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DEC-24-06
17:21:21
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Forum: Prayer Requests and Answers
RE: marriage and idolatry?
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BettyBaby1
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I have felt this at times too, but the Lord God tells us, that if we lean on Him, he will guide us and be with us, he will give us the strength to fight temptations and in him you can trust.
Above all, keep your eyes on Him, when the ole man of sin keeps nagging at your door, fall on your knees and give Jesus all of it, 100% unto his keeping.
He will with that temptation give you the strength to fight it, but it is up to you to follow his Holy Spirit in quiding you.
I do hope that this helps, because in these days of lies and deception the ole devil is always in there trying his worst [best. in his eyes] to snare all that he can.
Keep looking up my friend. I shall be praying for you.
GB
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NOV-19-06
3:54:4
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I have found it very, very difficult in waiting. Your bible verse helps, but I still feel quite lonely. Now I just email people and make new friends to talk to , but I still feel a need to have someone there. Someone who is with me physically, and emotionally. Do you know of any other verses that will help me?
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NOV-18-06
5:41:11
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I was touched by what she said as I have heard the story of the need/want to have a husband/wife as it overides our core beliefs. I know that another person does not make one complete but its a need to be love physically that makes the wait of finding the one harder.
However I want to share Isaiah 54: 4-5. "Fearnot; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded: thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The king of the whole earth shall he be called." KJV
May God lead each of you on your search.
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NOV-15-06
22:52:18
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RE: marriage and idolatry?
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Yes - it can but not necessarily. In 1994 as a single mother of two young children, after 3 yrs of seeking God and waiting for a husband who never came, I left my church, my apartment, sold everything, and moved in with the non-Christian father of my son, was going to Christianize him, get married & live a proper life. No sooner did I move in with him the walls caved in on me and all went wrong - horribly. I wasn't praying & couldn't read the Word because I knew I had abandoned the ways of the Lord but felt it was His fault for not providing my much needed husband. For awhile I avoided the Lord's prompting me to repent but one day I watched a program on Christian television (not knowing at first) & suddenly the narrator says no matter what I've done, God can get me out of anything... any mess I made. Boy, was I in a pit of hell. I broke right there, burst into tears and plead His forgiveness. Suddenly God reminded me of a vision that I had 6 months prior to all this. I saw a torso/bust with a zipper opening the chest. The zipper opened slowly. I heard, "I have been opening this person for 3 years" when the zipper was 3/4 open. It then proceeded to open the rest of the way as I asked what it was all about. The Lord then showed me a hand reach in and take out this ugly, black heart and next, replaced it with a beautiful new one. I said, "Okay, Lord, You do this all the time with us when we are new creatures in Christ. What is significant in this?" and He said to look at the zipper - how it wasn't fully unzipped at first. That soon He will be tearing something very ugly out of this person and replacing it with something new. Months past and I forgot all about it until the night of my surrender. Upon my recollection, I asked what the ugly thing was that was being currently torn from my heart and the Lord said, "Idolatry". I idolized having a husband so wholly that I rejected my church family and God's ways to have it. It was my idol and He was removing it from me. The next so many months were difficult. The Lord took me by the hand and pulled me gently out of the pit slowly, but I had to experience the filth and drudgery of climbing up out of it just the same. It was very painful but liberating. I experienced a literal bout of tremendous GRACE.
Anyway, God has shown me that our desires are so natural and are actually from Him - especially the ones for our mate. But our greatest desire should be to love Him first. And I believe the more He loves you, the more He'll long for you to love Him most. We are to seek Him first and His righteousness and He will give us the desires of our heart in proper timing. When we cannot love Him first, it is because something else is more precious to us - hence, an idol. And sadly, if we don't destroy our idols ourselves and turn from them, the Lord WILL tear them from our hearts. He is, after all, a jealous God. And as I am learning more and more, it is in loving Him most and first that I can most appreciate and experience the goodness of the very desires I have. We simply have to love Him most. For real.
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NOV-14-06
16:5:11
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If a Christian man is weak, doesn't the Bible instruct him to "take a wife"? Yet the prefix to this statement is "If ye cannot contain..." I thought we could do all things through Christ Jesus..." Does this mean at age 36 i can be a olympic gymnist with no previous training ext...,
In short, if a man is weak without a wife, yet desires one (among other things) to be strong in Christ; moreover, feels like he will fail in his walk without a helpmeet, would this be considred a form of idolatry? Doug Bachelar, someone, please help.
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