TODAY is the 4th day in our ongoing LOVEBIRDS’ ALL MARRIED LOVERS’ WEEK (LAMLOW).
The activity for today is EMBRACING AND HUGGING.
EMBRACE
What’s an EMBRACE? It’s the act of holding someone closely in one’s arms, as a sign of affection.
In our anchor scripture, Esau and Jacob’s reunion after being apart for 20 years was marked with spontaneous expressions of affection and emotion. This was evidenced by Esau running to meet Jacob and EMBRACING HIM, kissing him and both of them weeping. We see a similar scenario when Joseph revealed himself to his brothers in Egypt. This was particularly as he reunited with his younger brother Benjamin after so many years of forced separation:
“And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, HE EMBRACED HIM and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.”(Genesis 45:14 Douay-Rheims Bible)
If Brothers expressed BROTHERLY LOVE AND NATURAL AFFECTION by embracing, kissing and weeping, how much more should Spouses who are married to each other and are One Flesh? Aren’t they supposed to be more expressive of their professed Love?
It’s so sad that in our time, most Spouses consciously and deliberately hold their emotions and affection in check in their dealings with each other. They’d rather hoard them than spend them generously on their Mate. They behave towards each other as if nothing binds them together. They exchange greetings without endearments. Whenever they’re able to sit down to converse, it’s done without exhibiting conviviality and fondness. “Love Tokens” such as pats on the back, winks, touching one another, affectionate body contacts are foreign to them. When your living together is so formal, regimented and dry, what’s the difference between your being together under the same roof and being with your neighbour? There’s no difference really!
Marriage should be characterized by friendliness and displays of affection and romance!
HUGS
What is a HUG? Wikipedia defines it as “a form of endearment, found in virtually all human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, under the arm-pits or waists of one another AND HOLD EACH OTHER CLOSELY.”
What a sweet definition of the word HUG! So then, HUGGING is an expression of endearment and affection.
Hugging is one of the natural, nonverbal ways of communicating your love for one another in marriage. When the Bible tells us to not only love in words but in deeds, expressions of love such as hugging is included in what is meant. When you hug each other, it says a lot. To the bystanders or onlookers, it shows you as that rare breed of couples who are still on course in their marriage, in an era when marriages are breaking up every day.
When you pause what you’re doing to give your Partner a sweet “Hug attention” or “Hug ministration”, it easily tells them how dear they are to you. It tells them without words that you love them.
Dear Spouses, please listen to this secret: It’s the absence of the giving and receiving of these seemingly insignificant tokens of love, affection, romance and endearment that have rendered very many potentially vibrant marriages weak, dehydrated and a shadow of themselves!
The truth is: Take the tokens of love from a Marriage and you have truly crippled it. And that’s what the devil has done in making Spouses to be negligent of these important practices.
What the night and morning Dew are to plants and trees, is what Hugs, Embraces, Kissing, Touching, Caressing, etc, are to Spouses and their Marriages.
For most couples today, there’s no bodily contact in the course of the day until late at night when they bring their worn and weary bodies together on the bed for a hurried and shallow sexual intimacy that lasts at best for 5 minutes, and then it’s time to collapse on the bed and snore. Dear Couples, it’s time for all that to change.
Today, let loose the power of EMBRACING AND HUGGING that are lying dormant in you.
EMBRACE AND HUG each other TODAY. Make sure you give attention to lingering or prolonged Hugs and Embraces, when you have the time.
It’s important to season your Hugs and Embraces with kisses and affectionate words. Don’t tell me
you don’t know what to say. When you find yourself being chased by a ferocious dog, you don’t ask someone to tell you what to say, do you? When you hold your beloved Spouse in a loving and SENSUOUS hug or embrace, what you’ll say will come out your mouth.
Let Embracing and Hugging each other become one of the Signature actions that characterize your Marriage.💕
💕❤️ TONIGHT’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM
Use the Gifts of HUGGING AND EMBRACING freely tonight. Be creative and imaginative.
❤️💕🥑 MARRIAGE REVOLUTION CONTINUES! LET TOUCHING, KISSING, CARESSING, FONDLING, HUGGING AND EMBRACING BE CONSTANT IN YOUR MARRIAGE!🍍🥑🍍🥑🍍🥑