DRAW CLOSE TO GOD

In February 1994 my wife, Mauri, and I were sitting on the living room couch talking about 2:30 am. I put my hand over her heart and asked God to exchange our hearts so that we would be more loving towards each other and towards Him. As I started to pray, God gave me a vision. It was a vision of a triangle, with God at the top of the triangle, a husband at the bottom left of the triangle and a wife at the bottom right of the triangle. God showed me that communication flows from god to man and from man to God along one line of the triangle, communication flows from God to wife and from wife to God along the other line of the triangle, and communication flows from husband to wife and from wife to husband across the bottom line of the triangle. God said there was a natural distance from man to God, from wife to God and from husband to wife around this three sided triangle. God told me that when a husband and wife focus all their attention upon one another, there is a natural distance between them based on where their points lie on the plane of the triangle. However, God said when a husband and wife turn their focus off of one another, and turn their focus to God, they draw closer to God. The way He showed me this was as a man or wife or both draw closer to God they move up the line of the triangle closer to the top where God is. And what is beautiful is that as a husband and wife focus on pleasing God instead of focusing on pleasing one another, they draw closer to God; and therefore draw closer together. The triangle is smaller at the top than it is at the base, so the closer you get to the top, the closer you get together. I shared with Mauri what God had just shown me and told her she was the most beautiful to me when she was close to God. I went on to explain that was how we were able to stay together in spite of all of our circumstances. We had just been through the greatest challenge we had ever faced in our marriage.

It seems that every time we make a significant step up the ladder closer to God, we come under a considerable attack from satan. As we increase in understanding the devil is quick to come and attack and tries to steal that understanding away from us. The devil knows that if he attacks us and takes our focus off of the glory of God that has been shared with us, then we cannot move forward in the anointing. The devil is a liar and a thief and will keep us mired in the quagmire of lukewarm Christianity if it is at all possible. Every time we take a step closer to God, we must know the devil will attack us. Our first step after being blessed with knowledge and understanding from God should be to immediately pray a blood of Jesus covering over our families and ourselves, and surround ourselves with God's Holy angels to keep all attacks of the enemy away from us. The box of candy looks real nice until the caramel pulls out all of your fillings. The pit of hell will be filled with many who thought they had good intentions. The path is straight and narrow for those who will follow God. Stay on the path to protect your family at all costs. I unfortunately listened to jezebell ramble on and on about how wonderful she would have been for me for much to long a period of time. This hurt my family, my character, my peace of mind and my spirituality. But praise God I have a wife that saw the spiritual attack on our family for what it was, and interceded for our family with God to protect us. I was searching scripture and Mauri was praying. And do you know what? I never found anything in scripture that said it was okay with God for a man to chunk his wife out of his life. I did find that if a man of God wants to be immoral with another woman, God would lift her skirts and expose her to the world. Looking back it sometimes amazes me that I could have been so nearly deceived. Jezebel's family was in moral decay, while Mauri's family was undergoing spiritual revival. Hmmmm. Looks like this might be a pretty rough choice. Go with Jezebel and forget your walk with God, or stay with your wife and prepare for the Kingdom of God. Guess which choice God blessed me with. Thank you Holy Father God for giving me a wonderful family that loves me. Even though Mauri sometimes thinks I don't love her as much as she wants to be loved, and I don't provide her with the fancy frills she wants to have, I know my marriage has been blessed by God. All we can do is do our best and grow with God daily, and trust in Him totally. Don't believe the lies of the devil. The devil wants to destroy our marriages, break up our families and destroy our children. Well the devil can't have my family. My wife, marriage and children are covered with the Blood of Jesus and we are all surrounded by the Holy linking angels of God to keep all attacks of satan away from us. Praise God. I love You Holy Father, I love You Jesus, I love You Holy Spirit and I love you Mauri.

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