MONDAY MANNA 7 APRIL ‘25

Dr. Daniel O. C. | Apr 07, 2025

“MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE SING!”

Saints of God Most High, hear God’s word for you today:

“Marriage is honourable in every respect; and, in particular, sex within marriage is pure. But God will indeed punish fornicators and adulterers.” (Hebrews 13:4)

Honour the sanctity of marriage and keep your vows of purity to one another, for God will judge sexual immorality in any form, whether single or married.

MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE SING

Some married people feel trapped, frustrated, disappointed, and wasted.
Their family life is filled with boredom, full of strife and stress, crushed by guilt and condemnation.

This ought not to be. If so, they have missed the whole essence of marriage.
Yet it is not altogether a hopeless situation.
If you are in this situation, your marriage or family life can be turned around.

Instead of confusion and conflict, there would be a haven of peace, love, and contentment. The success of every marriage and home life is based on its spiritual foundation.

What place God occupies determines what kind of home you get. A home founded upon the rock of Christ will stand the shocks, strains, and stresses of life. It will endure despite the pressures and storms.

The Scripture explains this very clearly, “Except the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain who build it; except the Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.” (Psalms 127:1)

The first pillar that supports a successful marriage and a happy home is love.
Not a sentimental, superficial kind of love but love that springs forth from a mature, spiritual relationship.

This is best described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, “Love suffers long and is kind;
love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil.”

The love we have here is practical. The problem with most families is that most couples sentimentalise marriage so much that their expectations become unrealistic, as if they have married an “archangel”, instead of a human being.

Common sense is thrown overboard. Their marriage flounders because of intolerance and the inability to overlook minor offences and mistakes. We must be realistic and sensible in our evaluation of our partner or children.

May the Lord our God help us make our marriages sing and our home sweet in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Somebody shout, “SO HELP ME GOD!”

Shalom and good morning.

Dr. Daniel O. C.