Miracle

That's a great step! Alleluia!

Great Praise!!

Thank you guys so much for the encouragement. Please continue to pray. Chris is getting there slowly, but I see the hold the world has on him. He's lazy and pursuing God is "so much work". We went to the Alpha meeting that William suggested last night and we both seemed to enjoy it, but it got out around 8:30 and we didn't get home until almost 9:30. He was complaining, because he had to leave for work at 10:30, so he didn't have much time before he went for his overnight shift. He was saying he didn't know if he wanted to keep going to the meeting, because of the timing. At first, I told him please keep coming. That I don't ask a whole lot of him and it would mean a lot to me if he came, but after I prayed I felt God telling me to get out of the way again. I texted him and told him that he put that limit on himself - to pursue God with me on Monday, Wednesday, Fridays and I am not holding him accountable or condemning him for anything. If he wants to come, he should come, but if he doesn't want to, he could try praying at home or bible study on his own, but ultimately, it's his relationship with God and he is responsible for it. I won't tell him what to do. He never responded and I don't know if he will come to another meeting. He does this often where he commits to something for the first time or first several times, but quickly finds an excuse to not come anymore and stops coming. Please pray that he will find a close attachment to this group and a strong desire to keep coming back, but ultimately Gods will be done. I can't keep my focus on Chris and if he is doing what I think he should do. He has to be responsible for his relationship with God and his own salvation.

I will add that specific prayer to my daily regimen, perhaps if he doesn't continue to go, I think at one point Chris had asked you to do bible study with him you could go over what was covered. I will pray for clarification and guidance sister.

I talked to Chris this morning and told him that I feel conflicted because he's asked me to let him join in bible study and worship with me and I want to help him, but then I feel like he gets frustrated and thinks I'm forcing things on him and I don't want to do that. I want to work on my relationship with God and he can join me if he needs help working on his relationship with God too. He told me that this meeting wasn't really his thing and I could tell last night he was uncomfortable. It was similar to when we were going to counseling - he puts on his fake and proper face and he can't be honest about anything. I totally get that - it made sense to me too that he wasn't into it. I told him okay, we tried and this probably isn't the right group for you. We can try something else and he said he would maybe go again, but he just has to get used to it. Anyways - William what you suggested I think is awesome and I never considered that - that I can go alone and come home with a summary of what we talked about. That might open him up a little more.