The Sunday Mail
SUCCESSFUL marriages are made up of successful individuals who get together.
When you put two people together who are walking in harmony with God, they will walk in harmony with each other. If you are living in harmony with God, you can live in harmony with those in your family, whether it is your husband or wife, your children, or your parents.
We are fighting one of the greatest battles in the world in this hour, and that is the battle for the marriage and the home.
The little things that we are talking about may seem insignificant to you. But Satan has taken them as small as they are and has driven a wedge between marriage partners and between them and their children.
If we will root them out and make an effort to do the things that God has spoken for us to do in His Word, we will see marriages last. We are praying for marriages and homes to be strong.
Perhaps you have been married before and you have remarried. We are not condemning you for past mistakes. We want the marriage you are in to last and be strong.
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24.
One of the most important things about really loving your mate in a covenant relationship is leaving your family. Some people never get around to leaving.
The apron strings are still tied and Mama is still helping her “little child” make decisions. When you leave home to get married it is time to cut the apron strings. This goes for women as well as men: leave Mama’s influence and have control over your life when you join yourself to your mate.
The Bible says there is a leaving and then there is a cleaving. This means as husband and wife you are drawn together apart from the relationship from whence you have come!
In marriage, God has called two to become one, to be united in attitude, mind, vision, and direction. This is why singles need to come to a unity of mind and heart before they marry. Many people simply come to a unity in an attitude of the physical relationship, but they never come to a unity in their mind, vision, direction, intention, and purpose in life.
Many people marry and later discover that the person they married has a different plan for life.
They say, “I didn’t know that is what he (or she) wanted to do.” Yet, I am wondering, “How did they ever get married without coming to that place of unity?”
It takes time to understand what another person plans to do with his or her life. It usually doesn’t come in a few days or even in a few weeks.
When a pilot makes plans to land on the runway of an airport, he aligns himself with the runway a long time before he touches down. He checks on a perfect directional that will touch the plane down on a strategic spot where he can stop the aircraft so it won’t go off the end of the runway.
How much more important it is in our lives that we align ourselves and get on target before we touch down in a marriage relationship – that we align ourselves in unity one with another.
If you cannot come to a place of unity in the dating relationship, then you should say, “Let’s postpone the wedding”.
The postponement is much better than the divorce of a relationship. Take a few more months. Many marriages would have been saved if the bride and groom had waited until they came to some unity and worked things out before the wedding.
Marriage is not just mental agreement. It’s not just physically touching and saying, “I agree with you”.
The real agreement is spiritual agreement where two people are in harmony in their spirits. There is no greater possibility of power of agreement than in the marriage union.
Why? Because there are no two people on earth who can get any closer in their spirits than a man and a woman who are walking in unity with God.
Now, if you understand what great power there is in a married couple being in unity, you will understand why the devil fights marriage so hard.
Marriage represents the greatest form of power possible when two people touch and agree and pray together. In this kind of agreement, Jesus said, “It will be done.”
This is the kind of covenant commitment we are looking for from the marriages in our lives. Multiplied power, ten times that which each has as an individual, is granted to those who come together in agreement.
God’s plan for man was that He indwells the marriage, the home, and the family(Genesis 1:26-28).
It is God’s plan for the husband and wife to come together in agreement and take dominion and authority to stop the works of the devil and bring the earth under subjection to God’s plan.
There is no stronger power of agreement on earth than in the marriage union, because to God, the husband and wife are one.
God suggests the impact of “two in agreement” in preference to one in Deuteronomy 32:30. He says one can put a thousand to flight, but two can put ten thousand to flight!
The marriage union, as God designed it, is something very beautiful, holy, honourable, and wonderful. It is a place where the husband and wife can freely express their love for one another at the deepest level, not just surface level, but spirit, soul, and body.
It is a place where they can say to the person to whom they have committed their whole life, “I love you, and I give the totality of myself to you.” Nothing is withheld. Enjoy your marriage!
Apostle Kanyati is the founder of Zoe Life Changing Ministries and Grace Unlimited Ministries. Email feedback at [email protected]; WhatsApp : +263 772 987 844
