Why / Explained

[comingjoy]

May this help anyone who has asked for prayer about something that followed along with the word of God. No matter what your situation is, may you be able to relate to my personal story and draw upon the knowledge that God is in control and knows all that is going on in us and around us. NOTHING catches God off guard. It is our own human side that gets in the way of how God wants to move. Be Blessed.






Why Explained


By: comingjoy 5-17-08


I asked God why? "Why has my marriage ended in divorce? I had prayed. I believed. I hoped. I prayed in Your words and Promises. I prayed Your will."
I cried out: "WHY did it end this way, I do not understand?" It was then that God reminded me of the prophet Jeremiah.

Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet. He wept over Israel and their rebellious attitude towards God. It was on three different times Jeremiah was told by God to stop praying for Israel. First in chapter 7:14 "So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you."
Then again in 11:14 "Do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress."
The third time Jeremiah is told to stop praying is in 14:11 Then the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for the well-being of this people."
God would not hear his prayers on behalf of those who are unwilling to repent of their rebellious ways against Him.

I grieved over the choices my ex-husband made, causing me to suffer the consequences of his poor choices. When we choose to sin against God, it does not just effect one person but so many.
God spoke to me saying: " I know the heart of Bob as I knew the hearts of the people of Israel". Because both Israel and Bob would not repent and return to Him, God then would give them over to their own desires for a time in hopes to draw them back to Him. Paul writes this in 1 Corinthians 5:5" I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the LORD Jesus"
I was reminded that God knows the hearts of man so He knows the heart of Bob. God knows what it will take to draw His wayward children back to Him. He desires to be reconciled to His children but can not, due to unconfessed sin.

God is all knowing and He not only knows what will turn them back, but when, and even if they will return to Him. God will do what ever it takes to get their attention and draw the wayward back to Him but the choice, however, is ultimately theirs as God will not force anyone to receive Him or return to Him. If they choose to stay rebellious, and choose not to repent and return, they will not prevent God from receiving glory out of the situation. They just will not receive the blessings God wants to pour down on them.
As God revealed this to me it was like an ointment being applied by God Himself to my wounded heart and soul. I was comforted by remembering God loves Bob more than I ever did or could. God hurts more than I do and desires for him to return back into right fellowship with Him more than I do.
God will not force him or anyone, because that is not what love is. Love is not forced but received freely.

 

[Br. Bear]

An Ointment poured needs receiving

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:32

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 1Corinthians 2:9-12

And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. Revelation 21:6

The Lord continues to pour out His healing ointment through your post, comingjoy, and the heart and soul that yearns to know why... O Lord....why, with pangs so deep as to be felt within our very being... to have a wound that makes no sense... that we pray ... and pray.... and pray, not so much for the pain to go away, but for restoration of what is lost..... when two become one, and one rips away teaving a torn heart, a wounded soul must draw on the water of Christ to bathe their wounds, to drink in His life and joy, to remain in Him and not be sunken like a ship in a stormy sea.

And Jeremiah wept... like Moses also repenting for his people and Jesus crying and weeping for those whom He came to save.... being rejected and despised... so, we look unto Him to see that He was afflicted like as we are, with grief over loved ones walking away in darkness until the day of His rising sun, when He will call and they will follow. He understands all you have been through and all your needs.... your thirst that only He can quench in His love which will never fail you nor leave you.

Bless you ....><>

Br. Bear


And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Revelation 22:17


Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Romans 3:24

 

[Br. Bear]

Greetings again comingjoy,

May this next text be relevant to what you have said....

“The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.”
- Psalm 126:3
Some Christians are sadly prone to look on the dark side of everything, and to dwell more upon what they have gone through than upon what God has done for them. Ask for their impression of the Christian life, and they will describe their continual conflicts, their deep afflictions, their sad adversities, and the sinfulness of their hearts, yet with scarcely any allusion to the mercy and help which God has vouchsafed them.

But a Christian whose soul is in a healthy state, will come forward joyously, and say, “I will speak, not about myself, but to the honour of my God. He hath brought me up out of an horrible pit, and out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings: and he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. The Lord hath done great things for me, whereof I am glad.” Such an abstract of experience as this is the very best that any child of God can present.

It is true that we endure trials, but it is just as true that we are delivered out of them.

It is true that we have our corruptions, and mournfully do we know this, but it is quite as true that we have an all-sufficient Saviour, who overcomes these corruptions, and delivers us from their dominion.

In looking back, it would be wrong to deny that we have been in the Slough of Despond, and have crept along the Valley of Humiliation, but it would be equally wicked to forget that we have been through them safely and profitably; we have not remained in them, thanks to our Almighty Helper and Leader, who has brought us “out into a wealthy place.”

The deeper our troubles, the louder our thanks to God, who has led us through all, and preserved us until now. Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life’s song, “He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.”
C. Spurgeon

Bless you ....><>

Br. Bear

 

[comingjoy]

Thank You Br. Bear. So often we focus on the negative. There is so much more to life. We can either learn from the hurt or ugliness we go through or share what God has brought us through in hopes to encourage someone else along the way.

I am so blessed for what Christ has brought me out of. We can either learn from the pain or sink in it.

Learning from the pain we then can help others who go through it was well. May I NEVER keep what Christ did for me, has done for me and continues to do for me to myself

Thank You my brother

 

[Br. Bear]

Though you have made me see troubles
Many and bitter,
You will restore my life again;
From the depths of the earth
You will again bring me up
Psalm 71:20

We see in this Scripture a prophecy of Jesus, and we can take heart in it, too, that we too will be lifted up.... yes at that great day of the coming of the Lord,

and also now, even today, we can expect...

great revival in our lives of His Joy,

a renewing of Hope in our souls,

a transformation of Peace in our minds and thinking,

and a refreshing of Love in our spirits....

and be stengthened in Faith,

and restored to the wonderful beauty of His will for each one of us, in giving thanks and praising His holy and glorious Name.

Thank you sister for sharing this intimate, personal love and testimony of God's grace in Jesus Christ the Lord with us.

Bless you ....><>

Br. Bear

To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven: ...... Ecclesiastes 3