LOVEBIRDS' DEVOTIONAL

Enriching Matrimonies

YOUR MARRIAGE AND THE GRASSHOPPER COMPLEX

Scripture:
‘(1) AND THERE WE SAW THE GIANTS, THE SONS OF ANAK, WHICH COME OF THE GIANTS: AND WE WERE IN OUR OWN SIGHT AS GRASSHOPPERS, AND SO WE WERE IN THEIR SIGHT. (2) I WILL PRAISE THEE: FOR I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE: MARVELLOUS ARE THY WORKS; AND THAT MY SOUL KNOWETH RIGHT WELL.’
(NUMBERS 13:33; PSALM 139:14)

A SOBER REFLECTION ON OUR FIRST ANCHOR SCRIPTURE shows you how eminent leaders; yea, rulers in Israel who experienced God’s power first hand in Egypt and who walked on dry land through the Red Sea and participated in the great jubilation over the overthrow of the Egyptian Army in the Red Sea suddenly saw themselves as fragile GrasshoppersπŸ¦—πŸ¦—πŸ¦—πŸ¦— that could be easily trampled under foot just because they saw giants and walled cities!

The Grasshopper Complex makes the one who harbors it see the special qualities of others and conclude that they’re far superior to themselves. Their biggest error is that they despise their own potentials, gifts and advantages.

The ten unbelieving Spies were quick to note the huge stature of the giants of Canaan land and the size of their fenced cities but belittled the Almighty God Who was with them.

In a nutshell, the grasshopper complex makes the one who embraces it feel inadequate just because they’re not like others. Yet being like others is never, has never and will never be the criteria for excellence or success in Life.

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Some women came into Marriage feeling inadequate, shy and self-conscious because back in their school days when they bathed with friends, THEY SAW the big sizes of their friend’s feminine body parts and from then on began to feel insecure because they have smaller body parts.

Similarly, some men came into marriage plagued with the fear of how they will “cope” in marriage, since they have a small male part.

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Sir/Ma, plain common sense is enough to relieve you of such a complex, phobia or fear.

Can’t you see that no one needs a big mouth to be able to speak well ?

Similarly, no one needs to have a big head to be intelligent enough to pass exams. Or long legs to be able to walk or run well.

The size of bodily parts don’t determine our success in the performance of our duties. Similarly, no woman needs big breasts, big backsides, big hips or long eyelashes to be a good and successful lover to her husband. And no man needs “a walking stick length manhood” to be a good lover to his wife!

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There are others whose cause of grasshopper complex is because they’ve been neck deep in immorality in the past and that consciousness is always hanging on their neck; making them feel awkward and regretful.

Dearly Beloved, please listen. Marriage is completely different from your past life as a Spinster or Bachelor.

I once lived in a compound where the wife of my next door neighbour was an Ex-prostitute. If you weren’t told you wouldn’t know. She wasn’t even born again. Her husband loved her and they lived in peace.

For ladies in particular, the moment God gave you out in marriage, your status changed; irrespective of how immoral you were in the past. You’re now a WIFE and the Bible says that a wife is A GOOD THING and FAVOUR OBTAINED FROM THE LORD
(Proverbs 18:22). You’re now a new woman.

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And there are those whose reason for grasshopper complex is because they have experienced poor or weak erection a couple of times in their marriage; and because of those occurrences, they’ve concluded that they’re now impotent. Sir, who told you that you are impotent? Who ?? Obviously, it’s not God. It’s the devil. And as usual, the devil is liar. So don’t believe him.

That you couldn’t gain an erection doesn’t mean that your manhood is gone. No. It’s right there, healthy and safe. (Please, keep reading Lovebirds’ Devotional because we shall look at the subject of Erectile Dysfunction after some time).

Our second anchor scripture shows that you are too perfectly created and too excellently constructed to become such a victim!

Just like the Psalmist confessed in our second anchor Scripture, you are fearfully and wonderfully made by God AND ARE A MARVEL!

Do you know what it means to be a marvel? It means you’re uncommon, amazing, stunning, wondrous and a Miracle!! See yourself as a Marvel for that’s what you are. There’s only one of your type. There’s never been a person like you before you and there’ll not be another after you’re gone.

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God didn’t create you to be in competition with anyone romantically and sexually. You have a distinct and distinguished love life. Live it to the fullest but only within your Marriage, with your Spouse and within the confines of the laws of God.

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You are a Love Star. Your Marriage is your Love world. Move in it with full confidence. Your Spouse is your Lover. Be free with each other and generously give yourselves to one another. Doing this enables you to freely and fully explore your love potentials and capabilities and to discover the glorious and inexhaustible riches of Love Life.

When God helps you to begin to discover the riches of Love Life, you’ll spit on immorality and extramarital affairs; realizing that they’re a grand deception that Satan has set up for broad daylight robbery, plundering and destruction of the love lives of those who are deceived to embrace them in exchange for few minutes of poisoned pleasure.

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Reread today’s devotional piece together and discuss it.

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If you haven’t yet received HIM, please ask Him to come into your heart and save you and He will.
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