RECENTLY, I TOOK TIME TO STUDY the Marriage of one of the respected Ministers of the Gospel from a past era. This man had a very successful Ministry but a failed marriage.

Because of his spiritual success, I personally thought for many years that he was just unfortunate to have married a “wrong” woman. I therefore pitied him all these years until recently.

Reading the published works of those who have studied his Marriage, I discovered that this anointed Man of God was the architect of his marital misery and not his wife.

Marriage was instituted by God for companionship. Neglecting this core and fundamental truth and living contrary to it for whatever reason, is a grave error and puts your marriage, whoever you are, at the risk of failing.

As already said, Marriage was instituted for companionship; and within companionship are very important matrimonial basics that you must give attention to. They include: friendship, communication, romance, affection, passion, sexual intimacy, etc. Spouses are under obligation to minister these blessings to each other.

It’s not a mark of spirituality to say that you can stay away from your wife and home for an entire year and you would not fall into sin. You may be proud of that, but it should interest you to know that God isn’t. He didn’t institute marriage to be used as a platform for demonstrating your possession the grace of celibacy. If you have the grace of celibacy, then you shouldn’t have married in the first place.

The Clergyman I studied was someone who believed more in Celibacy than Marriage. So, he shouldn’t have married in the first place! But at the age of 48, he suddenly chose to marry. Here’s what a Writer wrote about him: “His strategy for being a good husband was pretty simple: ‘I cannot understand how a Methodist preacher can answer it to God to preach one sermon or travel one day less, in a married than in a single state’ “. He was saying in effect that when you get married, you don’t need to make adjustments in your lifestyle to be able to pay necessary attention to your wife and your marriage. And this was his practice. His relentless travels as he used to do before Marriage didn’t change and his wife’s hope of some domestic joy was unfulfilled. He was OFTEN ABSENT FOR WEEKS in an era when there were no television, android phones, newspapers and magazines to serve as means of distraction in the absence of a husband. And how about this woman’s sexual needs and desires? If she burned with lust, it was her business how she coped. The mighty man of God must go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creatures on land, sea, in the sky and under the ground! Sir, whoever you are, if you have this kind of mindset today, you’re in error and on the way to ruin your marriage like this man did his.

Our anchor scripture, shows us the lifestyle of an unmarried christian man and that of a married christian man. The unmarried christian man, being unattached to a Spouse, is free and pours all of himself into God’s work without looking back. No one needs to meditate to understand this. Common sense tells us it’s the right and logical lifestyle for a Christian bachelor.

Then our anchor scripture goes on to show us the lifestyle of a married christian man: he gives attention to meeting the needs of his wife, which also implies taking care of his entire family.

No matter how zealous you were for God as a Bachelor, when you get married, you must switch from the bachelor lifestyle in 1 Corinthians 7: 32b to the married man’s lifestyle in 1 Corinthians 7: 33.

Every Minister of the Gospel that’s married must humbly submit himself to the authority of our anchor scripture for today.

If you had the opportunity to be celibate but left it and chose to marry a wife, then you’re duty bound in the sight of God to be committed to your matrimonial vows and duties; which include giving your wife companionship and all the components thereof.

In the sight of God, there’s nothing like Semi-Celibate or Semi-Bachelor or Semi-Husband. You’re either a husband or you’re not.

And if you’re a husband, then be a full-time husband who sees Marriage as a covenant life of love that demands your full commitment.

🔥🔥🔥FAITH DECREE:

🔥LET THE POWER OF GOD COME UPON ALL HUSBANDS THAT ARE READING THIS DEVOTIONAL PIECE AND MIGHTILY STRENGTHEN THEM IN EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR LIVES AS HUSBANDS, IN JESUS’ MIGHTY NAME!⚡

🍷🍗 TAKE-HOME LESSON: SINCE YOU CHOSE THE MARRIED LIFE, LIVE IT TO THE FULLEST. BE THE VERY BEST HUSBAND TO YOUR WIFE.

💕❤️ TONIGHT’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM

Christmas is around the corner!

Tonight, lock your bedroom door once you’re ready to go to bed.

Then get a good musical audio CD playing and HOLD EACH OTHER TIGHT AND DANCE! (HOETAD)

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ANOINTED MUSIC SECTION