Marriage Problems - You Can Laugh At Them If You Follow This Simple Spiritual Plan - part 1
by Elisha Goodman
As I glanced in my rearview mirror, I could see the huge red fire truck bearing down on me... lights flashing aggressively.
Hastily, I made it out of the way just in time.
But then something odd struck me... the sirens were not blaring. There wasn't an emergency. What was going on?
Then I looked closely. And what I saw?
A lovely young girl with hair like burnished gold... maybe 19, 21, dressed in sparkling white bridal garment... along with a sharply dressed, smiling young man. Holding hands together and standing in the back of the open-air truck they were waving and smiling at the crowd.
Whoa! This young couple newly married just hired a fire truck for the evening drive around town!
I joined the crowd and waved back. The spectacle just brightened the whole place and drew smiles of joy from the face of everyone.
At that moment it dawned on me what a precious joyful thing marriage was designed to be.
This was 6:15pm Thursday evening.
Another Time, Another Place
Different set of people.
By 7 am Sunday morning in church I was jolted back to hard cold reality... like someone poured a bucket of ice-cold water on me.
It happened when I innocently asked a brother how his family was doing ...
"She's gone... walked out on me with the kids," came the sad reply.
"Y...you m..mean..." I stammered trying to contain my shock. Not these ones. They always seemed so happy... always smiling.
"She just said she felt like she was in prison or something. Packed up with our 2 kids and left for Arizona," he said sighing wearily.
Then a thought struck me.
"I'm so sorry to hear that." I began.
"That's okay, thanks," he said.
"Excuse me for asking this...is there any pattern like this in your family... or hers?"
"Not mine," he said gently but firmly, "in her family no one stays married for long."
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Before that week was over I had heard of 5 more similar cases.
What could be going wrong?
Shocking Revelations
In our ministry years back we did an in-depth spiritual research into disintegrating marriages and up came certain shocking revelations.
Some of them were not pretty.
In fact, the enemy starts with one of the oldest and most successful strategies in the book - confusion of tongues.
For students of the Bible, this dreaded weapon was first used by God Himself against the builders of the tower of babel in Genesis 11.
It is such an effective weapon that it can create suspicion, misunderstanding and general confusion in a marriage... in no time at all.
It begins when the husband and wife start to disagree on practically everything... no one is listening to the other and before long communication breaks down... then the enemy unleashes other dangerous weapons.
So we leant to pray the prayer of the psalmist, "O Lord, divide the tongues of all those targeting my marriage for destruction." - see Ps 55:9.
In these marriages, we also uncovered a pattern of:
* breakup or divorce either in the husband's family or on the wife's side or both.
* marital problems transferred from one generation to another... using such vehicles as unbroken curses and unknown covenants.
* hidden spiritual marriages in place.
* invisible marks of hatred placed on the husband or wife. This makes one repulsive to the other and vice versa - after only a few years of marriage.
* warning signals ignored or simply not understood. Sometimes these warnings came through dreams.
etc.
To give you an example, once we found a man who was deeply in love with his wife - for 6 months.
Then all of a sudden he couldn't stand the sight of her. No one could think of anything wrong that she had done.
Eventually he walked out on her.
She went for counseling... no solution.
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Marriage Problems - You Can Laugh At Them If You Follow This Simple Spiritual Plan
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