Kevin

I'm transparent as glass. I believe that God always wants you healed, emotionally and physically because He is the most loving Father there is. No father even a bad one would want his child to be sick or traumatized, so how much more does our Heavenly Father want us to be healed and whole! Believe that you have received healing and you will have it.

Love and Restpect: Husbands, love your wives and wives respect your husbands. That means husbands should not be harsh with their wives because that is not very loving. This also means husbands should love their wives when they are unlovable. Wives should respect their husbands and not nag him or use sharp words with him because that is disrespectful to a man. A wife should respect her man even if he is not deserving it. It's the way God designed a marriage to love and respect. He built into a woman to receive love and He built into a man to receive respect. It's how He made us.

This is how I envision a marriage to operate. We are not perfect, but He is and God will give us the ability to operate in a marriage as he designed it to be.

This brings us to the parallel between man and wife and the marriage of the Church to our groom, Jesus. As the bride of Christ, the church is to respect and love our groom, Jesus. We know already how much Christ loves us. He loves His bride, the church, with an everlasting deep love. He's coming back soon to get His bride, we just do not know exactly when. Are we ready for His return?

Let’s turn our attention to forgiveness. I know that at some point in time each of us has been hurt by someone. Maybe there was even betrayal or infidelity. There could’ve been childhood trauma or someone might’ve cut you off in traffic. Regardless of what the offense was, we owe it to ourselves to forgive that person who hurt us. Do you want to know when you have forgiven someone thoroughly? You pray blessing on their life and when you see that God has blessed them, you’re happy about it. You are happy that God has indeed blessed them. This is how you know that you harbor no ill will toward that person any longer, you are no longer in bondage to unforgiveness you are free, indeed!