MARRIAGE

                                           MARRIAGE   

                                                             (part 2)

          As said in my previous post about the character of Marriage, read this, be changed, plan better, choose wisely, such that we won't be making the same mistakes some has made, do not say, you were not told.
        1 Corinthians 3:8
"he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own  reward according to his own labor. For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building according to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, i have laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon, But let everyman take heed how he buildeth there upon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
         Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stone, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest. for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is, If any man's work abide which he hath built there upon, he shall receive a reward, If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be save; yet so as by fire.
let's go again into the book of Psalms 11: 1-3
"In the lord i put my trust, how say ye to my soul, flee as a bird to your mountain? For lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
If the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
           I have really being thinking, trying to find out what exactly to share with us yet again about marriage and i discovered that what i can do is to try to share with us some fundamental things, show us the generic and leave you with the specifics.
          When it comes to marriage, in Christ as a child of God, no one, no man of God will tell you everything or can tell you everything there is to know about it, because of the nature and the character of marriage itself especially marriage as God almighty created and ordained it to be.
        " Now, if you don't understand the reason for a thing you will never understand the process you have to go through for that thing".
           I was asking myself, what exactly is God's own reason for creating marriage? i am not asking what exactly is your reason why you must marry or why you wanna marry? What do you think is your reason why you wanna marry? But i am asking, why did God ordained marriage? why did he create marriage? why did he create man and woman to marry? Gave them the characteristics, gave them the features, gave them what they needed to marry, why did he do that? And when i've found God's reason for that i screamed, and i said "NO WONDER". and NO WONDER WHAT? No wonder marriage is very easy and no wonder marriage is very difficult. Very easy to succeed maritally as a christian and very difficult to succeed. I know you are wondering about what i am saying. Very easy and Very difficult. This two statements are relative truth they are not absolute truth.
           Subject to some certain things you can succeed as a christian so easily and subject to some certain things your marriage may be the end of your Christianity on the earth. Are you there? But one thing i want you to get straight is that you are going to have challenges in your marriage even when you marry the right person God says this is he this is she. That God shows you who to marry does not isolate you out of some certain challenges or difficulties. In fact the more God spoke that this is he, the more challenges you'll have, i'll tell you for one reason, the Devil looks for where God is going so he can gather is agents there and scatter it. So to those who are married, you don't know why you are having such a rough time in your marriage. The normal response i have seen couples, Christians, when the challenges begins,first thing they say "Oh, i don't think he is the right person for me:, "Oh, i just discovered that we are incompatible, isn't it? Suddenly, and you wish never came across this beautiful lady, you wish you never came across this handsome man. Why is it so? The greater the commitment of God in your marriage, the greater the release of God's grace into your life, the greater will be your challenges, because the devil will not leave you alone, he will fight you at every point.
             The more God has his commitment to your home, to your marriage, the more he will want to scatter it, and who is the he here? of course you know,"the devil".  and i kn ow you are still asking, what is he talking about? just follow me. The more he will want to scatter it. That rattles everything you've ever heard, isn't it?. The longer God stays with you in that marriage, the earlier he wants to scatter it, speedily.
          Let me ask you a question here. Between God, the Jews, Satan, and the gentiles, who wanted Jesus Christ dead/Crucified the most? while you are thinking about the answer to that, i tell you ,ore solemnly that God wanted Jesus Christ dead really fast. Now i expect the question why? Why will God want his beloved son dead?
           God put the plan of man's redemption into a go before Adam ever fell, true or false? and so he wanted the plan brought into the state of accomplishment really fast, he was like " Son this people wants to kill you, do fast so you can die, i want you dead first". Let me chip this in, most of the time when you are binding the devil, God is just laughing at you, Now i suppose you don't know where to place that,you are saying where is this one coming from? It's just because we have not understood the ways of God yet. As you study the bible, you have the GARDEN OF EDEN, now pay attention to this, you are about to be exposed to what may actually take you ten years to understand on prodigal terms,unless you start reading some serious books, and of course unless you work fast with God.. So you have the GARDEN OF EDEN, in that garden of Eden you have a man and a woman in there, from there you have the wilderness that God led the children of Israel into, Now excuse me  sirs and mas, why will God in claiming that he loves you, would want to lead you into the wilderness? What kind of love is that sir and ma?  But he did, he didn't  lead them through the way  of foolishness or though   that was led, but he led them into the wilderness and like some of you have been fighting, so much binding, this lack, this devil, shouting "Oh this lack i curse you, and the more you cursed it the more the it multiply, isn't it? Let's be sincere, how many of you are i the roughest time, you've ever known since you became a christian?  You thought that when you became a christian things are going to get cooler instead it became hotter, and rougher and you are wondering, "hey, i hope i have not made a mistake? may be i have committed a sin, that is why i am suffering like this? You question yourself like that. And many of us have being confessing sin for months now, at every altar call you came out again. TRUE OR FALSE? The moment the pastor squeeze is face and mean business you run out again. TRUE OR FALSE? You said you are a Christian and you were lying yesterday? What sort of a christian do you think you are, you better come and surrender your life to Christ so you can be delivered from that demon of lying,such does the pastor say, and you will be the first to be out again. TRUE OR FALSE?
          So he brought them to the wilderness, why on earth will God do that?
while thinking about this, i will end this here, come tomorrow, we will all see why God decided to lead the Israelite right into the wilderness and how this is related to our marital life.
Thank you.
 With love. ANDREW MARCH. Do get yourself a goodnight.