{"id":18777,"date":"2026-04-11T22:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=18777"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:36:17","slug":"marriage-marital-relationship-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/marriage-marital-relationship-5\/","title":{"rendered":"MARRIAGE – MARITAL RELATIONSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MARRIAGE – MARITAL RELATIONSHIP: IT’S A CALLING IN THE GRACE – ABOUNDING WITH FAVOUR AND BLESSEDNESS!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Finally, all of\u00a0you\u00a0be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; 9 not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary BLESSING, knowing that\u00a0you\u00a0were CALLED to this, that\u00a0you\u00a0may INHERIT A BLESSING”<\/i>\u00a01 Peter 3:8-9.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Being married to the one\u00a0you\u00a0love and loving the one\u00a0you\u00a0marry –\u00a0it’s\u00a0a GRACIOUS and GRACEFUL place to be in the marital grace; this is\u00a0in order to\u00a0obtain and enjoy the\u00a0promised\u00a0FAVOUR and BLESSEDNESS when\u00a0you\u00a0find\u00a0your spouse. This is as written:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Whoso FINDETH a wife\u00a0findeth\u00a0a GOOD thing, and\u00a0obtaineth\u00a0FAVOUR of the Lord”\u00a0<\/i>Proverbs 18:22.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, are\u00a0you\u00a0MARRIED? If YES – Know for good that\u00a0you\u00a0are CALLED to INHERIT A BLESSING; that is, as being heirs together in the sharing of the common GRACE of life in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.\u00a01 Peter 3:7-12.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Marriage in Christ Jesus stead and stand, is not a CURSE thing; and more so,\u00a0it’s\u00a0not a CURSED relationship as many may have attributed to the consequences of Adam and Eve. This is when\u00a0you\u00a0hold dearly and steadfastly to\u00a0uphold strongly\u00a0the context of the New Creation SCRIPTURAL TRUTH of the Holy Writ of God as written in the Holy writ of\u00a01 Peter 3:7-12.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For in REDEMPTION, Christ Jesus has REDEEMED us and RESTORED us to the marital BLESSEDNESS of God that enriches all. Know therefore , that\u00a0your\u00a0MARRIAGE though may be going through challenges, is not a CURSE affair anymore in Christ Jesus stead; and it’s not CURSED to become one any time and any day but rather it’s a place of BLESSING and BLESSEDNESS in the grace, to INHERIT a BLESSING in Christ Jesus stead.\u00a0[1 Peter 3:7-12; Ephesians 1:3; Romans 5:1-2, 12-21; Galatians 3:13-14, 26-29].\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And whatever\u00a0you\u00a0are seeing in\u00a0your marriage or about marriages, or be thinking or be watching from\u00a0your own grandstand on marital stands, or that\u00a0you\u00a0are knowingly living and experiencing, in respect of marital difficulties and challenges, could be due to either or both of the spouses living in ignorance or stupidities or foolishness on the marital scriptural context.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And having marital challenges on any ground, that\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0necessarily make God’s WORD and God’s scriptural stand in marriage to become\u00a0inoperative and ineffective\u00a0and impractical. For in God, the promises and BLESSEDNESS toward marriage as in any of His promises are YES and YES and sealed by the Holy Spirit in the grace, and it’s without a NO in it; and the marital life in God’s YES, is touchable, reachable, loveable,\u00a0liveable\u00a0and tangible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“But as God is faithful, our word to\u00a0you\u00a0was not Yes and No. 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among\u00a0you\u00a0by us\u2014by me, Silvanus, and Timothy\u2014was not YES and NO, but in Him was YES. 20 For all the promises of God in Him are YES, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. 21 Now He who\u00a0establishes\u00a0us with\u00a0you\u00a0in Christ and has anointed us is God, 22 who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee”<\/i>\u00a02 Corinthians 1:18-22.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that\u00a0creepeth\u00a0upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; MALE and FEMALE created He THEM. 28 And God BLESSED THEM, and God said unto them, Be FRUITFUL, and MULTIPLY, and REPLENISH the earth, and SUBDUE it: and have DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that\u00a0moveth\u00a0upon the earth”<\/i>\u00a0Genesis 1:26-28.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I know most people think that all that matters is marital love,\u00a0without knowing that love alone\u00a0can’t\u00a0keep and sustain marriage without the process that makes marriage\u00a0work. This is why I teach people that\u00a0you\u00a0might have met and married by love, but\u00a0you\u00a0can’t LIVE and SUSTAIN marriage by just LOVE alone without the other\u00a0ingredients\u00a0of doing life and living godly in the grace; meaning, one needs to do life in marriage by WISDOM – which is the application of knowledge, [KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING] in the Scriptural context of marriage in the grace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“GOOD UNDERSTANDING giveth FAVOUR: but the way of TRANSGRESSORS is HARD [DIFFICULT, CHALLENGING]<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 13:15\/Emphasis Mine.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“The man that WANDERETH out of THE WAY of UNDERSTANDING shall REMAIN in the CONGREGATION of the DEAD (LOVELESSNESS, UNPRODUCTIVE, INACTIVENESS)”<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 21:16\/Emphasis Mine.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Apostle Peter even charges\u00a0the husbands to deal and dwell with\u00a0your wives by KNOWLEDGE [some translations\u00a0say\u00a0by UNDERSTANDING] in order to avoid marital crisis – hence, I can say emphatically to anyone\u00a0that\u00a0your marital dealing is not by wisdom when anyone,\u00a0supposedly under God, decides to build up their marriage on MUNDANE things to keep their spouse happy. Such acts\u00a0are\u00a0temporary, and such mundane things are limited and subject to change with time; and are prone to failure, and more so, because of the human factors involved, that oppose\u00a0God’s scriptural context upon which the marital stand of the BLESSEDNESS of God is built upon in the grace. For\u00a0its\u00a0written:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“WISDOM is the PRINCIPAL thing;\u00a0therefore\u00a0get wisdom: and with all thy GETTING get UNDERSTANDING”<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 4:7.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Likewise, ye husbands, DWELL WITH THEM ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE, giving HONOUR unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being HEIRS together of the GRACE of life; that\u00a0your PRAYERS BE NOT Hindered”\u00a0<\/i>1 Peter 3:7.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Through WISDOM is\u00a0an\u00a0house BUILDED; and by UNDERSTANDING it is ESTABLISHED: 4 and by KNOWLEDGE shall the chambers be FILLED with all precious and pleasant riches”<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 24:3-4.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Every WISE woman BUILDETH her house: but the FOOLISH\u00a0plucketh\u00a0it down with her hands”<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 14:2.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“For WISDOM is a DEFENCE, and MONEY is a DEFENCE: but the EXCELLENCY OF KNOWLEDGE is, that WISDOM GIVETH LIFE to them that have it”<\/i>\u00a0Ecclesiastes 7:12.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“\u00a0Who is as the WISE man? and who\u00a0knoweth\u00a0the interpretation of a thing? a man\u2019s WISDOM maketh his face to SHINE, and the BOLDNESS of his face shall be changed”<\/i>\u00a0Ecclesiastes 8:1.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Henceforth, be RESOLVED\u00a0with a changed\u00a0heart\u00a0towards\u00a0your spouse today and\u00a0every day\u00a0in\u00a0every way. Love\u00a0your spouse in grace and live through wisdom to ensure the working of the marriage and marital stand by God in Christ Jesus\u2019\u00a0stead. Amen. For\u00a0it’s\u00a0what\u00a0you\u00a0PICTURE in the light of the scriptures and scriptural context in marriage and marital stand, that becomes\u00a0your marital FUTURE.\u00a0The REDEMPTION DEED OF CHRIST\u00a0has\u00a0settled once for all time,\u00a0for all, the enabling marital grace, and to share in God’s GRACE and BLESSEDNESS in Him with each other in love.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, I say to\u00a0you\u00a0and all:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay BLESSED!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Remain\u00a0BLESSED!!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And be BLESSED in all regards in\u00a0every way\u00a0in Christ Jesus stead in God’s BLESSEDNESS. Amen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Whoso FINDETH a wife\u00a0findeth\u00a0a GOOD thing, and\u00a0obtaineth\u00a0FAVOUR of the Lord”<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 18:22.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“. . . 7 Likewise, ye husbands, DWELL WITH THEM ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE, giving HONOUR unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that\u00a0your PRAYERS BE NOT HINDERED.8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise BLESSING; KNOWING that ye are thereunto CALLED, that ye should INHERIT A BLESSING. 10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him\u00a0refrain his tongue\u00a0from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11 let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil”\u00a0<\/i>1 Peter 3:1-12.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“THE BLESSING OF THE LORD, IT MAKETH RICH, and he ADDETH NO SORROW with it”<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 10:22.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED US with all SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS in heavenly places in Christ”<\/i>\u00a0Ephesians 1:3.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Christ hath REDEEMED us from the CURSE of the law, being MADE A CURSE for us: for it is written, CURSED is every one that\u00a0hangeth\u00a0on a tree: 14 that THE BLESSING of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might RECEIVE THE PROMISE of the Spirit through faith”<\/i>\u00a0Galatians 3:13-14.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“God is FAITHFUL, by whom ye were CALLED unto the FELLOWSHIP of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord”<\/i>\u00a01 Corinthians 1:9.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“And we know that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER for good to them that LOVE God, to them who are the CALLED according to HIS PURPOSE”\u00a0<\/i>Romans 8:28.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“Every WISE woman BUILDETH her house: but the FOOLISH\u00a0plucketh\u00a0it down with her hands”<\/i>\u00a0Proverbs 14:1.<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“My people are DESTROYED for LACK OF KNOWLEDGE: because thou hast REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I will also REJECT\u00a0thee,that\u00a0thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children”<\/i>\u00a0Hosea 4:6 [Isaiah 5:13-15].<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SUMMARY:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The message\u00a0emphasises\u00a0that marriage is a calling in the grace of God, abounding with\u00a0favour\u00a0and blessedness. It encourages married couples to understand that their relationship is not just about love, but also about living in wisdom and applying knowledge and understanding in the scriptural context of marriage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The message highlights the importance of husbands dwelling with their wives according to knowledge, giving\u00a0honour\u00a0to their wives as heirs together of the grace of life\u00a0(1 Peter 3:7)<\/b>. It warns that building a marriage on mundane things will lead to failure and encourages couples to build their marriage on God’s word and wisdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The message reminds couples that they are called to inherit a blessing and that God’s promises are\u00a0Yes and\u00a0Amen in Christ Jesus\u00a0(2 Corinthians 1:18-22)<\/b>. It encourages them to picture their marital future in the light of scriptures and scriptural context, and to stay blessed and remain blessed in all regards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Key points:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n