MAKING YOUR MARRIAGE WORK (Part 5)

LIGHT FOR THE WAY

(Daily Devotional)

Saturday 14th October 2017

FAMILY WEEK SERIES

TOPIC: MAKING YOUR MARRIAGE WORK (Part 5)

TEXT:  “Discretion will preserve you, understanding will keep you”(Pro.2:11)

Finally, your marriage can work! God wants your story to be a marital success, but you must be ready to work hard to make it happen. Yesterday we started talking about eight things that makes your marriage work: 

(5) Be a lifetime forgiver. Marriage is a relationship between two lifetime forgivers. No matter how much your spouse claim to love you, there will be time of disagreements where you throw tantrums and say things that you don’t really mean to each other. After the matter might have died down, excuse your spouse for whatever he/she might have done and stop being angry about the same issue. No matter what it is, it is forgivable! Let go the pain and let God heal your wounds. But how long? You ask. Jesus said “Seventy time seven times”(Matt18:22). (6) Keep love alive by keeping trust alive. Trust is the cornerstone of every marital relationship. Love is built on trust. Everyone start out by having deep feelings for someone, but this feeling of love is strengthened by deep assurance that makes one feel safe with ones partner. Both men and women have their fears in marriage. This goes particularly for the women folks. They always want to be rest assured that they are loved, catered for, and protected from any form of aggression. You have the responsibility to provide this assurance by the things you do and say to your spouse. (7) Set the limit for external influences in your marriage. Marriage is exclusively between two matured people. Family and friends should not decide or determine how you live within your matrimonial home. A situation where the man’s brother insults and assaults their brother’s wife and the man sees nothing wrong with it is highly unacceptable. In my opinion, some in-laws should be ‘out-lawed’ in some homes. The scriptures enjoined both the man and the woman to leave their families and stick together.(Gen2:24;Ps45:10). So set limits! (8) Talk, talk, talk. Lastly we should learn to communicate. Communication breakdown is the reason many marriages have broken down. Little misunderstanding eventually blew over into emotional volcanic eruptions could have been managed by simply talking about it. But talking isn’t as simple as it sounds. Communication could should be deliberate, it should be timely, it should be done with the intention to resolve conflict not create more conflicts. And whatever you say should bring your spouse closer and not set you apart. Learn to say this wonderful words; ‘I am sorry’, ‘I didn’t mean it that way’, ‘I love you so much’, ‘I didn’t know you will feel that way’, ‘let me understand your point of view’ etc. by all means, keep the line of communication open in your marriage. I pray God’s peace on your marriage in JESUS name. Amen. Remain blessed!

ACTION PLAN FOR TODAY

Practice, practice, practice all that you have read in this family series and you will have a reason to thank God for your marriage somewhere down the road.

WORD CONFESSION

I am an evidence that Jesus Christ is alive and at work. Today I declare that I believe that God is working things out for me and my family.

PRAYER POINTS

*Father thank you for bringing me and my family into this new day in Jesus name

*Father God, thank you for your love over me and my family in Jesus name.

*Father God, set your hedge of fire around me and my family in Jesus name

*Father God, let the glory that has been ordained for me and my family begin to manifest now in Jesus name

*I command arrows of family separation at work against my marriage, back fire now in Jesus name

*I command the water of bitterness in my marriage to dry up now by fire in Jesus name

*I command the evil seed bearing fruits of strive and disunity to be uprooted now in Jesus name

*I command the evil device been used to manipulate my marriage to scatter by fire in Jesus name

*I command the evil alter ministering constant trouble to my marriage be scattered by fire now in Jesus name.

*Fruit of goodness, peace and prosperity, begin to manifest in marriage and home now in Jesus name.

*Thank you Lord for your peace in my marriage in Jesus name.

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN

2 Chronicles 35:20-27, 2 Chronicles 36 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 Psalm 104:19-30

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE FOR TODAY

“Falling in love is easy, staying in love requires work”

PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS FOR TODAY

I command this day that the LORD will give you great victory where the enemy has ridiculed and reproached you in JESUS name.

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