🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀When Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19 broke out, respectively, the World Health Organization (WHO) and ministries of health in countries around the world embarked on massive awareness campaigns to mitigate the spread of each pandemic.
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀THE PANDEMIC NO ONE TALKS ABOUT!
Today, there is a horrendous global pandemic that is spreading like a wildfire, breaking hearts, crushing marriages, causing divorces, inflicting mental agony, fracturing emotions, ravaging health, severing family ties, and damaging cordial relationships between in-laws. Yet, there are no billboards, flyers, or radio announcements warning people about it!
🎾Are you wondering what this pandemic could be? Well, the pandemic is adultery, which has become so commonplace that people now merely call it “cheating.”
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀ASTONISHING RECKLESSNESS
Just go online, and you will be shocked at how married women are recklessly destroying their marriages by sleeping around, some with two or three men at the same time!
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀THE FIRE BEHIND THE SMOKE
As has been said for a long time, “There is no smoke without fire.” You really do not have to think deeply to know that this saying is very true.
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀UGLY SCENARIO
It is indeed an ugly scenario when a married woman is caught red-handed with another man in a hotel, on her matrimonial bed, or elsewhere. To put it very plainly, it is heartbreaking for both the husband and the wife.
🏏Yet, even though some are caught and disgraced, more wives are embarking on the risky adventure of stepping outside their marriages to sleep with other men. In even more disturbing cases, some engage in sexual relationships with other women (lesbianism). The shocking truth is that this is not happening in faraway lands but right here in Africa!
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀DISOBEDIENCE: THE CAUSE
Truth be told, disobedience to God’s Word is what basically creates an opening for infidelity to occur.
🏑Today, we are going to examine some of the areas in which married couples are breaking God’s Word and thereby creating a pathway for the serpent called “Infidelity” to boldly slither into their marriages and bite them (Ecclesiastes 10:8b).
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀(1) AVOID FORNICATION… HAVE YOUR SPOUSE! (1 Corinthians 7:2)
It is not enough that you are married. After getting married, watchfulness and vigilance against sexual immorality must be among your foremost priorities as a couple! And how do you exercise this watchfulness and vigilance? By obeying our anchor scripture for today without compromise, because your life depends on it.
🏀Our anchor scripture tells couples in very blunt terms what to do to avoid falling into adultery: they must “HAVE” each other.
🏈The word “HAVE” in that verse goes beyond merely being married and having a husband or wife. It means:
🤎Make love to your spouse.
🧡Have sexual intimacy with each other.
💚Have sexual intercourse with one another.
❤️Have sexual relations.
🩵Sleep with each other.
💜Fuck one another.
🏸I have deliberately presented the command in six different ways for clarity. That is what God says you should do to gain victory over the temptation to commit infidelity.
🏉Sadly, many spouses think it is a sign of self-discipline or spirituality to abstain from sex for days, weeks, or months when they are not engaged in a mutually agreed fasting and prayer retreat.
🎾Sir, please hear this: it is never a demonstration of spirituality, a mark of discipline, or a sign of wisdom to refrain from touching your wife when you are not participating in a fasting and prayer retreat with her consent.
🏏I have witnessed heartbreaking situations in which wives caught in adultery have made statements such as:
😭”My husband doesn’t give me his time.”
😭”My husband caused it; he is too busy and doesn’t have time for sex with me.”
😭”He will carry his big Bible and go to church day and night, yet he doesn’t have time to sleep with me.”
💘It is harrowingly painful!
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀SIR, SHE’S NO PIECE OF WOOD!
No matter how well-furnished your home may be, no matter how many millions you give your wife every month, and no matter how much you have done to support her parents and siblings financially, never forget that your wife is a red-blooded woman with a vagina and that she needs your sexual attention, not just once in a while but frequently and consistently, because “male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:27).
📖God also said, “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18). Therefore, it is not good for your wife to be sexually lonely! Neither is it safe.
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀(2) HEAD IN AMERICA… BODY IN AFRICA
Another fire behind the ongoing and widespread global adultery pandemic is husbands and wives living far apart.
🏑We all know that studies, jobs, careers, and other circumstances can be genuine reasons why spouses live apart. But let us face the truth: marriage was not designed to be sustained by a husband and wife living perpetually apart.
🏸God said that spouses should leave their father and mother and cleave to each other (Genesis 2:24). This means that even if spouses lived in different towns, cities, or countries before marriage, once they become husband and wife, every effort must be made by the husband to bring his wife home to live with him in the town, city, or country where he resides, and as soon as possible!
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀LET’S CALL A SPADE A SPADE!
The case of a man marrying a young, energetic, and vivacious woman in Nigeria, then going off to Europe, America, South Africa, or Asia and remaining there for the next year—or, worse still, two whole years—before returning to see his wife is completely wrong, untenable, and inexcusable.
🏏Let us call a spade a spade. Such behaviour gives the devil the opportunity to tempt, “re-tempt,” and “over-tempt” the wife until she is overpowered and tumbles helplessly into the quagmire of adultery, against her personal wishes and desires.
🏀When such a wife is caught in adultery, she is made to look like the only culprit, but the husband is the first guilty party. It is morally wrong for a man to abandon his wife in Africa without taking her with him soon after their wedding. Sending her money and gifts cannot make up for his absence as a husband!
🎾🏸🏏🏑🏈🏉🏀CONCLUSION
The head of the woman is the man (1 Corinthians 11:3). Therefore, husbands, it is your duty to ensure that adultery does not come near your marriages to destroy them.
🎾Stop treating sexual intimacy as trivial or secondary. As we have seen in our anchor scripture for today, sexual intimacy is what God prescribes as a preventive measure against adultery. Give it the utmost attention and thereby protect your marriage from the fangs of the serpent called Infidelity. 🏈🏉
💕♥️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:
🔬”Brushing your teeth twice a day FOR TWO MINUTES with fluoride toothpaste is the standard dental recommendation, for couples who kiss frequently.”🔬
📢HALLELUJAH!
🎷PRAISE THE LORD!
🚨Please, share the LINK of this devotional message to at least TEN of your married friends and contacts!!🚨