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I want to spend my life with you
02/18/2008 14:21:07 / In love
I want to spend my life with you
By Bro. R Williams Genesis 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Genesis 2:25The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. 1 Peter 3:1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 1 Peter 3:7Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. Colossians 3:9Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Colossians 3:18[Rules for Christian Households] Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Acts 21:5But when our time was up, we left and continued on our way. All the disciples and their wives and children accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray. 1 Corinthians 7:29What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; Ephesians 5:22[Wives and Husbands] Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. Ephesians 5:24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Matthew 5:32But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery. Mark 10:5-9"It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," Jesus replied. 6 "But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'[a]7 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b]8 and the two will become one flesh.'[c]So they are no longer two, but one. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."Thank you Holy Spirit face="Times New Roman" size=3> ---------- The Bible is the most resourceful to all answers and walk to life. When reading the Bible when it comes to areas of relationship are we pulling the truth for what we are looking for?It is designed to be a tool to understand who God is as a Father and what his son Jesus Christ means to us. We are not just reading the bible to become so supernatural that we can do things that can make a crowd go whoa. We are not reading the bible so we can become people who wear tunics, robes, ride donkeys, and wear sandals everywhere. We read the bible to help us have a relationship with God, which is the most important relationship to ever have. God has placed us in a world where relationship accompanies everything that we do. The first one being God, the secondary being if so, marital, the third being family, the fourth is fellowship with friends, workplaces, church, and people in general. Each relationship requires a certain level of intimacy of who we are in communication to who they are to us. God, in any relationship should and will always be first because he is the Father of all mankind. He is the creator. Any good thing is of him because he is love. He is both external and both internal residing over us in the heavens and abiding in us through the Lord Jesus. Yet how many people are really looking to have a relationship with GOD, first.Or rather, how many believe that with GOD all things are possible? Well why does it matter? How can you love or live with someone unless you understand what the purpose God ordained for you to them is?The second question is how can we even understand relationship unless we seek to understand what it is? Many people rely on experiences to orchestrate their wisdom to project their future. But God wisdom will never fail or be tainted it will always be pure. The bible says God word will never come back void. When a person begins to base everything off of experiences and his own personal reality it becomes more Atheism than Christianity. Atheists will believe that all aspects of life is by chance what is or is not, than faith in God. Reasoning that in everything that happens there is no God or Gods.God created us in love to be the best relational people in the world. God did not create us to become pagan idols that the world views as the relationships to seek to have. Such as: Prince Charming, Hollywood scripted men and women, sugar daddies, Superwoman, Superman, Pimps, Prostitutes, Mr. and Mrs. Independent. These imaginary factions of God true purpose have distorted the ideal of Man and Woman becoming a pop culture fable of examples to pass on to each generation. That is why we can look on the media in such disgust because we have seen that the belief in such things have an inevitable end into destruction. That why the history of man outside of the Love of God generally was in turmoil, death, lack, and depravation. God, ordained for each man and woman to become a MAN of GOD and a WOMAN of GOD, in retrospect being children of the Most High God. We are not people who just do because we want to; we are people that ARE according to a design before we were ever conceived. God designed Man and Woman to be vessels of him and his likeness to every order of man, animal, and environment. Therefore we become a person that is an example of GOD in us, which is the purest of all love, that when we interact with all things we exhort nothing but HIM through us. His love, his view, his order, his comfort, his authority and such is the citizen of the Kingdom of God. There are millions of single people in the world. There have been millions of divorces, and even such broken relationships among friends, churches, and family. One of the most possible answers to why there is so much failure in relationships is because there is failure of understanding what relationships we are supposed to have. If it is outside the principles of the word of God it will not work. That concludes that we also don have to know all of it to even find a great relationship. We need to keep seeking after GOD in relationship and all things will be added unto us by faith.What are examples of single relationships with God?Adam, when created, was the first person to ever have a relationship with GOD. He was not only set on this earth in relationship with God, but also in relationship with all things that God created. It wasn until God realized there was no mate of his KIND, that GOD chose the idea for him to have a wife that as Adam stated is of my flesh and bone of my bone. If Adam would have had a relationship with EVE before he knew the direction of what GOD wanted from him. How would he know where they are to go and how to have relationship with all things around them? How could they function in accordance to the order in which they were made? How could they even bear the faith that it would work out? This wouldn support the idea that God loves his children dearly. God created an environment, he created the content of the environment, he set ordinances to all things, he created man, and he gave orders to man. In this love Adam knew, what God wanted from him, what he was to do, what his identity was, and what he needed to do to perform it. Paul, who was converted from Saul, was another person in the bible who was single all of his life and given the ability to do so according to the calling and grace from God. He, like Elijah and John the Baptist, were never married. So in all that Paul did was in accordance to the relationship through Jesus, to God the father. Through such the work of God in his life and the knowing that God was always with him never allowed Paul to feel abandoned or alone. The same such was Jesus. Though never married they never desired to be. Their desire was to be with God in devotion and in all that they did. In essence Paul, Elijah, and John the Baptist became married into fulfilling the Will of God. Jesus was one with God.We can further conclude that before even being married to a person that you will be with for life. That one special person that you believe is the one. We must be husbands and wives to God by spirit and purpose. This is his order. Where does the idea of even finding the ONE come from? According to the bible there was one person that ever by GOD was found directly for that specific person. Eve was created from a rib, not only being his wife, but the entire female gender was through her. In the book of Ruth, Ruth husband came by gleaning in the field by the unction of the Lord. David had many wives. But, Isaac was a special person whose wife was sought after by the faith and command of his father. This ONE that he would marry would be among his relatives carrying the name and revelry of a family..as was Old testament tradition. His father sent his faithful servant out on a journey to a place he knew great people dwell to find this woman. He didn just get any person, but he received by faith a chosen one from God. This is our case now that many of us try to marry anything that looks well and seems well to our understanding. When we are looking for that person to marry we look among the wrong people. Some use worldly wisdom believing of the diamond in the rough attitude. But what environment and standard of living will that diamond shine in? However, God wisdom is different because he tells us not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14. So the first answer to this search is, is this person or place I am seeking to have a relationship with a believer like me?There was a sign from God that this woman who would be Isaac would give his servant a drink of water and feed his camels. So the servant prepared himself and left. Coming into agreement with the choice of his master and praying to the Lord on being able to find this person. And by how she responded in conversation knowing that this would be the one he was looking for. The servant came upon Mesopotamia and met a beautiful woman while he was standing by a well. A woman arrived with a jar to draw water. Something that he did that is different to a lot of men today is that he chose not to react to his natural sight. She then fulfilled his prayer that after giving him water addressed to go feed his camels. The wisdom from this is that though by perceptively seeing, the servant when he felt he met the person he suspected he her to see all that she did to make sure she was from the Lord. By such, when it was fulfilled the servant bowed down low and worshipped the mighty God. Genesis 24:50 Laban and Bethuel answered, "This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other. 51 Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has directed." , She eventually became the mother of both Esau and Jacob, which Jacob would become the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. This tale also reveals the principle that what God will put together will fit alongside his purpose. Leading into why also says God put together let no man put asunder. The third aspect of all relationships is what is the the spirit behind it? God is a holy God therefore he will lead you into a life of holiness, righteousness, and truth. We as man have a sinful nature that wars against our spirit. That is why many of us enter in relationships based off of our lust than our spirit. Then after a couple months of marriage there is a sense of distance because the high of natural desire fades. The trick of the enemy is to allow your desires to over exceed your contentment. This is why materialism is so great in many countries of lack. In relationships how can we mingle and attract the things of God if we don allow the light in us to attract it? When God created the animals for mate the Lion was to the Lion, the ape to ape God separated Day and Night. This is such with our enemy that steals and kills relationships anything he can. God is not a thief, a murderer, or darkness. Therefore if we live a life accompanying darkness how can we ever see ourselves with someone of light? How can we have a perspective of what is good? How can we fellowship we like persons if we are not of such. The two wouldn abide. The same as this world we live in. The Bible says that we should be in the world and not of it. Well in this relationship with God we in the Body of Christ, are in it to live and be standards for the world to learn.Paul says once follow me, as I follow Christ.In conclusion, nowadays things are different. Some people still believe as back then and some don Some people look outside of the church on their own wisdom and some are seeking God for their relationships. However, we are still having a lot of failures as a body as a whole when Jesus set the example for us to overcome all things. We are in a conscious awareness of God as Isaacs time where we still live by spoken word and faith. We are not under the Law of Moses anymore. But, we are now living life under the Grace through the redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ. This now means that God can still give us signs and do miraculous things but it will all be by his spirit. It will be by the Holy Spirit that abides in us and around us. His spirit will lead us into all truth, proper relationships, and examples in your life that glorifies HIM. The purpose of every test in marriage and test as a single with God is that he will get the glory. He deserves the glory. Jesus said to a person that was blind that people assumed it was by sin that it was for the of God. And if such then we have a unified purpose in both marriage and in single life that everything we do GOD should get the glory. In such, we are not by our will but by his will. We are one in accordance by him but we are give grace as much as we honor him.
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