Bravely Staying in a Broken Marriage: Believing God for Restoration

By Amanda Davison

God's Brave Women - Amanda's Story

Earlier that day I told my husband I was done with our marriage. During a heated exchange I took our two kids and left, with no intention of coming back. But in the hours that followed I flung my anger at God and asked him to affirm my decision.

Instead, God gently suggested I had tried everything I knew to save my marriage and fix my husband…except Him. Stunned, he also revealed it might not be my husband that needs to do all the changing. Ouch.

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"God gently suggested I had tried everything I knew to save my marriage and fix my husband… except Him."

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So after hours of driving, I walked back through the door I’d walked out of, and went straight to our bedroom. I didn’t want to talk. I didn’t know what to say.

How can you explain to someone something you don’t know what to make sense of?

While there was much I was confused about in our marriage, I did know this far-off God I had always used as some side dish to the life I was making for myself was asking me to stay and to try it his way. So eventually, I mustered up the words to explain the only thing I knew.</