Correct These Errors Before Wedding

Correct These Errors Before Wedding

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Correct These Errors Before Wedding

Here are some errors to correct as you prepare for marriage.

1. My money is mine.

This is a mindset you must abandon as you approach marriage. You, as a person, no longer have absolute control over how your money is spent. It is now a shared decision.

You must be frugal with your money as a wife or future wife. You can no longer buy everything that catches your fancy. You must first inform your partner before giving gifts or making major financial decisions. 

The same is true for the husband. You may wind up in financial trouble if you are reckless with your expenditures. It is no longer just you, you now have a family to cater for. 

Correct These Errors Before Wedding

You must actively participate in covenant principles such as tithing and giving to enjoy the fullness of God’s blessing over your finances. 

Correct These Errors Before Wedding

2. Marriage is like a Restaurant

Many people have the erroneous belief that marriage is something that can be entered like a store, boutique, or restaurant.

The food in a restaurant is already prepared and ready to be served. People are waiting for you. If the dish does not taste good, you may complain or place a different order. You owe no one a compliment if the dish is nicely prepared. After all, that is why they exist.

You get up and depart once the meal is finished. You don’t even pack your plates. You are unconcerned about the dishes or anything else.

Marriage is more like a garden in which you only reap what you sow.

You can’t expect to harvest roses if you didn’t plant them. So it would be best if you were deliberate about not planting thorns through offenses, bitterness, and unnecessary tantrums.

When both partners are committed to making the marriage succeed, it becomes enviable.

May God grant us a deeper understanding. 

I’ll stop here this morning! 


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The Truth About Jeru Trip In Marriage

The Truth About Jeru Trip In Marriage

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COUPLES – The Truth About Jeru Trip In Marriage

One of the ways God has planned that Couples get closer to each other is through the act of sex. It is God’s design. However, God wanted it to be an act within the matrimonial sanctity.

It is so powerful that God said when either couple wants to abstain from it for a while, to fast, for example, permission must be taken from the other spouse.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.  -1Corinthians 7:5 (KJV)

The Bible strongly advises that couples must seek each other’s desires. This is an area where wives must be extremely careful. Never deprive your husband sexually. If you do that, you can get him into troubles with secretaries, house-helps, and any other thing in a skirt. You may not understand this fully until you discover how his body is wired.

This is not a justification for marital infidelity, however. The Bible acknowledges that sexual desires are strong, but that marriage is powerful enough to contain it.

The Holy Spirit advised through Paul that you must not deprive your spouse sexually. In fact, the Bible calls it fraud when you do so.

Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations? Certainly, but only within a certain context. It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality–the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to “stand up for your rights.” Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it’s for the purposes of prayer and fasting–but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. -1Corinthians 7:1-5 (MSG)

Why is God particular about sex? The reason is obvious. It creates bonding between spouses. It is God’s way of rekindling the fire in marriage.

During an act of sex, what takes place is more than physical. While non-religious writers may debunk the reality of its spiritual consequences, they are apt to accept the fact that something more than physical takes place during the act.

Within marriage, it affirms the dignity and uniqueness of the couple, strengthens the marital bond, and brings a healthy pleasure.

You will make it. You will not fall by the wayside. You will not be cut off in the midst of your days. You will not become a victim of a sexualized society. God will keep you from falling. I see God sending that help you need right now to you as you call on Him! It is a new day for you!

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I will not deprive my spouse of my duty and his or her right. I am not angry or bitter toward my spouse. My spirit is not closed towards my spouse. I love _________(mention name of spouse) dearly. He/She is the love of my life. I am not self-seeking, I honour my spouse.

PRAYERS FOR THE DAY
Lord, help me to make necessary changes in this area of my life. Grant me Lord, a quick forgiving spirit.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex. -Hebrews 13:4 (MSG)

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Sex can be spontaneous or strategic, be available for both.

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Jeremiah 23


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The Lie, The Fact, And The Truth –Part 2

The Lie, The Fact, And The Truth –Part 2

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SINGLES – The Lie, The Fact, And The Truth

Continued from yesterday.

The Samaritan woman had met so many men… but then when she met the man, the lover of her soul, she couldn’t but express the difference that turned her life around!

The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man… -John 4:28-29 (KJV)

Respond to God’s love today. Refuse the emotion of guilt! You see the moment you have asked your father to forgive you, He forgives and forgets. The devil tries to bring guilt so that you can feel unworthy and thereby prevent you from coming into God’s presence boldly.

But you see, this issue is a family affair! If your earthly father has forgiven you of an offense, what else can the servant in the house say? You simply tell him to shut up!

That is the way you handle the devil. It’s none of his business. God forgave you, period.

Tell the devil to shut up, it’s between you and your father, it’s a family affair and it is settled! He should stop poke nosing.

The blood of Jesus handled it already! If he tries to remind you of your past, remind him of his future, it’s the bottomless pit! Make sure you stop sinning.

That is what God does not want, continuous and habitual sins. Grace cannot abound when sin continues! Only hearken to what Jesus said to that adulterous woman caught in the act.

… And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. –John 8:11 (KJV)

The fact is that you did something wrong.

The lie is that you will never be forgiven.

The truth is that you are already forgiven and it is forgotten! Embrace the truth today and let it set you free! Truth is superior to the fact!

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
Sin will not have dominion over me. I am able to follow God’s injunctions. I put my body under. All my sins are forgiven.  I am a new a creature

PRAYERS FOR THE DAY
Lord, strengthen me in my inner man. Help me to comprehend with all the saints what is the length, breadth and height, and depth of your love for me.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
He touched my mouth with the coal and said, “Look. This coal has touched your lips. Gone your guilt, your sins wiped out.” –Isaiah 6:7 (MSG)

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Study ‘Righteousness’

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Psalms 126


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The Lie, The Fact, And The Truth

The Lie, The Fact, And The Truth

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SINGLES -The Lie, The Fact, And The Truth

Having to start your day by asking God for forgiveness daily can be very frustrating, especially when you know you are going to commit the sin again.

Self-condemnation comes once we violate God’s principles. This self condemnation will surface at unexpected times. Most times, young folks get involved in premaritalee before marriage in order to express their freedom or liberty.

In the end, the purpose is defeated, because the very freedom they seek to express will be lost to emotional captivity and slavery. Freedom from a guilty conscience will be gone.

Years ago, a lady sat before me. She was genuinely troubled. She felt God would never forgive her because she was involved in pre-marital sex. She wept bitterly.

She said she has asked God to forgive her severally and she was not sure God heard her.

Another lady actually lost her mind after indulging in this same act because she believed she had committed an unpardonable sin. She couldn’t recognize anybody again.

She embraced the devil’s lie that she has committed the unpardonable sin because of pre-marital sex. She was talking gibberish and making faces.  When we were called (alongside another pastor) to pray for her, all our attempts failed until we started to address the issue of guilt by the Spirit of God.

As we began to speak to her about God’s love and kindness, that demon left her, she calmed down, sobered up and tears began to flow. It was only then she was restored. It was then she told us what really happened. The negative emotion of guilt is a terrible experience. Guilt can be so real to the point of being suicidal.

When troubles ganged up on me, a mob of sins past counting, I was so swamped by guilt I couldn’t see my way clear. More guilt in my heart than hair on my head, so heavy the guilt that my heart gave out. –Psalms  40:12 (MSG)

I’m swamped by my bad behavior, collapsed under gunnysacks of guilt. –Psalms 38:4 (MSG)

You wouldn’t want to live with guilt all your life for violating God’s law. However, no matter how guilty you feel right now; God can always send help if you call upon Him and trust in His Word. That’s the way out.

It could be a sin of fornication or adultery or any form of sexual perversion, the blood of Jesus took care of all!

Then I let it all out; I said, “I’ll make a clean breast of my failures to GOD.” Suddenly the pressure was gone– my guilt dissolved, my sin disappeared. –Psalms 32:5 (MSG)

I want you to know that there is a lover of your soul that is different from any lover who might have disappointed you. You might have been disappointed by men, abandoned by men, used and dumped by men, treated shabbily by men…but when you meet the man, He will restore your soul!

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
Sin will not have dominion over me. I am able to follow God’s injunctions. I put my body under. All my sins are forgiven.  I am a new a creature

PRAYERS FOR THE DAY
Lord, strengthen me in my inner man. Help me to comprehend with all the saints what is the length, breadth and height, and depth of your love for me.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
He touched my mouth with the coal and said, “Look. This coal has touched your lips. Gone your guilt, your sins wiped out.” –Isaiah 6:7 (MSG)

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Study ‘Righteousness’

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Psalms 126


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How To Deliver Yourself From Self-Deception –Part 2

How To Deliver Yourself From Self-Deception –Part 2

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SINGLES –

Self-deception has led people into prostitution, and drug culture, it has locked up a lot of believers and men of God in the pit of sexual perversion where masturbation, pornography, adultery, homosexuality, and the likes are commonplace.

Self-deception spirits are dangerous because, they tell the oppressed to internalize their challenges: it tells them if God disapproves of their lifestyle, he would have killed them.

What they don’t know really is that they are actually dead! It stops them from seeking help since they never own up. Such people can lie! Since you can hardly get help until you own up to something is wrong, one is kept in the pit of darkness because he will never own up.

It is a plan of hell to destroy many. As I write this morning, the Spirit of God will prick your heart if need be, the light of God will shine in your heart, the word of God like a two-edged sword will separate the wheat from the chaff for you and help you to see if there are any areas where you need to make changes.

It doesn’t matter whether you are an apostle or unbeliever, what matters this morning is to confront yourself.

Jesus is the foundation and the Bible warns in 1Corintians 3:11-15 (MSG)

Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you’ll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won’t get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn’t, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won’t be torn out; you’ll survive–but just barely. -1Corintians 3:11-15 (MSG)

That’s why Jesus said; judge yourself that you will not be judged! How long do you think the deception will last? You cannot build God’s kingdom on the foundation of deception and lies.

CONFESSION FOR THE DAY
I declare my freedom today from all oppression; I receive God’s help and mercy over my life; I severe myself from all ungodly relationships in Jesus name.

PRAYERS FOR THE DAY
I receive God’s help to be free in Jesus name. Lord, send help to me now in Jesus name

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free. – John 8:36 (AMP)

ACTION PLAN FOR THE DAY
Become accountable today to someone your respect and value a lot.

BIBLE READING FOR THE DAY
Esther 3


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