How To Make Your Relationship Work –Part 2

How To Make Your Relationship Work –Part 2

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It is important as young people, and also as people trusting God for marital bliss to keep your focus on God. That is how things are going to work. Why focus on God and on God’s word?

Here it is:

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. –Hebrews 12:2-3 (KJV)

Looking unto Jesus! Why the focus? You see it right there. He is the author and the finisher. Your life is like a book. Each year is like a chapter. 2022 is a chapter. It has been authored. He has authored great and mighty things about your life!

So you have to focus on Him in order to be consistent with what is in the book concerning your relationship life. In that book, there is no compromise, no fornication, or any other form of sexual perversion. So you must abstain from all these in order to have your destiny aligned with His plan for your life!

I want you to read verse 3 carefully in The Message Translation:


When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! –Hebrews 12:3 (MSG)

At those times when you get weak along the way, and your faith begins to flag, you focus on Him and His word, read it and study it, meditate on it and you will get some shots of adrenaline to your soul!

This day, I pray for you, God will strengthen you and honour you as you focus on Him in Jesus name!

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I acknowledge you Lord as the Lord over my life, I say today that you are the most important person in my life and relationship

PRAYER FOR THE DAY
Father, in Jesus’ name I ask for a heart that loves and worships you. Make my focus be on you continually, Lord.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. –Hebrews 12:2-3 (KJV)

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY         
Make a commitment to spent time daily in prayers, worship, and reading God’s word. Also start attending a good bible believing church.

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY 
Job 10-13


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How To Focus Your Energy In Marriage – Part 2

How To Focus Your Energy In Marriage – Part 2

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God has made it very easy for you. Focus only becomes effective when your attention and energy are on ONE thing! So what is that one thing? The moment there are two things, it is no longer focus. What is that one thing?

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. – Heb 12:2-3 KJV

So easy! Looking unto Jesus! That is as simple as you can see it. How do you look at Jesus? By looking at His word! Regularly! Continuously!

Why look at Jesus?

Because he is the author and finisher of your faith and your life! Your life is like a book and Jesus authored it! The book is not about to be written, it has been written and published. You are only acting out the script!

It becomes logical then to make sure you act well. You have to look at the author who is also the director of your life’s flick. Each chapter of the book is a portion and a season of your life. You have to keep on looking at Jesus and His word because the devil is always attempting to offer you what is never part of the script.

The moment you stop looking, focus is broken and there will be serious troubles, agony, and regrets.

How do I know that what God authored in the book are good things about me?

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. – Jer 29:11 KJV

Waoh! They are good stuff! I need to simply focus on Him!

Take a look at the message translation:

I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out–plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. – Jer 29:11 MSG

Glory to God! Make up your mind to focus on Him this year and see the result. There is joy set before you! God wants to take care of you! Seriously! Others may not know what is going on with your life, but God says emphatically, ‘I know what I am doing!’ He is the author!

When you focus on Him and His Word, you will come to discover a lot. There is a chapter He has authored about your relationship and courtship. There is a chapter He has authored about your marriage. As you focus on Him, you will effortlessly glide into His will and plan for your life! That is the benefit of focus!

There are some things you are going through that are never part of His original script because you have refused to focus on Him and probably compromised as a result.

However, despite every broken focus experience, if you make up your mind today to focus on Him, God can fast-forward, rewind, pause, stop, erase, cancel, add, rewrite, restore, and do anything for you! How will He do that? He is the author…not just that….but also the finisher! Glory to God!

He is the one that will finish the story! The devil does not have the final say! God does! Turn around today and decide to focus!

For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. – Isa 50:7 KJV

Make up your mind. Set your face like a flint never to compromise again. God will help you and He will save you from imminent shame! Be blessed!

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I am focused. I will not be distracted.

PRAYER FOR THE DAY
Pray that God will give you focus and cause your face to be set like a flint

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Isa 50:7 AMP For the Lord God helps Me; therefore have I not been ashamed or confounded. Therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Consciously disengage yourself from every distraction

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Gen 30-32


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How To Focus Your Energy In Marriage

How To Focus Your Energy In Marriage

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As I listened to God’s Spirit to know what I will write this morning, I heard something about focus. So I believe the few words you are about to read are heaven’s message for you this morning.

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. – Luk 9:62 KJV

Dear married couple, I write to you this morning on one ingredient you need, not only in your marriage but in life.

It is called focus! I like the definition that says “To concentrate attention or energy.”

In this contemporaneous world filled with mega distractions, there is no such time as this when this message becomes relevant.

When the devil wants to trap you, he brings distractions. The moment you are enticed and yielded, the focus is broken and the process of what God is trying to do in your life becomes delayed.

A child of God attending night parties for example will have his or her focus broken. There are things they do at night parties that you wouldn’t be able to share testimonies about, so there is no point wasting your time in such places. It’s just distractions.

There are ungodly friends that you keep that can break your focus. Many a life has been ruined by wrong associations.

When you engage in adultery, it’s a distraction and your focus will be broken. No matter how nice the person is, what is wrong is wrong!

The moment you put your hand on the plough, a process about your life and the plan of God for you begins and it is gradually unveiled. The moment you start to compromise, you tamper with that process! You are not supposed to look back. Looking back is not a kingdom mentality.

In the amours of a believer listed in the book of Ephesians, only the back has no protection! Why? You are not meant to look back!

The question is what do you focus on?

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I am focused. I will not be distracted.

PRAYER FOR THE DAY
Pray that God will give you focus and cause your face to be set like a flint

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Isa 50:7 AMP For the Lord God helps Me; therefore have I not been ashamed or confounded. Therefore have I set My face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Consciously disengage yourself from every distraction

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Gen 27-29


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How To Escape Home Invaders In Marriage

How To Escape Home Invaders In Marriage

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There are several factors that could literally put an end to a marriage.

The first in the series of marriage killers we will be looking at is Home Invaders. I always counsel newly married couples – Don’t allow anybody to come and live with you when you are newly married, be it cousins, brothers, sisters, mother or father.

If you want to help your folk, and you should help them, you can make provision for them without necessarily their coming to stay with you. How I wish newly married couples can lend their ears to this wisdom.

This is because the newly wedded couple needs as much privacy as possible to be alone and to discover themselves. They don’t need any distractions in those foundational years, especially the first five years.

They need to focus on God and themselves. If a young couple can focus on God and themselves in the first few years, they would have established a solid foundation that will withstand any marital storm or wind that may come.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. – Proverbs 5:18 (KJV)

They don’t need anything that might trigger inhibitions in their sexual life. They don’t need anybody to complain about the wife’s inability to cook well or the husband’s uncaring attitude.

Two is a good company, three is a crowd. They don’t need somebody to critique the stew and how the meat didn’t collide well with the catfish.

The young wife needs to focus her love and respect on her husband and she does not need all the additional emotional upheavals and pressures that are often engendered when she has a lot of people to attend to.

They should be left alone to discover themselves. They should be free to walk around their house naked, play together, jump on themselves and have a lot of fun together.

To be continued…

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I am full of wisdom to fulfill my role in my marriage.

PRAYERS FOR THE DAY
Lord, open the eyes of my understanding as regards my marriage and fill me with the Spirit of wisdom.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Bless your fresh-flowing fountain! Enjoy the wife you married as a young man! –Proverbs 5:18 (MSG)

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Follow the suggestions above

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Luke 8


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Seven Test To Pass Before You Say I DO -Part 2

Seven Test To Pass Before You Say I DO -Part 2

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Continued from yesterday.

3. The Test of Focus. 

Is he or she focused? Where is his passion? A visionless man is so easy to identify. His speech will betray him because the mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart. Once you know a particular friendship is getting deepened, ask a lot of questions when you can still reason well before emotions take over.

The world is full of people who will readily compromise and who lack focus. You haven’t been together for long and he or she is already asking for sex? That is gross irresponsibility. Run from such people, they are not your friends!

Jesus said; “What a generation! No sense of God! No focus to your lives!” -Luke 9:41a (MSG)

You ask him what his job is, and he says “He is planning to travel out of the country.”

“Since when?”

“Well, for like three years now.”

Is that a job? Why must a young person stop his or her life because of plans to travel?

4. The Test of Sincerity. 

That is openness. Is he sincere about his faults, weaknesses, feelings? Is she willing to talk about them or does she pretend?

It is dangerous to walk with someone who lives in a delusion of grandeur. Some of the most dangerous sets of people are those who are self-deceptive. They can abort twenty times and simply use some scriptures to cover up. If it was done in ignorance, that is another thing, because God cleanses you and you can start your life all over again when you genuinely repent.

But I am talking of those who have successfully combined this sinful lifestyle with serving God alongside. I don’t care if he is a pastor or she is a minstrel, if he or she uses scriptures to justify a habitual sin that even an unbeliever will often refrain from, you should run from such people and not be joined in their unrepentant sinful adventures. 



An insincere guy will lure you into sexual sin and then turn around to say you seduced him. What are you doing with such people? An insincere lady will offer her body to get some money and then turn back to say you forced her. That is nothing short of wickedness. Those are not friends! He says he is a pastor and he slides his hands into your blouse each time you visit his office.

I don’t care how much ‘anointing’ you think he has, he is a charlatan! What counseling are you looking for with such people, run for your life because there are counsels that can cancel destinies.

To be continued…
 

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I have the Spirit of wisdom to discern and choose that which is good for my destiny.

PRAYERS FOR THE DAY
Holy Spirit, fill me afresh with your wisdom in the affairs of my relationship.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Careful planning puts you ahead in the long run; hurry and scurry puts you further behind. – Proverbs 21:5 (MSG)

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Commit your ways unto the Lord

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
2King 12


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