I am sure many of you, just like me, heard that if a man chooses to leave his wife for whatever reason, or a child turns to drugs or a sinful lifestyle, it is their free will and nothing can be done about it. Hearing this can be devastating and discouraging.
Yes, we cannot change somebody else’s will or heart, but the Lord can, you only have to read and reread the verses in this chapter (He Turns the Heart) to know that this is true, our hearts are like streams of water in the hands of the Lord.
I want to quote this passage from the chapter: “God is more than able to change your loved-one in an instant!! I have seen it done countless times with people who argued that their husband or son or daughter was a hopeless individual—until God moved! If you say “But you don’t know my (husband/son/daughter or boss)…” I would say that this only proves that you don’t know God!! Just remember, He radically changed you and me, didn’t He?”
When my journey started my heart was a heart of stone, but the Lord, my Heavenly Husband, led me on this journey to give me a new heart. I only have to look back on my own journey and how He turned my heart and lovingly caused me to lay down my will to know that His will is all that matters, not our will. When my journey started, my heart was a heart of stone, but He softened my heart which led me to start my journey. When the custody battle started, He turned my heart that wanted to resist, to surrendering to His will. And throughout my journey He lovingly caused me to surrender my will more and more. Most recently was when I had to move, I didn’t want to move, I wanted my children to move back to me. But I knew it was something I gave to my Beloved when the custody battle started, so I had to lay down my will for His and move.
From my own experience I learned that man’s will is not more powerful that God’s will.
If we want hardened hearts to be turned back to us, we have to hold on to God’s promises, but there are conditions to each promise to be fulfilled. Our ways must be pleasing to God, we must delight ourselves in the Lord and seek Him first. The Lord must be first in our lives. Once He is first we will be transformed into His image which will draw others to us and cause hearts to be turned back to us.
If we want any relationship restored and see hearts turned back to us, we must be changed. If the Lord changes our loved one’s heart back to us, but they see that we are still the same person they left, they might decide not to return and their hearts will be hardened again. Therefore, we must believe that God will turn hearts towards us while we allow Him to heal and transform us, and we must dispel the lie that man’s will is more powerful than God’s will.
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Please share what He showed you in the lesson in the comments below.
Uauuuuu!!
Como eu amo meu Marido Celestial!!
Ele usou os dois devocionais de hoje e os RL de louvor do HopeatLast e do LoveatLast para falar ao meu coração. Eles se completaram!!
Foi resposta de oração.
Estou maravilhada!!
Obrigada por compartilhar, fui muito encorajada!
How I love my Heavenly Husband!!
He used today’s two devotionals and the praise RLs of HopeatLast and LoveatLast to speak to my heart. They completed each other!!
It was a prayer answer.
I’m amazed!!
Thank you for sharing, I was very encouraged!
Te chame Rayna para compartilhar. Muitas vezes, ou os devocionais ou uma lição, ou Sua Palavra falava exatamente o que eu estava passando ou algo com o qual eu estava lutando. Nosso HH sabe exatamente o que precisamos e quando. Ele é incrível!
TRL: thank you Rayna for sharing. So many times either the devotionals or a lesson, or His Word spoke to exactly what I was going through or something I was struggling with. Our HH knows exactly what we need and when. He is amazing!
So sorry Adina I didn’t scroll down to see you translated Rayna. Interestingly I did the same thing first—I pasted the translation as a comment. But before posting my Husband stopped me and had me open the edit to the comment. Clearly He wants us to set the protocol—especially since we are APPROVING posts first. What could be easier than adding the transition THEN approving?
Yes I saw we both did the TRL 😊, but I agree with what you did, I will edit my comment 💗
My Husband led me to add it in a permanent location https://restoreministriesinternational.com/pppg/, PART of https://restoreministriesinternational.com/lmf/ working as ONE body, many languages! Thanks, Adina! You always helped to confirm His plan!