🧱🧱🐬🐟On the day you got married, God also graciously gave you the blessings of a family and a home. However, He expected you to know that you ought to maintain each of them distinctly, with your marriage being the most prioritised.

🧱🧱🐬🐟YOUR MARRIAGE
Your marriage consists of only two persons: you and your spouse.

🐙As you take care of the children—the offspring of your marriage—as well as your home, which houses and protects all of you, you must not forget to nourish your marriage.

🐠What are the nourishment of your marriage? They are those same activities that made you and your spouse one flesh—the same things that made your union a little heaven on earth in the early days of your marriage. The one word that summarises those beautiful days is HONEYMOON.

🧱🧱🐬🐟NOURISHING YOUR MARRIAGE
In my entire life, I have never heard anyone say a thing against honeymoon. Instead, everybody thinks, sees, and speaks only good things about it. Why? Because it is indeed and truly a beautiful life!

🪼Unfortunately, many believe they must bring it to an end and go back to normal life. “After all,” they say, “every day is not Christmas.” But God’s will is that your marriage be a ceaseless honeymoon, and it becomes so as you daily do those things that characterised your relationship during the honeymoon days and weeks.

🧱🧱🐬🐟LIVE THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE
Exactly what characterised the honeymoon period? You don’t need to think very hard before you can recall them, do you? They’re almost always at your fingertips.

🐡They’re the same things we’ve been talking about in the past two editions of Lovebirds’ Devotional. They marked the union of Adam and Eve round the clock, and they ought to be constant features of yours, 24/7.

🧱🧱🐬🐟ROMANCE AS ADORNMENT
Touching, hugging, embracing, caressing, kissing, as well as all the other activities that comprise non-sexual interactions—these should be the adornment of your marriage. These are some of the things that characterise the honeymoon period.

🦆Of course, there will be times when you can’t be available for any of them because of the demands of your calling or profession. However, it’s important that you have the knowledge that these matrimonial activities are tremendously beneficial to your mutual health and to your marriage.

🧱🧱🐬🐟BENEFITS OF TOUCHING, EMBRACING, CARESSING, AND KISSING
Listed below are some of the benefits of romancing regularly as a couple. Note that romancing doesn’t necessarily need to lead to sexual intimacy. Please read:

🦜(1) Embracing, caressing, and kissing release feel-good hormones that lower stress, boost your mood, and strengthen the emotional bond between you and your spouse.

🕊️(2) They lower blood pressure. Holding hands and hugging help reduce your heart rate and blood pressure.

🐧(3) Physical touch lowers levels of cortisol, the hormone responsible for stress.

🐓(4) Regular affection increases the body’s ability to fight off illnesses.

🦩(5) Kissing and hugging release endorphins, which can block pain signals in the body.

🦚(6) Kissing also triggers the release of oxytocin, which is known as the “love hormone.” It builds trust and deep attachment.

🦃(7) As a couple, touching each other triggers dopamine and serotonin, which fight feelings of sadness and anxiety.

🐦‍🔥(8) Hugging, embracing, kissing, and caressing increase feelings of safety and make spouses feel secure and valued.

🦤(9) Small acts of touch prevent emotional distance between marriage partners. They stoke the flames of love and keep romance alive.

🦢(10) Affection and passion speak louder than words and help resolve arguments faster.

🧱🧱🐬🐟CONCLUSION
Reading through today’s devotional message and the previous two shows that marriage is loaded to overflowing with activities that have refreshing, rejuvenating, and even curative powers.

🦋As already said, romancing doesn’t necessarily have to lead to sexual intimacy. We encourage you and your spouse to live this beautiful life every day!🐬🐟

💕♥️🩷Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Re-read this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with open and sincere hearts.

✝️Altar Call: Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today in genuine repentance. Believe in Him and be saved!

🌡️🧪⚗️Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
🔬”Science shows that staying weeks without talking to a spouse is a toxic and destructive pattern of emotional withdrawal, not a healthy way to resolve conflict.”🔬

🎷🪘🎙️🪗 HALLELUJAH!
📢PRAISE THE LORD!