What About My Husband, Lord?

Table of Contents

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Part 1 What About My Husband, Lord? Encouragement and Wisdom For The

Single Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter 1 It Started With A Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2 God Is The Match-Maker! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Chapter 3 Overcoming Obstacles To Faith In The Process Of Waiting On The Lord . . . 17

Chapter 4 Being Positioned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Chapter 5 The Desire Fulfilled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Chapter 6 Taking Your Own Leap Of Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Part 2 What About My Husband, Lord? Encouragement and Wisdom For The Married Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Chapter 1 You Are His Cheerleader. God Is His Coach! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Chapter 2 Honoring Your Husband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Chapter 3 Releasing God’s Word Over Your Husband’s Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81

Chapter 4 Releasing Your Husband To The Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Part 3 Activation Of God’s Power In Your Life For All Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Chapter 1 Getting On God’s Plan For Your Whole Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Chapter 2 Gaining A Surpassing Victory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Chapter 3 God-Adventures That Deepened My Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Favorite Books God Used To Teach Me His Ways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

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Chapter 1

It Started With A Prayer

I was 28 years old and was enthralled with my job as a first grade teacher, but I knew I was ready to make the change. I was ready to move into my new role as a wife and a mother – something I had wanted since I was a very young girl. I had considered every adjustment that I imagined would come with this new life because I was about to make a request to God for it. Just in case the answer came next week in the form of a first date with my husband, it was important that I knew that I was really ready now. So with the realization that yes, I did want it now, I sat up in my bed, and there in the dark, made a simple request to the Lord for a husband, knowing that if I asked for one, I would have one. God heard and answered that prayer, but His sense of time is definitely not in sync with mine! Had I known the wait that was before me, I would have despaired. His ways are not our ways, but God knows best!

What I expected was that through the dating process, my husband and I would meet, fall in love and realize that we were right for each other. God had something better in mind!

The Darkness Is Defeated By Our Praise

Four years had passed since the prayer for a husband, and I was in deep pain over the break-up of a relationship that I had hoped would lead to marriage. God saw, and what He was about to do in response to my sorrow would make Him more real to me than ever before. Whether a dream or a vision, I do not know. In bed, in the dark, I could hear the powers of darkness in the hallway, laughing and gloating over my loss. They had gotten me good! I looked up and saw a small circle of light in the center of the bedroom ceiling. I knew in my heart that it was the light of the Lord. I raised my hands and praised Him with thanksgiving pouring out of my heart, that He was my shield, my refuge, my strong tower, my help in times of trouble, my deliverer, that I was more than a conqueror through Him who loves me, that He was my way-maker and my Faithful And True. And as the praise poured from my heart to Him who is Lord over all, the circle of light flooded across the ceiling and down the walls until the entire room was engulfed in light. At that instant, the powers of darkness were silenced and gone.

Two months later, while on my way to my summer school classroom, I turned on the radio in my car to listen to a Christian station for the first time, having just recently learned about the station’s existence. A song was already in progress. The first words that I heard, “Never believe what you hear in the night. Keep your eyes on Jesus, and visions of light will come flooding over you,” filled the car. I would later learn that it was a song by Harvest called His Angels Are Everywhere. God had given someone a song that narrated my exact experience from two months before! I couldn’t stop crying tears of joy that God had sent me a crystal clear message that He cared deeply about my pain. For years afterward, I would share the story of that experience – a message for all that the powers of darkness cannot stay in the presence of true praise coming from His people. He had opened up my spiritual eyes, so that I could actually see what happens when we turn our eyes to Him, and ignore the circumstances which may be fact, and choose to speak the truth, His Word, which will change the facts to line up with the truth.

I believe that this experience was a key factor in the supernatural way that the Lord chose to answer my request for a husband. Restoration that was started through those praises was fully birthed on my wedding day, when I said, “I do!”

God has always been in the restoration business. When God restores, what you gain is more than what you would have had, originally. Have you suffered devastation in your husband situation? Whether single or married, God can restore. Look to the Lord, commit your way to Him and send out your praises!

If you are single, there is more good news. God is the matchmaker!