Emotional Maturity in Marriage

Emotional Maturity in Marriage

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Emotional Maturity in Marriage is what we are looking at this morning. Man is a tripartite being. We are spirits, we have a soul and we live inside a body. Our body is the earthly suit that makes us able to live and function on this earth. Exactly what a spacesuit is to astronauts in space, and makes it possible for them to stay and function in space.

We are spirits and really we need to understand we function from the spirit realm. We have to understand our identity as spirits and operate as such.

My focus for this morning is really centered on our Soul. Our soul is what connects our spirit and body together. Our soul is what makes us give expression to our spirit on earth through our bodies.

Our Soul contains our will power, intellect, and emotion. Our willpower is what helps us in decision-making. Our intellect is the faculty that help us function in the intellectual world. Our emotion is the seat of our feelings. It is where we feel pain, hurt, bitterness, loyalty, faithfulness, guilt, joy, etc

3 John1:2 in AMPC
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers.

Our soul must prosper. We must move from one level to another. We must grow in our soul realm. We should not be directed by our feelings alone in our marriage. This is what Emotional Maturity in Marriage is all about.

Have you ever eaten at a buffet and felt very full? At that moment, you are full but in some hours that changes and you become hungry again. Our feelings are fickle. Our feelings change. 

Don’t take permanent actions based on temporary situations. 

Our feelings are subject to change. When we feel like being bitter we switch to our spirit.

That is how we mature in our souls. Don’t yield to the dictates of your feeling. You are not your feeling.

In the practical sense, it’s not everything, every word, every action you respond to, to mature in your soul. Grow up in your soul.

Guard your heart and your soul for it affects your life and indeed your marriage. It affects your relationship with your spouse. Get rid of every bad feeling, hurt, pain, and negative vibe in your marriage. Replace them with positive emotions.

God bless your marriage. Emotional Maturity in Marriage is a must

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY 
I am not my feelings. I live above my feelings.

PRAYERS FOR THE DAY 
Lord, I receive grace to master my feelings.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 
Rom 12:2 (CEV) Don’t be like the people of this world, but let God change the way you think. Then you will know how to do everything that is good and pleasing to him.

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
I master my feelings.

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY 
3 John 1


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Dear Lover, When Will You Decide?

Dear Lover, When Will You Decide?

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Dear Lover, When Will You Decide? Decisions are powerful. So much powerful that everything depends on it. Imagine the number of decisions you have made today! Its amazing! As a matter of fact, you are reading this devotional because you decided to do so!

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Some of you will obey, and some of you will just simply continue reading. That’s a decision you took right there!

But seriously, go ahead and share….decide to decide!

After sharing, that’s all it takes to decide. You just do what needs to be done. You refuse to procrastinate! You learn obedience to the point your obedience is complete so that every disobedience can be avenged!

Dear Lover, When Will You Decide? Why am I writing about decisions today?

You all remember Jacob and Esau. How Jacob deceived his brother and stole the blessing. As a result of that Jacob hated him and wanted to kill him.

Esau’s father could not really bless him but he made a significant statement to Esau which is the crux of our teaching this morning. Let’s take a look at it.

Gen 27:40 (KJV) 
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Now let’s take a look at another translation.

Gen 27:40 (CEV) 
You will live by the power of your sword and be your brother’s slave. But WHEN YOU DECIDE to be free, you will break loose.”


Wow! Esau, despite that your blessing is stolen, despite that you will serve your brother and be his slave, the day YOU DECIDE to be free is when you will be free!

That took the responsibility off God completely!

O God, I want to marry, Do it. Let me be found. Let me find.

God answers:
The day you decide to marry is when you will marry!

When you have dominion, when you come to yourself, when you take responsibilities and stop offering excuses, when you stop yielding to your flesh and you learn to put your body under, when you come into sonship and put away childish things, when you DECIDE for God, then you will get done what you want to do! Selah! Dear Lover, When Will You Decide?

Good morning!

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I will decide for God. I will no longer procrastinate

PRAYER FOR THE DAY

Lord, help me to make that decision!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Gen 27:40 (MSG) You’ll live by your sword, hand-to-mouth, and you’ll serve your brother. But when you can’t take it any more you’ll break loose and run free.

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Take a step of action today 

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Gen 27


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What Do You Call Yourselves?

What Do You Call Yourselves?

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What Do You Call Yourselves? I know couples have sweet names that they call themselves, and that is so sweet. I would like to draw the attention of husbands and wives to the immense power that lies in ‘calling’ ourselves. We tend to lose the power thereof when we lack the revelation behind that action.

The man was created in the image and likeness of God. That means we are in the class of God. We are a speaking spirit.

Gen 2: 23
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 

We are to call those things that are not as though they are. 

God allowed Adam to call Eve whatever name he deemed fit. He called her ‘woman’. She is to birth and be the mother of all living things.

We.should call ourselves based on whatever revelation of what we want to accomplish. We are to assume our priestly role. Priests use their mouths to declare. What Do You Call Yourselves?

We have to practice using our faith to call our wives and our husbands. There must first be a desire in your heart.

What do you want your spouse to be? Begin to prophesy. Not just a name you call yourselves, but making a habit of constantly calling your selves what you want to see.

Habakkuk 2:4 says 
…the just shall live by his faith’.

You don’t have any business experiencing whatever you don’t want in your marriage. If you have a mouth and you have God’s word.

Every one of us has a total of 24 hours. Those hours are more than enough to change the course of your marriage and your spouse.

Does your spouse have any unpleasant behaviour? Don’t waste your energy fighting him or him.  The Bible says we will have what we say. We don’t just have what God says, we have what we say. The question is what are you saying?

God wants us to labor to enter His rest. That labor is laboring in the Word. We have to grow our faith consciously,  Just as we build our muscles in the gym. No matter how skinny a person is, you build your muscles by putting them to use.

Begin to use and build your faith muscles. Don’t be moved by sight ( what you can see) be moved by sight. What Do You Call Yourselves?

Be a speaking spirit. Don’t just speak as a “normal” human being. God has given you what to speak. You speak His word.

God bless our marriage as we speak the word of blessing over our marriage. It is our responsibility.

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY 
I am a speaking spirit. I declare and I call my spouse those things I desire to see.

PRAYERS FOR THE DAY
O Lord, I receive the Grace to declare as you have spoken in your word in Jesus’ name 

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:4 KJV 

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Start speaking by faith to your spouse and your marriage 

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Heb 11


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How Best To Use Your Words

How Best To Use Your Words

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CHILDREN – How Best To Use Your Words

Words are powerful. Once spoken, they can’t be unspoken. The reason you have to be careful about what you say or who you say it to.

On a faithful day, Jude looked his classmate in the face and called him a drunk. Not only that, told him he was a bastard.

Everyone thought it was a joke, because no one expected such from Jude.

Mr Johnson, his class teacher was shocked. He couldn’t believe his ears. Why would he use such harsh words on his classmate? Earnest?

How could he? He had taught him so many times about using his words to bless and not curse people.

Although Jude later said he was joking, the damage had already been done. How was he going to unsay what he had already said? What an expensive joke.

When you make coarse jokes at others all for the fun of it, it reflects back on your parents. People will think your parents haven’t taught you about manners.

You bring shame, embarrassment, and disgrace to them. People will call them irresponsible and probably say that to their faces.

So, when next you want to make a bad joke, remember your parents.

May God help you to remember How Best To Use Your Words, Amen.

Prayer:
Lord, help me not to bring shame, disgrace, and embarrassment to my parents.

Action plan:
Ask God for the grace to help you choose your words well.

Declaration:
I choose to bless only with my words.


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Here’s A Major Secret To Being Found

Here’s A Major Secret To Being Found

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Here’s A Major Secret To be Found. Susan has had a very rough storyline regarding being found by that remarkable man. A lot of guys have taken her on a ride, some just wanted a sexual thing, while some were having a fling. Susan was almost at that place where she thinks something must be wrong with her. She doesn’t understand why it has been difficult to get married.

I want to share with you this morning about a secret to being found. Certainly, there are many ways, but I want to dovetail on just one specific area.

Let’s take a look at the scriptures.
Pro 18:22 (KJV) Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Notice this scripture.

It says whoever finds a wife…

Not whoever finds a sister!

Not whenever finds a babe.

The great question is how do you become a wife before getting married?

It’s not on going around to cook for a guy. It’s not in offering your body for sex in the quest to “insure” the guy for a wedding. It is not in spending your hard-earned money on a guy who will later ditch you for another. Here’s A Major Secret To be Found

It’s in preparation! That is how to become a “wife” before becoming a wife!

Marriage is such a great work that you will do yourself good and do your future husband good by first becoming a wife in your attitudes, responsibilities, and general outlook on life.

A wife is a helper.

A wife is a homemaker.

There are many more, but as a single lady, you must develop yourself intellectually and otherwise in readiness to be found.

You must read wide, sit down with mentors, and learn all you can learn!

Men are looking for a “wife”

And trust me, real guys ( I am not taking if those just looking for flings or sex ) know how to spot a wife!

I will stop here this morning. I pray that God gives you more understanding! Here’s A Major Secret To be Found

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I am not in a hurry. I receive wisdom in my relationship.

PRAYER FOR THE DAY
Lord, give me wisdom that is specific to me

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Pro 18:22 (MSG) Find a good spouse, you find a good life— and even more: the favor of GOD!

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Decide to read a book a week 

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Proverbs 18


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