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[saint701]

Hello Phantomfaith, All,
Thank you so very, very much for your prayers on my behalf!


Blessings!

For the past month I have been doing research night and day on a court case with my X-wife that I thought on my part would be just and righteous to pursue. I learned quite a bit. Now I've been down this road before with the Lord, where I thought I had every right to pursue something, and did to the point where the Lord stopped me by asking me if I wanted to go to hell. That got my attention and I stopped ignoring the inner witness of restraint.

But no inner witness stopped me this time with my pursuit of justice. On and on I went doing research....to the point of just burning myself out. It was a late Friday evening when I determined I had stuffed everything into my old gourd it could stand.

Here is the rest of the story as I told it to Phantomfaith.

Quote saint701 Re: Researching Missouri Law
Sent: Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:28 am
by saint701

Good morning Phantomfaith,



Blessings!

Thank you very, very much for your prayers. I have no doubt they played an integral part in our Lord showing me going to court was not His will at all. Now why, one might ask, did He allow me to spend all that time in research even to the point of preparing to file the necessary forms before putting up a couple of stop signs?

I can only conclude He allowed my vain pursuit of justice in court to test whether I would yield to His will or go my own way. The first scripture He popped up before my eyes was:

1Cor.6
1.[7] Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

I mulled it over a day or so and replied that the Word of the Lord must have 2 witnesses.

Matt.18
1.[16] But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

About an hour after that another scripture came up before my eyes:

Matt.5
1.[44] But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

I said to myself, ok, gaining a little peace and slept on it. The next morning another scripture came to me.

Isa.43
1.[26] Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

I pointed out that my X was using my son's money for her own use. (Normally when a child is younger than 18 her using my money for her own bills would be legally correct , but when an adult child is going to college the money is for the adult child's expenses).

On that basis the Lord replied my pursuit of justice was correct. He would "allow" me to continue.
I did. I got as far as identifying the forms I needed to file and just came to a dead stop. Again the same two scriptures of the Lord came to me, but this time as a decision a son might have to make in the light of what His Father advised him to do.

This past Saturday I chose to go on the way of the Lord's Word. Immediately a wonderful calm and peace came over me, as I had chosen to stand by faith on the Lord's Word.

John.7
1.[17] If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

Again, I have no doubt your prayers for me to have peace have helped tremendously! Again, I thank you and all for the wonderful grace you have shown me through prayer.


Blessings!
Love, In Christ Jesus, Den.