♂️♀️🪖💕 🌹Marriage as an institution has enemies. Foremost among them are the forces of infidelity that are on the loose everywhere.

♂️♀️🪖💕🌹BE PROACTIVE ABOUT INFIDELITY
​Every couple must firmly agree to actively protect their marriage. How do you protect your marriage? By being proactive and mutually observing some basic precautionary rules and principles. We are going to look at some of those principles now.

♂️♀️🪖💕🌹(1) AVOID “INNOCENT FLIRTATIONS” OUTSIDE YOUR MARRIAGE
​The devil has used seemingly innocent flirtations to ruin good and promising marriages. Therefore, as a couple, agree to practice abstinence from all forms and shades of flirtation outside your bond.

​Avoid all suggestive conversations, even as a joke. After all, the Bible is clear on the fact that we must avoid corrupt communication (Ephesians 4:29) and jesting (Ephesians 5:4).

​Many years ago, I read a real-life account of a couple who were friends with another couple. Let’s call the first couple Mr. and Mrs. Uranium and the second, Mr. and Mrs. Utopia. They related well and everything was cordial.

​Whenever they came together, Mr. Uranium would joke and tell Mrs. Utopia, “If I had met you before your husband married you, I would have chosen you as my wife,” and all of them would laugh and make hilarious remarks about it. Mrs. Utopia would also answer, “Yes, indeed. I would have married you if you had been smart enough to have showed up.” It was taken as a joke and no one was offended, let alone imagining the adversary would use it. This joke kept on being played like a phonograph record and was fun—for quite a while.

♂️♀️🪖💕🌹WHEN FUN TRANSMOGRIFIED INTO FORNICATION
​Then one day, Mr. Uranium and Mrs. Utopia chanced upon each other somewhere in town. Suddenly, the joke started again. This time, their respective spouses weren’t present. And on this day, the joke went a step further as Mr. Uranium added a new ring to it by telling Mrs. Utopia that, indeed, he had “feelings” for her. As it turned out, Mrs. Utopia had also developed feelings for him and said so. To cut a long story short, they wound up entwined in a bed somewhere committing adultery, and they were caught. Death and life are in the power of the tongue; therefore, mind your words. Save your flirtations for only one person: your spouse.

​Flirtations are not figments of the imagination. They are actually a verbal release of erotic power, and it is dangerous uttering them to someone who is not your spouse.

♂️♀️🪖💕🌹(2) LET YOUR COMPLIMENTS BE WITHIN YOUR MARRIAGE
​As a couple, make it a principle to avoid giving or receiving compliments from members of the opposite sex other than your marriage partner—whether they are fellow church members, colleagues at work, or anyone else. Doesn’t this sound a bit rigid? Of course, it does. But it is better to be safe than to get into moral trouble.

​Compliments are like food: tasty and sumptuous. They have a sweet aroma that lingers. Depending on how rich and deep the verbal expressions are, compliments can linger in the heart of the receiver for years.

​If the person you are offering your compliments to is in a marriage where they are starved of validation and approval, your compliments may come like welcome rain to a parched and dry land. Your innocent compliments may draw that lady or man closer to you. This is how many affairs begin, eventually exploding into destructive scandals. Therefore, beware.

​That well-dressed colleague or fellow parishioner will not die if you don’t compliment them, will they? They won’t. So keep your compliments. Don’t start a fire you might not be able to quench.

♂️♀️🪖💕🌹(3) LET YOUR MARRIAGE BE A RAINFOREST OF SEX AND ROMANCE
​You cannot be a couple who takes marriage seriously and wants an affair-proof union without making your relationship saturated with sex and romance. If you truly know that extramarital affairs are mercilessly destructive, then you will see to it that your marriage is a rainforest of sexual intimacy and romance.

​Rainforests receive exceptionally high amounts of rainfall, typically averaging between 2,000 and 10,000 millimeters (80 to 400 inches) of rain per year. The vegetation is dense and thick, and the undergrowth is dark, receiving as little as two percent of light.

​When your union is a rainforest of sexual intimacy and romance—thick, heavy, and dense—the guerrilla warfare agents of infidelity will find it very difficult to reach and attack you.

​You cannot claim to hate infidelity while staying on a hungry stomach sexually. That is tempting the devil to tempt you. Unfortunately, that is exactly what many couples are doing. They live on a very thin, inconsistent diet of sex, yet expect to have the vigor to withstand the heavyweight demons of sexual temptation when they come. It never works that way. The scripture is clear: “If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small” (Proverbs 24:10). Put that verse in the converse and it becomes even clearer: “If thy strength is small, you will fall in the day of adversity.” Period.

♂️♀️🪖💕🌹(4) OTHER PRECAUTIONARY RULES COMBINED
​In conclusion, avoid touching members of the opposite sex who are not your spouse. If you do so unconsciously and realize it, quickly withdraw your hand.

​Avoid riding alone in a car with a person of the opposite sex whom you do not know well. Several people have gotten into big trouble simply for trying to give someone a lift.

​Note persons of the opposite sex who possess physical features that easily turn you on, and avoid them like the plague. Doing so is not fearfulness; it is strategy.

​Keep all past lovers and sexual partners out of your mind, and never replay past sinful activities with them in your thoughts. Why? Because a dog returns to its vomit when it broods on it. Don’t be that dog! ♂️♀️🪖

💕♥️🩷Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Re-read this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it with open and sincere hearts.

✝️Altar Call: Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today in genuine repentance. Believe in Him and be saved!

🌡️🧪⚗️Scientific Info To Boost Your Marriage:
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♂️♀️🪖💕🌹 HALLELUJAH!!!