Today, we had a lady preaching. First, she talked about how her husband got into drugs after they had become Christians. Then he cheated on her. She was very mad. And she got into "How could You do this to me, God?" She found out she could not stop him from doing drugs, plus could not stop him and her. But she went for a divorce, and then finally he got ready to go through rehab. But this came after she realized she could not control him. She needed to trust God.
Now, I'm not sure the divorce move was the best way to put pressure on him, but it worked out, it seems.
In any case she got the drift she was not the one who could control him, she needed to give him to God. And then things worked out. After this, he got straightened out, and then we got into Christian ministry together and had a girl, if I remember right.
But then came the message of the cheater that she had a child that was his. And this woman was quite mad and again . . . "How could You let this happen?" But she realized she needed to forgive. She could not approve what her husband did, but do forgive. Or else, she could not be forgiven; but also forgiving would make her free from being effected badly, on and on and on, about what her husband had done.
I can see, too . . . in this case . . . he had already really changed since messing down with the woman who cheated with him. So, holding this on him, then, would have also been wasting and ruining all God had done since his cheating time. And he's sitting there, while she's telling everybody all this.
Then she got into how her situation was like how happened with Joseph in Genesis chapters 37-50 > how he had told his brothers he had a dream that they were all bowing to him, and so they sold him into slavery, and then he was falsely accused of trying to rape his master's wife, got put in prison; then he was used to tell Pharoah the interpretation of the king's dreams, and then he was used to manage all Egypt's resources to avoid many people dying during a great famine. And . . . lo and behold . . . his brothers got in trouble and needed food; so they came to Egypt,
not knowing their brother Joseph was now in charge of everything, having power to do whatever he could to those brothers who had hated and betrayed Joesph.
But Joseph took care of them and their families. Then, when their father died, now the brothers were scared things might be different. But here is how Joseph handled this >
"Joseph said to them, 'Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? But as for you, you meant evil against me but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. Now therefore, do not be afraid; I will provide for you and your little ones.' And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them." (Genesis 50:20-21)
So, Joseph the "victim" was *aggressive* to make good out of the situation.
He saw how God was using the bad for His good intentions.
God made things WOW >
work
out
well to save many people alive,
where Satan had been so busy and focused with taking away Joseph's life.
WOW, how where Satan could make some mess with just one person,
God used that person to help many many many people to stay alive.
So,
"grace abounded much more." (in Romans 5:20)
"Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound.
But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more."
WOW included how Joseph with God got reconciled with his brothers. And the twelve tribes of the whole nation of Israel have come from Joseph and his brothers.
So . . . when we are victims . . . with You, God, we are not just about getting through, or "surviving" for ourselves, or taking action to change policies in order to stop or get the bad guys. But with You we are aggressively getting into how we can use the wrong for Your good intentions . . . of helping many people to live, and to even have reconciliation so the wrong ones can be included in Your plan for life, like Joseph's brothers were. Of course, we know ones of our abusers have no interest in being reconciled; however, this does not stop us from all we can do with You > in Your priesthood, we are like Jesus >
"For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15)
So, our Groom Jesus has come to this earth, and He has gone through things that we go through, here in this evil world . . . so that now Jesus can feel for us and minister to us all that got Him through it all. And we with Jesus do this same thing > we go through hard things, so that now we can feel for others and help them with how You have gotten us through it all, LORD. This is included in the priesthood of Jesus; and we are in this priesthood. So, welcome to the priesthood of Jesus > now we can stop being just "victims" and *take advantage* of whatsoever Satan has done, exploiting his stupid nonsense for God's good end. We are the exploiters, now
"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who
called you out of darkness into His marvelous light."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(1 Peter 2:9)
And here I am, bopping with the hip-hope music
boomp - dee - doomp - bee - bump - ee - boomp - boomp
let there be the pumping of the love blood . . .
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. . . . . . . . . .*Musicnotes*
. . . . . . . . *Musicnotes*
. . . . . . . . . . *Fish*
Now I'm bopping . . .
I'm not slopping
or just shopping
for v-a-i-n things,
and what that brings
but I've got the
pumping of
the l-o-v-e blood,
and not the haste
with the waste,
but what is chaste
in the grace
of love
above
the shoves
bump bump
dum dee dum dump . . .
hen pump pump . . .
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:18 pm
i loooooove this!!!!!!!!! treasure hunt for God's love for us! Oh, how I love Him because He first loved me 
