A United Front Testimony: Shannon

I am a 27 year old woman, married almost 6 years, and mother of 4. I had always thought that my marriage was a good one, not perfect, but good. My husband and I had really grown in our theology and doctrine together, and felt that the majority of our growth in Christ had happened within our marriage. Last summer, I discovered that my husband had been chatting online and on the phone with another woman. He had also been delving in pornography online for the duration of our relationship. There had been no physical contact, but there had been self-gratification taking place. I was out of town at the time. When I discovered this, I felt completely devastated. I could no longer trust my husband, we had 3 small children, and my world was shattered. Thankfully, God gave me the strength to trust in Him and His sovereignty, and my marriage was restored...or so I thought. This past May, once again, I discovered my husband’s infidelity. He was chatting and browsing porn online again. My world fell apart for the second time in less than a year. I didn’t know what to do. It was at this time that my husband started the Setting Captives Free course on sexual purity. He recommended to me that I also take the United Front course. I started the course a couple of days after his sin was exposed. I am so thankful, and just blown away at the way God has used this course to restore my husband to faithfulness. I can honestly say that I have never seen such a change in my husband as I have seen in him since he began taking the Setting Captives Free course. I was never aware of how disgusting his thought life had been for the entire time I had known him....and through the grace of God, he has been set free from Satan’s grasp on his mind. Our marriage is more open than it ever has been. I look at the way God has caused growth in my life over the past few months, and I am in awe. The United Front course has opened my eyes to the sin issues in my own life, and with God’s help, I am becoming the wife that God has always intended that I become. We can never know why things happen the way they do. The pain that I have felt throughout the past year is something that I wish no one else would ever have to feel. I take comfort that God allowed things to happen the way they did, though. He has caused my marriage and my faith to become stronger, and He has brought Himself glory in the process.