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 Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 7:10 am
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Please pray for my safety these last few months as my platoon and I finalize packing up our equipment and work on getting home. We're a UAV (or drone as they are called by the media) platoon on a small FOB and are really looking forward to getting home and seeing our families.
What I want to pray for most is a revival within me. I used to fear God and chase him daily, rushing into church any time the doors were open and even leading the youth group and playing in the worship band. Since I joined the military, my flame as dwindled. I don't read my Bible, I don't go to church, and I don't act like the Christian leader of the house that the Bible tells me to be for my wife. The military and the culture that goes with it have been etching away at my fortitude for years now and I find my self with thoughts and such that I would never have dreamed of prior to my enlistment. My testimony has suffered, but not nearly as much as my marriage.
Wednesday marks my third wedding anniversary. Of the three, my first and third will both have taken place while I was deployed. It has made it difficult for both of us and I also feel like it has separated us. My wife is an incredibly independent woman more than capable of looking after herself. Heck, she even looks after me and I'd be lost without her. Anyways, our marriage has gone through a lot of struggles as we try to figure it all out. She is the one God picked for me, I have no reservations about that. I have been a terrible husband to her, though. I have a strong addiction to video games that pretty much has us living in two different rooms. We share the same bed, but that's pretty much it. I recognize that I need to curb my addiction and spend time fulfilling her love language of quality time, but my own selfishness often gets in the way.
Please pray that God would place His hand on me as I struggle to strive for Him again and to let Him lead my marriage again. Divorce is not an option for us, being that our vows were made not only to each other, but also to God. That being said, our passion needs to be rekindled for both each other and for Him.
Also, please pray for our intimate lives. I wont go into details so as to spare the younger members of the guild, but we struggle with scars from her past of being a victim of molestation as well as my own fault of being selfish.
Thank you all for your prayers. Any advice or scripture would be greatly appreciated!
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 5:05 am
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Haven923 Please pray for my safety these last few months as my platoon and I finalize packing up our equipment and work on getting home. We're a UAV (or drone as they are called by the media) platoon on a small FOB and are really looking forward to getting home and seeing our families. What I want to pray for most is a revival within me. I used to fear God and chase him daily, rushing into church any time the doors were open and even leading the youth group and playing in the worship band. Since I joined the military, my flame as dwindled. I don't read my Bible, I don't go to church, and I don't act like the Christian leader of the house that the Bible tells me to be for my wife. The military and the culture that goes with it have been etching away at my fortitude for years now and I find my self with thoughts and such that I would never have dreamed of prior to my enlistment. My testimony has suffered, but not nearly as much as my marriage. Wednesday marks my third wedding anniversary. Of the three, my first and third will both have taken place while I was deployed. It has made it difficult for both of us and I also feel like it has separated us. My wife is an incredibly independent woman more than capable of looking after herself. Heck, she even looks after me and I'd be lost without her. Anyways, our marriage has gone through a lot of struggles as we try to figure it all out. She is the one God picked for me, I have no reservations about that. I have been a terrible husband to her, though. I have a strong addiction to video games that pretty much has us living in two different rooms. We share the same bed, but that's pretty much it. I recognize that I need to curb my addiction and spend time fulfilling her love language of quality time, but my own selfishness often gets in the way. Please pray that God would place His hand on me as I struggle to strive for Him again and to let Him lead my marriage again. Divorce is not an option for us, being that our vows were made not only to each other, but also to God. That being said, our passion needs to be rekindled for both each other and for Him. Also, please pray for our intimate lives. I wont go into details so as to spare the younger members of the guild, but we struggle with scars from her past of being a victim of molestation as well as my own fault of being selfish. Thank you all for your prayers. Any advice or scripture would be greatly appreciated!
You are in my prayers! |
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:59 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:33 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 3:27 am
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 6:42 am
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Glad that now you are realizing the mistake and want to change for the better. *praying*
1 Tim 3: 2-4
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
Ephesians 5:25 ESV .
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
1 Corinthians 7:10 ESV
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband.
Divorce is NOT an option! I agree :3
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