Before I knew Christ, I was involved in a relationship that I knew wasn’t pleasing to God. But because I thought I was so in love and couldn’t live without my ex-boyfriend, I couldn’t let the relationship go.
The time came that I was so distraught, I cried almost every night, because I didn’t know what to do.
At that time, I started to attend Bible studies in CCF and felt convicted every time about this relationship. I knew somehow that God wanted me to give up the relationship, but I was so scared and didn’t want to be the one to break it off.
I sought the advice of my missionary friend, and she told me to seek God’s will through prayer and fasting.
At first I was scared to seek God’s will through prayer. What if God tells me to give up the relationship? Will I have the strength live without it? And if indeed it was God’s will to end the relationship, could I possibly muster the courage to tell my boyfriend? I was so scared. If God made His will clear to me, would I be willing to obey Him?
Nevertheless, with fear and trembling, I fasted and prayed for God’s will in that relationship. I prayed that if God didn’t really want this relationship, my boyfriend would be the one to break it off, because I didn’t have the guts to do it. I was really desperate to know the will of God even if it would cause me pain to obey and follow him.
The day after praying and fasting, God answered my prayer. My boyfriend broke up with me, and I knew at that moment that that was what God wanted.
I still cried over and mourned the relationship, but after that, I really felt incredible peace and joy which I have never felt before.
I claimed God’s promise in Jeremiah 29:1 – “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”
God’s thoughts and ways are really higher than ours. I realized that prayer unleashed God’s power. Indeed, God answers prayers, and I trust that His will is truly the best! To God be the glory forever!
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