1: We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. 2: How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. 3: For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. 4: Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 5: Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 6: For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 7: But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. 8: In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
GOD will never forsake you, even when Satan has your family turning on you (this has happened before) GOD is still there. You see Satan had one of his deceitful liars, tell me that I wasn't going to make it without my family. The majority of my immediate family are in the world, with one parent whose foot is still in the world and in GOD. Satan is a liar and the truth is not in him, for GOD and GOD alone is the only one I count on. Remember Jobs wife when he was suffering, she told him to curse GOD and he could die. She was ignorant, he would still have to face GOD even at his death. Some family she was. Well GOD gave Job after his suffering, a new family and a new wife. So family is not the almighty, GOD is the almighty HE is the one who gives you a family, not family gives you GOD. I may not have a family with blood behind me but I have the most powerful FATHER IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE I don't need them and at HIS WILL, will have new brothers and sister all over this world HIS elect as family. For I count on GOD, and I do not have to follow after them no longer. GOD is my mother, father, sister and brother, praise be the LORD, I will never be alone.
The devil and this world does not have me fooled by those lies he issued to the family of this world, for GOD is truth and justice, the CREATOR OF HIS Real FAMILIES.
PRAISE BE THE LORD.
I believe that GOD saves families, but at HIS will does HE chose HIS elect. Therefore I leave my immediate family (saved or not) in GOD hands and I will keep moving forward, because I don't have time to linger over stumbling blocks, for I will not let Satan hinder my growth and neither will GOD. Have a wonderful blessed day!
My husband could relate. When he first got born again, his Catholic father was screaming and yelling at him in the car, over the Christianity thing, and my husband was so filled with joy, he had to turn his head because he was smiling, and didn't want to provoke his dad further. To him it was no contest. He chose God. We are still praying for his family to come though, but in the meantime, they have learned to "accept" it.
Tough word for many, but God is indeed first, and he is worthy! Doesn't the Bible tell us that our former lives will be forgotten once in heaven? So there will be no sitting around missing family members who have rejected Christ - there is urgency to sharing the good news!