TOPIC: YIELDING TO GOD 3: Yielding In Marriage
MEMORY VERSE:
Romans 6:16.
“16. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
BIBLE READING:
Ephesians 5:21-22, 25
“21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”
“23. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
“25. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
Thinking Point:
Not yielding to the principles that guides marriage is the reason for separation and divorce in the world today.
Yielding to God goes beyond what we do in church. It spans through every facet of our lives. As couples, we’re not to be an angel in the house of God and a lion in our marriages. The way you live in your marriage – secretly and openly – clearly defines who you are yielding to.
There are principles meant to guide marriages. Apostle Paul, speaking to the Ephesians says,
“Couples Should Submit To One Another”.
This is the first principle of marriage. Couple should honour and submit to one another, it’s not a one sided principle. A home that’s control by God is not authoritatively built but jointly built on the principles of God. He continued by saying,
“Wife, submit to your husband… And Husband love their wife…” Without any condition attached. You’re not to submit to your husband because of wealth, age difference, or perfection. You’re not to love your wife because she’s better and beautiful than other women outside there, you’re to love and submit to one another unconditionally.
This is one of the proofs of yielding to God. Not absents of weaknesses but knowing how to handle it and forging ahead.
Is your home yielding to God or the devil? Can you be proud to give a full details of the happenings in your home as a testimony? Yielding your home to God is joint responsibility in marriage. No man or woman exist without weakness, but yielding to the God through the Holy Spirit is what makes a beautiful and happy marriage, not wealth or authoritarian behaviours. If you are willing to yield your home to God as a woman, be submissive, do what builds your home willingly not by nagging and complaining. If your home will be an example to other believers and unbelievers as a man, Love your wife in absentia and always, love covers all weaknesses. If there’s any situations against your home jointly find time to speak to God, it’s a sign of a yielded Home to God. All divorced and separated homes today are not signs that God doesn’t ordained them, many are caused by lack of yielding their homes to God and marriage principles. Surrender your marriage to God and your home will be the best place on earth.
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