for my husband, that some how God would speak to him and that he would be convicted of his need to repent and return to His first love. And say a prayer for me, that God would send some tangible encouragement my way to help me through it all as I wait on Him to do a work in my husband's life.
God bless you all and much thanks
Stacey