Testimony of a Restored Marriage

[Music] my name is Amy and I just want to share my story with you um my husband Chris and I had been married for six years we had three young kids and I was a stay-at-home mother and during the first six years of our marriage it was a rollercoaster I mean we had some really great moments and we had some really tough moments some things changed it worked and I was reassigned to work in a retail store and worked crazy hours was not at home much was working evenings weekends and was growing more and more apart from my wife and my kids and more and more hardened toward God and there just came a time in my life where I had truly let my guards down I think it finally reached a point where we just hit rock bottom and I found out that my husband was in a relationship with another woman I started talking with a woman and it had developed into a relationship I had just gotten to the point where I was willing to lay aside my family [Music] for someone else it's not one of those things that you can prepare yourself you know you just can't plan out how are you gonna react when your husband tells you he's in another relationship and I remember staying up that night just like all night long pray and God what am I supposed to do about this I don't even know what to do I don't have a job I can't I can't take care of my kids I don't want to lose my husband and the Lord he just spoke to me that night and just reminded me that when Kris married me this was not where he had planned on his his life to go it's not the path he wanted to lead and the it wasn't a battle between me and my husband it was a spiritual battle and the Lord just really laid it on my heart to address it that way and just really pray for for Chris's freedom and just pray for the enemy to just let go of my husband let go of my family I was very hard-hearted did not care at all about God anymore had literally turned my back on the Lord really spoke to my heart and and told me that what he wants me to do is just love my husband just show him that I love him and when he restores my marriage because I truly believed that that he was going to restore my marriage when he restores my marriage my husband wouldn't be able to look at me and know that he's loved even when he's unlovable that he's loved we argued a lot during that time we fought but I can remember she she still was showing me love through that and I know that was hard for incredibly difficult for but she she showed me love through that I just began to pray for my husband and reach out to people that I knew would pray for him and I had a few friends from my church that just really walked me through this and really fought for Chris with me and there was just a core group of people that would come over when he was gone they would come over and pray with me a lot of my friends who were very close to me in church were reaching out to me and I was pushing away we felt like he was really blinded and not able to see the spiritual attack that he was under and we prayed that the Lord would open his eyes and soften his heart a friend of mine shared with me this scripture that she said when she was praying for Chris this just came to mind and I want to share it with you because this became my prayer for Chris every day for months every day it's in Ezekiel chapter 30 six and it says four I will take you out of the Nations I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from your idols I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh and I will put my spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws you will live in the land I gave your forefathers you will be my people and I will be your God I will cleanse you of your sins I will resettle your towns and the ruins will be rebuilt the desolate land will be cultivated instead of lining desolate in the sight of all who pass through it they will say this land that was laid waste had become like a Garden of Eden and the cities were lying in ruins desolate and destroyed are not fortified inhabited then the nations around you that remain will know that I the LORD have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate I'm gonna cry I had the LORD have spoken and I will do it and when I read this it became my prayer that that God would remove Chris's heart of stone and just give him a new heart a soft heart and put a new spirit in them and everything that was destroyed and our lives our marriage that God would restore that and rebuild that just like he he promised to do for the Israelites and and the reason why he's going to do it and I skipped over this part but the Lord said in Ezekiel that he's not doing it for their sake not because they deserve it but for the sake of his holy name and the reason why God was going to restore my marriage is because he was going to be glorified through that and my friends that would come over and pray with me we would pray this together and and we did this for such a long time just as often as we needed to her as often as we could we would just come together and pray for Chris there's a married couple Randy and Tracy and Tracey's husband Randy was Tom me one week when we're praying that this scripture kept coming to mind when when Jesus's disciples were asking him why when they tried to cast a devil out of someone why isn't it leaving and Jesus told them that there are some that only go through prayer and fasting there really was a spiritual demonic influence and that's the reason why we were going through this and so when Randy had mentioned that verse we just decided that we were going to pick a date and on that day we were all gonna fast and we were all gonna just pray that God would remove the veil from Chris's eyes and just reveal the truth to him and soften his heart it actually got to the point where I was basically walking away I was making threats that I wanted to leave I wanted a divorce even to the point where I was going to take everything from her and leave her with nothing including no kids and that that was a it was a really dark place I remember right before the holidays I remember my husband telling me that for Christmas he was gonna serve me divorce papers and he was gonna take my kids I'm sorry I didn't want to do this he was gonna take my kids and they were so young and that was all I had left and I want to say that during this time my kids needed a spiritual head they need a spiritual father in their life and my dad really stepped in and really took over that role for them and that was just a blessing from God that he did that because they they never lacked and having someone to be that that godly example in their life we decided on on this specific day that we were gonna fast and just the night before our fast was probably the worst night of my life because that night I was actually got a phone call from Chris and on the phone it was it was Chris and it was the other woman they were both on the phone together and Chris told me he was through I mean he was just done and I heard that I'd heard that so many times before you know I want a divorce you know I I've already made up my mind all of that but I had built up so much hope in me because of this battle the fighting the praying don't let so much hope in me that God was about to do a miracle and my prayers were about to be answered and to hear that and hear this other woman on the other phone just giggling you know just so like this was just a joke to them it was just a fun and games or something but for me it was taking my life and turning it upside down and and ruining my life so it just made that day all the harder to hear that we did our fast that day and we each just in we fasted and throughout the day we all just prayed pray the same prayer and then we came together that evening and prayed together right after we prayed my phone rang and the last time I had talked to Chris was the night before when he told me he he was done I mean he wasn't coming home anymore he was moving on and this was Chris on the phone I was going back to my house for the last time before I would try to get divorce papers together and for some reason on that way on the way home God met me I can remember coming to a stop sign and stopping my car and it was almost like God met me at that point and said and audibly spoke to me and said you have two paths in front of you choose which one that you would like to take and it was like he showed me as I sat there in my car that the two paths were I could choose to leave my family and at this point in my life or at that point in my life it was maybe going to be a looked like an easier decision and that maybe the path was not going to be so hard in the beginning or I could choose to walk away from what I was doing and softened my heart and go back to my family and that path was maybe really difficult in the short term it looked very really difficult and hard and it was if God just took away the blindness from my eyes and showed me everything clearly showed me how hard my heart was showed me what I was doing emotionally to my family and how I was hurting them and it really just just broke me I realized that even though I had two choices to make and there were two paths there's really only one choice and it may not be the easiest choice in the short term and it may take a lot of effort and work but that God was clearly saying that was the right choice and I can remember just breaking down at the stop sign I don't know how long I was sitting there but and as I turned toward home I called Amy and told her what I was doing I was on the way on my way home he was broken I mean just broken and tears on the phone and it was the the first time that I seen any emotion in him that wasn't anger because for months or probably even more than a year he almost had no emotion I mean he would get angry but other than that there was just no life in him I mean you just look in his eyes and you feel like you're just looking at a zombie just so to hear him crying on the phone was the miracle in itself I remember him saying on the phone Amy I don't know what happened today but at some point I feel like this veil was torn off my eyes and I can see what what's happening and he just he just cried and said I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I've hurt you and I've hurt the kids and I don't want to hurt you anymore I got home and God really just met me there I just remember being extremely broken and repentant and that Amy just loved me and he came home that night and when he came home the first thing he did was fall down onto his face and just repent and he just he just started wailing crying and little did I know at that time that there were people who were praying for me who had spent significant time praying and fasting for me that day and they were praying that the veil would be lifted from my eyes and that the blindness would be pulled away and that I would see and that's exactly what happened and it was a it was a miracle it was a miracle that got performed it was the breakthrough that we've been praying for what's happening I mean God was softening his heart and opening in his eyes and and all these things that we'd been praying for for months it was all happening all at once and and I believe with all my heart that it was because of something when we did that fast together and we we prayed for so long something was broken in the spirit realm that day something was happening and it was just an amazing example of how powerful our prayers really are and we if we could only see with our eyes what we can accomplish in the spirit realm with our prayers it would be frightening God was right there with us God had his hand in our hands and was pulling us along even though we would trip and fall he would pick us up and inch by inch day by day he helped us to begin to form a foundation to rebuild our marriage and to build up a structure that was sound and whole again and that was built on his foundation that was like a rock and not maybe our own foundations and or my pride which had pretty much caused my fault and it was just a it was a miracle it was a it was a miracle that God brought restoration the Lord performed a miracle that day and he answered our prayers and things have never gone back yeah I mean it the restoration has been a process and the healing was has been a process but I can honestly say today I'm married to my best friend and nobody makes me feel loved more than my husband does and today I can say that he's a new man and I'm a new woman and God has he is truly restored our relationship and he has rebuilt the ruins he took something that the devil wanted for so much harm he wanted to separate us he wanted to drive a wedge between us and destroy our family God took that situation made it new and turned it into a situation that could give him glory and turned a bad situation for good and it's it's an amazing testimony of the power of prayer and the power of the grace of God and how much his grace is sufficient for even a sinner like me [Music] it's amazing when I look back on a really bad situation and a really dark time in my life seeing where God has brought us together as a couple and the road that we traveled down together and because we have done it together with him I would never ever been able to envision this where we've come I would have never been able to draw it on paper painting a picture God did it and he has put together one of the most amazing masterpieces that I could have ever imagined I can honestly say I'm married to my best friend

Channel: Amy Jo Reason

Views: 66,576

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Keywords: marriage, divorce, restoration, God, Jesus, miracle, prayer, pray, testimony, Praise, restored, Love, Husband, Wife, Wedding, Vows, Church, Ministry, Married, Miraculous, Bible, inspirational, encouragement, fasting

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Length: 19min 28sec (1168 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 04 2019