One of the most devastating lies told by the enemy to mankind is that you can change your spouse in marriage. Many people enter the institute of marriage believing that the current state of their relationship will get better because they will have the time and access to their spouse, to mold them into the person they wish to become. Sadly, generational curses have been formed especially with the female gender as grandmothers, mothers, and daughters have heard that they will have to train their husbands. God, is His infinite Wisdom and Omnipotence does not try to change natural man. Natural man will always default to his evil and wicked heart. God knew the only way a man could change (be sanctified (made holy)) would be to infuse His Spirit into man. Then it would take a life long process to conform man into the image of Christ. Only God can sanctify a man or woman and if you are a husband or wife who has found Christ and wish for your spouse to do the same your job is to PRAY for them and have other saints PRAYING for them. That spouse HAS to want to come on their own to the Cross. If God gives us free Will and allows us to choose Him and His salvation, how can we then turn and force someone to conform to our will. The devil knows that a marriage founded on the basis of one or both spouses trying to change the other will not reflect Christ's love for the Church to the world. Ultimately in each one of our marriages just like with our personal walks with Christ, we will either encourage people to come to God or hinder people from coming to God. The two greatest decisions made in this life will be who you choose to serve, either God or Satan, and who you will enter into the covenant of marriage with. The first choice, you will live with for eternity, and the second, is meant until death separates you. The foundation of marriage has to be pure and built on the truth of Christ and God's Word!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of enjoying Marriage on purpose!!!!!
Ephesians 5
Marriage—Christ and the Church
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 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. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body,[d] of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”[e] 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 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.
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