29/01/2024
10 Powerful Laws To Keep Your Marriage Healthy!
Law #1. Never Outshine Your Partner:
Don't make your partner look inferior. Avoid loving outside attraction by opposite s*x that makes your partner suspicious
Law #2. Never Have Best Friend Than Your Partner:
Don't have best friend apart from your partner. Both of you are one in flesh and spirit. Any best friend is sharing your partner. Never prefer someone else better than your partner. No one can best defend your life or marriage than your partner.
Law #3. Never Conceal Your Intentions Against Your Partner: Keep open communication all the time with your partner. Your motives and plans shouldn't be kept secret from your partner. Stop expensive surprises to your partner without knowing about the plan. Always hint your partner the surprise with details but time of surprise might be discussed. Many homes are scattered due to surprising their partner.
Law #4. Slow To Speak When Angry and Speak Less When Happy:
Anger brings in poison out of your mouth, avoid speaking when angry. Words spoken in anger manifest quickly and causes long term pain to your partner.
Speak less when happy, so you don't expose your family secret to an enemy. Issues about your s*x life, health of your family, finance and wellbeing is totally your personal property and not any ones cup of tea, keep it to yourself.
Law #5. Guard Your Reputation: Guard it with your life. Your reputation is everything, protect it at all costs. Your name tells a lot about your entire family. Your children would inherit it when you are long gone. Maintain a good marital reputation, young couples needs it to step up their marriage journey.
Law #6. Cut Off Attention From Opposite S*x At All Cost:
Regardless of your position, title or office, maintain a distance with opposite s*x. Avoid emotional attachments to opposite s*x in bad situations, avoid meeting opposite s*x alone without your partner presence.
Avoid calling or chatting opposite s*x at odd hours. Cut off any inordinate affection, suspicious approach or attempt from opposite s*x towards you. Hate it, don't accept it, don't give it a chance or thought. It's the way to hell before death.
Avoid going on a business journey with opposite s*x from your office if you are married. Let the management know your stand, your marriage first before Money.
Law #7. Don't Delegate Your Service For One Another To Maid or Servant:
If you need to sweep your room do it yourselves. Don't allow maid enter your matrimonial room. Don't entertain visitors into your bedroom
Don't get others to wash your partners cloth like maids or house keepers. You can contract it out to drycleaners or so.
Cook your food yourself. Marriage first before Fame, self satisfaction, class, or position. When you delegate cooking and serving of food to maid, you are shifting your goal post.
Don't leverage the efforts of others to your advantage in marriage, you came to the marriage to serve each others. Service never kill, marriage obligations are more beneficial to both partners than work responsibilities.
Law #8. Don't Ever Again Try To Win Any Argument With Your Partner:
Both of you are responsible for the errors and mistakes committed in that marriage. God ask Adam first, then He turn to eve, both of you are answerable to God and yourselves.
Always strike a balance when handling marital mistakes. Don't be on the winning side even if you must win, don't make your partner the offender always even if they are.
Maintain peace with all men was Apostle Paul's counsel in the Bible. Allow peace to reign, genuinely apologize when at fault and through your actions, never through argument, right every wrong next time.
To maintain a peaceful home takes an effort. It is an intentional effort by both partner. Give it a trial. Let your actions speaks louder than words.
Law #9. Infection: Stop imitating other marriages, stop comparing your marriage of 3years with 6months old or 10years old marriages.
Rather, learn good virtues from them and add to yours without issues.
Avoid contaminating yourself with the negative traits and behavior of others, that is marine infection. Stop making life difficult for your partner by your over ambition for worldly material things.
Remember, the wife of LOT lusted for material things and she left the marriage by force and die, the marriage still continued, David lusted after his flesh and he ended up killing and scattering his entire family he laboured for.
Law #10. Identify & Crush Your Real Enemy:
To maintain a powerful marriage union that is unbreakable, first assignment is to identify the real enemy of your marriage.
Deception - when Eve eat the fruit, she knew, she used deception to make the husband eat it, then both of them were naked (deceived). What they normally overlook before, they now protect. They protect lie, cover up their errors instead of exposing it.
The spirit behind it is serpentine spirit. You must always study God's word together daily and pray daily against this enemy. Your partner is never and can never be your enemy.
Whatever or whoever makes you believe your partner is your enemy has become your number 2 marital enemy.
In Conclusion!
Completely defeat your enemies to ensure they cannot come back to harm you. You both must be committed to identify your marital enemy and crush it with prayer and fasting.
