Elizabeth balks at offering what she thinks of as a free pass when her husband doesn’t deserve it. Yet another conversation revolves around grace. And then you got to get out of the way and let Him do it.” “You got to plead with God so that He can do what only He can do.
“You can’t fix him, and it’s not your responsibility to fix him.” Instead, she says, Elizabeth must love, respect and pray for him. The pair’s next spiritual conversation centers on how Elizabeth should relate to her husband.
“That is something only He can do.” She says each believer’s responsibility is to “seek Him, trust Him and stand on His Word.” “It’s not my job to do the heavy lifting. And she insists that the only correct response to struggle is prayer. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”Ĭlara senses from some of Elizabeth’s comments that all is not well in her life and in her marriage. She quotes Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6:6: “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. Soon a friendship is born, one in which an older woman begins to disciple a younger one about fighting the right way against the right enemy in the right place.Ĭlara tells Elizabeth that two of her favorite rooms in the house are her “wall of remembrance” (where she keeps a list of answered prayers) and her humble “war room” closet (which has scrawled prayers and Scripture passages plastered all over). And while Elizabeth’s trying to get the info she needs to sell her house, Clara can’t quit showing her she cares about more than just business. Elizabeth’s path crosses Clara’s when the older woman needs a real estate agent. Tony doesn’t have much interest in his wife, either.Īnd caught in the middle of this troubled couple’s conflict is 10-year-old daughter Danielle, who longs for her parents’ love and attention … and longs for them to stop yelling at each other. Tony, you see, has no interest in helping people who are hardly working when he’s working so hard. He pulls in four times as much money as Elizabeth does-a fact he’s quick to remind her of when she tries to give her sister some of it. Tony’s a star sales rep for a pharmaceutical company, a natural born talker whose megawatt smile has magnetic appeal. Especially when one of those details involves her deteriorating relationship with her husband, Tony. But tending to the details of her life is all-consuming for her right now. Oh, this successful real estate agent, wife and mother is a Christian. Or, as Miss Clara calls it, her “war room.”Įlizabeth Jordan doesn’t know anything about such secret spiritual places. A strategy that can come from only one place: time spent asking for God’s guidance in our prayer closet.
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Yet despite the reality of relational conflict, Clara observes, “Very few of us know how to fight the right way.” We fight each other instead of recognizing our common spiritual enemy, she says, the thief who comes “to steal, kill and destroy.” If we hope to thwart Satan’s schemes, to counter his cunning strategies to divide us, we’ll need a beefy battle strategy. That’s as true for individuals as it is for countries. “There always seems to be something to fight about.” War is as old as human history, an aged widow named Miss Clara narrates in the opening moments of War Room.
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