“The point of marriage isn’t marriage.
It’s a picture.
A display.
A window that you look through to something else.
A marriage has a mission.”
“When we go to a wedding, maybe we’re so moved because we want this new couple to succeed. We intuitively know that their ‘success’ is somehow tied to ours. Their making of love makes the world a better place to live, a place where there is more love for all of us. Maybe this is why we always notice great marriages. When their love is growing, it inspires us. Their life together gives us life.”Rob Bell
If you have been praying one day or many, for Kingdom Marriages, let me encourage you with some great news! Several people who have prayed with 1 + 1 = One have recently been married or will be walking down the aisle in the next few months. CONGRATULATIONS to all!
Last weekend I was privileged to witness the exchanging of vows for Shannon and Scott B (they eloped a month before.) As I watched and listened to the ceremony, it was clear that the joining of Shannon and Scott was designed by God for His divine purposes. Not only is their marriage a blessing for each of them individually, but they have a mission to fulfill together that they cannot accomplish apart. Shannon and Scott pressed through the many obstacles and nay-sayers, and they told the hindering mountains to move, trusting that God had brought them together, for such a time as this.
Friends and family together blessed the couple, and I was sincerely rejoicing for them and with them. I must admit to the tension between the joy i felt for this marriage, and the pang in my heart from a break up two months earlier. Perhaps this is familiar to you too. I saw two of my dear unmarried friends near the front, and wondered if they were feeling the same tension, because I know they are both hoping and praying for their Kingdom man to show up soon. We rejoice with those who are rejoicing and celebrating, and we choose to hope and rest in the truth that God is indeed bringing people together in marriages.
Choose to BELIEVE that our prayers are effectual! We are moving the mountains that are standing between people who are aching to meet their Kingdom marriage partner!
Declare and pray....
Thank you dear LORD for the marriage of Scott and Shannon, and for fresh hope! Thank you for the recent marriages this past summer, and the weddings coming in the months ahead. Lord YOU have a much larger purpose in these marriages, and you have given us the desire in our hearts for marriage. We declare that we delight ourselves in the Lord, and He will give us the desires of our hearts. We declare that the JOY of the Lord is our strength, and we choose to hope and believe that God is directing our steps each day closer to the person He has chosen for each of us for a powerful marriage.
One of the scriptures read for Scott and Shannon was Zechariah 4:6-7, so from the blessing of their marriage, we declare the word of God:
“This is the word of the LORD to (you): ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My SpiritSays the LORD of hosts.’
Who are you, O great mountain?
Before (us) you shall become a plain!
We shout GRACE, GRACE to the mountains hindering marriages!
AMEN! and I am ...
Expecting to be amazed ~
Barbara
© Barbara Nelson – 2012
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