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Please Pray for My Family
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Father, help Shine and her husband to stand under the strain of financial difficulty. It is a very hard thing to have bills piling up and our tempers can become short with one another as the natural thing to do is to place blame...which we have all been guilty of. I would like to share a story with them that I hope will be as uplifting for them as it was to me. There was a very famous pastor who built a Bible teaching church that grew a great many pastors up that are now out there leading flocks in various places in the country. I had an opportunity to meet this man at a conference in my town and to hear him preach. He told a story about his wife whom he called his treasure. When he was beginning his ministry...and had founded this church he was having a great deal of difficulty meeting the financial needs of his household. He came home one day and the electricity had been turned off and had had no money to pay the bill. His wife never said a word to him about it. She lit two candles and placed them on the table...picked a flower out of the garden and placed it on the table and served him a dinner of homemade soup and bread...she called it a romantic evening for the two of them. The lights stayed off for 2 more days...she got a cooler from the garage and bought a big bag of ice to keep the little meat and milk they had cold...and for two more nights they had "romantic evenings"...and she never said a word of complaint to him. He managed to get the lights back on...and asked her how she had managed to not be upset with him with all they were going through. She told him...I knew God would provide...and I knew you were doing your best...and I loved both you and God for it. He ended the story by saying that in that moment he understood what a gift he had been given and that her encouragement changed his life forever...as a man, and as a Pastor. Sometimes it is not what we go through...it is how we go through it that matters most. I hope Father that you will help this couple to look at their circumstances and see the gift that they truly are to one another. Help them to stand Father...In Jesus name...Amen!
09-13-2010 09:22 PM
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Please Pray for My Family - Shine1075 - 09-13-2010, 02:05 PM
RE: Please Pray for My Family - ashley6349 - 09-13-2010, 06:03 PM
RE: Please Pray for My Family - bcshelvsme - 09-13-2010, 06:15 PM
RE: Please Pray for My Family - adoring1 - 09-13-2010 09:22 PM
RE: Please Pray for My Family - Chris8 - 09-10-2012, 11:46 PM