Keep The Fire Burning In Your Marriage

Beautiful lady, yes, you fine Gentleman, your passion and love for each other are still intact the question is, though, are you keeping the fire of God, your Abba Father burning in your hearts?  Has your heart grown cold toward God?  Do you have a consistent prayer life?  Do you set aside time to study the Word?  Do you pray together?  Are you aware it is God who sustains and keeps marriages together?  It is of utmost importance for you to keep the fire of God burning in your heart as you rekindle your love for God, your Abba, Father, to love, honour, and obey His commandments. 

Today, make being true and faithful in your walk with God, your number one priority, and you will experience the fire burning in your marriage; as the fire of God burns in your heart!  Keep the fire burning in your marriage!

 

There may be times when you awaken only to discover your bed all torn up. Then at other times the bed stays in tact and all you have to do is straighten the corners of the bed. Truth be known you cannot ignore the torn up bed. Pause right there for a moment to think about this and be encouraged by this word of encouragement. No matter how torn up your marriage maybe, be it known to you this day just as you the wife make up the bed and husband you admire the beauty of the made up bed. God will make all ugly things in your marriage beautiful like a freshly made up bed!

Much Love!

 

Keep the Beast of Selfishness out of Your Marriage

Running excitedly to open the car door for his soon to be bride, doing everything possible to impress her and to make her feel loved and appreciated. In response to her soon to be bridegroom, he can do no wrong and she could hardly concentrate on her work because of day dreaming about her knight in shining armor so to speak. Both could hardly wait for the time to spend alone with each other. The Big Day finally arrived and the two of you got married to each other but soon discovered something had sadly gone wrong. The husband was not opening the car door anymore and alas! Not going out of his way to make his wife feel loved and appreciated as before but then again sadly, many wives are not even thinking about their husbands and could care less how they “fetch” so to speak. Both are not spending enough time with each other; could it be that the beast of selfishness has been allowed to come into your marriage?
Let’s take a closer look the Word is speaking from the book of Genesis 2:18 “And the LORD God said, it is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him an help meet for him.” The Word continued on in (24)”Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Husbands, are you “Bossing” you wife around? Do you treat her like a slave instead of a wife?
Wives are you usurping authority over your husband – Do you undermine his decisions concerning your household? While both of you are thinking on those questions pause right now just to inhale, now exhale – there! Let’s read together the Word from the book of Ephesians 5:23 “The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Saviour.” The Word not only clarifies this but also gives the reason why in (31)”For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.” This is a mystery yet it is vital to the growth and harmony of the marriage to love each other especially during your most difficult and challenging moments and you will keep the beast of selfishness barred out if you (me too) practice daily loving each other.
The question is though, husbands and wives, do you love yourself? Before you answer let’s read verse (33)”Nevertheless let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.” Listen, Love and respect works like a Formula and without these ingredients in your marriage, the beast of selfishness would come in and destroy the peace and harmony in your marriage!
Purpose in your heart on this Valentine Day to, “Have and to Hold each other!” Show appreciation and display mutual respect to each other. Be courteous and sensitive to each others needs. Pray and study the word together. Keep the dialogue of communication open. Purpose to do those little special acts for each other to make the day brighter and the beast of selfishness will find no place in your relationship.
Enjoy this Valentine’s Day as you bless the Gift Yahweh has given – Enjoy and celebrate each other! Bear in mind though, the beast of selfishness is always waiting for an opportunity to get in to destroy your marriage. I hear it resounding; be vigilant and alert compassionate and kind each day and the beast of selfishness would not stand a chance to get in your marriage relationship!

Honour Your Head

In your walk with God, God has established an order in marriage relationships.  God, your Abba Father is the Head of the husband, and the head of the wife is the husband. 

I challenge wives (me too) and every expectant wife to honor your head by being submissive, loving and respectful in all circumstances, and in every situation, that your head will be able to speak of you, as this husband did in Proverbs 31:10-12 NKJ.  "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. (11)"The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." (12)"She will do him good and no evil all the days of her life."

 As you daily seek the face of God your Abba Father it is my prayer that He  Will impart His strength and grace to you and furnish you with His Love to make it a lifestyle to not only nurture your natural hair, but also your head?  Yes, the husband that you promised God that you would love, honor and keep.  

Do not break the Covenant of your Marriage!  Honor your head, and everything else will line up in your life.

Pause and Calmly think about this Nugget.

......Much Love!

Where Did Love Go?

Many times what you may have en-visioned your marriage relationship to be have now discovered to be far from what you expected but the time has come for every married couple to re-visit the Blue print for marriages, the Word of God; it is there you (me too) will discover that  you have deviated from the Master Plan for your marriage!

May this Article encourage but also challenge you where ever you are in your marriage relationship and to you who maybe contemplating marriage, may it encourage you to Follow the Plan of God for your marriage! Much Love!

Honey, I'm home! How was your day? I'm so glad you
are home! A warm embrace - a tender moment. Yes these
are a few impressions, but where did love go? Now days
it's like, "He reach!" You may be thinking, "Lord help me
to go home to this nagging woman!" Or it may be like a
grunt or hardly a word spoken. No hugs, no smiles. Where
did love go? The honeymoon seems to be over, now there
is, "no honey in the moon" so to speak, and you may not
know the last time you saw the moon! Where did love go?

Do you remember the day you accepted Jesus Christ as your
personal Saviour? You were all excited and filled with zeal for
the Lord. Just as you were on your wedding day, but where did
love go? Your passion for Jesus Christ has diminished. You
hardly ever pick up the Word to study and meditate on the
scriptures anymore. You don't pray like you used to pray either!
When was the last time you took to the streets to share the
good news of Salvation? When was the last time you visited the
hospital to share the Word and pray for the sick? What about
those in prison? Have you ever visited the prison to share His
love with those who are there? Where did Love go? You are at
your wits end and maybe feeling all alone then the WORDS of
Jesus is speaking from within from the book of Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV
(28) "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. (29)  Take My yoke upon you, and learn of
me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto
your souls. (30) For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Where
did Love go? At this very moment the WORD, which is Spirit and
Life, immediately begins cutting and healing .in complete sub-
mission - love begins to flow like a river from within! The pen was
inspired to write!

Love so tender and so sweet. Oh where did Love
go? Love did flow like a river with the sounds of the rippling water
among the lilies, hearing the chirping birds singing making melody
in the trees but where are you my love? It is as if you have gone
on a long journey! Yet I will not give up on Love so tender and so
sweet but oh how much does it cost? Then I keep hearing the
resounding answer loud and clear it cost Jesus His life on the
cruel Cross of Calvary! So my love I know that only with His love
we will triumph and soar above the storms. I pray that soon you
will return to Love so tender and so sweet for Love is awaiting
your return!

Yes Abba Father is awaiting your return to His abundant flowing
love which loves you unconditionally!

FOREWORD

What a blessing and an honour to have had my husband of thirty years of marriage to write the Forward on the Book Restoring The Torn up Bed! Be Blessed and encouraged as you read!

FOREWORD

This thought provoking work addresses the simple but important things in a marriage that can determine success or failure.
It establishes a foundation of love, when it is absent, will lead to some of the challenges faced by marriages today.
This is continued by exposing you to the good side of and explore all the benefits to be had, if you make your marriage a priority.
Some has searched for that one thing that guarantees success in one of life’s most precious estate - rather than God’s sacred instruction.
It also speaks to the sometimes tumultuous, that is sometimes marriage, and after what has become a roller-coaster ride for many, one settles down and counts regrets.
Reading this book would help you to forgive and forget.
You too would come to the conclusion that when marriages works the way God has ordained it, it is a force to be reckoned with. Bringing forth fruit of love, joy, peace and long suffering; some 20 years, 30 years, 50 years, 100 years.
I recommend this as an atlas, which will help you to move around and to navigate through your marriage, choosing when to go where thus ensuring that the weather would always be great.

WHO ARE YOU MARRIED TO?

May this Article challenge and encourage you where ever you are on your journey in your marriage relationship.  Blessings!

Marriages are experiencing so many severe attacks so much so husbands and wives are asking themselves this question, “Who am I married to?”  Well, who are you married to?  While you are pondering the answer think about your very first meeting it may have been as if heaven kissed the earth or time stood still!

Still pondering?  That is good now listen carefully, there are some doors you may have unknowingly left open and the enemy is using these open doors to reap havoc in your marriage relationship.

In some cases both husbands and wives have left the door open to former girlfriends and boyfriends.  Still others have refused to put family members in order while others allow themselves to be evilly dominated by each other just to name a few.  Now a days you could be wondering if you are married to a demon instead of the beautiful caring spouse you married!

The thing is though it is not who you are married to.  Do you not know, you could have possibly allowed the enemy to come into your marriage undetected?  The Word is speaking from the book of Genesis 2:15-17 (15)”Then the LORD God took the man and put him the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it.”  (16)”And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;” (17)”but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Take an even closer look at this passage of scripture God had given Adam a direct command to take care of the garden and surely Adam did convey this to his wife Eve.  Together they were perfect and lived in harmony with each other but an intruder visited them one day and their relationship was never the same.  Read of how the intruder infiltrated himself and used the serpent to carry out his plot to not only destroy the tranquility of the first couple but to have their God given authority taken away from them.  Genesis 3:1 “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.  And He said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”  (2)”And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the tree of the garden;”  (3)”but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it.”  Now read how the intruder mixed lies with truth, (4)”then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.” He continues with his lies, (5)”For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  Eve did the unthinkable and Adam did not even protest or take a stand to carry out the command that God had given to him.  (6)”So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.  She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.”  Thus today the question is ringing like a telephone, ‘Who are you married to?

I just stopped by to tell you there is hope!  Run to the refuge of Abba Father, get on your knees and repent, (me too) seek His face read His Word and pray for each other!  Roman 12:1 is speaking “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”  (2)”And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”  Begin this day to really put your trust in God!  Forgive yourself, now forgive each other!

May Yahweh give to you His wisdom and courage to stand up and deal with the real issues that threaten to destroy your marriage relationship!

Listen, Adam was given total power and authority over every animal yet he allowed the serpent to deceive Eve and not only that Adam also allowed the serpent to talk to Eve about what God had already commanded him to do and sadly both Adam and Eve believed the lie lets read it together, (5)’For god knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  Their beautiful marriage was never ever the same!  They were evicted from the paradise of the Garden of Eden to a life filled with torment and pain.  Who are you married to?

Could it be that you have compromised in your marriage and like Adam, you have been passive and allowed your wife like Eve to deal with the enemy?  Have you bought into the lies of the enemy?

Believing the lies of the enemy is actually what will give Satan ground to come into your marriage relationship and cause you to view each other as Satan himself personified!

Red Alert!  “Who are you married to?”  If you are asking yourself this question, Satan has already gained ground in your marriage! The Word is speaking Isaiah 54:17 “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me says the LORD.”

Repent this day as husbands and wives and begin to cut away and sever every evil soul tie, ask Abba Father to reveal to you which doors have been left open and through the power of the shed blood of Jesus Christ close those doors forever to the enemy!  It is echoing, forgive each other and make it a priority to show appreciation for one another!  Stop complaining about each other and start dealing with every issue as they arise and whatever you do, do not go to bed angry with each other!  Seek to settle your differences and respect each other.

Pray together, study the Word together, stop the silent treatment and talk to each other, resume social activities and you will rediscover each other and reignite the passion and love you once knew

Who are you married to?  The world will see that you are married to Jesus Christ!  For His light will be shining so brightly in your marriage people of every nation will be drawn to the Light!  Come on give Abba Father thanks and praise for who you are married to!