🕊️ 🕊️ 🕊️ As a couple, you and your spouse have the duty of watching over each other.
🕊️🕊️🕊️DON’T BE LIKE CAIN
Don’t be like Cain, who rudely and foolishly asked: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Genesis 4:9). In marriage, you are most certainly each other’s keeper. One of your primary love-duties is to give voice to your feelings and perceptions concerning your partner.
When the serpent appeared and began engaging Eve in conversation, Adam should have instantly stepped in. He should have halted that strange fellowship and disgraced the serpent immediately with a sharp rebuke, dismissing him from their presence. But what did he do? He stood idly by and remained silent. Yet, right there in his hands was the dominion he had received to exercise power over every moving thing on Earth—including that treacherous serpent. He did nothing with it at the most critical moment.
Strangely, he failed to perceive the grave danger in breaking God’s law regarding the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. By his cold and nonchalant attitude that day, it seemed he had forgotten that death was the consequence of eating the forbidden fruit (Genesis 2:17).
🕊️🕊️🕊️YOU ARE A WATCHMAN OVER YOUR SPOUSE
Spouses, you are in each other’s lives as watchmen, intended to sound the alarm whenever you perceive a danger that your partner is ignorantly or presumptuously walking into. When you sense such a danger, do not be quiet. Speak out!
Don’t say, “Maybe what I am feeling is a lie of the devil; I don’t want to sound like a prophet of doom.” It is better to express a premonition that does not come to pass than to remain silent while evil befalls your partner.
Therefore, whenever your spouse intends to start a new business, travel abroad, or enters a friendship that makes you feel uneasy, pray earnestly. If you have a persistent foreboding that your mate is heading down a wrong route toward disaster, you have the responsibility to speak up—clearly and loudly enough for them to hear!
🕊️🕊️🕊️A VISIT WITH A WIDOWER
Well over two decades ago, I visited a widower. After I expressed my condolences, the grieving gentleman told me how he had sensed that his wife’s recent journey was unsafe. He explained that he hadn’t had a dream or a vision, but his spirit was troubled. He had politely told his wife how he felt, but she laughed it off, calling him fearful. Not long after she drove away in her beautiful car, news reached him of a fatal accident. She passed away before reaching the hospital.
Your spouse is, among other things, a watchman set beside you to perceive signals of danger and warn you.
🕊️🕊️🕊️MRS. PONTIUS PILATE
Before Jesus came before Pontius Pilate, Pilate’s wife dreamed about Him. She sent a message to her husband while he sat on the judgment seat. Her warning moved him to publicly wash his hands off the crucifixion (Matthew 27:19, 24), even as the crowd cried out for Christ’s blood to be upon them and their children.
Similarly, as St. Paul traveled to Rome to stand trial before Caesar, he perceived that there was disaster ahead (Acts 27:10-11). It wasn’t a vision or a “still small voice”; Paul simply knew that God also speaks through perceptions. He spoke out and warned the authorities in charge of the ship.
Unfortunately, the ship owners did not believe him. It wasn’t long before Paul’s perceptions proved true. Only by God’s grace were those travelers spared from losing their lives.
🕊️🕊️🕊️LISTEN TO THE DISCOMFORT
Perceptions often arrive as a feeling of discomfort. If you feel uneasy about a new friend in your partner’s life, please do not keep quiet. If your mate is associating with someone known to be immoral, quickly call their attention to it and share your feelings.
🕊️🕊️🕊️CONCLUSION
Don’t let fear hold you back from speaking out! Such fear leads to future guilt. In fact, fearing to tell your spouse a truth that could save their life suggests a lack of true love.
Are all uncomfortable feelings and perceptions true? No. Sometimes they are not. That is why you should humbly join hands, hearts, and faith to pray over any intuition your partner expresses. Take a critical look at it together. The Bible says, “Prove all things” (1 Thessalonians 5:21). As you do, God will grant you clarity.
💕❤️Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Reread this devotional piece just before bedtime and sincerely discuss it together.
📚📖✒️Quotes For Reflection:
“The honeymoon And honeycomb sex life God has for you is taller than any skyscraper any where on earth.”(Anselm Ahman. From Lovebirds’ Devotional of February 20, 2026)
✝️Altar Call:
Jesus Christ is calling you! Come to Him today and be saved!
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