A Promise Received!

[Alabaster]

I have been away a LONG time, haven't I???

Well, I have been very sick with depression, and in bed for pretty much the full two years with a broken heart. I functioned only online and even then I petered out here. Satan knows what our weak points are. He makes a point of studying us. He has intel about every believer, and he crafts plans to trip us and take us down and make us ineffective.

In my case, he knew my weakness was my relationship with my children, and my youngest daughter, to boot. He engineered a rift so deep that my daughter would actually send a letter telling us that she wants nothing more to do with us. Then she had a child and didn't announce it to us, and we found out after 5 days. We sent gifts and cards, but the gifts were spurned and sent back. Then she and her husband had another child in April. We had never heard from them, but our oldest daughter would speak to her now and again, and would fill us in.

We kept on sending cards. In June my husband sent a card to her husband wishing him a Happy Birthday and a good Father's Day and sent along his cell number to call if he wished, so that they could have a coffee together. I sent my daughter a card from the both of us at the end of June for her birthday and welcomed little Johnny to the family and wished that we could reconcile in forgiveness and love. Period! Then in August, my son-in-law calls my husband's cell! They met a week later and that afternoon we went to their house to meet! It was unbelievable! There we were, the four of us blubbering like babies in their foyer! My grandchildren are wonderful! Certainly the scriptures are accurate when the promise is made that God will restore to us the years that the locust has eaten!!!!

We were there last weekend for supper and my little 22 month old granddaughter said, "Bye-bye, grandma, I love you!" I couldn't ask for more!

God is the mender of broken hearts! I have to say that all the time I was seeming to be down for the count, the Lord was ever close and I did not abandon my faith. He assured me He was with me in my trial, as I walked through the fire, telling me He was pleased with me. Self condemnation is a big part of what goes on in the mind of someone who is in a depression like that, but the Lord has helped me rise above even though I felt I was in a pit, and one day He helped me envision the reconciliation. I grasped hold of it, and then I allowed my lips to speak it, which is proof of the faith to believe it and then it came to pass.

Faith, positive confession and simple trust in a loving God is all we need to weather these kinds of storms in life.

I am so thankful to my Saviour, Jesus Christ for His massive love and devotion to His own!

Isaiah 43:2
When you go through deep waters,
I will be with you.
When you go through rivers of difficulty,
you will not drown.
When you walk through the fire of oppression,
you will not be burned up;
the flames will not consume you.

[resecoy]

The prayers here never stopped for you.
And we wondered.
While the screen may be two dimensionsal, the people are real. Glad to have you back but what good are people if not to walk through the valley of shadow of death with you?
Your words and graphics are wonderful and so encouraging. My family also is pretty estranged. We have close relatives that we haven't heard from in years. The line goes out but the fish don't bite. But your story sure gives us all hope.
Sorry to voice some disappointment but really happy that the Lord is blessing you. Please bless us with your presence and your uplift.

[Alabaster]

Originally Posted by resecoy

The prayers here never stopped for you.
And we wondered.
While the screen may be two dimensionsal, the people are real. Glad to have you back but what good are people if not to walk through the valley of shadow of death with you?
Your words and graphics are wonderful and so encouraging. My family also is pretty estranged. We have close relatives that we haven't heard from in years. The line goes out but the fish don't bite. But your story sure gives us all hope.
Sorry to voice some disappointment but really happy that the Lord is blessing you. Please bless us with your presence and your uplift.

Thank you! I promise to visit more--I am walking in hope once again. I think that for nearly every believer, especially those who are walking with the Lord and seeking to obey Him with their lives, there comes a time fo extreme opposition, even seemingly unbearable. That is the enemy trying to discredit and stifle the witness of Christ in that person.

Hang on, resecoy! Hold to the promises of God! Speal them out of your mouth and do not be deterred! It was when I began to speak out the promise from Jeremiah 31, that I became freshly infused with hope. When we speak those promises and thank God for them out loud, even not seeing them yet, that kind of faith confounds the enemy! Satan lost his grip, and I received the promise! HALLELUJAH!

You can too! I will pray!