Father please give me something, hope for my marriage, to hold onto today. Take my hand & love me. Im so broken to the core. I can hardly breathe anymore my soul & spirit are so crushed in the wake of my wifes absense. Im hurting & perplexed. HELP
- Mark — CO, United States of America

For reconciliation and Godly communication between my husband David and myself. For ALL walls of division and contention between us to be torn down. For forgiveness, peace and love to flow between us. For David to turn back to God.
- Donna — AL, United States of America

I pray that I will stop hating myself. I hate what I have done to my family, but I hate myself so much that it is difficult to function. I want God to call me home, I hate myself too much to continue here. I am just hurting my family.
- Glenda — SC, United States of America

My wife left us. She says she thinks it may be God’s will for her to stay away. I hurt so badly but father is holding my hand. Please pray for us to know and follow his will. Praise Jesus for all he has done so far. God open her eyes to your will.
- Scott — AL, United States of America

These are actual current prayers from WPT.

In 1 Corinthians 7 Paul tells us because of immorality that each of us should marry (If only we were as strong as Paul, he does say it is GOOD for you single people if you can be strong!). Isn’t in wonderful how God meets us in our weaknesses! Paul tells us that it is ok to refrain from each other mutually to pray but to return so that Satan will not tempt us because of our lack of self-control. 
Paul also says in verse 10-11: “To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.”
I firmly believe to the point where I can say I know that this is the importance and order of life:
1. The Holy precious trinity; God the father, Son and Holy Spirit. (The source)
2. Family (The backbone to share the source)
3. Church (The means to share the source)
Satan will work in reverse order to obtain his ultimate goal… Separate us from our father! First we hear the whispers of why we should skip or never go to Church and then the defeated one will whisper lies about family and finally the deceiver whispers to us that it may be God’s fault or will.

Do you know how many broken families are in our country alone? On average 75% of all marriages end in divorce. Well over two million every year. The deceiver knows the war will be lost but he wants to take as many down on the way as he can.

I am not sure how to explain it and I don’t think you can understand it unless you experience it. Judging by the awful statistics of it… Some of you reading this will. The pain; the pain of separation has no comparison. Sure, it will settle; in time. It is worse than any physical or mental experience I have known. The bible tells us that a man and wife become one flesh. It is that separation of half of what we are that makes it seem so unbearable.

Now, it is my absolute prayer that none of us ever experience this but none the less some of us will. If you find your family in the clutches of the deceiver, pray and fight for your Love. Don’t give in to the lies he will whisper in your ear. Remember his goal is to separate us from anything of God especially God. Should you find that your Love is not enough and it may appear that God will not repair this situation? (God will not force someone to Love, which is the way of the liar) Run quickly to the Lord. Find your comfort in his arms, not another’s or in a bottle. His Love is enough to quench any and all pain. He is after all Love in itself. Surround yourself with everything (I pray we will do this anyway) pertaining to God. Engulf yourself in the word. Embrace your brothers and sisters. Pray and bear your heart to the Lord. Most importantly; Love..Love…Love… Before you can heal and grow you must not let go of Love. How can you Love the Lord if you cannot Love yourself or others. Do not let the deceiver influence you into a closed hard heart.

This holds true to any trial you face in life. Honor your father in heaven. Love him first. Wrap yourself in the word. Praise God constantly! Pray and fellowship with other believers; the Lord our God will deliver you and bless you. He is after all our Daddy that loves us unlike any Love we will ever understand.

You may be a single person or happily married. Satan will use the same tactics in other areas of your life. Let’s come together and stomp our foot at him while embracing our Lord and each other! Separation is Satan’s goal!

I love you all, Scott Smith

My cordless phone battery keeps going dead. I have one of those manual labor phones. I don’t know if everyone has seen them. You know that one that you must stand up to answer the phone. That may be why the cordless phone keeps going dead; I am too lazy to put it on the base…

After digging out that old manual labor phone that I need a crash course on using and coming to the understanding that I can’t just leave it off the hook sitting next to my recliner or it will start barking something really loud until you put it back on it’s base… Wow I am being trained to put a phone back up! Maybe next I will take the trash out!

Any who.. I figured what I need is one of those phone splitter thingies that let you plug two phones into one jack that way I can have a sort of lazy phone redundancy.

I am a little on the tight end of the spectrum. You know, squeeze a dollar out of a dime! I know I have one of those phone splitters somewhere and where is the first place you look? Right; that junk drawer in the kitchen! Yep, the one that you have to slam a few times and break a few pencils and wedge something in on top that makes it so hard to open again.

I opened that drawer up finally and what I realized was that I got lured into checking out all that stuff, you know the junk. I scattered it all out on the counter top. I was amazed I still had all those dead AA batteries! You better believe those went in the freezer! Ok, maybe not he-he. Anyway, back on track. After rummaging through all this junk I realized something. I forgot what I was looking for. I got so involved in “What’s in my junk drawer” that I even forgot about the phone all together.

I want to share something with you that is not that easy for me to share. I am one of those that grew up without a lot of hugs from my Daddy. I was instilled to believe that showing emotion at all was a sign of weakness.

I have had a few of those “this is life” bombs dropped on me. You know, I thought I really had it together. I thought that I was putting all my hope and trust in God’s hands but in all honesty I was too proud of a manly man to realize that I have no control over my life or of the lives around me. It was not until I lost ALL control that I could truly give the Lord my trust and devotion. Finally after 35 years of being in the swine business I came back home to my father’s open arms. Read this to see what I mean: Luke 15: 11-32

I was hurting really badly after one of those life bombs hit me. I went to my heavenly father for comfort and of course I received it. But it took yet one more of those life bombs to make me truly understand how to receive his tender touch and loving arms around me.

After getting yet another call with the worst news could I get by telephone; I broke down. Finally after all these years I broke! Me the man who does not cry, me the man who breaks his foot and can’t remember how! Me the man who (thinks) is in control of his life and the lives of his family… I broke.

The first feeling I had was to find someone to comfort me. I was crying in the pharmacy while paying for my medicine and almost talked to the girl taking my money. I thought to myself; if only she will ask me if I am ok. I ran umm… I mean I hobbled out to the car and no sooner than I sat down I explode into a fit of tears. I could not breathe, I could not see. I thought I was going to die. I finally got enough composure to drive away from the person sitting next to me whom I thought; I kind of wish they would ask me am I ok.

I drove to my pastor’s house and he was not home. So I thought; he is a preacher, he must be at church. So I got it together again and drove to the church. No one was there, I thought if only someone would drive up and ask me if I am ok. So then I called his cell and guess what? He was not there. So, after hanging up and crying some more I called again and left him a message. I don’t think it was very understandable. I bet my pastor was really worried about me when he got out of his meeting and listened to or umm tried to decipher my message.

Upon leaving this message I hung up the phone and finally; I was a broken child who only needed a father’s arms around me. So I dialed the prayer phone to God. You know what? I got through with out any effort. Just as I can hear any of your voices He told me. “Come to me first my child” as I poured out my heart to Him and begged Him to take away this pain I heard again “A little while longer my child”. Then I don’t know how to put it to words but I felt Him hold me. I cried my heart out to Him and he ran down the street to meet me! Luke 15: 11-32

After pulling all that junk out of the junk drawer I realized something that is life changing that I had heard before from Dr. Stanley.

• 1. Tell God what your burden is.
• 2. Give your burden to him.
• 3. Move your focus from your burden to the burden bearer. Matthew 11:28-30

It is so easy to loose focus of the burden bearer and be consumed with the junk in the drawer. It is not until we put ALL our focus, ALL our love, ALL our illusion of control into his hands that we can truly know what our father can and will freely give to anyone who asks and believes in the Son and savior Jesus the Christ.

If I could do anything to prevent anyone from going through the pain I have went through in order for your eyes to be opened I would, but I know that some of you may be doing step 1. and 2. but maybe too preoccupied with what’s in your junk drawer to really focus on step 3. It is my prayer that if you are one of those like me that you would close that drawer and answer the phone. Our Father is waiting by it with an open ear and then with open arms.