{"id":214,"date":"2009-07-25T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T20:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=214"},"modified":"2011-04-22T23:26:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T23:26:22","slug":"marriage-family-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/marriage-family-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage: A Covenant of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Hebrew 13:4a &quot;Marriage is honourable in all ...&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Marriage.jpg\" alt=\"Marriage is Honourable\" width=\"194\" height=\"240\" \/><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Prov. 20:6 <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">But who can find a<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"> Faithful man? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Prov. 31:10 &#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Who can find a Virtuous wife?<\/span> For her worth is far above rubies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Heb. 13:4 &#8221;<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Marriage is Honourable among all,<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> and the bed undefiled<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"> . . .<\/span>&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Marriage is God&#8217;s:<\/span> A place of reverence, love, faithfulness and trust in His Church. A covenant bestowed with Honour, dignity and integrity. God made it a covenant and not a mere contract, for the good of mankind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Marriage is made to be favourable, admirable and blessed to be a blessing &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">it&#8217;s not a curse or necessary evil.<\/span> Marriage is made male and female, also, for a man and woman &#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">not for boys and girls.<\/span> Success in marriage is an act of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">wisdom <\/span>&#8211; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">knowledge and understanding<\/span> &#8211; to make it work, endeavouring to maintain it&#8217;s worth; It involves falling in love many times and always with the same person; It&#8217;s more than finding the right person &#8211; it&#8217;s being the right person: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Looking for a <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Faithful Man<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">? <\/span>Are you a <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Virtuous Woman?<\/span> Marriage is worth celebrating &#8211; <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">there <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8211;<\/span> God bestowed Honour, Dignity and Blessings. Marriage is far more than having a child or children or worldly goods in essence<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> &#8211; It&#8217;s a covenant of grace for God&#8217;s glory<\/span> and the blessings of mankind. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Amen!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bible Search:<\/span> (Genesis 1:27-28; 2:18-22; 24:49-67; Proverbs 18:22; 20:6; 31:10-31; Song of Solomon 7; 8:6-7; Ephesians 5:21-33; 1 Peter 3:1-12; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Corinthians 13; Malachi 2:14-16; Matthew 19:1-10)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prov. 20:6 &#8221;Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, But who can find a Faithful man? &#8221; Prov. 31:10 &#8221;Who can find a Virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies&#8221; Heb. 13:4 &#8221;Marriage is Honourable among all, and the bed undefiled . . .&#8221; Marriage is God&#8217;s: A place of reverence, love, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[7,228,125,226,225,245,227,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marriage-and-family-life","7":"tag-add-new-tag","8":"tag-husband","9":"tag-love","10":"tag-marriage","11":"tag-proverbs-31","12":"tag-virtuous-woman","13":"tag-wife","14":"tag-wisdom","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}