Friendship is like a foundation of relationship upon which a great marriage is built. Marry your friend! Whoever is not a friend, is not worth a marriage relationship.
Friends love each other. Friends forgive each other. Friends look after one another’s good. Friends talk and play. Friends do not “form” for each other. Friends pray together. Friends easily overlook each other’s mistakes. Friends cover for each other.
If your lover is not a friend, there will be issues.
Do not marry a “father” or a “mother” or an “uncle,” rather marry a friend.
If he or she is not a friend, don’t walk down the aisle.
2. Friends are thoughtful and sensitive
A friend doesn’t just blab, he knows what to say, when to say it and how to say it.
A friend is careful not to get you unnecessarily aggravated. That is the kind of person you need in marriage.
An understanding person. A person on whose shoulder you can lean. A hearing ear, understanding heart, and empathic listener.
The one that will not allow you to say anything while you are courting is already showing you that you will be muted in marriage. And that can be frustrating.
Nothing is as frustrating as unexpressed and bottled up words and feelings.
A friend enjoys your “talk” although you should not resort to nagging.
3. Friends are truthful
Friends would always tell you the truth.
Beware of people who say they are your friends and all they do is to tell you what you want to hear, and flatter you all the time.
A flattering neighbor is up to no good; he’s probably planning to take advantage of you.
Pro 29:5 (MSG)
Marry a friend who can tell you the truth, because you often time get to positions that it is only your spouse that can tell you the truth.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Pro 27:6 (KJV)
The one that is kissing you but will never tell you as it is is not a friend. He or she is not ready to tell you anything that will cause the “kissing” to discontinue. That person is not really a friend.
CONFESSION FOR THE DAY I will get it right in marriage
PRAYER FOR THE DAY Pray that God will lead you to the right person.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY 1 Corinthians 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY Disconnect from every wrong relationship
Today is Oil For Today – Day 161. Let’s lift up our voice one more time as we pray to God! Watch Video on Youtube HERE. Check other days HERE.
Scriptures For Today
Oil For Today – Day 161
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord : possess thou the west and the south.
Deuteronomy 33:23 KJV
Prayer Points For Today
Oil For Today – Day 161
1. Let’s begin to give thanks to the Lord.
2. I am satisfied with the favor because this Is the season for joy.
3. I begin to speak favor to every area of my life, marriage, family, church, children etc in the name of Jesus
5. Divine favor envelop my life this season to the glory of God in Jesus mighty name
6. Lord make my life full of the blessings of God in Jesus mighty name,
7. Every power of the enemy seeking to steal my divine favor and blessings, I bind you in Jesus mighty name
8. My helpers of destiny locate me now in Jesus mighty name
9. I begin to take possession of every blessing that belongs to me through the death and resurrection of Jesus in Jesus mighty name
10. Let us begin to give His thanks for answered prayers
Confession For Today
Oil For Today – Day 161
Confession
Abba Father, I thank you for being a great God. I am satisfied with favor. I begin to see the manifestations of the spirit of favor in my life. I am full of the Lord’s blessing. By the divine favor of God, I take new territories. I am helped by the favor of God in the name of Jesus
For singles, work on your anger. Anger can make men run away!
Guys are logical, so in each of your anger episodes, they are thinking about what will happen after wedding and they are making up their minds.
That could, on few occasions, be the reason why some guys just disappear after promising weeding! They got scared!
I am not asking you to pretend. I am asking you to work on it. Read books on anger management. Read scriptures that talks about anger. Some of them will humble you.
For example,
Don’t be quick to fly off the handle. Anger boomerangs. You can spot a fool by the lumps on his head.
Ecc 7:9 (MSG)
Does that lump appear on your heard when you are pissed? The Bible is saying that it is foolishness to be given to uncontrollable anger.
Anger can end relationships. Anger can scatter relationships. Anger can divide a God ordained relationship!
Let’s take a look at two angry brothers in the Bible.
Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. [6] O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. [7] Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Gen 49:5-7 (KJV)
Anger leads to division and scattering.
The Message Translation is apt in verse 7
A curse on their uncontrolled anger, on their indiscriminate wrath. I’ll throw them out with the trash; I’ll shred and scatter them like confetti throughout Israel.
Gen 49:7 (MSG)
Your God ordained love affair not be shredded! Your courtship or marriage will not end in the trash! Your home will not be scattered like confetti!
CONFESSION FOR THE DAY I will not fall in love with an angry lover.
PRAYER FOR THE DAY Lord, deliver me from an angry lover
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Proverbs 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY Disconnect from every wrong relationship when
Today is Oil For Today – Day 160. Let’s lift up our voice one more time as we pray to God! Watch Video on Youtube HERE. Check other days HERE.
Scriptures For Today
Oil For Today – Day 160
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Psalm 65:11 ,13 KJV
Prayer Points For Today
Oil For Today – Day 160
Let’s begin to thank and worship God
2. Father, let this year be crowned with goodness for me in Jesus mighty name
3. I receive my last-minute intervention in my life, family, marriage, career, and business in Jesus name
4. Every insufficiency, lack, and spirit of not enough in my life and family is terminated in Jesus name
5. I receive the harvest of favor and uncommon blessing the remaining days of 2021 in Jesus name
6. By the Mercies of God I receive my joy in full, my rejoicing and dancing the remaining days of 2021 in Jesus name
7. I reject every form of sorrow in my life in this season of joy in Jesus mighty name
8. Blessings that will crown this year come into my life, into my marriage, home, business, in Jesus name
9. Anything that will steal my joy this end of the year, I forbid it. I receive compensation with arrears in the mighty name of Jesus
10. Let’s begin to thank the Lord
Confession For Today
Oil For Today – Day 160
Thank you, Lord, because I see my year crowned with the goodness of the Lord. I rejoice, sing, dance, and laugh because of the abundance of God’s goodness. I receive my last-minute intervention of the Lord’s goodness by the Mercy of the Lord. Arrests with compensations is my portion this season. Angels of joy and blessings are visiting my life right now in Jesus mighty name
We will be looking at finding and keeping the love of your life.
1. Where to get a good wife
House and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but a wise, understanding, and prudent wife is from the Lord.
Pro 19:14 (AMP)
A good, wise, understanding and prudent wife can only come from one source and that is from the Lord, period.
It won ’t come from clubbing around. It won’t come from sampling ladies around. It will only come from the Lord.
It is simply logical then, that a deliberate, conscious relationship with God is a must to have a good family and make a good choice.
How else can you ask God for a prudent wife without having a relationship with Him?
In essence, you want a good spouse? Go after God first, since a prudent wife comes from Him.
If the Bible says there are prudent, wise women, then it means that there are wives that are foolish and not prudent. Trust me, you want a prudent wife!
Your choice of a life partner will either make you or mar you, a delight or a disaster. Your choice will make your home a haven or an oven.
What if you are already married and you feel your wife is not prudent? Of which you may be wrong! But let’s assume that is how you feel.
What you do is to go back to God and retrace your steps. He will tell you what to do, He will give you wisdom on how to go about it.
The solution to the imbroglio you are facing in your home and marriage now is with God. Take time to find that out before you take rash decisions.
CONFESSION FOR THE DAY God will lead me to a prudent wife.
PRAYER FOR THE DAY Lord, open the eyes of my understanding.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Proverbs 19:14 (KJV) House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
