🍷🎻🩷It took place in 1981, and the press called it “The Wedding of the Century!” and “The Fairytale Wedding!”
The historic wedding cost $156 million. Apart from the physical audience in the cathedral where it was held, it was watched by a record television audience of 750 million viewers in 74 countries around the world. The fireworks display on its eve was the largest in 200 years of British history. Accompanying the fireworks was music played by 250 musicians. When it came to a flamboyant wedding, it was numero uno — the very best of the 20th century.
But do you know what? In its 11th year, the couple separated, and in the 15th year, they were officially divorced.
Sir/Ma, money can give you a flamboyant wedding full of glitz and glamour, but it takes the knowledge of and obedience to the whole counsel of God on marriage to have a flourishing union that lasts and lasts until death brings it to an end at God’s appointed time!

🍷🎻🩷GOD WANTS YOU TO HAVE A FLOURISHING MARRIAGE
God wants you to have a flourishing marriage. In His Word are the wisdom, counsel, and instructions that guarantee it.
The Bible showcases the first flourishing marriage — that of the first couple, Adam and Eve. A meditative and sober study of Genesis 2 shows that, unlike the work of creation in Genesis 1 where God spoke things into existence, man, his home, and his marriage were not spoken into being. It took God actively working with His hands to form man, plant his garden home, make the woman, and personally present her to the man for marriage to be instituted. All these silently point to one thing: it also takes practical, active work to have a flourishing marriage and a happy home. Mere talk and sweet nothings will not do it. “Work” here means doing and living by every strand of the Word of God on marriage without leaving any out.
“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). Therefore, to enjoy a thriving and flourishing marriage, the key is to live by every word that God has spoken concerning matrimonial life.

🍷🎻🩷SUBMISSION AND SUPREME LOVE ARE NOT PUNISHMENT
God’s demand for submission from wives to their husbands and supreme love from husbands for their wives constitute the spouses’ fundamental and proper conduct in marriage — not punishment that we should resist in rebellion. There is no marriage without them.
Obedience to each strand of the “matrimonial Scriptures” adds to the beauty, firmness, strength, and sweetness of your union. As you practice them consistently, gradually, and over time, they become part of your holy habits, and the struggle with the tendency to be disobedient dies.

🍷🎻🩷CONCLUSION
In conclusion, let us consider the kind of work God invested in creating man, his garden home, and his marriage.
Our anchor scripture shows that God farmed or cultivated the garden into existence. He planted it with attention to aesthetics and beauty, food for sustenance, and rivers to keep the landscape ever lush.
Similarly, it is your duty to give attention to the environment of your marriage. A dirty and foul-smelling bedroom is a turn-off for sexual intimacy. An empty kitchen cupboard makes the stomach grumble with hunger. As Charles Haddon Spurgeon said, “Lack of bread makes lack of love; lean dogs fight!” Always remember that hunger is the ignition key to many problems in marriage today. So nip it in the bud by always ensuring that the home has food and all the other basics of life. With these in place, “love drama” is always easy to act!

💕❤️ Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Reread this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with an open and sincere heart.

📚📖✒️ Quotes For Reflection:
“Wonderful Husbands, God wants you to go well beyond just living with your wives. He wants you to be DRUNK, INEBRIATED AND INTOXICATED with her everyday.” (Anselm Ahman. Lovebirds’ Devotional, October 11, 2024)

✝️ Altar Call:
Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today and be saved!

🌡️⚗️ Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
“Research suggests that holding grudges—defined as nursing resentment, anger, or bitterness over past offenses—is generally detrimental to both marital quality and individual well-being.”

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