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This is a tough question many people ask.

• Is God strong enough to save my marriage?
• Is God loving enough to save my marriage?
• Is God willing to save my marriage?
• Does God know about my situation?
• Does God hear my prayers?
• Is there hope?

Good News and Bad News

Bad news first: God gave us freedom to choose whether to be good or bad, faithful or unfaithful, and we can hurt people or bless people just as we can please God or hurt Him.

What this means is that

• God is strong enough to save our marriages
• God is loving enough to save our marriages
• God knows about our situations
• God hears our prayers if we don't regarding iniquity in our hearts
• There is hope

The Bible tells us if we regard iniquity in our hearts, God will not hear our prayers. But, we have to be careful not to let this turn us into mercenaries bargaining with God telling Him we will be faithful to Him if He fixes our marriages our helps us escape the pain we are in. To be faithful to God, we have to be faithful at heart, and we have no right to expect anyone to be faithful to us if we won't be faithful to the One who gave us life and every blessing we ever had.

Sometimes we wonder why bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. But, this gives us all a greater opportunity to express a wider range of love or hate for God based on who He is rather than on what He gives to us. If all we have is roses and spring weather throughout our lives, we won't ever have the opportunity to praise God in the freezing winter or in the scorching sun. If we have no pain, if we cannot go straight into pain or into fear, then we can never master pain or fear and we can never have any courage or love to express to God or anyone else.

God only allows trials and tribulations for the purpose of bringing about a greater good. But, this is nearly impossible for the human mind to comprehend when it involves such extreme tribulations. It often seems if God were there, then the tribulation would not be so severe. But, no matter what range God allows for tribulations, the tribulations at the ends of that range will always be the greatest tribulations of our limited human experience and they will always appear extreme to us no matter where God sets the boundaries. But, we have to trust Him that He is loving and wise and able to set those boundaries in the right place.

When we learn to trust God through the trials and tribulations and loving Him faithfullly through them all, when we trust in His sovereignty and believe He is able to allow freedom of choice and pain and loss and injustice and unreasonable behavior and still cause all things to work together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose, then we will be more joyful through the pain and more comforted, more calm, secure, assured, stronger, wiser, and more clear minded to handle what comes our way.

At that point, our faith and our love and our faithfulness is real because it is owned by God and is not controlled or tossed around by every wind that comes our way.

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People who care pray. That is not meant to be judgmental or unkind but to bring attention to our need to pray and take action for the sake of children so they won’t have to grow up in broken families or violent or angry or troubled families.
If you care, then you are already doing something about this problem. If you care, you will not let these things remain unopposed. How do I know? Well, you’re here reading this? That’s taking action. That’s caring!

Have you asked God for help? Have you spent time with Him seeking answers to prayer? If you’re not getting results do you give up or do you care enough to ask why your prayers are not answered?
Will you pray for your children? Will you pray for your parents? Will you pray for your spouse?
Knowing that those who are dishonest and unfaithful in marriage will perish into hell if they don’t repent, will you pray for them?
Will you pray for marriage ministries to grow in success? Will you contribute to their success somehow? If you know divorce and adultery break Jesus’ heart, will you pray or offer yourself to Him to be used to help bring healing?
Will you pray?

Please Pray for Marriages originally appeared on www.family-fanatics.com on November 15, 2009.

How is your marriage?
I almost cringe to ask that question because many who come to this site come here looking for help. Some people are wonder

• Can I save my marriage?”
• If adultery is involved, is it too late?
• Should I get a divorce?
• Where can I find help to save my marriage?
• What can I do about child custody?
• What can I do about child support?
• What is parental alienation syndrome?

This site is here to help you find answers to these questions. It is also here to help people who want to join together and bring changes to some corrupt laws such as

• Unilateral no-fault divorce that favors the unfaithful
• Federal funding for child support enforcement that in essence bribes the courts to favor the unfaithful and the stronger potential payer.
• Corruption that pays attorneys to lose their client’s cases
• Corruption that drags the faithful into court to be threatened with the loss of everything precious, then uses that to extort protection money in the form of attorney fees
• Corruption that threatens you, your children, your loved ones

Your senators and your representatives could speak out against this very obvious and very widespread corruption, but they are afraid. They are afraid of the power of a very large legal community who prospers from the destruction of children’s families.
If we do not speak up, if we do not protest loudly, if we do not bring substantial political pressure to overcome this corruption, then it will remain as it has been for the past 35 years, and millions of families, faithful parents, and children will suffer.
And you can be sure it will affect you.

Welcome to Family Fanatics originally appeared on www.family-fanatics.com on October 29, 2009.