Marriage.

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Hello, everyone! Its been a while. During this time of silence for me, I have been given the opportunity to hear from the Lord. The Lord has placed a message for the people of Christ in my heart. That message is regarding marriage. Marriage is being threatened in our churches at a higher rate than the world. Why? Many of us may be in a situation where divorce may seem like the answer or even separation, although the Word of God speaks about separation being good, it also talks about reconciliation to the one separated from. There are specific words of wisdom regarding marriage that are contained in the Word of God. I want to share a few of that with you and encourage you to continue the good fight especially those who may be going thru some difficult times in their marriage. Scripture quotes that God hates divorce. Scripture also quotes how husbands are to love their wives as Christ loves the church. What does this all mean? Nowhere in the Word of God is marriage a requirement of any sort. In fact its a choice. That commitment to one another is like the commitment between Christ and us the church. Not one of us is deserving of receiving Jesus the bridegroom, yet despite the flaws in the bride(church) the bridegroom is still going to unite with us the bride. Just as Jesus knows the faults and shortcomings of the church(you and I) the bride, he still intends to love us unconditionally. That is the type of love we are to have for each other in marriage. To experience and fulfill this type of love we must truly understand that love thru Jesus Christ. Jesus is supposed to be the head of our husbands, this allows husbands to be effective heads over their wives. This would result in husbands and wives being fulfilled by one another. This is all biblical. But the order of the headships must be aligned before the solid ground for a good marriage could be built on. If you come into marriage this way you started good if you dont then you will have your problems until this alignment occurs in your marriage. When Paul addressed the situation during his time he covered a lot of simple basics for marriage using the Word of God. He also mentions the results of the choice of marriage and the heartaches and pains that comes with it. See scripture references below.

1 Corinthians 7

Principles of Marriage

 ¹ Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman. ² Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. ⁴The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵ Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ⁶ But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. ⁷ For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that. 
⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; ⁹ but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Keep Your Marriage Vows

   
¹⁰ Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. ¹¹ But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife. 
¹² But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. ¹³ And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. ¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

Live as You Are Called

   
¹⁷ But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches. ¹⁸Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. ²⁰Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called. ²¹Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it. ²² For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave. ²³ You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. ²⁴ Brethren, let each one remain with God in that state in which he was called.

To the Unmarried and Widows

   
²⁵ Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy. ²⁶ I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is: ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸ But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you. 
²⁹ But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, ³⁰ those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, ³¹ and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away. 
³² But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord. ³³ But he who is married cares about the things of the world—how he may please his wife. ³⁴ There is^[a] a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. ³⁵ And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. 
³⁶ But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷ Nevertheless he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin,^[b] does well. ³⁸ So then he who gives her^[c] in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better. 
³⁹ A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

Matthew 19

Marriage and Divorce

 ¹ Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings, thatHe departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. ² And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there.
³ The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 
⁴ And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made^[a]them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’^[b]5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?^[c] 6So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 
⁷ They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” 
⁸ He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹ And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,^[d] and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” 
¹⁰ His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with hiswife, it is better not to marry.”

Mark 10

Marriage and Divorce

 ¹ Then He arose from there and came to the region of Judea by the other side of the Jordan. And multitudes gathered to Him again, and as He was accustomed, He taught them again.
² The Pharisees came and asked Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him. 
³ And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” 
⁴ They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.” 
⁵ And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. ⁶ But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’^[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, ⁸and the two shall become one flesh’;^[b] so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 
¹⁰ In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the samematter. ¹¹ So He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. ¹² And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Malachi 2:16
 ¹⁶ “ For the LORD God of Israel says 
      That He hates divorce,
      For it covers one’s garment with violence,”
      Says the LORD of hosts. 
  

All scriptures taken from NKJV Version.

I cant explain the Word of God any better than it is explained already regarding marriage. All we have to do is pray and read his Word. Its all in there. I am not judging anyone who has been divorced or may be headed towards one, all I am doing is sharing with you the blueprint for a successful marriage. Sometimes God gives us multiple opportunities to get it right, eventually when we follow his guidelines we achieve his best in marriage. Whether its a first time success or practice makes perfect situation God is a restorer of what was once broken. When we get it right, we will know in our marriage. God bless You! Keep fighting, families are about to be restored.    

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