LOVEBIRDS' DEVOTIONAL

Enriching Matrimonies

THERE’S NO OLD AGE IN LOVE LIFE

Scripture:
‘Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.’
(1 CORINTHIANS 7: 3)

WHEN GOD CREATED MAN, HE MADE HIM a multifaceted being. In other words, every human being is an embodiment several “lives”. One of those lives is YOUR LOVE LIFE.

Your Love Life is that part of you that enables you fall in love with a person of the opposite sex, marry them and you become husband and wife.

It’s through the human love life that God’s purpose of procreation and populating the Earth with proper human beings finds expression and fulfillment.

Once you’re married, it’s an error to be careless with your Love Life. Or worse still to neglect it!

Some think it’s a sign or mark of spirituality not to give attention to their love life. However, it’s your duty to care for, nurture, protect and above all, NOURISH your love life. In taking good, intelligent and diligent care of your love life, you’re at the same time taking care of your Mate’s love life because Marriage makes your love lives intertwined and interdependent.

When you look at God’s Word on Marriage, He doesn’t tell you: “Go and enjoy your love life”.
Rather, He tells you to GIVE love life nurturing and nourishment to your Spouse. This is because it’s in giving yourself to nurture and nourish your Spouse’s love life that you receive fuller and better nurturing and nourishment for your own love life. Why? Because it’s always more blessed to give than to receive (Acts 20:35)
When you give, you receive multiplied proportions of what you gave! (Luke 6:38)

Let’s look at scriptures where we are directly or indirectly instructed to FIRST GIVE towards nurturing and nourishing our Spouse’s love life.

(1) GENESIS 2:24. LEAVE AND CLEAVE. This is how Marriage starts. Don’t wait for your Mate to come to you. Esteem them so highly that you leave everybody else and cleave to them. This practice must continue all throughout Marriage. Never stop leaving and cleaving to your spouse. Don’t wait for them to come to you. Go to them!

(2) PROVERBS 5:18 REJOICE WITH THE WIFE OF YOUR YOUTH.
Don’t wait for your spouse to come and “rejoice” with you. You go to them and start it. The “Rejoicing” meant here is romantic and affectionate good times! Do this often. Don’t wait for some big money to be able to fly to Dubai. Have a simple but rich romantic times right at home; again and again!

(3) 1 CORINTHIANS 7: 3
“Let the husband RENDER unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”
Here again, God uses the word RENDER to tell Spouses to GIVE, MINISTER, PROVIDE and SUPPLY sexual satisfaction to their Mate.

Today, many husbands have stopped RENDERING. They’ve assumed that since their wife is over 70 years old, she no longer needs sexual intimacy and satisfaction. That’s a very costly assumption.

Not too long ago, I read of a rich women’s club in Lagos, Nigeria, consisting of wives of top billionaire business executives. These are wives of men who have assumed that that their wives don’t need much bedroom attention anymore since “they’re now old”. But while they’re busy globetrotting, this Club arranges for young energetic boys whom they share among themselves. You don’t need to be told what those boys do for the rich Mamas, do you?

Just in case you think this happens only among ungodly women, it will interest you to know that it’s crept into the Church. I heard first hand from a fellow Minister about a boy who told him that a Pastor’s wife was sleeping with him. When he wanted to quit the evil relationship because of guilt, the Church Mama wanted them to continue. It was in his desperation to quit the dark entanglement that he shared his dilemma with the Minister who told me.

There’s no old age in love life. Never take it upon yourself to conclude that your Spouse no longer needs romance, affection, passion and sexual intimacy. Some who made such assumption later found out regretfully that their Gardener or Security Personel became “husband” to their wife while they were busy travelling.

If at the age of over 140 years, Father Abraham still had the hunger and thirst for sexual intimacy and consequently remarried, that speaks volumes to every one who still has ears to hear. If Father Abraham, a holy man and a friend of God still needed affection, passion, romance and sexual intimacy at a very advanced age and was sincere with himself and didn’t pretend, then we must stop our hypocrisy and over spirituality.

True spirituality in Christ never teaches us to deny or turn our backs on married life realities. It rather teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust(Titus 2:12a).

A truly spiritual man evaluates and appreciates the merits in every good thing, including the innumerable and glorious blessings in the gift of Love Life.

πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ FAITH DECREE:
πŸ”₯LET THE WISDOM TO BE CIRCUMSPECT, RATIONAL AND BALANCED IN ALL ASPECTS OF LOVE LIFE BE IMPARTED TO EVERY READER OF THIS DEVOTIONAL PIECE. ⚑

πŸ·πŸ— TAKE-HOME LESSON: THERE’S NO OLD AGE IN LOVE LIFE. THEREFORE, ATTEND TO YOUR SPOUSE’S LOVE LIFE NEEDS AS ZEALOUSLY AND AS HEARTILY AS YOU DID IN YOUR EARLY DAYS OF MARRIAGE.

 

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