About 3 weeks ago I was praying for my marriage and that day I went to life way and was browsing devotionals and I saw this lady who was looking at the devotional from the movie courageous and told her that is a good one and she told me her son is a single dad and is having a hard time and I told her to have him watch the movie and she said she would and then all of a sudden she said Kirk Cameron is coming to Olive Baptist church Jan 21st for a marriage conference. I felt this was my answer to prayer! I felt like I knew this lady all my life as well. It was very neat. Josh did agree to go and my I laws said they would watch the girls. The night before the conference we had Mary night and was able to really go to the Lord in prayer and be prayed over. At the conference Kirk Cameron spoke about 1) the heart of my struggle is the challenge of my own selfish heart and without supernatural transformation of your heart nothing will work, we will always go back to our own selfish desires. 2) you can't change your spouse , you can only change yourself with the help of the holy spirit. And how do you love someone over and over who rejects you, well, Jesus loves you even though you reject him .3) have effective war strategy to destroy sin. And love doesn't keep a record of wrongs. When we confess our sin to another we can be healed. If we leave the battle we will eventually be in another. Romance springs from sacrifice not convience. Then he gave a few principles for men from verse 1 peter 3: 7 1) spend time with each other 2) study your wife ( each other) 3) honor your wife 4) protect5) manage aggression in conflict 6) open up to her 7) pray with her
I have blogged this because I believe all those points he made can work both ways and are important in any relationship especially relationship with God. He desires to spend time with each one of us!
My next story is not related to the above but could be since he reveals things to those who seek him! I was praying before I went on call since going on call makes me somewhat nervous since I feel it's all on me! I was cooking my egg at the time and I prayed for his peace and that I would have an easy time. All of a sudden I look down at my egg and it formed a smiley face. 2 eyes and a mouth. I quickly took a picture ( u can see it on Facebook) and I started laughing since God is funny like that. I then went to my daily devotional " Jesus Calling" and my Praying God's word every day." and on that day it said( jan 13) in Jesus calling " to expect each day to contain surprises!" and then in the other devotional it gave a bible verse of Lamentations 3:22-26 " The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him. The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord."
A little while later I talked to my best friend Tanya and she said she was cooking cream of wheat the day after the egg incident and she happened to see a smiley face in her cream of wheat! It's awesome how God always confirms what he may reveal to u!
