My wife and I have been married for 10 years, divorced for 1 year, and remarried for 4 years. This, of course, is to each other. Ours is a marriage that has been put back together after the divorce.
You may ask, how is it the second time around? It’s absolutely marvelous. We never argue, never say the wrong things to each other, and we are always happy. If only it were so! No, we do argue, and we do miscommunicate with each other. We are not always happy. But that’s all part of having a successful marriage.
First Marriage
In our first marriage God was not a part of it. I rejected God and was the most inconsiderate man that any woman could ever have been married to. I was an alcoholic and a drug addict. Eventually I became a gangster. My wife had to live ten years of absolute hell with me.
She, however, loved me. She told me continually that the reason she stayed with me was because she believed the man that she had met 10 years before would return. Despite all the ways I hurt my wife, she did not divorce me. I left her for a younger girl and divorced her.
It was my six year old daughter who was the one who helped to bring us back together. She had never been into a church, nor did she know much about spiritual things. But one day she found out from her teacher that she should pray for God to bring her daddy back. God answered her prayer.
Lastly, I want to say that if you are having marriage problems and want to get divorced, I don’t recommend it. I believe with God any marriage can be successful. To sum it all up, success in marriage depends how much you are prepared to sacrifice. My precious wife was prepared to sacrifice everything to keep our marriage together. I thank God for her.
This is a true testimony given to us from a subscriber from South Africa.
An outstanding share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a co-worker who was conducting a little research on this. And he in fact bought me breakfast simply because I found it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending some time to discuss this topic here on your internet site.
I need prayers for my ex husband’s salvation and marriage restoration. Pray his heart will soften around me, and that he would want to see me and we would be honest to one another. Pray he would end the woman relationships that brought our marriage asunder. Pray God could send them husbands. Chris would want to date me and then remarry me. We could be involved in a praise ministry together. His daughter will accept me and my son will accept him. He is my second marriage and I am his. In this marriage I became a born again Christian. I am standing for this covenant. My first husband is remarried and his ex has a boyfriend. She is living with now 9 years. I hope they will become saved and marry one another. That she would accept my love for Chris. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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I need prayers to save my marriage. My husband’s wanting to file this week we’ve been seperated 6 months as he asked me to give him time to overcome the lies I’ve told. I know God knows my heart; I have faith. Just now I feel my husband is letting his family influence his mind that I’m not worthy of him. I love him and he knows my faults. Please, prayers are needed.
My wife and I were both ungodly and addicted. Recently after 11 years of divorce God has put in my heart to pray and fast for restoration. Yes, the world will say no, she may say no…however nothing is impossible with God. I did some terrible things, shattering her heart. Prior to our final separation she claimed she was my angel.
After crawling out of a life of destruction I found my way to Christ who delivered me from meth (I will be seven years sober this December). I trust that God is the one who brought us together and who can bring us back. I believe that God restores and honors. I am in the midst of a seven day fast. During this time God has helped me to remove all bitterness and allowed me to forgive. There is nothing more I can do but pray. I ask in the name of Jesus that He reunites me with His precious angel even after all these years.
Did your marriage get restored?
My husband and I split after 20 years of marriage. Apart for 9 years. Now dating again. God is definitely playing our country music backwards! I even get the dog back. Amen!!!
Am so confused right now, I just left my marriage of almost 5 years old,a week and 2 days ago. My husband really gave me a tough time. He abuses me verbally, he hits me once in a while; He never believed in me, he always runs me down. I have been praying for him to change, instead he became worse and started cheating on me.
Since I left him he has been begging, crying, even begging my friends and family to talk to me to come back home; he is already a changed person, that he is willing to do anything just for me and our son to come back. I still love him, I started making up my mind to go back when my friend had a revelation through dream twice that if I go back things will become even worse. Another person said if I go back he will take revenge and take the kids from me after I put them to bed for I am pregnant now. A pastor said if I go back I might lose my life. All these are making me depressed, and I’ve been praying to God to transform him the same way He transformed apostle Paul in the Bible. For all things including revelations shall pass away but His word Jeremiah 32:27 shall stand for ever. I trust God for total turn around for my husband for am not willing to become a single mum.
Sorry for the marriage issues, I gotta be tough here:
1. Unless GOD changes a person, (yes it does happen) they will turn back to what they were.
2. Sometimes a man wants to get back with his wife because he can’t find a person to have sex with. (Sorry, it’s a little cruel, but true.)
3. Don’t always listen to others dreams & visions. They may not be true. You have to know for yourself.
4. It is better to be married, especially if there are children involved. If you go back, take it slow. Date him first. Just don’t move back. He needs to prove himself.
Am so confused right now. I just left my marriage of almost 5 years, a week and 2 days ago. My husband really gave me tough time. He abuses me verbally; he hits me once in a while. He never believed in me; he always runs me down. I have been praying for him to change; instead he became worse and started cheating on me.
Since I left him he has been begging, crying, even begging my friends and family to talk to me to come back home; he is already a changed person, that he is willing to do anything just for me and our son to come back. I still love him, I started making up my mind to go back when my friend had a revelation through dream twice that if I go back things will become worse. Another person said if I go back he will reverse and take the kids from me after I put them to bed for I pregnant now. A pastor said if I go back I might lose my life.
All these are making me depressed, and I’ve been praying to God to transform him the same way He transformed the apostle Paul in the Bible. For all things, including revelations shall pass away, but His word Jeremiah 32:27 shall stand forever. I trust God for total turn around for my husband for am not willing to become a single mum.
I had a great deal of inequity and bitterness and 7 months ago, divorced my wonderful husband. I left our church, not in a healthy way, and pulled my son from our Christian School. Immediately the Holy Spirit began teaching me what true forgiveness was and very quickly I forgave my husband and myself. All of the pain was like a black and white movie.
In a very interesting series of events, I called him one Monday to talk to him and discovered he still loved me. He carried his wedding ring in his wallet, to this day! Seven months after I did this horrible thing, we are more in love and living for God than ever before. I had to go thru a lot of repentance, but am being restored to my church and our son is back in school at church! We are planning on getting remarried in November and I finally understand what love, forgiveness, and submission look like. I deal with the guilt of what I did almost every day but God has restored my marriage. Praise God, I love my Bill!
SO, so glad for you and for Bill! This will be inspiring to many who read what you wrote who feel they are in a hopeless situation. But this shows that God does His best work when all seems lost. He redeems our souls and will redeem our marriages when we respond to His leadings. Praise God! May you both continue to look to the Lord to help you to build a great marriage! As you can see, it DOES happen. It happened with you, with us, and with many, many others we know.
“May the Lord direct your heart into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.” (2 Thessalonians 3:5) “May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.” (Jude 1:2) ~ Praying for you: “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ —to the glory and praise of God.” (Philippians 1:9-11)