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When the Ship Sinks by David Wilkerson

February 11, 2011 by standing

In “When the Boat Sinks” David Wilkerson talks about when Paul’s ship to Rome sinks. The Lord will sometimes allow the thing we fear to happen – the divorce, the health crises, the death of a loved one. Yet like Paul’s ship, the very breakup is a vehicle the Lord uses to spread His salvation. From Paul’s ship sinking came a series of miracles: no people on the ship died, they all made it safely to shore, and they and many on the island where the ship sank saw miracles of healing in their midst through Paul.

So in our crises, the breakup between with our spouse can result in many testimonies for Jesus as we stand for restoration – no matter how long it takes.

When the Boat Sinks-David Wilkerson (mp3)

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God Will Restore All Your Wasted Years by David Wilkerson

December 8, 2010 by standing

You have wasted years. These may be years spent with the pain and regrets of broken relationships, years wasted in drugs or alcohol, or years wasted where you were far from God and not the husband or wife you should have been. Within these wasted years your life was eaten up by worms of sin, addiction, sadness, and brokenness.

Joel 1:4 What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left other locusts have eaten.

When you come to Christ and repent, and let Him fill you up with His life, He will more than make up for these wasted years by an ever increasing Love from and for him. This will fill you up and will flow over to others, including prodigal spouses and broken family relationships. God can and will restore you and heal your broken relationships!

Joel 2:25 “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten– the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm — my great army that I sent among you.

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Filed Under: Audio, David Wilkerson, Pain and Hurt, Sermons, Waiting

Faith in the Waiting Room by Alistair Begg

December 7, 2010 by standing

Waiting for God to reconcile a relationship, to change another’s heart, to save a lost loved one, or to heal a sickness can be the most trying experience of your life. It is compounded by the voices of “reason” which are all around you among family, in the church. They say “Why wait? Get on with your life. Move on. Did God really tell you that he will restore?”

God wants more than anything to have your faith and trust. The age-old pattern is for God to have us wait upon him. In his wonderful Scottish brogue, Alistair Begg reviews the truth of faith that is shown in the lives of Abraham and Sarah. You may be pressured to take matters into your own hands, but the lesson is we will make a mess of things. Wait upon God, He will always be faithful and His outcome will always be best. Years may pass, but God’s word always comes true.

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For more on Alistair Begg’s teachings, check out TruthforLife.org

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Is Your God Big Enough? Stand Firm by Charlyne Steinkamp

December 2, 2010 by standing

If you have accepted Christ as your salvation, you are trusting Him to save you from death. But are you trusting Him with your life? You may say “There is no hope for my marriage – my spouse just keeps on rejecting. It is impossible. If you could only see how messed up things are” This is a lie. The word of God clearly teaches that God loves marriage, hates divorce, and can do the impossible, but we need to stand in faith.

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” Mar 10:27

Please listen to the Charlyne Steinkamp’s message “Stand Firm.” Charlyne and her husband lived through separation, divorce, and so many marriage problems even the pastors in their church gave up! But God brought Charlyne back from hopelessness and she stood for her marriage and believed in the word the Lord gave her. God restored their marriage beautifully. God can heal broken marriages – just believe in what the word says and have faith:

Listen- Stand Firm – Charlyne Steinkamp

Please visit the Steinkamps ministry site Rejoice Marriage Ministries for so much more . . .

Filed Under: Audio, Charlyne Steinkamp, Forgiveness, Marriage, Revenge, Sermons, Trusting God, Waiting

God Must Change You First!

November 12, 2010 by standing

It is easy to point the finger at another person in a marriage crises or divorce, but God wants to change you.

It is not our own effort that will change us. We may have no more human love to give, being too hurt for too long. However, if you have Christ you have all His Love that can flow through you. This Love is not like the old human love, but is the pure sweet Love of God himself that will heal your hurts and work in you prodigal spouse:

1Cr 13:4-8 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Here’s a good resource –

http://www.marriagemissions.com/winning-without-words/

If they don’t believe the word, try winning without words. Let your life do the talking. If your life doesn’t shine with the reality of God working in you, then nothing you say will have any effect. But if your life does exhibit God’s transforming power, your spouse is sure to notice the difference.

Does this mean your husband or wife will be happy about the new you? Not necessarily. Even if you’re more loving, kind, and considerate than you ever were before, your spouse may become more troubled and angry than ever. But that’s not all bad. Lee Strobel explains from his own experience:

If you had asked me back then why I was so mad, I probably couldn’t have told you. Now, as I look back, I can pinpoint the root of my rage. Basically, as Leslie pursued a godly lifestyle more and more, her behavior increasingly accentuated the difference between that lifestyle and my own.

In other words, the more she sought after purity, integrity, honesty, tolerance, and forgiveness, the more obvious it became that my own life and relationships were corroded with cynicism, bitterness, superficiality, and self-centeredness. It was as if Leslie were unwittingly holding up a mirror and I was seeing myself for how I really was, and I didn’t like the picture. The Bible calls it being convicted of sin, and it made me angry because I didn’t want to face it.

The Strobels’ experience shows that loving, godly behavior by a Christian spouse doesn’t always produce a pleasant reaction. Their experience also shows that there’s no need for a Christian to criticize an unbelieving spouse. Why should you harp on things your spouse is doing wrong? Just depend on God to make you more and more like Jesus, and the contrast between your life and your spouse’s will do more to show him his sin than any words you could say. This may stir up negative emotions that are no fun for either of you, but such turbulence may be a step in a journey that leads to Christ.

Filed Under: Forgiveness, Marriage, Pain and Hurt, Waiting

Man’s Hour of Darkness is God’s Hour of Power by David Wilkerson

November 7, 2010 by standing

Man’s Hour of Darkness is God’s Hour of Power by David Wilkerson

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The hour of God’s power manifests at the end of man’s resources. God is pleased to wait until all striving and human effort cease and your situation calls for nothing less than a miracle. God knows the day and the exact hour that He will intervene. In the midst of these dark seasons while we are waiting for Him to act trust that the Holy Spirit is standing by ready to take action. God is calling His people to abandon themselves to prayer and praise, believing that He is still on the Throne and He is in control! In the day of darkness Jesus Christ is still the light of the world!

Filed Under: Audio, David Wilkerson, Fear, Sermons, Trusting God, Waiting

Darkness for Us is the Beginning of Light for the Lord

November 7, 2010 by standing

To understand God and His ways is to see great hope even in the time of darkness when you see no hope. The pattern first and foremost of God is to always bring His Light out of our darkness if we only trust in what Christ did for us on the cross.

This pattern starts with Christ himself. In Mark 15 we see at the moment of his death upon the cross three hours of literal complete darkness that came upon the whole planet. Yet from this darkness or his death and suffering came His victory over sin and death. Isaiah looked forward to this:

Isa 60:2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.

You may be thinking “How does this apply to my current crises?” It has great implications! When you and I see only darkness and no ray of hope in our prodigal spouses, take heart, for the Lord’s victory is underway! The Jewish day begins at sundown rather than sunrise, because this is the pattern Lord is trying to show us. When it is most dark, His work of redemption is going on.

In Christ There’s a New Person Coming Out in Them and You

November 6, 2010 by standing

The Lord is powerful enough to save those who are lost. He is sufficient to bring our unsaved family members to Christ!

Hbr 7:25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

Today I was reminded that the improvement and softening we see from time to time when the Lord is working on a family member who does not yet know Jesus. I firmly believe that if we lift them up to the Lord they will come to salvation. I don’t know when this will happen, but it will happen on this earth before they pass. We must know salvation is a decision to turn to Christ made by them in a moment, but the months and years before this happens the Lord is beginning in them to grow a new man or woman who is waiting to come out. This is what we see when when we see momentary warmth, and this is why there is such a contrast! We say, “how can this person be so nice one moment and then just a short time later be so cold and heartless, determined to separate?” We say “It’s like there are two different people in them.”

Rom 5:10 For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Well beloved, yes there are two different people in your prodigal, just as there are two different people living in you! Your old person is the one Christ has put to death on the cross. While we are on this earth the old nature full of anger, wrath, and selfishness is what Christ is doing away with, and we deal with through Christ’s Grace and Forgiveness. The new person is that which Christ begins raising up in you, sometimes starts to grow long before you come to Christ. If you have accepted Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit this person is very different than the old you. and if you have this people will remark how you’ve changed. Well, you will see this in your prodigal spouse come out – so different than the old. Take heart! Even though their old nature comes back, its days are numbered. As we said in the beginning, Christ is powerful enough to save and grow a new person inside of them and you too! If you don’t see it in your prodigal yet, keep praying and you will!

Isa 43:19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

Filed Under: Family, Salvation

God Can Fix Anything by David Wilkerson

November 3, 2010 by standing

In one of the most pivotal sermons on divorce, including the epidemic divorce rate in the church, David Wilkerson stresses the truth that God can do the impossible, especially healing and restoring to life marriages that are utterly dead. He notes that too often neither parties in a broken marriage really want it fixed, but if one partner will stand on God’s promises and not give up, God in time can accomplish all reconciliation. Wilkerson is not unrealistic noting crimes of violence, family abuse may demand separation and divorce, but David reminds God can change the most hardened heart and dead marriage!


God Can Fix Anything by David WilkersonScripture(s): Genesis 18; Luke 18:27

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A Time to Weep and a Time to Fight by David Wilkerson

October 29, 2010 by standing


A Time to Weep and a Time to Fight by David Wilkerson
From SermonIndex.net:Description: God will never leave His people without answers. In these times of sudden calamity the initial response may be fear, but we must trust that God has everything under control. He has a million ways to solve our problems. Usually in these times God is the only one that can give us answers. We must turn off every voice of humanity. God’s people get their answers from one place and that is the Bible. God is calling His people in the secret closet of prayer so we can get a Word from Him. Don’t let the Sunday morning blessings fade into the troubles of this day. Encourage yourself in the Lord!

Verse reference:

1 Samuel 30

Notes:

David encouraged himself in the Lord.

Hebrews 12:

12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed

God delivered via a half-dead Egyptian slave left behind. God will deliver via His ways, not man’s ways.

Filed Under: Audio, David Wilkerson, Fear, Sermons, Trusting God

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