HOW TO AVOID MARITAL BACKSLIDING
AS A SERVANT OF GOD SENT TO TEACH MARRIAGE, I ENDLESSLY cherish the Song of Solomon. It’s a precious scriptural resource that depicts the beauty of pure and monogamous love. It’s on record that in the second century, one of the greatest Jewish teachers and mystic, Rabbi Akiba Ben Joseph, said this about the Song […]
MARRIED COUPLES AND THE USE OF FASTING AND PRAYER
EVEN AS AN ORDINARY “RECRUIT” brought to the Palace for the contest that would lead to the selection of the next Queen, Esther had 7 Maidens attending to her. You can only imagine how many Maidens must have been at her beck and call as soon as she became the Wife, Queen and Empress of […]
THE WIFE AS AN ADULT WOMAN
AT THE END OF THE SIXTH DAY OF CREATION, GOD LOOKED CLOSELY at all that He had made and they were not just good but VERY GOOD! (Genesis 1: 31) That included the form of all He had made at the time of His assessment as well as their form in the future when they […]
THERE’S NO WOMAN QUITE LIKE YOUR WIFE
WHEN AS A HUSBAND YOU SENSE your romantic ardour for your wife waning or declining because she’s getting older and you’re instead thinking that younger women are better; know that somedark, sinister and merciless forces are quietly working on your mind and subtly seeking to drag you into a deep pit for destruction. Sir, when […]
ARE YOU A WANDERING SPOUSE?
THERE NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SAD AND UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT OF THE ADULTERY BETWEEN KING DAVID AND BATHSHEBA, if the revered Patriarch, King David, had been where he ought to be at the beginning of the year when kings went forth to battle(2 Samuel 11:1). He was a mighty and unequalled Warrior in his time […]
YOUR MARRIAGE AND THE STORMS OF LIFE (PT. 2)
THE STORMS OF LIFE SPARE no one. They come to the saintly as well to the ungodly; to the filthy as well to the holy. Today, we are looking at how Mr and Mrs Job faced the fiery storms that sought to completely destroy them. The story of the trials that came upon Mr and […]
YOUR MARRIAGE AND THE STORMS OF LIFE (PT. 1)
NO MATTER HOW GLORIOUS, INTENSE AND CONSISTENT your romance and love as a couple, one thing is sure: you’ll meet with the storms of life as you travel along. This is because the earth is a battlefield. Thankfully, the God Who joined you in marriage is always close by and ready to intervene and save […]
YOUR MARRIAGE AND YOUR PRAYER LIFE
ONE OF THE SONGS WE SANG IN CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES in the early 1980s goes like this: “Expect a miracle when you pray,Expect a miracle when you pray,Expect a miracle when you pray:For your Father is sitting on the Throne.Search your conscience, you Man of God,Search your own you Man of God,Search your conscience you Man […]
PRIDE AND POMPOUSITY IN MARRIAGE
ONE OF THINGS THATdestroy Marriages is Pride. For instance, if as a husband God has blessed you financially and you live a very comfortable life, beware of Pride. Pride is destructive, whether at home towards family members or outside the home and towards others. We can learn much about this from the life of the […]
BELIEVE IN YOUR MARRIAGE AND BELIEVE IN YOUR SPOUSE
WHEN YOU READ THE SONG OF SOLOMON OVER AND OVER, you’ll find that one of the secrets of the glorious love story of the couple in that book is that they were both highly enthusiastic Lovers. The man was head over heels in love with the woman and the woman was superlatively in love with […]