MARRIAGE – MARITAL RELATIONSHIP: IT’S A CALLING IN THE GRACE – ABOUNDING WITH FAVOUR AND BLESSEDNESS!
“Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; 9 not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary BLESSING, knowing that you were CALLED to this, that you may INHERIT A BLESSING” 1 Peter 3:8-9.
Being married to the one you love and loving the one you marry – it’s a GRACIOUS and GRACEFUL place to be, in order to obtain and enjoy the promise FAVOUR and BLESSEDNESS when you found your spouse. This is as written:
“Whoso FINDETH a wife findeth a GOOD thing, and obtaineth FAVOUR of the Lord” Proverbs 18:22.
Therefore, are you MARRIED? If YES – Know for good that you are CALLED to INHERIT A BLESSING – that is, as being heirs together in the sharing of the common GRACE of life in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. 1 Peter 3:7-12. Marriage in Christ Jesus stead and stand, is not a CURSE thing; and more so, it’s no longer a CURSED relationship as in Adam and Eve, when you hold dearly and steadfastly and uphold strongly, the context of the New Creation SCRIPTURAL TRUTH of the Holy Writ of God – 1 Peter 3:7-12.
For in REDEMPTION, Christ Jesus has REDEEMED and RESTORED the marital BLESSEDNESS of God that enriches all. Your MARRIAGE is not a CURSE affair anymore in Christ Jesus stead and it’s not CURSED to become one any time and any day but rather it’s a place of BLESSING and BLESSEDNESS – to INHERIT a Blessing in Christ Jesus stead. 1 Peter 3:7-12 [Romans 5:1-2, 12-21; Galatians 3:13-14, 26-29].
Whatever you are seeing or thinking or watching from a grandstand on your marital stands or you are knowingly living and experiencing as a marital difficulties and challenges, could be due to either or both of the spouse ignorance or stupidities or foolishness, on the marital scriptural context. And that doesn’t necessarily make God’s WORD and scriptural stand in marriage to become inoperative and ineffective and impractical. For in God, the promises and BLESSEDNESS toward marriage and marital life is touchable, reachable, loveable, liveable and tangible.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; MALE and FEMALE created He THEM. 28 And God BLESSED THEM, and God said unto them, Be FRUITFUL, and MULTIPLY, and REPLENISH the earth, and SUBDUE it: and have DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” Genesis 1:26-28.
This is why I teach people that you might marry by love, but you can’t LIVE and SUSTAIN marriage by just LOVE alone – but needs to do life in marriage by WISDOM – which is by KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING of the scriptural context of marriage in God’s Word. Apostle Peter even have to charge the husband to deal and dwell with your wife by KNOWLEDGE in order to avoid marital crisis – hence, it’s not by wisdom when anyone under God, decides to build up their marriage on mundane things – because such things are limited and are subject to changes with time, and are prone to failure, and more so, because of the human factors that’s opposed to God’s scriptural context upon which the marital stand of the BLESSEDNESS of God, is built upon. For it’s written:
“WISDOM is the PRINCIPAL thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy GETTING get UNDERSTANDING” Proverbs 4:7.
“Likewise, ye husbands, DWELL WITH THEM ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE, giving HONOUR unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being HEIRS together of the GRACE of life; that your PRAYERS BE NOT Hindered” 1 Peter 3:7.
“Through WISDOM is an house BUILDED; and by UNDERSTANDING it is ESTABLISHED: 4 and by KNOWLEDGE shall the chambers be FILLED with all precious and pleasant riches” Proverbs 24:3-4.
“Every WISE woman BUILDETH her house: but the FOOLISH plucketh it down with her hands” Proverbs 14:2.
“For WISDOM is a DEFENCE, and MONEY is a DEFENCE: but the EXCELLENCY OF KNOWLEDGE is, that WISDOM GIVETH LIFE to them that have it” Ecclesiastes 7:12.
“Who is as the WISE man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s WISDOM maketh his face to SHINE, and the BOLDNESS of his face shall be changed” Ecclesiastes 8:1.
Henceforth, be RESOLVE with a change hearts towards your spouse today and everyday in everyway. Love your spouse in grace and live through wisdom to ensure the working of the marriage and marital stand by God in Christ Jesus stead. Amen. For it’s what you PICTURE in the light of the scriptures and scriptural context in marriage and marital stand, that becomes your marital FUTURE. The REDEMPTION DEED OF CHRIST, had settled once for all time in all for you and all maritally, and to share in God’s GRACE and BLESSEDNESS in Him with each other in love.
Therefore, I say to you and all: Stay BLESSED! Remain BLESSED!! And BLESSED regards in everyway in Christ Jesus stead in God’s BLESSEDNESS. Amen.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“Whoso FINDETH a wife findeth a GOOD thing, and obtaineth FAVOUR of the Lord” Proverbs 18:22.
“. . . 7 Likewise, ye husbands, DWELL WITH THEM ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE, giving HONOUR unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your PRAYERS BE NOT HINDERED.8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise BLESSING; KNOWING that ye are thereunto CALLED, that ye should INHERIT A BLESSING. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil” 1 Peter 3:1-12.
“THE BLESSING OF THE LORD, IT MAKETH RICH, and he ADDETH NO SORROW with it” Proverbs 10:22.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED US with all SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ” Ephesians 1:3.
“Christ hath REDEEMED us from the CURSE of the law, being MADE A CURSE for us: for it is written, CURSED is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 that THE BLESSING of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might RECEIVE THE PROMISE of the Spirit through faith” Galatians 3:13-14.
“God is FAITHFUL, by whom ye were CALLED unto the FELLOWSHIP of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord” 1 Corinthians 1:9.
“And we know that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER for good to them that LOVE God, to them who are the CALLED according to HIS PURPOSE” Romans 8:28.
“GOOD UNDERSTANDING giveth FAVOUR: but the way of TRANSGRESSORS is HARD (DIFFICULT, CHALLENGING)” Proverbs 13:15 Emphasis Mine.
“The man that WANDERETH out of THE WAY of UNDERSTANDING shall REMAIN in the CONGREGATION of the DEAD (LOVELESSNESS, UNPRODUCTIVE, INACTIVENESS)” Proverbs 21:16 Emphasis Mine.
“Every WISE woman BUILDETH her house: but the FOOLISH plucketh it down with her hands” Proverbs 14:1.
“My people are DESTROYED for LACK OF KNOWLEDGE: because thou hast REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I will also REJECT thee,that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children” Hosea 4:6 (Isaiah 5:13-15).
REV. CHUKIE MORSI