Are You Willing?

Family Cell 6/5/09


Are You Willing?
How willing are you to fight for your marriage and family? Raquel and I spent last week up at Bethel Church. We attended the Love After Marriage workshop. We meet so many awesome couples. We even adopted spiritual children that we love. God had His hand on each one of us and truly worked miracles in our lives, I’ll never be the same. My heart yurns to see our marriages reflect who God truly is. God wants us to step out by faith. When we do He is there. It starts with our willingness to be completely transparent with our spouse and each other. I call it spiritual nakedness. When we do, we allow God to work in our life. We welcome the Holy Spirit to come and clean house. When we’re transparent with each other in the body of Christ, we become a family. We learn to love each other, support each other, empathize with each other, we pray and go out of our way for each other. We as a family need to encourage each other. All too many times, we allow the enemy to come in to rob and steal our joy. We buy into the lie of we are not able or someone else is more equipped than me. News flash, WE ARE ABLE! No matter where you are at in your life or in your marriage, God is able to change your circumstance. You must believe, be childlike and take that leap of faith. Your Father will catch you, pick you up and set you on the right path. We are going to have face issues and areas in our life that we are not comfortable with. Talk about things with our spouses that we have avoided. Ask and extend forgiveness to each other. It can be difficult, especially if the hurts are big. But when we do, we experience a freedom. This allows God to enter those areas that have been shut down to Him and your spouse. It’s time to stop making excuses, I know, I’ve made every excuse in the book so I wouldn’t interrupt my comfortable little life. Man am I glad God wrecked me. Thank you Father! You are good. Are you willing to step up and take back what the enemy has stolen? IT IS TIME CHURCH! WE SAY NO MORE! You can do all things through Christ. It is He who gives you the strength you need. It starts with a choice to make a decision to want and work towards a better marriage and family. Ask yourself if you are completely satisfied in your marriage. Don’t put God in a box. He wants our marriage to reveal who he is. In order to do that, we need to stand naked (spiritually that is) before God and allow Him to transform our hearts, mind,
and spirit. I just say, “come wreck me Father, let me never be the same."
Your life and your marriage will make a difference. Don’t ever sell yourself short. You are a perfect creation; made without a blemish; created in the image of your Father. So lets change our mindset from I can’t to I can. These past two weeks God has used my wife and I in ways He never has before. It has been a ride that I don’t ever want to get off. Lets all get on the ride that only God can send us on.
Mark and Raquel Soto