Reclaiming Surrendered Ground: Protecting Your Family from Spiritual Attacks by Jim Logan

Author:Jim Logan [Logan, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780802493163
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2015-12-15T08:00:00+00:00

The “rebuilding” Mike referred to took time. He recognized that his marriage lacked the closeness of prior times, but he also felt God giving him “a heightened desire to please my wife.” So he began some important rebuilding steps, described in “A Husband’s Battle Plan.” During the next eighteen months their relationship was strained and distant.

“It would have been much easier for us to give up, but our commitment to our covenant with God upheld us during these terrible days,” Mike explained. “After almost a year of my following these rebuilding steps, my wife’s heart began to change and her trust began to rebuild.

“The result was that I received an unexpected gift—my wife’s heart was turned back to me! I took my wife through the same steps to freedom that Rev. Logan took me through. God delivered her from bitterness and rebellion. I am so grateful to God for my deliverance.”

Mike has been delighted to find his wife refreshed and happy in their marriage. “The light is back in my wife’s eyes and she is joyful again. By God’s grace, I still walk in victory. My wife has a new love for me and increased reliance on God. And our physical relationship has never been closer. We live for Him.”

There isn’t anything I can add to that except to say, praise the Lord!

HIGHER GROUND

A Husband’s Battle Plan

Below is the action plan Mike drew up and committed himself to follow after his moral failure. It’s a terrific plan, whether a husband has failed his wife or not. In fact, this is a great way for a husband to put his love in action and set up barriers to temptation that could lead deep into sexual sin. We commend it to you—not as a temporary “fix,” but as a workable, God-honoring daily discipline.

1. Make a vow to your wife that you will share any wrong thinking or action before you go to bed at night (Ephesians 4:26).

2. Affirm to your wife, “Now that God has delivered me from bondage, I will still be out from under bondage no matter what happens. Even if something were to happen to you, I will still be free because I now consider myself to be ‘dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus’” (Romans 6:11).

3. Purpose to read Scripture daily to your wife from now on (Ephesians 5:26).

4. Make time with your wife early in the day a daily priority.

5. Commit yourself to a consistent daily quiet time and to spiritual growth.

6. Tell your wife often, “I’m really free.” Give her examples of the changes in your life.

7. Write your wife little notes regularly, telling her things like “I’m fine, and I love you.” Make sure she understands what “I’m fine” means:

a. The shield of faith is up to reject any wrong thoughts.

b. You are obeying the Holy Spirit’s promptings in thoughts and actions.

c. You are not thinking wrong thoughts.

d. You are holding to your vow to share any wrong thoughts or actions with her before bedtime.

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