What are the Marks of a Spirit filled wife? (Ephesians 5:18-22) by Gideon Macgovern Mpeni

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The Need for a Spirit filled Marriage is crucial and essential before the watching World. And if any marriage is to survive and stand against the wisdom, the schemes and the tactics of Satan, it must be a union that finds its strength, sanity, dignity, delight and devotion in God, the Father, Son and the Spirit – who designed this union - discharged its duties and declared it – “It is very Good!”

But let us sit back – Look at the tapestry – the once beautiful picture frame

• Moments captured and memories shared in all laughter and happiness
• A Place where love and humility were paraded in melodies of Christmas Carols and harmonies of the Psalms, Songs, Hymns and Spiritual songs (5:19)
• A place where the virtues of wisdom were on great display – with wives dressed in virtues of the Proverbs 31 women – and men who feared God like the Psalm 128 man – where both in unison walked in the Awe of God and declared – Unless the Lord builds the house they labour in vain those who build it (Psalm 127)
• All that Shattered as by Satan – Sin and the World!

No one needs to prove to us that we may be watching the death of the germ cell of civilization, the family. All the signs are abundantly clear all around us. We could drag out all kinds of statistics to indicate the dire situation of the families in our culture. We are all constantly looking at the parade in the media of divorce, sexual rebellion, abortion, sterilization, delinquency, infidelity, homosexuality, women’s liberation, children’s rights, and so on. That has been continually paraded for us for the last 10 or 20 years.

We are watching the formation of the rope that strangles the family to death.

• And many, frankly, are gladly carving out the tombstone for the family, and really, doing it happily.
• Many have join the tag of war pulling the either side – wanting to win the fight for their personal rights – Wives

The Outcry and the onslaughts are not new, for the enemy is using the same modus Oparadi – Attack the family – disturb every element of life.

More bizarre experimentation and wide spread perversion.” A frankly frightening picture and we are watching it being painted right before our very eyes. There is no question about the fact that the family is under a major assault that people want to redefine family in absolutely any terms they want.

There is no question that we are watching a generation of young people rising up who have no socialization skills and no moral sense at all.

• There is chaos. There is murder, there is crime at a rampant level.
• There is even pleasure in shooting people incidental to you, just for the sheer thrill of killing.

THE WORLD IS IN A DILEMA

Sociologists, psychologists, analysts and so called marriage and family experts, psychiatrists and all the rest are scrambling all over the place to try to come up with some kind of solution, and they have been doing that now for a couple of decades with absolutely no impact on the slide.

Nothing that they are doing seems to slow down the process of the disintegration of human relationships at the very core of life which is the family. You can tamper with society in a lot of places, but if you destroy the family, you destroy society.

The first member who was and continues to be under attack is the woman, we must understand her mission as ordained by God