Balancing our Spouse and our Faith and more...

Hello everyone

How are you all, I wonder? It has been a while! I hope the fast went well for you.

Well, today I’m actually a little raw. We have ‘raw’ days sometimes. This week my lovely hubby expressed that I’m charging off without him into stuff that I am interested in, leaving him alone. Much of this is my faith stuff.

He has gone to work now, leaving me alone at home, in turn; and I am left with the question: How do I balance my faith and remain true to myself, while equally staying within his world, and connecting with him?

This is the question we often wrestle with as SUMites, and this is why our website exists! We want to do it well, but we don’t always manage it. Quite honestly, I think I have not been getting the balance right lately.

One of the things I’ve been doing is overcommitting my time to things. For example, I have recently volunteered to play the piano at church. It means more time away from him. I build friendships from church, and that means I have friends he doesn’t know. How do I balance it all?

Well, here at SUM us writers just write what we’re living out… So, that is what I’m living out today.

“Are there any scriptures to help me with this?” I asked, this morning.

The only one that springs to mind is Proverbs 31, which talks about a very busy wife who does a lot of things!

One of the things she does is:

She does him good and not harm, all the days of her life (v 12), and

She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household (v.15), and

She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet (v. 21)

(Proverbs 31, RSV)

I see those things — the food, the clothing — as symbolic of spiritual food, spiritual clothing, not literal food and clothing, although that too. In other words, she cares.

You know… When you have these hard conversations with your spouse, when they’re feeling alienated from you, and they don’t like what you’re doing, a first act is to try to make sure you reflect on your own part in it and try to redress the balance if things have gone a little awry; but then it’s also good to remember that you are actually caring for them deeply in spiritual terms, and what you are doing will still stand them in good stead.

Any thoughts? I look forward to seeing you in the comments.

Ann

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Today, I was praying with someone and we talked about praying for marriages. I thought I would share the link I sent her.

Did you know there is entire library of prayers to pray for your home, your kids, your spouse. The prayer are my own and I know they have power behind them. Below is the prayer portal link. You can find the book at Amazon.

READ Them, better yet PRAY THEM, aloud.

Let me know in the comments how you are praying for your family this week. I love and adore you. Praying the Shalom of heaven upon you. Lynn Donovan

Healing and Deliverance Prayer Portal by Lynn Donovan

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So many Christians DO NOT know how to pray effectively. Many believers have never received training for effective wording/language to defeat the illness and spirits of infirmity or affliction. Example: When praying for physical healing, DO NOT pray, please heal me. We must learn to pray effective words, commands, belief statements and actions, real actions that garner support from the spiritual realm of the Kingdom of Christ Jesus. Learn how to bring healing to yourself and others.

PS. I have a ton of experience and practice in this area. Praying with a nuance creates greater impact. Praying to engage the angelic is absolutely necessary.

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Hi, This is Barb Twigg with another What I Know For Sure

 

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Thank you to our amazing prayer team for stepping up and writing words of encouragement for us through the week of fasting. They are each amazing women of faith. I love them deeply.

For me, this fast launched something new… I am now on a regular fasting lifestyle that I hope to share more about as I discover all that God is revealing to me.

I am expectant. Our time of fasting, our prayers, are never wasted. Let’s see what our Lord will do next.

Let me know what you learned or revelation you received. Give honor to our Lord and share your faith in the comments. I love you my dear friends.

Well, another one in the books. What I know is this:

2026 is a year of fruit and grace. We will see the fruit of our perseverance from the trails of the last two years in the months ahead. I believe, very quickly. I feel this in my bones!!!!!

So please write me when that happens. (Use the contact form.)

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