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1 | Divorce and drug abuse | 1 Peter | RitaAnn | 240300 | ||
As a reborn Christian, I am finally seeing God's purpose for me in my life, However, I have been married and divorce 3 times and I may be heading for another divorce, what can I do, I refuse to live with a man that is on prescribed drugs and is abusing his use of it. He is dependent on his drugs, It alters his behavior and he becomes abusive with me, what shall I do? | ||||||
2 | Divorce and drug abuse | 1 Peter | Beja | 240301 | ||
RitaAnn, Let me first say that I can not begin to imagine the difficulty of your situation and I have prayed for you. Second, I would say that you need to be faithfully committed to a sound local church where the elders may give you wise counsel from the scripture on the basis of both the word of God and knowing your situation more specifically that they may counsel you more accurately from the word of God. An internet forum with strangers, however much sympathy they might feel, is a poor substitute for these things. Third, I highly commend to you the book of 1 Peter as it gives a lot of thought to how a Christian is to react to a rightful authority wrongfully abusing its power. May God bless you. In Christ, Beja |
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3 | Divorce and drug abuse | 1 Peter | RitaAnn | 240306 | ||
Thank you so much for your reply and for lifting me up in prayers, I am in a Bible based church where I am constantly being prayed over and counseling has already been in progress. As I had mentioned previously, I have been married four times, the 1.) was at a very young age, and was not fully matured, much more I was not walking in Christ. All about that marriage was wrong,. I married to escape my home environment which was not a pleasant home environment. 2. Second marriage was so wrong as well, as I ended up marrying a man that was using illegal drugs. 3.Marriage a marriage of 12 years, but up until he placed his hand on my minor child, and the continued emotional abuse, that I decided, I could not take any more of that life,,I decided to get out of that marriage. I am a woman that has bad choice in relationships with men,. I am so eager to marry, as my desire is to be a married woman, to serve God and to be a woman on faith,. I am a true believer in Christ. However, my fourth marriage, again, I am married to a man who is on prescription drugs and he abuses his meds. I have dealt with his terrible mood swings, his irrational behaviors and his actions have become un bearable. I am constantly reminded of my previous divorces just to make me feel like I am useless.. I have a hard time living with my husband, and I am so lost and confused about whether or not, I should terminate this marriage,. I am currently enrolled in a Celebrate recovery program, which is a program to help those who needs healing, and that I surrender to God to continue this 12 weeks recovery program, so I can be healed of all my brokenness. Thank you again for your reply and prayers. | ||||||
4 | Divorce and drug abuse | 1 Peter | Beja | 240307 | ||
RitaAnn, May God bless you with spiritual wisdom for this. I will not continue this thread as I personally think talking through something like this would be quite a long discussion and I don't suspect a long counseling discussion is what the forum was meant for. Despite that, when you tell me that you are being counseled by your church leaders and in your words you are yet "so lost and confused about whether or not, I should terminate this marriage," I can not help but to worry if you are getting sound advice. If you wish to speak further about this you are welcome to e-mail me at jdobbins865@students.sbts.edu and we may talk further. But let me also say that getting spiritual advise from some stranger on the internet is a pretty silly notion. The forum works because we are discussing a specific text that is before each of us and discussing what it might mean. Should anyone tell me some weird interpretation I can look down at the text and see it is a bogus interpretation. Counseling is much more difficult via internet because you must analyze what is going on in a person's thinking, because the point is to get your thoughts and actions in line with scripture. You can rarely get a complete picture of somebody's thoughts and life when you have never met them. Plus YOU don't really know if my teaching is scriptural or if I'm some fringe heretic wanting to win you over to a cult. You can know two things about me. First, I am a southern baptist, with a strong reformed bent if that is helpful to you at all. Second, I am married and my wife will always be welcome to read any and all of my e-mails (and often does). All that said, if you wish to speak further on it with me in particular, you may e-mail me. Again, may God bless you with knowledge for obedience. And again, I commend 1 Peter to you. In Christ, Beja |
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5 | Divorce and drug abuse | 1 Peter | RitaAnn | 240308 | ||
I have started to read 1 Peter as you have recommended and I am reading it over and over to fully grasp as I am still a baby in my faith with the Lord, I was just baptized back in 2011 and although I diligently seek for spiritual guidance, because of my husbands continued abusive words, is why I feel that I am still being challenged with my spiritual faith. I will not opposed the fact that your wife partakes in this comments and correspondence, in fact, I feel comfortable in knowing that you are able to view things in a females perspective as well. She may not have lived this shattered life of mine, but as a woman, I trust she can share a woman's point of views. Your absolutely correct in saying that this forum may not necessary be the proper place to deliver all my issues, and I agree with that. Thank you again and do keep me in your prayers as I truly believe in prayers as well. I am only challenged in my faith by being constantly taunted by my husbands hurtful comments. I wish to remove myself from this environment, however, we have yet to find the suitable means to live apart, as we only have one house, and neither have any means to relocated, due to financial issues. More so, because I feel that should I move out and stay with a family member, it would just allow Satan to enter into mine or my husbands thoughts that we are out with someone else. So to remove any doubts of any allegations of any infidelity issues, we have just decided to stay in separate rooms, until we are able to find our directions, I for one, I sit it my room, read my bible and other inspirational/reading materials and I am waiting on some calls as I recently decided to get out a get a job. | ||||||