Am I saying fight for your marriage
It don’t matter what I say
Is your Pastor saying fight for your marriage
It doesn’t matter what he says
Is your BFF saying fight for your marriage
It doesn’t matter what she says either
What about your Mom and Dad
They don’t matter
Your Uncle and Aunt
Your cousins
Your neighbor
Your roommate
Don’t matter
None of them matter
Only one person matters
What is God telling you
The ONLY one who knows your future
The only one who knows what is going to happen 5 minutes from now
What is He telling you
And by the way
By Pastor not mattering
I mean the Pastor that asks you to
Give and Serve every single Sunday
That pastor
And every Sunday for years you have said to yourself
I don’t make enough money to give and I don’t have enough time to serve
But suddenly when you go to that same pastor
And tell him your awful story
He agrees with you and says
You have no choice but to file
You actually listen to that
You don’t listen to him when he says
Give
and Serve
You just listen
When he says quit
Don’t put this on your pastor
Put this on yourself
You matter
You decide
You change
You cry out to God
You say Lord I hear and I obey
Tell me what to do
And I will do it
I don’t care what it is
We talk about God doing a new thing all the time. It is so fun to say and hear everyone cheer. Yes! Yeah!!! He is doing something new!
Living this out is brutal! Difficult! Treacherous and eventually Glorious! Friends, He loves us so much and He is not going to ever leave you there to rot but you have to do whatever He tells you to do. You just got to. Remember this one tip: He usually only gives you one thing to focus on at a time and then you build on that.
So for example when God first started helping me because I was finally ready to listen He said, be nice to Darin don’t scream, preach, or tell him how he was to do things. I just started there. VERRRRY hard to do. I made tons of mistakes. But God kept comforting me and loving me so much, just like He loves you. When I wanted to scream I remembered that verse he gave me in 1 Peter 3 about how some will be won over without words. God helped me every day to be able to do that and now I have an awesome amazing wonderful husband. There is not a man on the planet that I would rather call my husband than Darin Sims. Every time I say my full name…Julie Sims I think to myself, the enemy tried to take my last name away, thank you God that I am Darin’s wife. It isn’t lost on me to this day. I am proud and grateful Ito be a Sim’s. See my precious friends God did a new thing! Its a miracle. How is that possible. God’s amazing love thats how.
Shake off that discouragement. We love you guys!