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Thank You, Father . . .

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Posted by: Praying For Restoration

An update to my "urgent" thread . . .

I received notice today via phone that my husband has filed a new motion in court, saying that I am "contesting" that our marriage is irretrievably and irreconciliably broken and for some reason or the other the judge needs to hear us on that. I will receive papers in the next couple of days that will likely detail why he feels our marriage is that way, and I am planning on responding to a curse with a blessing -- writing out loving and honoring words that will be entered in the court records to cover the battling words I once wrote in the previous hearings.

Then, immediately after that call coming in, I heard from my husband that he needed to make his visit with our daughter later in the evening than scheduled, and then when he was on his way here, his car broke down. He needed me to come and get him, and he invited me to dinner with him and our daughter on their time, and asked if I would drive him the hour long distance to get him home. I am sick today, but not so sick I couldn't do that and I was sooooo thankful for the opportunity for some nice time together right on the heels of this report about the court motion coming in!

So, we had a *lovely* dinner. *Lovely*. He continued asking me all sorts of questions about my walk with the Lord, and often starts laughing or smiling with joy. I asked him with a smile, "What!" when he was laughing at one point, and he said it just trips him out sooooo much to hear me talking about the Lord like this, and that he has seen me several times now with hunger for the Lord all over me . . . *smile* I brought card games (it is pouring today here) so we could hang out and he could get more time with our daughter. It was SO great! We played Uno and Go Fish and Hearts and talked and talked and talked. It was truly like being a family together. Oh it was so great.

He was so excited about some of my music in the car, that he asked if he could make a copy of it and said it would take only ten minutes. I was getting a migraine from this sinus cold I've got at that point, and when he invited us up I asked if he had some headache stuff for me. Anyway, the ten minutes turned into over TWO HOURS of hanging out in his apartment, talking, listening to music, and playing with our daughter. We were there SO late. Our daughter was trying to get him to let us spend the night, and he and I were laughing over that, but I totally went along with his lead on all of that and we eventually left. Our daughter cried such angry, hurt cries half the way home. :-(

So, now I'm praying that he will be thinking of us, and seeing more and more how ridiculous this whole divorce thing is. I don't see how he can say our marriage is irretrievably and irreconciliably broken, and then have such a wonderful evening with us right on the heels of filing his papers, LOL.

God is doing something wonderful. I know He is. I am so thankful he did this lovely thing, gave us this lovely gift, just minutes after my hearing of this motion in court.

Please keep us in your prayers.

I just love all of you so much, and am so thankful for you. You are such an amazing blessing to me.

Erika
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Posted by: tucker

Erika,

I am so happy for you, Praise the Lord. I have been praying for you in my daily prayers.

Right now, in my own marriage, I am in a bad way. We had our counseling session last night and it didn't go so well. Now tonight we have to get together to go over the finances for the month.

I will continue to pray that God restores your marriage. Keep me posted. I need some good inspirations right now.

God Bless You,

Tucker


Posted by: WeRFamily

I don't why I am amazed. I guess I just love to see God's miracles at work and I truly believe that is what I am witnessing here. I pray for you by name at night and will be sure to give Him extra praises for the work He is doing for your household. His love and mercy and grace truly astounds me....


Posted by: thornygrace


Praise God Almighty!

What a wonderful praise report!


Posted by: ninababy73

WE PRAISE YOU OH LORD

Thank You so much for moving and working consitently in Erika's marriage. You are awesome, and deserve all the praise.


Posted by: Donna C

Thank you Father, you truly are wonderful.

Continue to move in this marriage Father and please don't stop until this couple are reunited in your name.

Amen


Posted by: Praying For Restoration

Thank you SO much everyone for the joyful responses and prayers. I just love you all sooooo much!

Today has been a rough and tearful day. I have so many questions, so many needs to know what to do, what is the best, godly, loving, Christ-like thing to do. I get such conflicting advice. And I don't tend to hear the voice of the Lord like others seem to.

I really need your prayers. I really, really need them. You guys are some of the only people who understand what is going on here.

I'm reading a book by Liberty Savard and she has some wonderful prayers in there. She talks a lot about binding the will of yourself and others to the will of Christ. I still need to read about the "loosing" part.

Please continue to pray for us, that only God's will will be done here, and that my husband will see that God does not want this divorce. I am also praying that WHATEVER NEEDS TO HAPPEN will happen, to bring this marriage back from the brink. I am certain that is part of why his car broke down yesterday.

Thank you all SO much. I know some of you have prayed and prayed and prayed for us, and I am so touched and wish I could give you all a huge hug, bake you some cookies, and clean your house or weed your gardens or something!!!!

Love and Blessings,

Erika
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