This is the section you have been waiting for!! At this point you can look around and be proud of how far you have come instead of feeling dread over how far you need to go. The glass is over half full and not half empty. Have you ever watched a special on TV, or your children perform in a school play where you felt so much pride it brought tears to your eyes? That is how God feels about you right now for coming this far and not giving up.

We all wish we can say a prayer and BANG! The answer would drop from the sky. Although that does happen occasionally I find that with matters of the heart we are being refined for a purpose and that takes some time. The good thing is that we come out of the fire way better than when we went in. I am often asked why God doesn't just answer prayers in an instant. Being that I am not God I can only assume that the reason He does this is because if we got what we wanted when we wanted it, there would be no need for us to have faith. He wants us to believe in Him no matter how bad it gets and if He simply gave you what you wanted when you wanted it, you would go off and focus on the thing He gave you instead of focusing on Him. How sad to be a parent and give your children the world only to have them ignore you and only spend time with you when they need something. How would you feel?

The Bible says that "The prayers of a righteous man availeth much" (James 5:16). Do you have any idea what it takes to be righteous? I do all right until I get out of bed in the morning and then it goes down hill. The Bible tells us of the basic rules or commandments we should be following but with people living in the flesh as deeply as we do in this age just TRY to tell them to live according to the Ten Commandments. The sad part is that those rules have been written to conform to any age. It is not the mere words we find within each commandment it is the principle that is embedded within them for eternity.

We travel through life with choices. God has blessed us with a free will to choose right from wrong and He will NEVER override your free will. The most popular way is not always the righteous way. Living a righteous life requires us to take the path less traveled and sometimes that path is tough to navigate than the one that is traveled frequently. (Mathew 7:13-14) When we live an upright life God listens to our prayers and He answers them.

Take some time to learn what being righteous is. You'll be surprised at how far we tend to stray during the course of our lives...

The above is an excerpt  from "A Course in Heartbreak" - Other lessons in Step Four of the course include:

A Course in Heartbreak is almost 200 pages of lessons designed to help you avoid the pitfalls of standing for a broken relationship. The Course is designed to guide you through the lessons God is teaching you without getting caught in the traps the devil sets for us. All material found on the Seven Steps pages are Copyright 2024 HeartbreakUniversity.org©. Copyright registration is on file with the United States Library of Congress. No material may be copied, shared or sold without the express written permission of the author and/or her agent.

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