Precious Message from a SUMite
December 12, 2014
Dear friends, our SUM sister, Darby, sent this beautiful and encouraging message this past week. I just love Darby's heart for God and the joy she is finding in her faith walk as she trusts God with her furture and especially for her husband's salvation. She is walking in a place of thriving and freedom!
I would like to take a moment to personally thank both of you! I am a SUMite subscriber, website, daily email and Facebook follower. I also have your book Winning Him Without Words. I cannot remember when or how I stumbled upon your site over a year ago, but I DO know it has been the biggest blessing in my marriage.
I, like many others, have spent time in the past crying out to our Father, "Why wouldn't you want this wonderful man on your side? Why did you bring us together if not for eternity?" I have asked, cried, prayed and asked again. All of this took a major turn when I found the two of you, and this very powerful support group!I use the tools you both provide through shared experiences, prayers and your book to march on in this day to day battle in an unequally yoked marriage. I have a sense of peace as I pray every single day for my loving pre-believing husband first, and other pre-believers in my life after. I pray expectantly, and gratefully. I have learned to praise and thank our Daddy for growing and changing me in this process. I am SO grateful!!! God has given me little glimpses along the way, showing me that things are changing....maybe ever so slightly BUT THEY ARE CHANGING!!! I absolutely love when He gently reminds me how long it took me to come home to Him.....ahhhhh, these things that used to grow the chip on my shoulder actually set me free today!I have no doubt you all get tons of emails, and I know you have to be so bombarded with words to read.....but as I sit in my quite time this morning preparing to go to church alone again I wanted you both to know how you have softened that hurt for me....I sit knowing that God has my husband in His constant care, and that is the best place he can be. I also sit knowing that God DID bring us together for eternity, that my prayers are being heard each and every day and just as you say in your book, God is big enough to just snap His fingers and make it happen....key words, "God is big enough". He's got this....my husband's salvation is up to God....showing him Christ's love, respecting him, cherishing this man God has blessed me with, celebrating Him, listening and obeying God on a daily basis....this is up to me.Thank you both again so VERY, VERY much!!Darby
Darby, thank you so much for sharing your heart with us!
Abba Father, thank You for being the God of the impossible and for astounding us with Your endless and relentless love every day. Lord Jesus, I pray for every SUMite reading this to walk in this place of thriving, freedom and PEACE! Holy Spirit, I ask that You release a wave of faith on this community and that this wave would sweep up EVERY pre-believer that we are contending for. Thank You, King Jesus, that You and You alone are mighty to save! Amen!
O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, what joy for those who trust in you. — Psalm 84:12
Love you, SUMites!
