I Didn’t Have a Very Good Opinion of My Husband.


It’s so much easier to judge than to engage...to engage takes the Holy Spirit and a willingness to look beyond the past in order to see the heart and soul of the present man.


I didn’t have a very good first opinion of my husband. It was easy to judge him off his drug addiction and prison sentence...and of course his ex wife had given me an ear full of the kind of husband he had been.


When she pointed him out to me at a community Kingdom Movement in January, I shook my head with judgement as he helped set up the chairs for worship.


Come to find out we also attended the same church as well so I’d began to notice him in passing.


It was on a Sunday the Spirit led me to lay my hands on him. I don’t remember many prayers but this one has always been highlighted in my soul.


There was an evil presence that was hanging on to Jeremy and not letting go. I began to rebuke it as he began to cry.


I demanded that spirit to GO once and for all in Jesus’ name.


After church a sweet elderly woman came up to me and she said...I do believe he was set free!


And I believed he was too...his countenance had changed in that very moment.


As I’m writing this, I’m reminded of something the Lord spoke to me several years before. 


He said...I’d lay my hands on my husband to deliver him of his demons.


Crazy because I would plot and plan to lay my hands on my second husband, but the Spirit never led me to do that.


My second husband now awaits a prison sentence resulting from violence due to his alcohol addiction.


When it came down to it, he didn’t want to change...and Holy Spirit will not force us.


Jeremy...Jeremy was seeking...and on that day, without hesitation, without thinking, I went to him by the leading of the Spirit.


The Spirit set him free!


Later he’d become my husband.


My husband is not his past...just as you and I are not ours.


Jeremy will tell you he was not the husband he should have been in his first marriage—he was a meth addict. 


Their marriage was toxic.


Any marriage rooted in addiction is toxic. You can fight for their freedom, but at the end of the day you have to fight for yours and trust the plans God has for you are good.


God does have a plan...a plan for the addict and a plan for you.


If you need someone to pray for you...we are here.


Ps...Remember Jesus is our Deliverer, Healer, and Redeemer...trust Him to work it all out for your good and His glory.


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