Peru

Amazonian Wednesdays 🌴

November 2003
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“Pastora, I feel like the love I used to have for my husband has died.” Maria, one of the missions school students, was pouring out her hurt to me about a marriage which had brought her much grief. Before she was married, there was a time in her life when she was not serving the Lord and had a child out of wedlock.

The young man who would become her husband, Diego, seemed to care for her son, Juanito. She felt safe to marry a Christian who loved her little one as well as her. Sadly, soon into the marriage he started badly mistreating Juanito and Maria, expressing outright hatred for the boy. So intense was the rejection Juanito received that he eventually decided to live with his grandmother to avoid all the verbal and emotional abuse he was receiving in his home.

I could see the deep motherly pain in Maria’s eyes as she described watching her son suffer profoundly at such a tender age. She shared how for quite a while she had continued to love Diego in spite of his behavior, praying with all her heart for things to change. Raised in a pastor’s home, she knew how to intercede, and she did so, faithfully. However, little by little, the affection she felt for Diego was dying inside of her.

Finally, the day came when Diego repented and asked her forgiveness. It was too late. The love was already dead.

I had this conversation with Maria around a year ago. She was asking for prayer, that her love for Diego might be born again in her heart. Together, we sought the Father for this miracle. Shortly thereafter, she left with Diego to go back to their home in the jungle for six months, and I did not hear anything more from her.

Diego and Maria came back into town for the new semester in April, but I did not get a chance to speak with Maria for a while. Just this last month, it was Diego’s turn to ask for prayer, together with one of his classmates. With tears in his eyes, Diego told me that he had destroyed his marriage with his harsh words, but after the prayer time Maria and I had together, the Lord had put a new, powerful love in Continue reading A Marriage Back from the Dead