Cheryl Schatz

I should add that God did an amazing wonderful miracle in my life and in my husband’s life. God spoke to my husband about his authority over me and told him to let me go. He obeyed and our marriage was fully healed. God gave me an amazing love for my husband and his willingness to allow God to be the one to have authority over me without his own control. My husband now gives me his advice and his own wisdom, but he allows me to make my own mistakes. It didn’t take me too long to learn and I have grown tremendously in wisdom and maturity. I am extremely happy and joyful in the Lord and I no longer have another “father” figure looking over my shoulder. I have an amazing best friend back! We are one in a way that we never could fully be when he had authority over me. We are one in true unity and I greatly value his wisdom and advice. He will probably never truly get what is good for a woman, but he doesn’t have to. He is responsible for himself and his authority over another human stops with himself. Would either of us ever go back to him having “authority over” me? Not in your life! He would be the first to say that when he had authority over me he was miserable inside. It was a responsibility that made him unhappy and unfulfilled. But now we are both walking in maturity in the Lord knowing that we look to Him not to the authority of another person. The very best lesson that my husband learned was to “run to God” and not to trust in his own wisdom. And God released him from the false responsibility of an authority over me and the fruit of God’s wisdom has made our marriage strong and filled with love. To God be the glory for the great things He has done in our lives!!!