"We married too young and for the wrong reasons - this was a mistake from the start."
How it sounds in your head: You were practically a child when you said 'I do.' You married because you were pregnant, or to escape your family, or because everyone expected it. You didn't know what you were doing. God can't bless something that started wrong.
"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."
-- Romans 8:28Religious condemnation teaching that wrong beginnings produce cursed endings, denying the redemptive power of the Blood to sanctify anything.
Looking back, your reasons for marrying seem immature or desperate, and the struggles you face feel like consequences of that bad decision. Adults have even suggested you're 'reaping what you sowed.'
Leah was married to Jacob through her father's DECEPTION - Jacob woke up married to the wrong woman and didn't want her. God saw her unloved state and OPENED HER WOMB, making the rejected wife the mother of Judah (Messianic line) - instant purpose from a disastrous beginning.
I REFUSE the lie that wrong beginnings disqualify God's blessing. IT IS WRITTEN that ALL things work together for good, and my 'mistake' marriage is included in ALL. Leah was married through deception and rejection, yet God made her the mother of the Messiah's line - INSTANT PURPOSE from disaster. The BARAK blessing doesn't depend on perfect decisions; it flows from COVENANT. IT IS WRITTEN that He makes all things new, not 'all things that started right.' I declare this marriage SANCTIFIED by the Blood, REDEEMED from every wrong reason, and BLESSED beyond what a 'right' start could have produced.
The Father doesn't audit your wedding motives - He takes whatever you bring Him, no matter how broken or immature, and MAKES IT GLORIOUS because that's who He is. He gave Leah (the trick wife nobody wanted) the Messianic line, not Rachel (the chosen one).