Families Experience Restoration

The following are real-life stories of God at work in the lives of pastors and leaders. We praise the Lord for the way he is restoring lives through Life Action's outreaches.

• Lost, lonely, and spiritually neutral. My wife and I were sharing a house—one in one room, the other in another. It was not until the conference that we came together on "the same page." We just needed to see and hear God's Word to break us both and come together. We are now more like we were when we first were married. Forgiveness, God's grace, and letting go of pride made the change.    

• God found us married for 11 years with 5 children, but ready to divorce one another. Our family was falling apart. Alcohol addiction was controlling my husband. He allowed the Holy Spirit into his body, heart, mind, and soul. We watched our oldest son as he released five years of hurt and anguish that we both have caused. Our family is on the mend with God's help.

• God found me verbally bashing and degrading my husband. I was angry with God, and I was pointing fingers at everything and everyone but me, where the true problem lay. I was broken by my behavior, and God took those behaviors right out of me. Then my husband received Christ during the summit as well! Our whole relationship has been turned around! My husband has suddenly gained confidence to make decisions, and he has started communicating feelings to me, which never happened before. I find myself truly loving him.

• God found me broken—a wife that didn't want to come home. Through my husband and I talking and discussing different issues, we are closer. We talk, hug, and hold hands ... we have just really have fallen in love all over again after 17 years of marriage!

• God found me "in control" and stuck in a deep root of bitterness (almost 20 years) toward my dad. It amazed me how much energy it took. It consumed much of my life as well as most of the relationships I have always called the most important but never really treated that way. I had to give up control and ask God to again come and take over the wheel. He led me to my dad, who I talked to and confessed the bitterness with which I had "controlled" our relationship. For the first time in more than half of my life, I don't see my dad through my own eyes, but through Jesus' eyes. This freed me up in at least five other relationships to do the same thing.

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