ONE OF THE SONGS WE SANG IN CHRISTIAN CONFERENCES in the early 1980s goes like this:

“Expect a miracle when you pray,
Expect a miracle when you pray,
Expect a miracle when you pray:
For your Father is sitting on the Throne.
Search your conscience, you Man of God,
Search your own you Man of God,
Search your conscience you Man of God;
There is something that hinders your prayers.”

The song is a piercing message on it’s own. However, way back then, most of us being young, had no idea that how one treats their Partner in marriage has something to do with success or failure at the Throne of Grace.

Yes, God heartily and warmly commands us to come boldly before the Throne of Grace but if you’re that Spouse who’s oppressing your Mate and making them shed visible, invisible or secret tears, our anchor scripture indicates that your prayers, supplications, petitions and intercessions will be in vain as they will not be answered.

It might interest you to know that this is not new. This has been God’s position right from the Old Testament era.
Let’s take a look at the following verses of scripture:

“13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, INSOMUCH THAT HE REGARDETH NOT THY OFFERING ANY MORE, OR RECEIVETH IT WITH GOOD WILL AT YOUR HAND.

14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, AGAINST WHOM THOU HAST DEALT TREACHEROUSLY: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.” (Malachi 2:13-14)

In the portion of scripture above, God told the Jewish men of that time that He no longer accepted their offerings because they had covered His altar with “tears, weeping and crying out”. In other words, those husbands had flooded His Altar with the anguished weeping of the victims of their cruelty and wickedness. And who were their poor, tormented victims? Verse 14 reveals their identity. They were their wives; women whom they married as beautiful and delectable Brides and to whom they owed life-long love and affection; but whom they had instead backstabbed with treachery, infidelity and the breaking of their mutual marriage covenant.

Consequently, those wives ran to God in their heartbreak, grief and agony; pouring out their pains in prayer. God therefore rejected the offerings of their husbands and would have nothing to do with them.

Spouses, do you know what? God hasn’t changed. And that’s why He, in our anchor scripture for today, commands husbands to live rightly with their wives or else their prayers would be hindered.

We are right now in that season of the year when many are praying. This is good most certainly. However, the trouble is not in mustering the courage and the fervency to pray for five hours at a stretch. The real thing is: have we taken care of things that could make God reject our prayers? Sir, are you treating your wife with love and tender affection or do you clubber her daily with cruel words like Job’s friends did to him and
to whom he said:

“How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?”(Job 19: 2)

In our anchor scripture, God makes a demand on husbands who profess to be Believers in Jesus Christ to do the following:

1) Live with your wife strictly in accordance with the Word of God on Marriage.
2) Honour your wife distinctly by giving her preferential treatment above all others; just as you treat your China dishes with special care above your plastic and metal plates.
3) Honour her in recognition of her status as a fellow Believer in Christ. This implies respecting her as much as you respect your Pastor’s wife and all the other key female leaders in your local Church.

4) Our anchor scripture gives us an assurance that when as a husband you do all the above, your marriage will not constitute a hindrance to your prayers.

Wives, you also need to know that God makes demands on you too. If you want your prayers and supplications answered, live in subjection to your husband(1 Peter 3:1), love him(Titus 2: 4), reverence him(Ephesians 5:33) and be an enthusiastic romantic and sexual lover to him in your marriage(1 Corinthians 7:2-5).

🔥🔥🔥FAITH DECREE:
🔥 LET EVERY SPOUSE READING THIS DEVOTIONAL PIECE RECEIVE THE GRACE TO FUNCTION AS A CONSCIENTIOUS AND TENDERHEARTED LOVER IN THEIR MARRIAGE.

🍷🍗 TAKE-HOME LESSON: HOW YOU TREAT YOUR SPOUSE MATTERS TO YOUR PRAYER LIFE. THEREFORE, LOVE YOUR SPOUSE!

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