Divided House

Luke 11:17 KJV

But He knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house-falleth.

So, Ive been writing these blogs now since Dec and I tell you that Satan has made it his goal to try and destroy my life.  As some of you know, my wife and I were having some problems a few months back.  Evidentally what I thought was an answered prayer to our problems though, wasn't.  I know God has a plan for all of us, but I must admit that right now I'm not sure what mine is.

I love my wife as you all know, but this go around I'm not going to get on here and cry and do the whole "woe is Steve" thing.  I don't believe in divorce, but I also don't believe you can make someone love you who doesn't.  I've been honest with all of you from the beginning, but out of respect for my wife and our marriage, that's all I'm going to discuss about it.  I do beg for your prayers though.  Pray that God will use me sooo much that I won't have time to be depressed.

Now back to the message.  In today's verse Jesus is talking to some people who had just seen Him cast out a demon.  I know He didn't really mean it like I am discussing today, but the great thing about being a Christian is that God will use anything to teach us.  I woke up this morning and prayed that God would just shed some light on what was wrong with my marriage, and I promise I just opened up my bible and today's verse was staring back at me.

 I probably made plenty of bad decisions through the years, but I know that this blog wasn't one of them.  My house had been divided spiritually for along time, and I had made my marriage almost like an idol.  I understand I was trying to do my will not His.  I wish I had been a stronger Christian in the past and maybe I could have had a better relationship with God which would have maybe helped my marriage.  Either way though, my house is divided now and just like it says it will and did fall.

You know, life stinks sometimes, but I have to keep telling myself that God never promised us our life on earth would be easy.  As I've said before, if you aren't being attacked spiritually then you may not be much of a threat to Satan.  I love being a threat to satan's kingdom.  I'm going to tell as many people as I can about God's saving grace through His Son dying on the cross.  We might lose some major battles to Satan on this earth, but remember the war has already been won.  It was won the second Jesus died on the cross for us.  All we have to do is just put our faith in Him and what He did on the cross.  Focus on His will for our lives and not ourselves.  Even when I am stressed to the max, I do have the peace of knowing where I will spend eternity.   Do You?  Please just pray and ask God to save you.  Tell Him you know you are a sinner and you know Jesus died on the cross for you.  TURN away from your old ways and focus on HIM and HIS will. 

My book will be out in about 3 weeks.  Keep me and it in your prayers.  Just pray for me to stay in God's will.

God Bless!