Steps To Freedom III

‘In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker then you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered’ 1Pet.3:7.

Today we will be learning some very important lessons from the story of a notable man of God. We began yesterday by saying his wife recently divorced him because he had neglected her. During the interview he said that top on his priority list was God, then the ministry, and then family. So God first, after that he attends to the ministry, and if he has anytime left he attends to family. You and I know that there will be no time left because the ministry work doesn’t finish. Any work really that is serious doesn’t finish. Sadly, men who are not in ministry are making the same mistake. Their priority list is God, business, and family. That is a big mistake. The correct order is God, family, and then business. If you die today, someone else will run that business. But no one else can really be a father to your children or a husband to your wife. It is God first, then family, and then business.

He neglected her for twenty-eight years and what woke him up and brought him to his senses was when she divorced him; a man of God, ministering in the Holy Ghost with people getting healed and delivered. Meanwhile his house was on fire. The work of the ministry is very dangerous. God can be blessing you with a lot of miracles but it does not mean that your life is in order. The fact that your business is prospering does not mean that God is happy with you. The marriage suffered until she confronted it. She initially was afraid of how the scandal of a divorce will hurt his ministry and be reported by the media. But eventually she had to confront the situation. At the time of the interview, they were planning to remarry and were in marriage counseling. What you didn’t do in the past because you thought it was a waste of time you may have to carry it over. Now he takes her out for dinner and she said in four weeks they talked more than they talked in twenty-eight years. Now he is wooing her back, he is valuing what he has. If she had confronted the abuse earlier it would have saved her over two decades of pain. Refuse to continue taking the abuse, take these three steps, and be ready to trust God for the outcome.

Prayer: Father, I ask that You will grace everyone reading this and dealing with abuse. Grace them to trust You even as they take these three steps, in Jesus Name.