SPOUSES AND THE VICISSITUDES OF LIFE
🩷💘❤️🩹🏆🥇When I first heard the 1874 song titled: “Underneath the Gaslight Glitters” from my elder sister, Cecilia Ahman, I was less than ten years old.Please read the lyrics of the first verse and its refrain below: “Underneath the gaslight’s glitter,Stands a fragile little girl;Heedless of the night winds bitter,As they round about her whirl.While the […]
MARRIAGE: MAKING LOVE IS MAKING WAR!
🩷🧡🤎🩵When a couple knows how disastrous and far-reaching the consequences of sexual immorality are, they will come to the realization and conviction that sexual intimacy in marriage is much more than pleasure or an effort to obey the command on procreation (Genesis 1:28). 🩷🧡🤎🩵MAKING LOVE IS MAKING WAR!Sexual intimacy in marriage is fighting a war […]
YOUR OUTWARD APPEARANCE STILL COUNTS!!
🌹🪘🍂🤎In marriage, one of the things you must never become comfortable neglecting is your outward appearance.When God presented Eve to Adam, what elicited his excitement wasn’t the feel of Eve’s skin to the touch, because he didn’t touch her. What stirred his thrilled response was how she looked—her outward appearance. His eyes took in her […]
DON’T GIVE UP ON YOUR SPOUSE: THERE’S A CHAMPION IN THEM!
🌹🖼️🥇🏆God never gives a perfect spouse, but He always gives a good and growing marriage partner (Proverbs 18:22) with a great and complex inbuilt capacity that is beyond your immediate comprehension. And that’s why you must not form conclusions about your mate—especially negative ones—because you really haven’t fully known them yet. Your “instrument” for reaching […]
THE ACTS OF STANLEY
🍞🧈🍝🫕Stanley, a 28-year-old newly employed civil servant stationed in a small village, came to his elder brother’s house in the city for the weekend. He was warmly received at the gate by his brother’s children with chants of, “Uncle Stan! Uncle Stan!”He wheeled his luggage to the guest room, changed into casual wear, and headed […]
“OUR WIFE, OUR WIFE!” REALLY?
🖼️💛🌹🎈During the third-term holiday of my second year in secondary school, I attended a wedding. At the end of the ceremony, I heard women referring to the newly married young woman as “Our wife, our wife!” Being ignorant of Scriptures, I had no idea that it was grossly wrong.Much later in life, I came to […]
FURNISH YOUR MARRIAGE! (PT. 2)
🌿🪴🌴🌳Yesterday, we saw that there are other things you need to add to your marriage beyond submission and love. One of those things is: knowledge of the worth of your spouse and your Marriage.Today, we’re looking at another quality your union needs to be furnished with. It’s the all-important quality of: Living as Romantic Lovers. […]
FURNISH YOUR MARRIAGE !
💛🧡🤎🍂🎞️As a young Christian, I read a number of Christian books on marriage. All they said about the duties of spouses was that wives should submit to their husbands and husbands should love their wives. Just two things. 💛🧡🤎🍂🎞️SUBMISSION AND LOVE AREN’T ENOUGHThen in 1980, a Christian brother got married. After his wedding, he said […]
VISIT THE “MARRIAGE BATHROOM”
💦💧🫧🩵If a billionaire throws away every dress he wears once it becomes dirty because he cannot “stand” dirt, he will rightly be seen by all as a very foolish man. 💦💧🫧🩵HANDLING DIRTY BODIES AND DIRTY CLOTHESThe fact that a dress becomes dirty does not mean it should be discarded. Your duty is to wash, dry, […]
LOVE BEES STING!!
💛🧡🤎Sometime in the 1970s, a randy expatriate — actually a Lebanese guy — saw a voluptuous Nigerian married woman and wanted to have her. Of course, he must have offered to pay her a mouth-watering sum. The woman accepted his proposal with a smile and agreed to meet him in the hotel. Unlike many treacherous […]