IF YOU’RE VISITING A HOME WHERE THERE’S A NEW BORN BABY, as you walk into the sitting room, the fragrance of baby powders, soaps and hair oils are first to greet you. Thereafter, the piercing and persistent cries of the infant soon confirm it’s presence.

When you visit the hospital, the harsh smells of disinfectants used to clean up the facility welcome you and you know that you’re indeed in a hospital and not a five-star hotel.

When you see a young man and a young woman who are mere boyfriend and girlfriend, you won’t need to look for long before you see their illicit love affair displayed in their amorous interactions.

Everything has it’s trade mark, hallmark or identification symbol. The identification marks or symbols of Marriage are in a nutshell: love, affection, passion and a fiery libido.

On the day you and your Spouse got married, there was so much of those four emblematic qualities of marriage in both of you; so much so that you could barely take your hands off each other. Hypocrisy, passivity, pretence, religiosity and prudishness were all renounced by each of you as you willingly gave yourselves to each other generously. No one needed to beg, coerce or persuade the other. You were finally married and you behaved as any normal, typical newly married couple should. Sir, Ma, the way your marriage was on that first day of your union is exactly as God designed it to be! Your fervent love, sweet affection, deep passion and strong sex drives as you had them then were the manifestation of the essences of marriage!
From that first day of your marriage, it was your duty as Spouses to sustain them, because they’re sustainable.

Now, there are other components of Marriage that fall within the major symbols of marriage we’ve already listed (love, affection, passion and a fiery libido). Gradually, you activated them. With all of them at work, your Marriage became almost heavenly and people called it “Honeymoon”. Our ancient African forefathers also experienced it but didn’t call it honeymoon though; but it was nonetheless the same exhilarating experience. They enjoyed it and knew it’s the true nature of marriage to be so exceedingly thrilling.

Unfortunately, many married couples have allowed these qualities to evaporate and all they now have as Marriage is mere sharing of the same accommodation and feeding from the same kitchen.

What went wrong? Well, many of them read from books or were told orally that “the sweetness at the beginning of marriage is not meant to last”. And that soon, they would be back to “normal life”. Well, I have got good news for you, dear Readers. That notion is completely false! This is because, you can always live the way you lived on the first night of your marriage and the days after!

Let’s do some reasoning.

Honey is produced by Bees, right? They use the same production formula whether it be in Canada, Brazil or Afghanistan and so honey has the same rich taste every where and any day. Why? Because all the essences of honey are in it.

When you eat Cashew fruit, the taste is the same irrespective of where or when you’re eating it.

Marriage ought not to be an exception. When Spouses dutifully ensure that all the essences of marriage are always intact in their union, it will be as sweet as it was on it’s first day.

This Devotional piece is calling you and your Spouse to go to work on your Marriage. Get every abandoned essence of marriage back into your union!

Even in Christ’s relationship with the Church (which is a model for all married couples to follow), He expects every component of the union to be fully retained. When He spoke to the Church of Ephesus, He commended their labour and faithfulness but was nevertheless displeased over a quality they’d forsaken:

“NEVERTHELESS I HAVE SOMEWHAT AGAINST THEE, BECAUSE THOU HAST LEFT THY FIRST LOVED.” (Revelation 2:4)

One of the things the devil uses to lure Spouses out to the non-existent  “greener grass” is the dullness in their marriage which is as a result of the vital ingredients of marriage that they have neglected.

Sir/Ma, don’t be deceived. There’s nothing like “greener grass” any where! Thankfully, what God has given is by far more and better than any fictional “greener grass”. God has given you a Garden of Eden to both enjoy till death separates you. But you know what? Even Adam had a duty in Eden. Yes, he was free to eat all the fruits except one but he was to MAINTAIN it by dressing it, so that weeds would not ruin it’s beauty. Similarly, you are to maintain your marriage daily by ensuring that all the vital and natural essences are always intact; so that it’s taste doesn’t diminish or worse still, turn sour or even become insipid.

Always ensure that FERVENT LOVE, SWEET AFFECTION, DEEP PASSION AND A STRONG SEX DRIVE are in your Marriage. Don’t let the devil deceive you to believe that you’re too old. There’s nothing like Old Age in Love and Marriage!

🔥🔥🔥 FAITH DECREE:
🔥LET YOUR DESIRE FOR EACH OTHER AS MARRIED LOVERS BE RENEWED AND GREATLY INTENSIFIED, IN JESUS NAME!

🍷🍗 TAKE-HOME LESSON: WORK ON YOUR MARRIAGE. GET EVERY ABANDONED ESSENCE OF MARRIAGE BACK INYO YOUR UNION!

💕❤️ TONIGHT’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM

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