WHEN GOD CONSIDERED MAN’S lonely living in the Beginning, He concluded that it wasn’t good(Genesis 2:18a). This means that the first reason God instituted Marriage was to erase solitude from man’s life. This being so, you and your Spouse ought to highly prioritize togetherness, closeness, intimacy, friendship and fellowship in your marriage.

Very many Spouses know so little about each other all because they don’t really spend time together.

When Adam set his eyes on Eve for the first time, he caught the revelation that she was the flesh of his flesh and the bone of his bones. But coming into each other’s embrace and making love with each other as recorded in Genesis 4: 1 moved them up to a new and higher level of knowledge of each other. And that new knowledge produced a man child!

The more time you spend together in companionship, fellowship, togetherness, closeness and intimacy the more of each other you’ll know. And your increased knowledge of each other will MOVE your union to new levels of growth; ushering you into new horizons of married Love.

When we were children, my mother told my siblings and I the story of a Farmer who went to the farm with his pregnant wife. While they were working on the farm, a strange man they had never seen before came upon them. The Assailant was armed with weapons of war and charms. He killed the farmer and forcefully took the pregnant wife to his abode in a distant forest.

In that strange forest, the farmer’s captive wife gave birth and as it turned out, the baby was a boy. The boy grew up knowing the strange warrior as his father.

By the time he was about seventeen years old, the mother sat him down while the warrior was far away from his abode. Mother and son had a time of unique fellowship during which the woman told him for the first time that the man he called Father wasn’t his father and neither was he her husband. She went on to tell him the detailed story of the murder of his biological father and her abduction by the Warrior. Hearing these, livid anger, rage and fury welled up in the heart of her teenaged Son.

Being close to his “father” over the years, he had known that, one of the secrets of his diabolical powers was that, his charms and instruments of sorcery must never be brought out while the Sun is in the sky. And knowing that the warrior was physically strong, he prepared himself to face him in a deadly wrestling duel.

While the Warrior was out one day, the young man entered his “strong room”, brought out all his charms and spread them outside while the Sun was fully in the sky and awaited the Warrior.

When the Warrior finally came a fierce and bloody combat ensued. The old warhorse fought very hard using his many years of experience while the young man fought even more ferociously because of the fury and intense anger in him. He wasn’t just out to win a fight, he was avowed to kill in the most brutal way possible the man who murdered his real father in cold blood and had kept his Mother as his captive sex slave for years. Do you need to be told who won? The young man killed the Warrior!

How did the son get the knowledge that filled him with deadly fury and an unquenchable quest to revenge? Through quality fellowship with his mother.

There are things about your Spouse that you will never know when you are the type that loves your work and outsiders more than you love your life Partner. There are things your Spouse will not even remember to tell you about themselves until the day you’re closely cuddled up together and you’re doing some simple things for them: like scratching their back softly. And then, somehow, they’ll find themselves telling you how the scar on their back came about; how so and so betrayed them and on and on. After that, you’ll find that your respect and empathy for them deepens and your bond of love becomes stronger than ever before.

The more you know each other, the sweeter and richer your union becomes. And the easier you’ll understand each other. But it requires spending time, quality time with each other.

🔥🔥🔥CREATIVE DECREES:

🔥Let A STRONG AND FERVENT LOVE to spend time with each other from time to time fill your hearts!⚡

🔥Let the Grace that enables the Church to never be tired of fellowship with JESUS be poured upon you and your Spouse; enabling you to want more of each other always!⚡

🍷🍗 TAKE-HOME LESSON: The most basic reason God brought you and your Spouse together is to erase solitude from your respective lives.

So, prioritize togetherness closeness, intimacy, friendship and fellowship.

💕❤️ TONIGHT’S ONE FLESH ASSIGNMENT IN THE BEDROOM

Reread today’s devotional piece and discuss how to put it to practice.

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