WHAT KIND OF HEART HAVE YOU?(PT.1)
NO ONE MARRIES WITH A DESIRE THAT their romance should turn sour the next year. Infact, during the honeymoon period you both earnestly wished and longed for the union to continue to be as sweet and merry as it was; and to grow even sweeter and richer! Unfortunately, such wishes don’t necessarily translate into a […]
GOD IS CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR OUTWARD APPEARANCE AS A MARRIED COUPLE
AFTER THE FIRST COUPLE SINNED, THE FIRST consequence of their disobedience was that they became naked and embarrassed. To cover up their shame, they sewed fig leaves together to make a dress but failed miserably. However, God had mercy on them and stepped in to remedy their ugly situation. Our anchor scripture tells us that […]
HONOUR AND RESPECT EACH OTHER
OUR ANCHOR SCRIPTURE PASSAGE begins with a command to RENDER TO EVERY MAN THEIR DUES. It goes on to mention the specific things that you are to RENDER. They include TRIBUTE, CUSTOM, FEAR and HONOUR. Of these four things, we shall be looking at HONOUR because it is one of the things spouses owe each […]
HUSBAND, CHERISH YOUR WINGLESS ANGEL, PAMPER YOUR TERRESTRIAL CHERUB!
TRAVEL BACK WITH ME IN TIME TO OUR LADY OF SCHOOLS COLLEGE, ANYIGBA, MIDDLE BELT REGION OF NIGERIA. The year is 1972. It’s a Saturday evening. Come with me to one of the entrances to the school hall or auditorium and watch freshers with their “long tails” preparing the long hall for the weekly social […]
THE RETURN OF THE HONEYMOON GIRL (PT.2)
IN OUR ANCHOR SCRIPTURE PASSAGE FOR TODAY, is an ancient practice that deserves our attention, consideration and emulation because it equipped wives for effectiveness in various aspects of their duty and kept them from being worn out too soon. It’s the practice of furnishing brides with handmaids just as Laban did in the passage above. […]
THE RETURN OF THE HONEYMOON GIRL
WHEN ABRAHAM HAD VERY IMPORTANT VISITORS as recorded in our anchor scripture passage above, he could have ordered Sarah to get into the Kitchen like the “Emperor Husbands” and the “Executive Husbands” normally do. After all, she was A WOMAN. But that’s not what he did. He told her to bake CAKES ONLY. He ordered […]
EIGHT SPECIAL QUALITIES THAT BEAUTIFY A WIFE (PT 3)
TODAY WE ARE STUDYING THE LAST THREE “wife-beautifying qualities” encapsulated in the scripture passage from which we’ve been learning for the past two days. 6. “KEEPERS AT HOME .” One of the qualities that adorn a Wife with godly beauty is KEEPING AT HOME. It simply means staying at home and giving attention to the […]
EIGHT SPECIAL QUALITIES THAT BEAUTIFY A WIFE (PT 2)
YESTERDAY, WE LOOKED AT THE FIRST TWO beautifying qualities that are in our anchor scripture passage above. Today, we shall be looking at three more. 3. LOVE YOUR CHILDREN . As a wife, it’s your natural responsibility to love your children. Thankfully, this is something you are endowed with so much instinct to do. Loving […]
EIGHT SPECIAL QUALITIES THAT BEAUTIFY A WIFE (PT.1)
AFTER I GOT BORN AGAIN in1979 and read in the book of Proverbs that beauty is vain, I couldn’t come to terms with it. This was because growing up, Beauty was one of the things we saw as a foremost quality in the life of a woman. What with the glossy pictures of the scantily […]
YOUR HUSBAND WANTS AN AUDACIOUS, PLAYFUL LOVER GIRL (PT. 2)
AS A MARRIED PERSON, YOU ARE A LICENCED LOVER and God expects you to be your best as a Lover in your relationship with your spouse. In other words, He wants you to function as a romantic lover such that your marriage will be a daily Love Affair. When your marriage is a Love Affair, […]