Today's Prayer Alert 01-26-2011

  • Jan 26, 2011
  • Bob Willhite
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

Do you have a covenant commitment with Almighty God?

Marriage is NOT just a legal contract between one man and one woman!  Marriage is NOT just an oral pack that promises certain concepts to one another like “forsaking all others” and “until death do we part”.  Marriage is ordained by Almighty God as a covenant commitment, a tri-party agreement that has profound consequences for ALL parties involved. Whenever I am in trouble, we all are in trouble. Whenever I am delighted with goodness and mercies, we all are receiving benefits and blessings. What the Lord our God has joined together, let no man put asunder!

Most ministers usually say, “We are gathered together in the Presence of Almighty God and these witnesses. If anyone has a just cause why these two people should NOT be joined together in Holy Matrimony, let them speak now or forever hold their peace”!  Now we process a covenant commitment between one man and one woman as God design His Creation to be on earth.

Are you totally serious about your professions of Faith and the length of your pledge?

Are you willing to sacrifice your personal comforts to meet the needs of the other?

By whose and what Authority and governance are you making this covenant?

What symbol or token are you presenting to bestow on the other as a sign of covenant?

How will the Lord our God and these witnesses know that your promises will be kept?

How can we discern the true heart of each person in this three way agreement?

Heavenly Father, we as the Church Universal, as the Bride of Christ, have this eager anticipation of Christ Jesus our Lord, returning to earth to take His Loving Bride to that place that He has prepared for us to Rule and Reign with Him!   We may not know the day nor the hour, but we have this confidence within us to always. We are to fulfill the great commission that Jesus spoke of as He ascended into Heaven more than 2,000 years ago. Help us dear Lord to treat every woman that we encounter as Your Daughter, no matter her age. Show us dear Lord how to respect and honor each man as Your Son that is made in Your Image. We only make this covenant commitment with ONE GOD, just the way that You intended this to be as our ABBA – Father of us all!  Amen and Amen!

The scriptural reference for Today’s Prayer Alert is  Ephesians 5:25-33

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loves the Church and gave Himself for Her, that He might sanctify and cleanse Her with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present Her to Himself a Glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be Holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the Church. For we are all members of His Body, of His Flesh and of His Bones.  {bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh} Genesis 2:23

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.  Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Amen and Amen!