Wednesday, 19^th February, 2025

Bible Reading: Ephesians 5: 21-33

Memory Verse:  Honour Christ by submitting to each other. Ephesians 5:21 (TLB)

A message on having great home credited to one of our fathers in faith read:

1. Marriage flourishes when the couple work together as a team; when both husband and wife decide that winning together is more important than keeping scores. Good marriages don’t just happen. They are a product of hard work from both parties. 

2. There is nothing that threatens the security of your spouse than the thought of another person competing for your attention and affection. Nothing is more painful. Nothing is more disrespecting. Nothing is more insulting. Nothing is more belittling and degrading.   

3. Your children are watching you and forming lasting opinions on love, commitment, and marriage based on what they see in you. Give them hope. Make them look forward to marriage.

4. The reason why the other person looks attractive is because someone is taking good care of him/her. Grass is always green where it is watered. Instead of drooling over the green grass on the other side of the fence, work on yours and water it regularly. 

5. When you put your spouse above everyone and everything except God, it gives your spouse the sense of security and honour.

6. A successful marriage doesn’t require a big house, a perfect spouse, a million dollars, or an expensive car. You can have all the above and still have a miserable marriage. A successful marriage requires honesty, undying commitment, and selfless love; having Jesus at the centre of it all.

7. Pray for your spouse every day – in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. Don’t wait until there is a problem. Shield your spouse with prayer and cover your marriage with the fence of prayer.

8. The people that surround you have a lot of influence on your marriage. Friends can build or break your marriage; choose friends wisely.

9. One spouse cannot build a marriage alone when the other spouse is committed to destroying it. Marriage works when both husband and wife work together as a team to build their marriage.

10. Don’t take your spouse for granted. Don’t take advantage of your spouse’s meekness and goodness. Don’t mistake your spouse’s loyalty for desperation. Don’t misuse or abuse your spouse’s trust. You may end up regretting after losing someone that meant so much to you.

11. If you really need godly advice, seek it from God-fearing, impartial, and prayerful mature couples whose resolve has been tested by time and shaped by trials.

12. Don’t underestimate the power of the tongue in your marriage. The tongue has the power to crush your marriage or build it. 

Quote: Whether your marriage will work or not, first, ask yourself.

Prophetic Decree:  Anti-marital spells of my father’s house shall not prosper in your marriage, in Jesus name.

Prayer Focus

1. Altars fighting against the unity of my home, catch fire, in Jesus name. 

2. Ancestral altars responsible for acrimony in my home, be wasted, in Jesus name.

3. New wine from the throne of heaven, flow into my home, in Jesus name. 

4. Activities of foundational and environmental witchcraft shall not prosper in my home, in Jesus name. 

5. I receive divine marital wisdom to work with my spouse, in Jesus name. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Leviticus 19-21