Dear KKIM/KARS Family,
May the Lord be with you………..
My life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus Acts 20:24 That is my life verse! PRAISE GOD! I go about my day thinking of that verse!
Let me share this with you, Please pray for the Angelo Winfield’s family. Angelo’s Mother had a heart attack yesterday. She is stable. Please pray. Angelo’s wife is having problems with her surgically repaired arm. Please pray for pain relief, she has about 8 screws or so in the arm that she broke in a fall. Angelo is a very Dear friend, one of the first Ministry sponsors of KKIM when I came on board. We love you Angelo!
I also am praying for Charlie Sheen the actor who I just read is having drug problems, I see where the TV show that he is in, never have seen it, pays him over 1 million dollars an episode! WOW! Must be some show! I know people around here that can’t pay their power bill! That’s 1 million per episode, not for the whole year, I just checked again. WOW! Please pray for this man and his drug problem.
Please pray for the people of Egypt, Yemen, and Jordan. People are just plain tired of corruption!!!
As you know I have been talking much about the Weekend To Remember Marriage Conference coming up Feb 11-13. Go to www.mykkim.com for details. I also have been writing about Marriage here at the CUP.
One of the most exciting things is to share Testimonies of what God does……..After I got an email the other day from Ellie I asked her to share what God had done in her marriage……Our theme of late is from a Billboard I saw in Oklahoma
Men: Change your LIFE, not your WIFE!
Here is Ellie’s story, I pray that it inspires you as much as it did me……..people can change…….God can change ALL! I am thankful for the many of you from time to time share your stories with us on KKIM/KARS and the CUP, they INSPIRE us all!!! We must share how God works in our lives to inspire others and bring others to the LORD! Don’t be shy!!!!
My husband and I will celebrate 8 years together and 7 years married this year, but we did not always have a great relationship. To make a long story short, just after our son was born in 2005, our marriage started falling apart, and we hadn’t been married that long. The communication we used to thrive on was no longer there, and in 2008, after trial separations of a few weeks here and there, we separated for real, and he moved out. This lasted for over a year and a half, with us trying to work on things and failing. Finally, last year, about this time, I filed for divorce. I knew that we both deserved better than to live this way any longer, continually trying to change each other into what we wanted. So in my head, I was doing him a favor, letting him go on with his life with someone who would accept him for what he had become, which in my eyes was not who I had married. He had become angry and bitter, and though it had nothing to do with me, it affected me and the kids.
During the weeks that followed my serving him with those papers, I really got on my face before the Lord and I asked Him, finally, what to do about this relationship. (Make no mistake, I sought the Lord over the years about it, but I never seemed to get an answer and it never seemed to help things.) I knew I loved him, but I wasn’t in love with who he had become. Still, I wanted to help him. I told the Lord I wanted to see him become that man that God called him to be, even if it wasn’t for me, as my husband. So God spoke to my spirit, and told me to just be his friend because that’s what he needed. I saw him spiraling out of control with the drinking and partying, and I just wanted to help him.
So I became his friend, and I told him what God told me. At first, he wasn’t exactly receptive because he was so angry at the situation. But slowly, we began a friendship again, and began to pray together and talk about the Word. About another month or two later, he moved back home, and though there were forces against us, God made us stronger within our marriage to be able to stand against those forces as a team. We are more solid than we have ever been, and I praise God for giving me the wisdom to allow Him to step in at the final moment.
Needless to say, the divorce never went through, and now he’s even talking about helping out at the church with the young married couples. Tell me that’s not God!!
Ellie
Thank you Ellie for sharing!
May God Bless you and yours forever and ever!
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