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We should normalize being appreciative for everything we receive. Yeah, it's our sweat and energy, but think of it this way: you have all the skill and brilliancy required for a job but no organization to hire or you even get hired and the payment isn't coming forth regularly. You'll only be left with the option of complaining, so if you're working and getting paid, it would be a good gesture to man and God to be appreciative. I noticed people also hardly say thank you when they buy stuffs from sellers, like I know it's your money, and you paid for it. But what if you have the money and no one to buy from? I have the habit of saying thank you for anything I receive, whether I deserve it or not.

ashewoboy:
A yes or a no.

Do you thank your boss after receiving your salary?


Use the comment section to tell us why you choose any of the above.

Most times when I see a man complaining that his wife is not respectful, not loving, not caring and not even concerned about making a change, I do trace the fault back to the man.

The relationship between a man and his wife is likened to the relationship between Christ and the church.

1John.4.19 - We love him, because he first loved us.

What kind of love did Christ give to the church that made the church to naturally love Him in return?

Christ understood the church, He cared for the church, He fed the church, He never judged the church based on her past, He respected the church, even while correcting the church, He did so in love, He valued the church and spent most of His time with the church.

A husband that's yet to come to terms with this dimension of relationship with his wife has no moral or spiritual justification to demand all that from the wife. Christ gave sincere love to the church and the church reciprocated naturally. You don't treat your wife as if she's of no value and yet expect her to be submissive. No sir! You don't do that.

We loved Him because He first loved us. Dear Husbands learn to leave pride and ego and humble yourself before the wife the Lord has joined you with. You're forming I'm the man of the house yet your home is in shambles, no peace, and you're raising your shoulders saying I'm the man, before you know it, sleepless night and BP will set in. We forget that there's no man or woman in the grave. All dead are addressed as dead bodies not dead man or dead woman. The equality you refused now, you will accept by force on the other side.

Jesus humbled himself before the church, became friends with the church just to prove His sincere love for the church.

Do the same for your wife and watch her treat you like a king naturally.

ACTIVATING DIVINE HEALTH

Jesus death on the cross did not only redeem us from sin and its slavery, it also did saved us from the powers of darkness, from all affliction and sickness. Through the precious blood of Jesus we have been raised powerfully together with Him and rightly seated in heavenly places.

Ephesians 2 Vs 6, “KJV:And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”

Where we are seated as children of light, powers of darkness do not operate, sickness and afflictions do not exist; this means that whenever a child of God is sick, something is wrong somewhere.

There is no sickness from God, every sickness is of the devil. Behind every sickness is a spirit.(Luke 13 Vs 10 -11) Job 2 Vs 7 KJV:“So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown” also see John 10 Vs 10 KJV:“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”

When a man's spirit is weak, his mind and body becomes porous to sickness, death, diseases and affliction. Proverbs 25 Vs 28; KJV:“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls”

You do not have to be sick as a child of God. For Every redeemed child of God, divine health is guaranteed 3 John 1 Vs 2 “KJV:Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth”

God has already made a provision for our health. He has already taken responsibility for our health, He said, by His stripes, we are healed. He didn't say by His stripes we are going to be healed, rather we are healed already.

The world 'healed' is in the past tense. It is a grace that was released many years ago when Jesus hung on the cross. As a redeemed child of God, the grace to divine health is in you by default. so we should walk in divine health. Healing is God's permissive will for us but divine health is God's perfect will for us.

HINDRANCE TO DIVINE HEALTH

1. Sin: Isaiah 59 Vs 2 KJV:But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

2. Unforgiveness and bitterness: See Matthew 18 Vs 32-35

3. Doubt and unbelief: Luke 1 Vs 45 KJV:And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

4. Lack of faith: Hebrews 11 Vs 6 KJV:But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”

5. Fear: 2 Timothy 1 Vs 7 KJV:For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Watch this; the presence of fear in the life of a believer indicates the absence of power, Love and sound mind. Let the Love of God dwell richly in you and all fears will be cast out. Perfect love cast away all fears. Perfect love creates room for a sound mind , which is tantamount to a divine health.

How can I activate divine health?

1. The word of God: Luke 5 Vs 17

KJV:And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which had come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

2. Faith connection: Habakkuk 2 Vs 4 KJV:Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

3. Be mindful of the kind of foods you eat.

4. Declare sound health upon yourself all the time. Number 14 Vs 28 NIV:So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do to you the very thing I heard you say.

Proverbs 12 Vs 18 NIV:The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

I will conclude with the words of Kenneth Copeland; “I agree it is Wonderful to get healed when sick but more Wonderful to live in divine health. You are not the sick trying to get healed but the healed and Satan is trying to steal your health”.

I never set the man as 'head' over the woman. The scriptures did, the very word of God did. What do you say about the scriptures here;

Eph.5.22 - Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. --
Eph.5.23 - For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
Eph.5.24 - Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. -

Kobojunkie:
While this all sounds great to those who cling to this idea, it does not track back to the teachings of Jesus Christ since Jesus Christ declared that He and He alone is Master and Teacher to all those who belong to Him.

If you pretend a man can occupy the place of Jesus Christ over a woman, what you declare by that is that such a man is master over such a woman and that such women are less equal than men as far as Jesus Christ is concerned, which is clearly against the very teachings of Jesus Christ.
By setting the man as "head" over the woman much in the same way as Christ is head over His church, what you do is condemn such a woman to a status that is different from that of a follower of Jesus Christ -since no follower of Jesus Christ can have two masters, such a woman is made no longer a follower of Jesus Christ.

I never set the man as 'head' over the woman. The scriptures did, the very word of God did. What do you say about the scriptures here;

Eph.5.22 - Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. --
Eph.5.23 - For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
Eph.5.24 - Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. -

COURTESY OF EYES IN WINNING THE KINGDOM RACE

Gen.3.6 - So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

The eyes is inarguably the light of the body, people can only be tempted of what they see. If we carefully examine most of the vices in our world today, it almost proceeds from the lust of the eyes.

A man can never lust after a young girl which he has not yet seen. Lust proceeds from *sight to mind* and made manifest in action or character. A thief can never be tempted to steal something of which has not first appeared attractive or tempting to his eyes. Workers are only tempted to embezzle funds because of the mental pictures and imagination they've stored up on the mind on the kind of luxury life they can get with such money. . All of these are traced down to the lust of the sight(Eyes).

Jesus speaking in Mathew 18 Vs 9. He said

Matt.18.9 - And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.

Though, the words of the Master here doesn't imply to literally pluck out our eye but rather it is a call to carefully sieve and put under serious check the pictures our eyes are being exposed to on daily basis.

Now, from our Bible text, Did you know, that Eve wouldn't have fallen into the temptation of Satan had it been she learnt how to manage the weakness of the sight. Did you know that all Eve needed to know was that as a child of God, it is wrong to see all that we see

Now my worry is, if Satan deceived Eve with her sight without her knowing, and even tried to do same to Jesus in Mathew 4 Vs 8, Could it be the devil has been deceiving us and reaping us off our Divine inheritance and placement through some deceitful sight projection and yet we don't even know??

I began to understand the reason why Satan has taken over almost everything that connects the daily sight of men. Our television channels are now filled with nude contents, Girls now dress almost half naked on the streets, societal morality in dressing is on the downward spiral. Even in the house Of God, a brother may be having an urge for immorality right inside God's house because of how the thighs of the sister sitting next to him is bare opened because of the short skirt she's putting on. The song leader will be struggling to Remember songs because the sister in the front seat is putting on one sexy show breast top, revealing the upper part of her breasts. And Even among believers, we all feel comfortable with such sights and even be admiring it in our hearts.

The Bible said "and Eve SAW that it was a tree desirable to make one wise that was how she lost her placement in the presence of the almighty.

If I may ask, what is it you're seeing at the moment that looks desirable to you? What could it be that the enemy may be projecting before your face that seems so beautiful and attractive to you, that you can't even wait to lay your hand on it, you can't even wait to say yes to it, you can't even wait to blend along with it.. What could that thing be??

Today, God is telling us, *If we must finish strong on this race, we must learn not to see all that we see*

God is saying, "look unto Jesus, when Satan took him to the high mountain to SHOW Him the world and its pleasure, what did Jesus did? He answered the devil "GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN"

Can we follow the examples of Christ today? Can we boldly tell the devil to get behind us whenever he comes projecting those unholy images to us, it could come in form of an idea, a picture, a dream, an urge. But we must learn to put it where it belongs; BEHIND US.

MAY WE RECEIVE GRACE IN JESUS NAME. AMEN

IS WHITE WEDDING BIBLICAL? COUPLES WHO ENGAGES IN SEX AFTER TRADITIONAL RITES HAS BEEN SETTLED AND PAID, CAN THEY BE SAID TO BE FORNICATING?

If we are to go to the scriptures, the first marriage in the Bible between bro Adam and sister Eve was complete and legitimate without a white wedding, though God himself gave the consent of the marriage, because then there were no earthly parents to give the consent. So biologically and spiritually, God performed the duties of a parent to them and gave them consent to marry.

The wedding Jesus went to in Cana (John 2) wasn't a white wedding officiated by priests or pastors.

The marriage of Jacob in the Bible wasn't a white wedding. Trace all through the Bible, you can never see a hint of white wedding. The concept of white wedding was learnt by us, here in the world and has no root in the scriptures.

What legitimises and completes marriage is the consent of both parents to release their children to become one body.

Gen.2.24 - Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Now, look at what the Bible said. They shall leave their father and mother, and not their pastor and church members.

Now, don't forget what God said about parents. They're our earthly guardians, they are God's representative for us on this earth. and, of a necessity, God admonished us to obey them so as to enjoy a long life.

So, as a child of God, you will agree with me that this kind of *leaving* must be with parental consent. If it is not, then it is unbiblical. Whether the consent was given by your pastor, bishop or prophets, constitution or law, If it is not your parents consent, it is not their consent. And it is a sort of disobedience to God's command. Consequently, that means the marriage is already on a faulty foundation.

Once your parents have agreed for you to leave and join with the man. Brother and sister, you've fulfilled the law. You have done rightly. It is recorded and sealed in heaven.

And of course you know, if God instituted marriage, definitely marriage must and should go by His laws (one man, one woman) according to the New Testament commandment of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

What about those that are wedding in the court after traditional, are we going to nullify their marriage simply because it wasn't in the church.

Our God isn't confined to a particular building that you must come there to receive marital blessing. I haven't seen such in the word of God.

But now look at the fuse.

If you belong to a church, and you know your church has doctrines and principles, if you know you cannot keep to their doctrines, please better don't belong there. But once you're in a church, and you accept their doctrines, you have to obey it.

I tell you why.

Firstly, if your church is against sex even after dowry has been paid. Brethren, I'll advise, please adhere to it. For the sake of having a good conscience between God and man.
I love the testimony of Paul in Acts 23 Vs 1

Acts.23.1 - Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, said, "Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day."

Whatever you do and your conscience is unrest over it, it may affect your relationship with God. And secondly, it is good to follow and adhere to your church doctrine as far as you're a member of that church.

Most times, we adhere and do certain things in the church even when we have the full knowledge of the truth, not for anything else but in order not to mislead the baby Christians.

Look at what Paul said in 1Cor.8.13 - Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never again eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

In the passage above, not as if meat is bad or a sin, but if it will make a brother stumble, it is better we don't eat it. Figuratively, if involving in sex after traditional marriage will make the church of God stumble or a brother or sister murmur, brethren, let us avoid it and for the sake of Christ seek to have a good conscience before our brethren and before God.

Eph.5.22, 23 and 25- Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.

One of the challenges couples are experiencing mostly in marriage is that of submission, our society has painted a kind of tradition where submission in marriage is seen solely as the wife's responsibility. Biblically, they back up the scripture above as a support to their claims, however, the society may not be wrong if they expect a submission from the wife to the husband, but they may be wrong if they approach this matter through a forceful frame which is completely contrary to what the Bible said.

It is important to note that firstly, Paul was talking to the wives here, not the husband, this shows that submission should come freely and willingly from the wife and not be enforced into by the husband. A forceful submission is never a submission at all. The kind of submission the church has to Christ isn't a forceful submission, rather it is a submission that emanated willingly from the heart as a result of Christ sacrificial Love to the church.

Secondly, listen carefully to the context of the instruction: wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church… "
Now, it takes a man who acts like the Lord to the wife to demand for submission from the wife. The husband from that passage is likened to Christ, Paul said, “the husband is the head of the woman just as Christ is the head of the church”. The question here is, how did Christ head the church? What kind of head was Christ to the church? Christ headed the church in sacrificial and selfless love, Christ is a head that is ahead. Now, until a man learns to act like the Lord to his wife, and also learn to head the woman as Christ did the church, such a man has no right to expect submission and respect From the wife.

A man can only get the wife's submission through his selfless love to the wife, and such selfless Love is itself a kind of submission.

If the parameters of which you head your home isn't within the frame of how Christ headed and loved the church, then, your wife has no obligation whatsoever to submit and respect you.

Most times, men fight for submission from their wives the moment they Stopped being the head that is ahead just as Christ was and is to the church.
When a man loves a woman sacrificially and heads her as the Lord, the woman submits and respects naturally.

Recently I read a post on social media about a lady who claimed that God revealed to her the man she is getting married to, she said it with all conviction to the point that she told her listeners to write down the date of which she was making that statement and then watch out for the fulfillment of the revelation.

Fortunately and unfortunately for her, the young man just released a pre-wedding picture and to the amazement of some, he was getting married to another lady not the sister with the revelation.

I know some of you may be wondering why I used the word 'fortunately and unfortunately'. I will explain.

Fortunately in the terms that God saved her from getting married to the wrong man. Had it been she pushed it through by her strength, probably she may have gotten married to the man just as many ladies today are wrongly married as a result of such ignorance. So, fortunately for her, she didn't discover what would have been a lifetime error late. She still has a chance to make a correct selection of life time partners. Then, unfortunately for her, on the ground that the shame of the public announcement she made months back before her mates may taunt her for sometime, but I pray she comes out of it quickly. Amen.

Now, there have been instances of ladies falling victims of such ignorance. Some ladies went into marriage because their pastor or prophet told them that God said so and so man is their husband/wife, some went into marriage based on dreams, some went into marriage based on casting lots.

Talking of dreams, there are many factors that can manipulate dreams, your mind can manipulate dreams, even the devil can project a dream to you if he sees that you have made a particular person a domineering thought of your mind. Satan can deliberately project that same person to you in the dream to make sure that your marriage is started off on a wrong foundation.

The Bible says “if the foundation is faulty, what can the righteous do?”

Now, speaking of your Prophet or pastors making a choice for you, the question should be, on what standard or ground are they selecting the partner for you, is it on the standard of God's word or revelation from God? Sadly today, some so-called pastors do arrange with a brother to get a wife for them, vice versa. Some will even go as far as making sure that you get married to a member of the church so as not to lose a member. So, even your pastors should not form the foundation of your conviction for a life partner. Why it is not good to totally depend on their choice is because the man of God is first a 'man' before he becomes of 'God'. So, if a man of God should tell you that God said so and so sister and brother is your husband or wife, kindly tell the man of God to tell God to give you a personal conviction, God is not the author of confusion. And, marriage is too long to live on a shallow conviction. Your conviction should be firmly rooted. I hope I'm communicating?

Now, there can be cases where God will particularly reveal to you a lifetime partner, now this kind of reunion happens for a specific divinely orchestrated reason. And please note: If God should reveal a partner to you, don't stress it, don't even talk about it as a lady, allow God to reveal the same to the man. If it is the God that I know, He is so orderly and professional in matching partners, so He knows how to reveal His will to both partners. Beloved, don't help God. However, such cases are rare. Very rare, I will tell you why.

Some Reasons why God won't select a partner for you.

Firstly, one of the freedoms God gave to man is freedom of choice. God created man with the liberty to choose what he wants, God won't mandate His Choice on us. He will rather make us see reasons to make a right choice but He won't make that choice for us. Doing so would be infringing on the right He gave to us. Now think on this for a moment; there's no weightier matter about us that concerns God so deeply than our salvation, I mean to say, among all God could desire for us, it will be that we all be saved. This was why He went as far as sending Jesus His son to die. Can you now imagine that despite how important our salvation is to God, yet He is not making the choice of salvation for us. He still allowed us to voluntarily make that choice ourselves, why do you now think that God would leave such a weighty matter and rather be choosing life partners for us?

Secondly, God will not choose a partner for you because if He does, that means He will take the blame if anything should go wrong in that marriage. You saw what happened in Eden, when Adam disobeyed God, then God asked him why, he immediately pushed the blame to God.

And the man said, The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate.

So, it has been proven in the nature of man to always look for who to push blame to when things go wrong. God wouldn't put Himself in that situation. After the incidence of Adam and Eve, the law has been, 'He that finds a wife'. God is not the one to do the finding for you, you have to find your partner yourself and then come before God and receive His favour.

Now the question is, what role will God play on the selection of a partner?

Before I will go ahead to answer this question, let me first of all answer the question, what role are we to play individually in finding a partner, when we know our role, it will help us to stay out of the way for God to do His part.

Now, let's read a few places in the scriptures concerning the marriage of Abraham's son.

Gen.24.3 - and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;
Gen.24.4 - but you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

Firstly, before involving God in your search for a life partner, you must be sure that your eye is not on the daughters of the Canaanites. God strictly warns us not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. 2 Corinthians 6:1

This means, firstly you must have the blueprint of what you want for a partner, based on your purpose and mission on earth. You must be intentional about whose daughters or sons you're to select your marriage partner from. When this is settled correctly, then you go ahead and pray to God to lead you to the right person.

What role will God play? God will lead you, He will order your steps and guide you in selecting a good partner.

If at the end of your search, you didn't proclaim like the servant of Abraham in Gen.24.27 - And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren."

So please, now that you have the correct picture, test every prophecy, revelation and dream concerning a life partner and be sure it doesn't violate God's standard and save yourself from a lifetime mistake. God bless you!!