Do you feel hopeless and helpless in trying to save your marriage? Do you long to read and view marriage testimonies where the couples come out on the good side, rather than the bad?
This goes along with something that Gary Thomas wrote:
“We need stories for couples who struggle, persevere, and come out on the other side; I recount a lot of those kinds of stories in Sacred Marriage. But we also need stories of couples who find the “sweet, happy spot” of marriage.” (From the book, “Cherish”)
We agree.
Save Marriage Testimonies Needed
“There can come a point in any marriage when you get fed up. You’ve lost patience with waiting to see some kind of change in your spouse. You’ve forgiven again and again; and you’re weary of the struggle. You’re through with trying to make things better. Additionally, you’re tired of being hurt over and over and waiting for a breakthrough that never comes.
“The years have taken their toll, and you subconsciously (or consciously) decide you are not going to try anymore. You no longer feel love for your husband (wife) the way you did, and you don’t even care about getting it back.
“This can happen in any marriage where one spouse is working to make things better and the other isn’t trying at all. Your heart can grow cold and hard like a stone; and it will seem as if the love you once had has died. But the good news is that God has the power to completely turn things around. He is the God of miracles and restoration who makes all things new. Jesus —the ultimate source of resurrection power —can resurrect love that has died and soften your heart toward your spouse. He can also bring your marriage to life again.” (Stormie Omartian, from the book, “Praying Through the Deeper Issues of Marriage”)
And that is what we want to show you here in this topic. Marriages CAN be restored. We’re not saying that everyone’s marriage will be restored. But it gives hope. And with hope, faith, and following God’s lead, it’s amazing what can happen.
So, the following are “Real Life” testimonies from people who have fought to save their marriages who have experienced God’s special touch in their marriages and circumstances. We believe you will be encouraged and find hope for yourself through reading them.
Marriage Testimonies:
• WHY I STAYED: A Wife’s Focus on God Saves Her Marriage
• HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS MARRIAGE
• HER HUSBAND WOULDN’T SPEAK TO HER FOR 3 YEARS
Plus:
• I REALIZED I WAS WRONG AND THAT I WAS A BAD HUSBAND
• THE NIGHT MY MARRIAGE ALMOST ENDED
Also:
• GOD CAN RESURRECT YOUR MARRIAGE FROM THE ASHES
• MARRIAGE PUT BACK TOGETHER AFTER DIVORCE
• MARRIAGE RESTORED AND HUSBAND AND DAD FORGIVEN
In Addition:
• 3 COUPLES WHOSE MARRIAGES WERE SAVED
• HOW TRUSTING GOD HEALED MY MARRIAGE
• RESTORED MARRIAGE TESTIMONIES
Video Clips &/or Written of Testimonies of Marriages That Were Saved:
• FUNNY HOW GOD CAN CHANGE A MARRIAGE
• BOB AND CHARLYNE STEINKAMP: Testimony of Marriage Restoration – Part 1
• BOB AND CHARLYNE STEINKAMP: Testimony – Part 2
Additionally:
• THE ANDERSONS: Her Affair Destroyed (and Saved) Their Marriage
• THE STEWARTS: Re-Married, For Better or Worse
• SCORNED WIFE HOLDS UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND’S LIFE
And:
• THE AGOSTOS: A Marriage Revival
• ROSCO & AMY BACKUS: Striking Out at Home
• THE BRYANTS: A Christmas Miracle of Marriage Restoration
And There’s More:
• THE BUNSES: Once Upon a Broken Marriage
• DAVID CARON: Reality Check at Death’s Door
• THE FOREHANDS: Inside a Stained Glass Marriage
Plus:
• STEVE AND TERRY HAYES: Marriage Do-Over
• THE SCRUGGS: In Love with My Ex
And:
• THE HAPPOLDTS: Happily Married At Last!
• PAT and GAYLE: Warming a Cold Marriage With Hope
Lastly:
• BRANDIE AND DUSTIN: Finding Love in a Destroyed Marriage
• DAVE AND KIRSTEN: God Restored Our Marriage
If God has done a special work in your marriage that could encourage others, we want to hear from you. Please share your testimony with us by going to the CONTACT section. Click on “Contact Us” and write your testimony there.
(US) I have destroyed my marriage with alcohol abuse. My wife has endured the last 4 years of me being in and out or recovery. I’m so grateful for the time she has spent with me. I cherish our marriage and I’m devastated that she is ready to give up. I understand why she would be and I can’t say that I blame her. I take and accept full responsibility for my marriage failing and for pushing her away.
I have been consumed by the disease of alcoholism and it has finally destroyed everything I love. I never stopped loving my wife I was at a point of helpless and hopeless. I’ve finally been broken down to the point that all I have is prayer and trust in God. My wife recently filed for legal seperation and said she has no desire to save our marriage. I’m still very in love with my wife and feel like my world is crashing down around me. I feel at the absolute lowest point in my life and find it hard to have hope in the future and sincerely believe that God may restore my marriage. HELP PLEASE.
The first thing you need to do is to stop condemning yourself, that is if you had received Christ Jesus as your savior and confessed your sins to him. (Romans 8:1) Don’t allow the devil to condemn you either and forgive yourself because God has forgiven you. You should know that God loves you and He has great plans for you. Allow the Holy Spirit to help you. He is more than willing to help you. Believe me, I have been in your situation and GOD RESTORED MY MARRIAGE AS WELL. I understand you just don’t allow the devil to condemn you.
(USA) I fullheartedly recommend all couples to watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3saGxNMwpE
(USA) Good luck getting a wayward wife, bent on divorcing her husband to actually sit down and entertain the idea that she can once again fall back in love with her husband while she’s having her affair with her lover.
I’ve observed that those romantic “in love” feelings are largely impervious to facts and reason.
(SOUTH AFRICA) Firstly, I empathize with those in pain. I have grown to understand how taxing and excruciating emotional pain can become. I have been lurking for a while in an attempt to find solace owing to recently being heart broken from a serious 1.5 year relationship with about 3 weeks staying together. Now I know I was not married to her, but we believed we loved each other and perhaps because of immaturity on both sides we thought since we are in a relationship all will be fine.
We broke up 7 months ago according to me and 10 mos ago according to her. Blaming aside, I never really felt pain till she told me she was now intimate with another man, perhaps because I had hope. I did lots of bad things to her in the past, which I am awfully regretting now, name-calling, beating, neglected her emotions etc. God’s vengeance has been now set on me and I am in so much pain. Not a day goes by without me thinking about her. I did lots of things in attempt to make us reconcile only with little or no success, the last time to which I was only laughed at. I am in shame.
I am in my final year of studies at college and am at the brink of losing my future because my mind hardly can concentrate. I was a very God-fearing man but a lot got in the way and satan drove me as much as possible from God, before I even realized it. But I am strongly believing that God has his ways to take back lost sheep. Whether you never believed or not you are still his sheep. To all those in pain who have been drawn closer to God because of the hurt and emotional wounds caused by your significant other, I say God had to make a wake up call. Lets not despair in faith; lets not lose hope, be it from straying partners, or hurt memories, we can’t let go. He is a Lord of wonders. He says those who seek me with all their hearts will find me.
Anyway, this is all I want to say. Please pray for me and let me embrace this as an opportunity of wisdom and growing closer to God. My ex has significantly changed a lot. She tells people bad things from our relationship and tries to turn all my friends against me. I hold on to faith. I do not know whether it’s strategic revenge or what but what I’m doing is praying for her, that she may forgive me for my wrongs, soften her heart and do away with all bitterness.
In the meantime I shall pray for you brothers and sisters and please remember me in your prayers too. I am young and with this modern world it’s easy to stray and mess up my future. Thank you Cindy Wright and husband. May God keep blessing your work. God bless you all.
(US) I have been on this site well over 9 months since my wife and I started having problems. It have been such an inspiration and given me lots of hope that even the marriages that hit rock buttom can emerge into something new and fullfilling. MY wife and I have been separated well over 6-7 months. We have 2 young children ages 6 and 3. I love my wife and children deeply and am trying everything to get our family back on track.
Each day I look for signs from my wife showing that she still wants the marriage but everything shows that she wants out. I pray that God is going to heal this broken marriage and reunite our broken family. This emotional pain is so unbearable, pain from having a torn up family and just being alone. I try to encourage my wife to pray for our marriage, knowing that God will help us through but she even says she will not pray for this marriage. God, I ask that your help me find hope and have faith in my marriage vows. Please say a pray for this broken family and ask God to restore this marriage with love and happiness that he intended for us. Ask that he would open my wife’s heart to reconciliation. Please pray for us.
Dave, We are praying for you and believing with you that God will work within your heart and your wife’s heart and within your marital relationship. As God opens eyes, we hope that both of you will make godly choices, big and small –good choices to find ways to show love to each other. We also pray God infuses hope into your heart that you will eventually experience better days –ones that will bring a smile to your heart. May you be blessed for your faithfulness in trusting in Him.
(USA) Well, just to let you all know that the enemy of our faith is real and he hates marriage. He will do everything in his power to send you to divorce. My husband has cheated on me but in the midst of it he got up and left, telling the girl that it’s wrong and left. Now the fight is not with my husband but with the enemy. When you don’t have God in your life or marriage you’re opening the door for attacks.
Well, now me and my husband are in church. God is first in our lives and I couldn’t ask for more. We all make mistakes but it’s if you learn from them. Please keep God first.
Please pray for the return of my wife Tammy, who left me and our three kids. We all miss her and want her back. We pray in Jesus name that she can find a path back home to us. Our lives are empty without her. I love my wife. Please pray for the restoration of our marriage.
David, your journey in the “valley of separation” just recently began. If your wife has not come to herself, know that I stand in agreement with you and all standers that God Almighty will soften the hearts of prodigal spouses. Know we serve a God of restoration. He alone ordained marriage and HATES divorce. Remember to pray without ceasing in the mighty name of Jesus! May God bless!
(Papua New Guinea) Hi, I am currently going through a harsh seperation to my partner. I am a mother of 2 children. I have just given birth to our second child together and he is aged 3 months but my partner has decided that he doesn’t want to continue on in our relationship.
We had planned to have our marriage blessed in February this year but now that is evidently not going to happen. My partner says he doesnt love me anymore and I haven’t seen him in the last 8-9 months now. He is sure that there is no way we will get back together for good and has decided to go on his own way and find another woman to marry later on in life.
I have been so devastated by this act of my partner as I love him so much and I am now praying earnestly for a breakthrough to restore our relationship. I only trust in the Lord and believe by faith that one day he may be reconciled back to me to live united as one family. I am a born again believer, my partner is not but I also pray that God will use me, God-willing to bring him to God one day. I have forgiven him for all the harsh words he has thrown at me.
He thinks that it would be best to raise our 3 month old baby boy on his own but I have not let him do that. I am praying earnestly to God for the reconciliation of our relationship, that one day he will realise and come back.
I kindly ask for you to stand together with me in prayer. It is a need. I believe strongly in God and the power of prayer and continue to talk and walk with God. May God bless this website and all the readers.
I pray that all who are in search for the restoration of their marriage, find hope and peace in Jesus Christ. Personally, I am struggling. My wife of four years left on December 7th, and has not spoken to me, other than 2 emails, since that date.
I was not a Christian when we got married; I thought I was. I started smoking marijuana around the first year in, and got her hooked, as well. We smoked heavily every day. We got pregnant and miscarried around a year and a half, and she left around 2 years in. She would still talk to me then, and I convinced her I would change and get back into church and stop with the drugs.
After she came back I got worse than ever. I renounced my religion and claimed atheism. I developed a bad gambling habit playing poker. I flirted with other women on social media. Though I never cheated physically I was unfaithful emotionally. I also developed a porn addiction.
When she left in December, she messaged me saying that she wanted to be separated until we could figure out what we wanted and then try to fix our marriage through counseling. I told her that if she was going to leave me again she could just go, and to just divorce me. I said it out of anger and frustration, because nothing is really further from the truth.
Three days after she left I was lying on the carpet in our apartment contemplating suicide when I just started praying, for the first time in years. God revealed that I had never truly accepted his son as my savior, and that he had been waiting for me all this time. I have given my life to Christ and I can feel my relationship with him is sincere now. I know he will provide and take care of me no matter what, and that God hates divorce.
I’ve been a terrible husband. The whole time I was claiming atheism she was in church, going to marriage seminars, praying for me. She is the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen and I really do love her more than words can dictate. She has moved back in with her family hundreds of miles from me. She mailed me her phone and blocked me on social media. She left because she didn’t like how many female friends I have and said I never made her my partner in relationships and money, and said she had still been willing to work things out until I spouted off for her to leave and to file for divorce.
In the two messages I’ve recieved from her since she left she has made it clear that she “is done and will be filing for divorce in late June”. I desperately want to be reconciled with her.
Please pray for Abby and our marriage, and that God will continue to make positive changes in my life. I believe that all things are possible in Christ, but I also know that she has a free will. I’m praying for lines of communication to be opened. She probably doesn’t believe anything I say, because I said it all before the first time she left. I just don’t know how to show her I’ve changed.
My husband left 5 months ago. I told him to go as he said he didn’t think we worked as a couple. We had been married almost 5 years and have two children (3 and 8). I asked him to come back a few weeks ago and told him I loved him and have changed but he refused. He has become cold and distant. I will send a caring text message (e.g. telling him I am praying for a safe journey if he is travelling) but he won’t even reply. I feel lost, abandoned and my confidence is shattered. I believe God’s will is for marriages to be restored but I see absolutely no sign of change. I have to wave goodbye to my children every other weekend when he takes them to stay with his Mum and it hurts so much. I didn’t think things were that bad at home, we just didn’t talk, that’s all. His job seems top of his list of priorities but they are treating him like dirt I feel by making him travel all over the country. What do I do…pray for him to come home? Please help it’s unbearable. Thank you
My marriage was restored 10 years later. We both lost hope and tried move on. I remember asking God to choose the right candidate for me, then when my ex husband proposed I was in shock myself. Then I heard a voice telling me, you asked me to choose, there you go! I told God but this is the same person who hurt me in the past? God said: No he is not the same, while you were praying and crying to me, I was working through him to make him a total new person. Trust me, he’s your perfect fit!
I can safely say, we are happy and Our foundation is solid. It been a year and half now and counting. True love win always!
We are so, so happy for you both and for those around you that love you both (because a broken marriage affects others too). What a great reason to celebrate. Thank you for sharing this with us. I have no doubt that it will encourage others who have lost hope. We serve a God of restoration. He is not hindered by our time tables and works behind the scenes even when we don’t see Him doing so. You have made our day by sharing this. To God be the glory!
Please pray for my marriage. My husband left his faith and left me almost 6 months ago. We have a 2 year old daughter. He is now having an affair with a former co-worker. The hardest part is he told me he was going to pursue her before he did it. He has no desire to give our marriage a second chance. I know that our God is the God of the impossible though. I pray that he will work in both of us, bring my husband back to Christ and then reconcile our marriage.
Hello every one. I am writing on here to share my journey and what I have learned and am currently learning. This year has been by far one of the hardest and most emotional year for me. I met my husband through my cousin. She introduced us and we went on a date and it was love at first sight. We actually did long distance for 6 months, then he moved to America and we continued our relationship. It seemed like everything was falling into place and I was the happiest I have ever been. We got married at the end of last year and everything was just beautifully working out (so I thought).
March came around and things started to fall apart. Long story short, he moved back to his home country; we tried to keep up on communication but he started acting very distant and it broke my heart. I turned to God in March and I started praying and reading the Bible trying to find comfort in God. I bought 4-5 books on praying over your husband and I started a journal of prayers for my husband. This journey has not been easy for me AT ALL. I have cried countless times, I have fasted, and gave everything over to God.
I just want to say, God will work on you when he is working for you. I have never been this close to God. I have had to confess things to people in my past. He has opened my eyes to what it truly means to be a woman of God. I love who I am becoming in Christ. I currently have not talked to my husband in almost a month. I have no idea what the future holds for my relationship with him but I am working on my relationship with God. That is the most important relationship to me right now.
Please pray for me during my journey that God will restore my marriage and bring my husband back to me. Ultimately I want the will of God to be done in my life. Good luck to everyone on their own journey. I am claiming that I will return on here with an update that God has restored my marriage.
So sorry for the problems you’re having with your spouse… this has to be heartbreaking. But congratulations on your new walk with Christ. I pray the Lord guides you and helps you in your everyday life, but also opens doors of communication and healthy interaction with your spouse. I have a suggestion for a great book that I just read. The publisher asked me to read it for review. It is excellent–right along the line of the journey you are on with the Lord. The book is written by Lynn Donovan and is titled, Marching Around Jericho: Praying Your Unsaved Spouse into the Kingdom
. Please go into the link to read about this book. Not only will it help you to pray for and interact with your spouse, you will grow spiritually in amazing ways. I highly recommend you get it and use it for your own growth, as well as help you to better pray. I hope you will. May God bless you in this journey. And may the Lord open your husband’s eyes spiritually, as well. That is my prayer for both of you.
These stories are so inspirational. It gives me hope and peace. Thank you God for restoring marriages and families.
Psalm 37:7 ” Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.”
The key is to ask God and be patient.
I am asking for my marriage to be restored too…. I’ll wait.
My husband has filed for divorce, he’s not a Christian but I desperately want him to know the Lord. I pray that his eyes will be open and that he will turn from darkness to light from the power of Satan to the power of God, Amen.
I agree with Sarah in prayer that God will open her husband’s eyes to see and come to know you Lord Jesus and that he will turn from the darkness that surrounds him and walks into your Light. May he see that he needs to put his energy into restoring their relationship and NOT walk away from their marriage. May you teach them how to love each other well as you love.