"GOD DOESN'T CHOOSE A WIFE FOR YOU"
Predestined Spouse is not a thing!
It's not found in Scriptures
There's no ONE person for you
There's a KIND OF PERSON for you!
Amen!?
Someone asked me a question and I want to share something!
And this is about marrying a spiritual man or woman
Everybody knew me as sister fire. I think
Most people expected me to marry a pastor or a man that is the typical description of a spiritual man.
I have learnt that a spiritual man or woman is not the one that is on posters and fliers and holding conferences every month
Ahhhhhhhh
I don’t know how to say this loud enough.
I didn’t think my husband was a spiritual man because half the time I would be the one talking and he would just be listening
He was not loud
He does not do anything on social media that would make you think this is fire for fire man.
But when I got close? Goodness gracious
I saw character traits that showed a life worked on by God
I had to sit down and take notes.
I remember one time like two months into our relationship, I asked him a very strange question
I said “when do we start arguing and fighting??”
This was because I had been with the typical spiricoco man and it was brutal.
Like we would not be talking because of quarrels and he would be holding spritual conferences and programs
So I just took that intense constant argument and fighting as part of it
And in my head I thought maybe this y husband was pretending
How are you not shouting or raising your voice?
How are you not getting annoyed at the slightest thing?
How do you have grace to say “baby” and “my love” even when you are not happy with me???
Those that know me know that since 3 years ago, I entered another spiritual wavelength
This was because of my Man!
We plan every program I have together
He makes all my fliers
He would be sitted in the front row of every program
We ran Covabodi campaign together
I have grown in all aspects in leaps and bounds
This was the last person I thought I would marry because by my initial look, he did not look “Jim Jim” enough
Dear child of God,
🤍Be open minded. Sometimes, God knows what you need more than you do
🤍Sprituality no Dey show for face. Till you enter house, you’ll know who God has worked on
🤍Don’t settle for toxic because you’re scared of being single. God still has good sons and daughters.
🤍It’s not about dynamism or oratory. Look at the fruits of the sprit. Anybody can be loud. Very few can have the character to back it up.
#womanengraced
I stayed in a relationship that was super painful and horrible for more than 2 years because “I had a dream”
Yes!
I dreamt that I married this brother and this would be the first time I would get any leading about marriage and so when he came to propose I accepted.
This relationship was so painful on so many levels.
Infact I went into the relationship not loving him but I felt I had a strong leading from God and the love would flow with time.
Now I am that girl that would want to obey God especially on marriage
Like if God says this is it, I’m going there. Doesn’t matter what.
And so in that dream someone said this is your husband and if you don’t marry him, you would be miserable all your life.
I’ve never experienced so much conflict with a person before
We would argue and argue about the most ridiculous things.
I would cry and cry. Apology would come but the circle would just repeat itself
We never had one week of peace.
I just felt that this was my cross in life to carry and I kept moving on
A time came when the only time I was happy in my life was when we were not talking
Why was I still there????? A dream
Under the mercy of God and the wisdom from solid godly counseling, I left. And I could breathe . I felt like a weight was lifted from me.
Fast forward to some years later
I dreamt again that I married someone.
I saw myself dancing and doing traditional wedding and all that
Guess what???
This brother I was marrying was already married with two children
So when I woke up, I just laughed!
Because I knew that dream was never from
God as God is not the author of confusion. He could never lead me to marry someone’s husband
But then it struck me.
What if the brother I dreamt about was single?
Wouldn’t I have thought this was God’s leading??
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I’m sharing this because I’ve gotten some questions another dreaming about someone and if that’s God’s leading
While I won’t tell you no categorically, I won’t also tell you it’s a definite yes.
God leads his child in several ways but please, don’t use only a dream as leading
Dreams can come as a result of so many things
But you can’t just run off based on that
Confirm it by other means
Confirm it with love
Confirm it with peace
Confirm it with the word of God
“The blessings of God makes rich and does not add sorrow to it”
Is your relationship giving you sorrow??
There are so many scriptures you can use to confirm what you’re doing.
You can’t be with an unbeliever and claim God is leading you.
Gods word will never contradict and it’s a more sure word of prophecy than any dream or vision or revelation
Also, never stop praying even after you feel you are being led
Never stop praying
I stopped praying but my mum never stopped
I sincerely believe that’s why God showed me mercy
I pray this helps someone and gives clarity!
#womanengraced
#Covabodi
Praying in tongues is a blessing !
Thank God for praying in tongues !
We pray in tongues and we pray in our understanding also .
In tongues to edify our spirits and in our understanding to edify our minds .
A TRUE LIFE STORY...
Truly, he slept with the lady several times. Later, the lady wanted more, but he had moved on & had told her he was done with sin.
But perhaps, his approach infuriated the lady; she felt used & dumped.
She went straight to the church & told the pastor how his youth pastor was sneaking into her room in the night to sleep with her. How after night vigil, she would hide at the back of the rusted water tank behind the church to 'finish work'
Perhaps, if she was sure that the guy had encountered God afresh, she would have taken it easy.
But she thought the guy had used her and dumped and started doing it with someone else. Don't blame her so much.
Nobody would want to be in the number of the census of ladies a man has slept with.
And the young man was suspended publicly and disgraced. He sat in the church back seat for many months. His head pastor ejected him from his house where he was given a one room apartment; with the fear that he will someday see his young daughters appealing and defile them.
He had no place to go to...
When he gave his life to Christ, he went straight to the village shrines and destroyed all of them. The villagers gathered began to worship the living God. The village elders passed judgement on him & banished him. His parents didn't want to set their eyes on him again, as the shame was so much to bear.
When they heard that his church has ejected and suspended him for fornication, they jubiliated. That the gods of the land have caught up with him for discerecting them.
The only place he could stay was inside an old uncompleted building, without roof.
Any night it rains, he will be soaked. All he had there was his bible and few cloths. But he was there looking for God. He had failed both men & God. God had forgiven him, but men didn't want to set their eyes on him.
The villagers will gather everyday mocking him. Some of his close pals abandoned him.
But whenever we passed that old building, we will be hearing his voice; crying: "Lord, give me power...If truly You have forgiven me, give me Your anointing..."
Months rolled by, he was still praying that same singular prayer.
My late mum would cook everyday & give me to go & send to him. Sometimes, when I come to bring another food, I would see that he has not eaten the one we brought previously.
He was always fasting & praying & crying.
Later, the church restored him.
But the stigma refused to go.
Nobody called him pastor again.
In church, they were avoiding him like a disease.
Some of those sympathising with him didn't come open.
One December period, A great man of God was supposed to preach in that community that Christmas period. Everyone was waiting for him.
The sick, the blind & the lame had gathered, waiting for him. But a news came that he wasn't coming again.
All the pastors in that community were disappointed, because no one could do what they expected God to do through this great man of God.
The crusade was on...
The choir was ministering, yet, they did not have anyone to preach. The crowd was much & their expectations were high. No pastor felt adequate to step into that shoe.
Someone was moved to call this young man to come and preach.
Not because they believed in him, but so that if he preaches & nothing happens, the shame will go to him alone.
The young man didn't know what to do when they told him to go & preach. How can he face every one that knows how he failed. Everyone there knew that he was just suspended & released for fornication.
He was crying, but he gathered courage & climbed the stage. When people saw him on the stage, they started leaving one after the other. The man that was supposed to do the interpretation dropped microphone & went down from the podium.
All The crowd almost left, because they could not imagine what a fornicator had to offer.
I was there when all of this was happening.
Few of the people reading this now were there too.
The young man was crying as he was watching the crowd leaving & even some of the choristers climbing down the stage the moment they saw him on the stage. Tears began to roll down his cheeks as he started a song & nobody, including the pastors joined him to sing.
But about 10 minutes later, something happened...
One of the known crippled that came for the crusade began to shout. Every attention went to that side; lo and behold, he had stood up from his wheelchair jumping all over the place. God had healed him.
People were still surprised. Few seconds later, a known blind woman started shouting from the other side "I can see... I can see... I can see..."
Yet, the young man on the pulpit had not opened the bible. It was only the songs he was singing with tears.
Few minutes later, noise filled the whole place. People with Chronic diseases started shouting that they have been healed. The pastors there could not understand what was going on.
"How can God use this small boy?" But More miracles were being recorded.
The crowd that left started hearing the shout from the crusade ground & began to run back. Some thought the great man of God had finally come.
But when they got there, they saw the young man on the stage, crying. The interpreter that came to interpret for him was crying.
As he wanted to start preaching, the noise of more miracles could not let him preach. As he wanted to get close to tell the interpreter to let them climb down & start preaching to people, the power of God hit the interpreter & he fell under the power of God. He laid slain like a dead man.
As the organiser of the crusade who is probably also reading this now wanted to climb the stage to take the microphone that fell down from the interpreter, he too fell under the power of God.
The young man was just standing, & looking at the salvation of the Lord.
The crowd had increased more than those that came to listen to the big man of God. People had rushed home to bring their people, that something was happening in the market square.
Many pastors that had sick people started sending messages to their members to bring all the sick people in their churches.
And without this boy laying hands on anyone, they were being healed. Some villagers who were chronic idol worshippers saw the mighty works of God and ran to the altar for repentance.
He didn't preach from any verse of the scripture, but the power of God was present to heal & to deliver...
As he was standing there, not knowing what next to say, with tears all over, some pastors began to run to him. Some holding his shoe, others dragging his shirt; crying: "Lord, we are sorry..."
Some were crying: "We need this anointing...Please, give it to us."
I was there friends...
The crusade that was supposed to end by 8pm ended around 12am at midnight. Healings and incredible miracles were wrought.
After that crusade, God restored that young man of God.
He became the most sought for, every man of God wanted to host him.
Nobody remembered he was suspended.
The name of the man is Rev. Dr. Uma Ukpai.
There is a price for power, & that young man paid the price.
Culled from Rhema Channel
I’m in the midst of 8 of men in their mid 40s - mid 50s, all super successful (financially) but every single one of them are having serious marital issues.
Two are separated, two fully divorced and one who ran away from his home so he could have peace.
Semi long thread…
This obsession with virginity and righteousness is kind of weird. I’m just gonna rant for a minute.
YES, virginity is awesome. God designed sex for marriage, and it is an amazing blessing to both be virgins when you enter the marriage bed. I am not discounting this at all. Wait until marriage. It will be so special and God-honoring!
HOWEVER, some of us didn’t know God when we lost our virginity. Some have made mistakes and have regrets. I am a single mom who got saved in 2020, and I am waiting until marriage. Do I wish I would have waited from the start and could share that special gift with my husband? Yes. Does this mean I’m now worthless and undeserving of a good man? Definitely not. When we start equating people’s worth to their virginity status, we are saying that God’s redemption and forgiveness mean nothing.
If you have the preference of wanting a virgin because you are a virgin, do you boo. But Christians need to stop shaming others and acting holier than thou just because their past is not as messy. There is no condemnation in Christ. 🙃 (Obviously not talking about people who are sleeping around and living in sin-but born-again Christians who came to God later in life.)
You can be a virgin and still have sin in other areas of your life. NONE of us are perfect, but we all have the opportunity to be forgiven and redeemed by God.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. If you’re rude, I’m blocking you.
(I was originally going to quote tweet with this, but I don’t know if the woman was a Christian. However, I did see a lot of Christian women in the replies talking about how disgusting men who aren’t virgins are and how they would never marry a man who wasn’t a virgin.
I get it-there are men who literally brag about their body count and how they use women for sex. But there are soooo many good, born-again men who aren’t virgins but still have to see your comments talking about how gross they are just because they had a past before they knew God.
Y’all, let’s do better. We’re called to love and be the light of Christ, not look just like the world bickering and shaming others.)
Theology " Not so"
Heard this popular phrase before ?
"You can't go to bed on Delilah's Laps and expect to wake up in Abraham's bosom "
This sounds very good to the hearing .It gives God a " no nonsense " persona .
It's used to whip many in line who either have sinned or are contemplating it.
For starters ,sexual immorality of any sort is a sin ,this includes Fornication and adultery .
People must be cautioned ,warned and rebuked .This is done in scriptures sufficiently
But that's not the issue with this quote .
The quote was taken from the Old Testament story of Samson .If you read up Judges 16 you will get the background .
Abraham's bosom on the other hand is often referred to as the Old Testament saints abode( heaven ) after death till Christ came ( Luke 16 will help if u consider the Lazarus story )
Hence this quote implies if a Christian or so gets himself seduced ,he should forget about salvation or something even worse still.
It looks desirable ,sounds good .
However the quote ignores scriptural realities and opts for morality as it seems to imply that Samson lost his salvation because of Delilah .
Scriptures teach otherwise .
As in tandem with Gods plan for all believers ,Samson's sins were not recorded by the New Testament ,Delilah has no Greek transliteration( if u get my point ),same as Barsheba isn't mentioned in the New Testament .
David captured it precisely
Romans 4:6-8 KJV
[6] Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
[7] Saying , Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8] Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
This is why ALL Old Testament saints failings and sins were not mentioned in the New Testament .
They found justification by faith .
Samson is mentioned as a " Hero of faith ", cloud of witness .( Hebrews11)
He's listed alongside Abraham Noah Moses ,David ,Jacob ,Enoch ..etc
Even though he did have repeated failings and bout with a prostitute and eventually committed suicide ,today he's been perfected by the sacrifice of Christ alongside all the saints of old
Hebrews 12:23 KJV
[23] To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Was he without sins? No
Were his sins counted against him ? No
Were his deeds commended ? No
Was his faith commended ? Yes
The New Covenant is Gods dealings with all
Hebrews 8:12-13 KJV
[12] For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13] In that he saith, A new covenant , he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
No man is saved or " remains saved " based on performance .
From Abel to Abraham to Moses to Samson ,to David to John Wesley,Kenneth Hagin ,Pastor Kumuyi or Pastor adeboye and segun ,,,we are all saved and will be saved ONLY by the precious blood of Christ ,apart from works ,whom Samson had the substance of things and hoped for it and evidence of things he hadn't seen
Today ,we See Jesus seated at the Fathers right hand and forever lives to make intercession for us
Hebrews 7:25 KJV
[25] Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
If men go to hell,its Not Delilah ,not Barsheba but rather refusal to accept this sacrifice and intercessory work of Christ!
Be saved !
Have a great day
I call You blessed
Jesus is Lord!
( April 29,2015)
The concept of "delay" revolves around man's expectation of certain things within the framework of his own timing. Thus, someone who is approaching a certain age and not married starts talking about marital delay. Same for childbirth, and other earthly "achievements".
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