May 25th , 2017
God's Word Shines Visible or Invisible Light on Our Path often Paved with Dark Danger Unknown
Posted by Ambassador T. Brikins
Supernatural Secrets of Successful Marriage 3
...The Power of Word Pictures and Power of the Word
We can realize our dreams in marriage. But dreams require actions or engagement of relevant knowledge. About three years ago, a grandmother approached me to narrate her marital pain. She had been married for about thirty years. The marriage was blessed with male and female children who at the time were University graduates and in good employment.
To her surprise, her husband who is an ordained minister married another woman and brought her to the matrimonial home. This was on for about twelve years when she narrated this story to me.
My advice was simple but I made her realize that believing is an active verb that does something and it is also work.
I commended her to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build a marriage up, and to give her a blissful marriage inheritance among all of them which are sanctified. (Acts 20:32)
She was made to focus, imagine, confess, meditate, pray and praise God for His word concerning marriage. She carried the vision of a blissful Edenic marriage despising the urgly reality in her home. She never let go from her consciousness the pictures the word showed neither did she waver but maintained absolute believe in the power that word of God carries.
Three years later her marriage was restored as she desired. The other woman left.
6. WORD PICTURE help
us to know and comprehend messages in the Bible. The ignorance of these word pictures
could lead to wrong and dangerous conclusions. They are so important that
Christ 50 in the Sermon on the Mount. Almost like a simile word picture
compares one concept with another. The concept that is compared is called the
topic, and the concept it is compared with, is called the image. The comparison
between the concepts is the point of similarity. These three elements are
fundamental to understand meaning of a message. Because God’s Word is the ultimate recipe for
success in marriage, He uses word picture to highlight and express the
importance of His words which are indeed laws. Pictures help us to imagine,
conceive of; see in our minds or visualize an abstract idea. The Word there is
a LAMP to our feet and a light to
our path. Psalm 119:105. Where there is confusion or dilemma in marriage, the
word will throw light or answer to show what to do. In Malachy 2:14, the Word
Picture portrays God as the witness to a marriage. ‘’Yet you ask, why does He
reject it? Because the Lord was [witness to the Covenant made at your marriage]
between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt
treacherously and to whom you were faithless…’’
7. The Word
is also like RAIN that produces
fruit.’’ For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not
return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes
from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing
for which I sent it’’. Isaiah 55:10-11. We see the dark rolling cloud.
We see the flashing lightening. We hear the rolling thunder. We hear, see and
feel the stormy rain. Then it percolates down and begins the work of watering
the earth and making it to bring fruit and bud. Like the rain we do not see the
word working, its working in our marriage when we believe and does what it
instructs to be done.
8. The word
is SEED. ’’The sower sows the
word’’. Mark 4:14. The word grows like plant showing its fruits in our marriage. The farmer sows the seed
and goes home to do other things. He or she is restful because he or she knows
it will bud. In the same manner, we need to be restful as we do the word in our
marriage situation.
9. The word
is a CONSUMING FIRE. ’’...Behold I
will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood and it shall devour
them’’. Jeremiah 5:14. The word of God contains unseen fire that consumes hindrance in marriage. A hindrance may be seen
or unseen, known or unknown but God’s
word which is spirit can consume hindrance out of existence. The responsibility to make the word into a consuming fire belongs to
God and our responsibility is to believe. As Abraham we must be fully convinced
that what God had promised He is also able to perform. He says, ‘’Behold I will make my words in
your mouth fire…’’. I will, He says, so don’t take His place.
10. The word
is SWORD
‘’…take the sword of the Spirit; which is the word of God’’. Ephesians 6:17. This sword of the Spirit is
two-edged which possesses a cutting or thrusting ability
like blades or any sharp implement to cut and slice issues in the spiritual and
physical realms that may be fighting against our marriage.
11. The word
is HAMMER. The word is like hammer
that breaks rocks in pieces. Jeremiah 23:29. The will shatter like the hammer
shatters the rock any problem in marriage that may have may have consolidated
and compounded.
12. Apart from
the word being pictures to aid our understanding, it has tremendous POWER within it to create or frame our
desire in marriage. ‘’By the word of the Lord the heavens were made and by
faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the
things which are seen were not made of things which are visible’’. Psalm 33:6
and Hebrews 11:3. The fundamental raw material for the creation of anything is
the word of God. When God told Abraham he will have a child at an extremely old
age, his body neither the natural deadness of Sarah’s womb did not matter.
13. SUSTAINANCE. God keeps and maintains
all things by the word of His power. Hebrews 1:3. No wonder He exalts His word
above His Name.
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14. HEALING. He sent His word and healed
them, and delivered them from their destructions. Psalm 107:20. This scripture
is the title of Pastor Faith Oyedepo, Bishop David Oyedepo (Living Faith Church
World Wide, a.k.a. Winners’ Carpel) wife’s book, Delivered from Destruction The book is a testament of how her life
was saved from destruction by a debilitating ailment that paralysed her body.
Indeed God’s word is life and health to our flesh. Proverbs 4:22
15. JUDGE OUR HEARTS. ‘‘For the word of God
is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to
the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerned
of the thoughts and intents of the heart.’’ Hebrew 4:12. The need for a clear
conscience in marriage cannot be overemphasized and it is only God’s word that
can do this without coercion or force.
Spiritual Combat is not ignored even in the battlefield
16. The only enemy the Bible calls our adversary
is Satan. The word has power to COMBAT Satan. ’’And take the helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;’ Ephesians
6:17. This was clearly indicated when Jesus Christ was tempted by satan in the
wilderness. His combating weapon was, ‘’it is written’’.
17. The CHARACTERISTICS or distinguishing
quality of God’s Word. God’s word is true and reliable. ‘‘And now, O Lord God,
You are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this goodness to
your servant. Sanctify them by your word, your word is truth. Then the woman said
to Elijah, ‘Now by this I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of
the Lord in your mouth is the truth’.2 Samuel 7:28; John 17:17 and 1kings
17:24. This statement was made by the woman whose child died and Elijah
commanded that the child’s soul be delivered back. And the child came back to
life.
18. It is LIVING & ACTIVE.’’ It is the Spirit
who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are
spirit, and they are life’’.John6:63. The Command of the President of any nation
either in speech, letter or book forms is as powerful as his presence. The word
of God in a hard copy Bible is God’s word in print. He speaks to us and to our
situation in marriage with the power of His Omnipresence, Omniscience and
Omnipotent presence.
How We Experience
the Purpose of Marriage through the Power of God’s Word?
19. It is
mandatory that we HEAR the word of
God. ‘’ But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, ‘Lord, who
has believed our report?’ So, then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the
word of God’’. Romans 10:16, 17. It is impossible to get anything from God
without faith and faith cannot come until we hear the word of God.
20. We must
also UNDERSTAND the word. ‘‘But he who received seed on the
good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit
and produces: some a hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty.’ Mathew 13:23. The
result we get from God’s word is determined by the measure or attention and
action we give to it. This is further enhanced by the Blood of Jesus that
breaks off every seal of ignorance and blindness in our minds.
21. RECEIVE & BELIEVE the word. ‘’Then those who gladly received the word were baptized; and
that day about three thousand souls were added to them. For this reason we also
thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you
heard from us, you welcomed it not as
the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively
works in you who believe’’. ‘’And she said, ‘let your maid servant find favour
in your sight’’. So the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad’
’Acts 2:41; 1Thessalonians 2:13. 1 Samuel 1:18. The word of God is inspired by the Holy
Spirit. It is different from man’s word. It only works when we believe and do
its instructions.
22. TRUST
in the word.’’ For I trust in your word’’. Psalm 119:42. Confidence,
faith, expectation, wish, hope, desire. Our trust in the word must be absolute
irrespective of the experience in marriage.
23. HOPE. ‘‘For I wait for the Lord, my
soul waits, and in His word I do hope’’. Psalm 130:5. We must be expecting and
wishing that the word will deliver our desires because He that gave it cannot
lie and He does not think the way we think and He is more than capable to do
whatever He says beyond what we can imagine.
24. ACTIVE PRAISE. ‘‘In God (I will praise His word), in God I
have put my trust; I will not fear. What can flesh do to me?’’
25. LIVE
according to the word. ‘‘How can a young man cleanse his way? By
taking heed according to your word’’. Psalm 119:9. We should design our living
style on the word.
26. DO the word. ‘’But be doers of the
word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of
the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a
mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind
of man he was,. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues
in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be
blessed in what he does’’. James 1:22-24.
We can realize our dreams in marriage. But dreams require actions or engagement of relevant knowledge. A few years back a grandmother approached me to tell narrate her marital
pain. She had been married for about
thirty years. They were blessed with
male and female children who at the time were University graduates and in good
employment.
To her surprise, her
husband who is an ordained minister married another woman and brought her
to the matrimonial home. This was on for about twelve years when she narrated
this story to me.
My advice was simple but I make her believe that believing
is an active verb that does something and it is also work.
I commended her to God, and to the word of His grace, which
is able to build a marriage up, and to give her a blissful marriage inheritance
among all of them which are sanctified. (Acts 20:32)
She was made to focus, imagine, confess, meditate, pray and
praise God for His word concerning marriage. She never let go from her
consciousness the pictures the word
showed neither did she waver but maintained absolute believe in the
power the word carries.
Three years later her marriage was restored as she desired.
Marriage is a supernatural union of a man and a woman coming
together to become one in all things. The surest way to experience success in marriage is to understand the
purpose, character and power of God’s word concerning marriage
and to maintain and to hold on to it until it accomplices its purpose.
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