Welcome to March, your Month of Marching Forward, Coming out from Hiding and Divine Speed. God is going to favour you in this awesome month. Your life cannot remain the same any more. There is gonna be a divine unveiling and exposure. Those that use to look down on you will start to look up to you. You are a reference point, you are a force to be reckoned with, You are simply great!
I say to you welcome.
Today, I want to introduce the marital change series, then go back to finish the process of change which I started some time last week.
I want to state it here and now that marriage is not a game, not for children and must not be rushed into. Do not settle for just any man because you are getting old and your friends are married and you are not. Your friends are not you, they don't have the same destination and destiny with you. Wait for your time, wait for your man and as you wait, maximize your singlehood.
The devil empowered against marriages in this generation is the devil of divorce. I want to quickly bring out about six (6) points on how to live above divorce and enjoy a blissful marriage. Please open to Malachi 2: 14 - 16
Yet ye say, "Why?" Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously; yet she is thy companion and the wife of thy covenant. And did not He make one? Yet had He the residue of the spirit. And why one? That He might seek a godly seed! Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that He hateth putting away; for one covereth violence with his garment," saith the LORD of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously."
- The fact that God was a witness to the marriage is enough reason for divorce never to be comtemplated. He saw all the songs of love you sang to her, He witnessed all the promises you made to her, He witnessed the vows you made to each other on the wedding day. The Lord saw all of that. It will therefore be an insult to consider the person of the Lord (meaning: the owner) who witnessed your marriage and without fear a reverance for Him back out of what you promised was going to be forever. If you do, you never acknowledged Him as the Lord in the first place.
- The fact that marriage was for companionship and covenant. God is a covenant keeping God and if we are made in His image and likeness we have no choice, disposition or option but to be people of covenant. When we understand covenant, there will be no wrong-doing strong enough to make us file for divorce. Yes, Eve made Adam to fall off God's grace, goodness, presence and other great things including the garden. Yet Adam stayed with Eve until their death. No matter the wrong done, stay! The responsibility of marriage is that when one falls, the other will help him up. Running away at the down fall of your partner in the name of irreconcilable differences is lack of understanding covenant. Imagine that you are married to God, have you not done stuff that God should consider irreconcilable differences and back out from the marriage? But no, He will stay with you till the end. That is covenant!
- The fact that God never created us seperately. Even before God made Adam to sleep and He brought out his rib to form Eve, He had already made them one. The intention of God is family. Oneness is the expression of resembling God. God is one with Himself. Nothing can ever seperate God the father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I made up my mind that the day something seperates them, then my marriage can be seperated. But if nothing can, nothing should seperate your marriage. You can live above divorce!
- The fact that godly seeds are invloved please don't consider divorce. Disfunctional children are a result of disfunctional homes. Greater percentage of prostitutes in our streets today are as a result of broken homes. It's not easy to grow up having a father who is not fathering you and a mother who is not close by. Fatherhood is not sweet from a distance. Come home, your children are in need of you. Prodigal fathers and mothers, please return back to your children. Don't forget "That He may seek a godly seed" Please for the sake of the seed given to you by God, Live Above Divorce!
- The fact that you should take heed to your spirit. Stay in tune with the real you. I know that the real you cannot lust after another lady. Keep your spirit on fire. "Henceforth know we no man after the flesh" If you know your wife or husband after the flesh, you will leave him/her because of the flesh. Get to know each other after the spirit. Spirit filled marriage can never break apart. Can the Holy Spirit ever advise anybody to file a divorce paper? I don't think so. If the Holy spirit is the one driving the ship of your marriage, Never will it capsize. Husbands, Wives, please take Heed to your spirit if you must live above divorce.
- Finally, is the fact that God hates Divorce. It therefore means that if you are contemplating Divorce, you are doing what God hates. I discovered that the reason why God loves people is because they do that which He loves. When a man sees what is clearly stated in the scriptures as what God hates and he is still going ahead with it, such a person must be unwise, (let me not use the word foolish). Please if God hates it, let us also hate it. Don't put your wife away, Don't put your husband away.
CONCLUSION:
I know that you know your right. But for the sake of peace, don't always stand by your right or claim your right. Play the fool some times, it does not make you foolish. Those things you used to do before marriage and at the early stage of marriage, start of all over again. Do not joke with forgiveness because marriage is the coming together of two givers that are also forgivers. Do yourself a favour, love your family. Yes, you can!
Shalom!
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