LOVEBIRDS' DEVOTIONAL

Enriching Matrimonies

ENJOYING A LOVE-AFFAIR MARRIAGE (PT. 3)

Scripture:
‘IF YE KNOW THESE THINGS, HAPPY ARE YE IF YE DO THEM.’
(JOHN 13:17)

🩵⛲🗾🌐🧳💺Today’s devotional message is a continuation of yesterday’s ministration.

🩵⛲🗾🌐🧳💺(4) NOURISH YOUR MARRIAGE
In yesterday’s devotional, we saw that just as our physical bodies excrete their wastes, so also does our one-flesh life as a couple need to do away with its “wastes”: grievances, misunderstandings, malice, and indeed every offence that springs up in our relationship with each other in the course of the day.

⛲If excretion is important for the one-flesh body, then nourishment must be of utmost importance to the union, too. And what is the nourishment or food of marriage? It is LOVE. Love is the food of married couples. And just as our physical food comes in diverse forms, so also does what constitutes love include many things, such as kindness, graciousness, affection, and sacrificial and benevolent acts that range from spiritual virtues to bodily activities such as sexual intimacy. Each of these is important and compulsory for the spouses to practise in their union if they want it to be nourished into a flourishing love-affair marriage.

🩵⛲🗾🌐🧳💺5) WALK IN WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Another thing that will help you enjoy a love-affair marriage is walking in wisdom, knowledge, and understanding—not occasionally, but constantly.

🌐The Bible tells us:

📖”Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches” (Proverbs 24:3–4).

⛲Wisdom is God-given insight. Understanding is discernment and the ability to see things from God’s perspective, while knowledge is factual information. When these attributes are in you, they make you a sober-minded individual who places value on the true essences of life, one of which is a love-affair marriage. With this mindset, you’ll be willing to go to any length to ensure that yours is a sweet, love-affair matrimony.

🩵⛲🗾🌐🧳💺(6) REMEMBER THAT YOU’RE BOTH LEARNERS
To have a love-affair marriage, you and your spouse must always be conscious of the fact that you are both finite human beings with limitations and inadequacies, and that you’re still learners in the big institution called marriage. In view of this reality, you must let patience, understanding, compassion, magnanimity, and the spirit of forgiveness always abound in your hearts towards one another.

🧳Don’t expect too much from each other. And when one partner goofs or blunders, the other should, for Christ’s sake, be considerate, merciful, and forgiving.

🩵⛲🗾🌐🧳💺(7) BE ROSEY, LOVEY DOVEY!
You can’t call your union a love-affair marriage when you’re not romantic; when you don’t habitually practise embracing, hugging, kissing, companionship, touching each other, holding hands, making time for non-sexual interactions, and all those things that young lovers do. Why? Because those things are trademark activities of true lovers. So, practise them in your union. It’s an error to say that you’re too old for such things.

🗾However, you must exercise wisdom and discretion. Don’t do inappropriate things in the presence of children, neighbours, and visitors.

🩵⛲🗾🌐🧳💺CONCLUSION
Jesus said:

📖”If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them” (John 13:17).

💺Thanks so much for reading. However, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has said in this verse of Scripture, your happiness will not come merely from reading everything in this devotional piece, but from putting what you’ve read into practice.

🩵So, go on and practise the things you’ve learned today, and your joy will be full!  🌐🩵

💕♥️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!

📚📖✒️Quotes For Reflection:
“Physical touch is critical to building a strong, thrilling and an ever-young romantic marriage.
Touch covers: holding hands, gentle caresses on the shoulder, cheek or arm.
It entails hugs, embraces, massaging each other, scratching one another’s back, thighs, abdomen, lovezones, etc.”(From Lovebirds’ Devotional, 10th April, 2026)

🧪⚗️Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
🔬”A body that runs on good nutrition simply runs better. When you give your cells the essential nutrients they need to perform their jobs, such as fighting disease, building strength, and producing energy, your sexual performance improves as well.”🔬

📢HALLELUJAH!
🎷PRAISE THE LORD!
🚨Please, share the LINK of this devotional message to at least TEN of your married friends and contacts!!🚨