Time to Wake Up
God gave me this word a while back but honestly, I wasn’t obedient in reading and writing about it. Ephesians is one of my favorite books in the Bible, as well as Romans and Esther. But, a few years back I was reading Ephesians and Romans and there are scriptures now that still stick out to me and I can visually see the words and remember where they are, for instance Romans 8, Ephesians 4, 5, and 6. I say that because some of these scriptures are so prevalent to what I am currently going through overall.
As you know I am standing for the restoration of our marriage and for my family’s souls including the generations after our children. Over the past few months, I have heard the words stand up, wake up, or get up. I initially thought the Holy Spirit was showing me my husband was getting up from his dark path because there were signs that he was. But tonight, I received clarity that it was in reference to both of us standing up.
I learned last year that standing for our marriage is not just about our prodigal spouses coming home but about God changing that standing spouse, changing our hearts, minds, and souls; making a true warrior of God out of us. I can say that God is still teaching me how to fight as a warrior of God. I do believe that every warrior of God has a different weapon. At this point in my journey of life, I know God is teaching and telling me to continue going deeper in prayer, reading his Word, and fighting the enemy by speaking over lives and declaring the Word of God over myself, my husband, and our family.
With that, God showed me clearly tonight that He wants me to stand up further in praying, decreeing and declaring, and going to God every time I feel frustrated instead of my husband; there is an appointed time God will allow me to be able to go to my husband with my emotions, but I know God is teaching me to trust Him first before my husband. I don’t bother my husband with every emotion as I used to, but there are times that I still struggle with wanting to talk to him face to face about my emotions on certain things, and God does grant those opportunities. But, I know He wants me to go to Him more. By going to God more I am defeating the enemy’s plan, tactics, and I am standing up in my stance as a Praying Woman of God, as a Warrior of God.
Now what God showed me about my husband was that He is waking my husband up from his place of darkness. The scripture He reminded me about was Ephesians 5:14-19 KJV Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; 19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
I started rejoicing with joy when I reread this scripture. This is clearly what God showed me tonight. He is waking my husband out of his darkness; He is breaking my husband free from the stronghold that the enemy has had over him for so many years. As another sister in Christ said tonight “God is allowing the enemy to keep our prodigal spouses hostage until He has finished a work in us”, the standing spouses. Praise God! “And when God has completed the necessary work in us, God will tell the enemy to let go of our spouses!” Hallelujah! Without going into too much detail, God allowed me to spend time with my husband this week and I clearly saw my husband spiritually fighting whatever has a hold on him, it wasn’t even scary it was actually beautiful because I was able to see what God is doing and how that spirit is trying to hold my husband back, but that spirit has no more control over my husband IN THE NAME OF JESUS! But, the comfort I received was that God said there is an appointed time for the promise He gave me to come to pass, and that He is removing everything that is not of God from my husband, Amen!
For anyone standing for prodigal spouses, children, friends, family, or anyone, God says, Ephesians 5:2-10 KJV 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
People may think you are crazy for the things you are doing that are in obedience to what God told you to do, but remember eventually the storm came after Noah built the ark and eventually Pharaoh had to let God’s people go!!! Keeping standing on the Word of God!