Hi Loz, may you have peace.
I can't add much else other than my experience with my youngest daughter.
She left the WT when she was 18, she had no belief or faith in anything.
Nine years later, me, hubby eldest daughter (watersprout) and her family all left together.
During this time my youngest daughter came to us and asked for help, turns out her hubby was a violent, brutal beast.
We got her to safety and eventually moved over 300 miles from him. He obviously wanted contact with the babies and so applied to the courts for access. No way that was going to happen, he's dangerous and we had to do everything to protect them and their mommy. Daughters solicitor told her repeatedly that he would be given access causing our daughter terrible anxiety and making her very poorly.
During all of this I kept trying to reassure her that he would not win and he would not be able to come near, that she wouldn't even have to face him. I had already told her that I had faith and that I could hear, (you can imagine how that went down). Anyhoo, we sat in one room at the court, waiting for the solicitor knowing the beast was sat just metres away in another.
I just sat there saying over and over, come on Lord, you said this wouldn't happen, please, please don't leave me. I kept hearing, I'm here child, I haven't left you.
Suddenly the door burst open and this tiny women said, 'hi ****, your solicitor can't make it so I 'm representing you today and there is no way you are facing this man. She had gone through my daughters file and had made the decision he was just too evil for to have to face across a courtroom, something her solicitor wasn't prepared to do.
She went into court, came out 10 minutes later and told us the Judge had given us time to leave the court house and get away. They were keeping the beast there, (bet he was loved that).
All I kept saying was, I told you, i told you, Jaheshua doesn't lie. I'll just add, the solicitor introduced herself as Angelina
Another time my daughter received a letter from her solicitor saying she had failed to appear in family court but it was her,(solicitor) fault, because for some reason she couldn't explain why the letter had been sent to my daughters old address. That was great news because no stress was involved that time. Shortly after, she received another letter explaining that the beast would not be going for access to the babies because it was making him ill with anxiety.
During all of this Jaheshua kept telling me to have faith that he would not allow him near any of us. I always told my daughter what he had said to me and although she doubted at first, slowly she began to get comfort from it, to the point she now has faith in our Lord.
All I can say Loz is I had to do nothing, my daughter experienced, saw, felt my faith. She experienced the evidence of that faith. Just live your life and let your children, because they can't hear, SEE your faith.
It's Christ who does the calling, not us. Once I grasped that, (I thought I did), the anxiety in me over her lack of faith disappeared......awesome.
Hope all of this makes sense as I'm writing on my phone....nightmare.
May our Lord bless your whole household Loz.
Had to edit, my big finger put the wrong smiley on.