LORD, DIRECT MY HEART & FOOTSTEPS!
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart. They do nothing wrong; they walk in his ways. Psalm 119:1-3
Are you discouraged or defeated because of your marriage problems or are you walking in faith regardless of the circumstances? Does your heart feel like it is breaking in two right now? Do you know how to get relief from your pain, or your anxiety and fear of the unknown future regarding your marriage? Ask your Lord to heal your broken, wounded, rejected heart, right now. He can become your great Physician, greatest Counselor and closest Friend.
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. Isaiah 61:1
Have you started seeking your Lord with all your heart and spending time with Him each day? Jesus Christ is the only answer for any problem that you are facing today and for all your tomorrows. You must believe that Jesus Christ is the only Way, the Truth and only He is going to bring life back into your hurting or dead or hopeless marriage. He will direct your heart and your footsteps.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:9-11
Your marriage is in a crisis. What can you do? You can start seeking your Lord, confessing your sins and asking Him to change your own heart first and then touch and change your husband’s or wife’s heart completely. As you seek answers for your marriage restoration, you must surrender your heart and mind to your Lord Jesus Christ daily. What should you do first? You can get the most immediate help by starting to cry out to the Lord in your praying and then by reading the Word of God. Are you living according to God's Word? You cannot just read the Bible, but you must put God's principles and precepts into action. Have you started to do this daily?
Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. Psalm 119:133
Where should you start? Read Psalm 119 to reaffirm to you the importance of keeping your heart pure which is by living according to God's Word. Imagine you reading scripture verses (like Psalm 119:133 above) in the Bible as prayers for your spouse! There is power in God's Word which will not return void. (Isaiah 55:11) Cry out to your Lord asking Him to touch, cleanse, change and direct both your and your spouse's heart.
May my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word. Psalm 119:169
How long have you been praying for your spouse's salvation and marriage? I know that you may have become very weary and tired. Don't give up! Have you become slack in your reading and studying God's Word? Are you praying and fasting as fervently as you did at the beginning or during all your legal issues? Do not allow the enemy to give you passivity, hopelessness, or indifference regarding your marriage being restored.
Look up to Heaven and remember the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, who is on your side to heal, restore and resurrect your dead marriage. Allow the Holy Spirit to invigorate and refresh your body, soul and spirit. Then pick yourself up and start standing firm proclaiming to anyone and everywhere that your Lord God is going to heal and restore your marriage for God to get all the glory!
Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God"? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:27-31
If you decide to give up standing, what will the Lord tell you when you get to Heaven? "If only you had waited for My promises to come to pass. This is what I was going to do for you and through you and your spouse...." Please listen to your Lord for His personal Words, signs, visions or dreams for your healed and restored marriage. You must listen to the Holy Spirit every day for His specific directions.
When God speaks to your heart, accept it, believe it and then roll up your sleeves to start rebuilding your marriage, starting with a firm foundation. It took Noah a long time to build His ark. You can never stop working and finishing your part of your assignment, just keep trusting your Lord. While you are being obedient to your Lord's assignment and laboring for your Lord, He is working on your spouse's heart, regardless of where they are living!
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he… Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
Are your praying for your spouse's heart to be changed? Be consistent and faithful in praying and even fasting for a spiritual breakthrough in your beloved spouse's heart and life. Don't worry about what they are saying or doing. My husband and I got remarried on a Wednesday afternoon. When I got into his car his first words were, “Stop praying for me. You are tormenting me.†Then I just listened to him and kept praying and less than three hours later, the Lord had him go get a marriage license for me to put in my Bible that “someday†he may return. Then while we were at his girlfriend’s favorite restaurant, the Holy Spirit spoke to his heart and told him, “You have made the biggest mistake in your life leaving Charlyne. I want you to marry her today.†Bob had his own personal Damascus Road experience while I was away from the table. Do not be concerned by what your husband or wife are saying. It can be changed in minutes. Just trust and pray and always have a strong close relationship with the Lord.
The enemy has blinded and deceived all prodigal spouses and children. Never give up on the mighty power of what your Lord can and wants to do for your prodigal and marriage. Jesus Christ died for all sinners, including your spouse. Claim scripture verses daily, here is one:
"Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone....I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and puta new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws....Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it." Ezekiel 36:22, 25-27, 36
Do you see through these scriptures the importance of praying for your spouse and loved ones to obey God's commands in the Word of God? I pray that you will come to know the love of your Lord God so that you know He wants what is best for you and your spouse. Our Lord is grieving every day for the children who are crying out daily for their mother or father to come home. May you and I be diligent with tenacity and perseverance to never stop praying for the healing and restoration of your marriage and thousands of others every week!
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20
Be blessed and believe,
Charlyne Steinkamp
Rejoice Marriage Ministries, Inc.
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart. They do nothing wrong; they walk in his ways. Psalm 119:1-3
Are you discouraged or defeated because of your marriage problems or are you walking in faith regardless of the circumstances? Does your heart feel like it is breaking in two right now? Do you know how to get relief from your pain, or your anxiety and fear of the unknown future regarding your marriage? Ask your Lord to heal your broken, wounded, rejected heart, right now. He can become your great Physician, greatest Counselor and closest Friend.
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. Isaiah 61:1
Have you started seeking your Lord with all your heart and spending time with Him each day? Jesus Christ is the only answer for any problem that you are facing today and for all your tomorrows. You must believe that Jesus Christ is the only Way, the Truth and only He is going to bring life back into your hurting or dead or hopeless marriage. He will direct your heart and your footsteps.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Psalm 119:9-11
Your marriage is in a crisis. What can you do? You can start seeking your Lord, confessing your sins and asking Him to change your own heart first and then touch and change your husband’s or wife’s heart completely. As you seek answers for your marriage restoration, you must surrender your heart and mind to your Lord Jesus Christ daily. What should you do first? You can get the most immediate help by starting to cry out to the Lord in your praying and then by reading the Word of God. Are you living according to God's Word? You cannot just read the Bible, but you must put God's principles and precepts into action. Have you started to do this daily?
Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me. Psalm 119:133
Where should you start? Read Psalm 119 to reaffirm to you the importance of keeping your heart pure which is by living according to God's Word. Imagine you reading scripture verses (like Psalm 119:133 above) in the Bible as prayers for your spouse! There is power in God's Word which will not return void. (Isaiah 55:11) Cry out to your Lord asking Him to touch, cleanse, change and direct both your and your spouse's heart.
May my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word. Psalm 119:169
How long have you been praying for your spouse's salvation and marriage? I know that you may have become very weary and tired. Don't give up! Have you become slack in your reading and studying God's Word? Are you praying and fasting as fervently as you did at the beginning or during all your legal issues? Do not allow the enemy to give you passivity, hopelessness, or indifference regarding your marriage being restored.
Look up to Heaven and remember the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, who is on your side to heal, restore and resurrect your dead marriage. Allow the Holy Spirit to invigorate and refresh your body, soul and spirit. Then pick yourself up and start standing firm proclaiming to anyone and everywhere that your Lord God is going to heal and restore your marriage for God to get all the glory!
Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD; my cause is disregarded by my God"? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:27-31
If you decide to give up standing, what will the Lord tell you when you get to Heaven? "If only you had waited for My promises to come to pass. This is what I was going to do for you and through you and your spouse...." Please listen to your Lord for His personal Words, signs, visions or dreams for your healed and restored marriage. You must listen to the Holy Spirit every day for His specific directions.
When God speaks to your heart, accept it, believe it and then roll up your sleeves to start rebuilding your marriage, starting with a firm foundation. It took Noah a long time to build His ark. You can never stop working and finishing your part of your assignment, just keep trusting your Lord. While you are being obedient to your Lord's assignment and laboring for your Lord, He is working on your spouse's heart, regardless of where they are living!
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he… Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
Are your praying for your spouse's heart to be changed? Be consistent and faithful in praying and even fasting for a spiritual breakthrough in your beloved spouse's heart and life. Don't worry about what they are saying or doing. My husband and I got remarried on a Wednesday afternoon. When I got into his car his first words were, “Stop praying for me. You are tormenting me.†Then I just listened to him and kept praying and less than three hours later, the Lord had him go get a marriage license for me to put in my Bible that “someday†he may return. Then while we were at his girlfriend’s favorite restaurant, the Holy Spirit spoke to his heart and told him, “You have made the biggest mistake in your life leaving Charlyne. I want you to marry her today.†Bob had his own personal Damascus Road experience while I was away from the table. Do not be concerned by what your husband or wife are saying. It can be changed in minutes. Just trust and pray and always have a strong close relationship with the Lord.
The enemy has blinded and deceived all prodigal spouses and children. Never give up on the mighty power of what your Lord can and wants to do for your prodigal and marriage. Jesus Christ died for all sinners, including your spouse. Claim scripture verses daily, here is one:
"Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone....I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and puta new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws....Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it." Ezekiel 36:22, 25-27, 36
Do you see through these scriptures the importance of praying for your spouse and loved ones to obey God's commands in the Word of God? I pray that you will come to know the love of your Lord God so that you know He wants what is best for you and your spouse. Our Lord is grieving every day for the children who are crying out daily for their mother or father to come home. May you and I be diligent with tenacity and perseverance to never stop praying for the healing and restoration of your marriage and thousands of others every week!
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20
Be blessed and believe,
Charlyne Steinkamp
Rejoice Marriage Ministries, Inc.
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