No. 16 SCHEDULE: GOOD PLANS FOR YOUR MARRIAGE

Post date: Feb 23, 2016 1:30:45 AM

“This is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with your own weeping and sighing, because the Lord no longer regards your offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But you say, why does He reject it? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously. Yet she is your marriage companion and the wife of your covenant made by your vows. But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And what did that one do while seeking a godly offspring? Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of your youth. For I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and him who covers his garment with wrong and violence, says the Lord of hosts. Therefore keep watch on your spirit, so that you do not deal treacherously with your wife.” Malachi 2:13-16

Irrespective what had happened and what will happen, your marriage was not a mistake and will not be a mistake, even when it is one, God will fix it, will fix you, will fix your spouse and will fix the marriage. It was God’s intent that you get married and it is His intent that remain married; it was God plans that you love your spouse then and it is His plans that you maintain that love now; it was God’s plans that you get together in the first place and it is His plans that you remain together now; it was God’s plan that you share common goals then and it is His plans that you keep those goals at the center of your union; it was God’s good plans that you unite together for procreation and it is God’s plans now that you reap the fruit of that of union together now; it was God’s plans for you to walk together to His house and take a vow together and it is His plans for you till walk together to His house and to live according the vow you made.    

It was not a mistake that Abraham married Sarah and God did not make any mistake in keeping together despite their constant relocation and troubles. At the end, God’s plan for their lives was fulfilled with greater joy and it will be so for you also. Abraham and Sarah suffered together; had a union based on trust cooperation and submissiveness; the two of them suffered persecutions in many ways, suffered shame of barrenness and mockery from people, but none of those things did in any way make the regret their union and God was pleased with them and rewarded by making His promises to be fulfilled even in their old age. May I declare to you that the mockery in your marriage will not stop God from doing the good things He had promised if you are firm on His written and spoken words to you; the lack in your marriage is no hindrance to the purpose of God for you in that marriage; the shame you experience and the abuse you see will soon be a thing of the past and the stumbling blocks in your marriage will soon become the bridge needed to take that marriage to a new level of praise in God’s presence. Sarah said with all joy that heaven can ever give to a human being on earth; “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have given birth to a son by him in his old age.” Genesis 21:5.

It was not a mistake that Joseph married Mary; it was not a mistake that the family of Joseph in their wisdom wanted tradition to prevail over divine order and it was never a mistake that Joseph decided to follow the divine order after God sent him a message in his dreams. That union was blessed and preserved. As you follow the divine words of God in your marriage despite the press from peers, the society, from money and the family due to lack or whatever to discard the divine order in your marriage, God will step in with His peace and His blessing to take up to a better level. Because God had not and will not lead anyone into bondage, slavery or captivity, He will lead you into any. Whatever it is that had gone wrong, God is fixing it for in your union. It is His good plans is that you bear fruit together and increase, that you flourish together in joy, that you live long, that you be a good example to the world and the upcoming ones as His ambassador of grace and unity. Receive the peace of God in your marriage. Click here for prayer