This was so wonderful.. our marriage has crumbled because it was not Christ Centered . My husband left 5 weeks ago and by Gods Grace he has drawn me closer to Jesus than I have ever been. Brothers and sisters in Christ, please put Christ at the center of your marriage. I thought I’d be with my husband another 30 years. I don’t have any control. I’m praying 🙏 for Gods will. Thank you Vlad for this amazing message.
Similar situation with my husband and I we got together and spent 17 years together both unsaved. He was verbally and emotionally abusive for many years. I got saved May 2023, he said that turned him off. In July he cheated on me, in October he moved in with the woman he cheated with. In November he lost his job, and his new woman started treating him badly, then started hitting him and yelling for him to get out. Then she called the police and said he assaulted her and her 12 year old daughter! Now my husband is in jail with no bail waiting for trial. We have a 2 year old daughter together as well. I've been getting closer and closet to God during this time, and I know He'll either save my husband, or he'll send me a godly husband and godly father for my daughter. Everything is in God's hands. He knows what's best for us. ❤
I pray for your marriage. Same thing happened to me. Husband has been gone for 4 months and just told me he isn't returning. So heartbroken 💔 but leaving it in God's hands.
I have filed for divorce but I still pray for my husband and our marriage. We have been talking in the last couple of days and we both agreed that marriage is a covenant between ourselves and God. God has provided us as individuals man and woman with biblical instruction on how to be as a husband and wife. That by following these instructions we honor God and simultaneously honor our spouse. We have decided to start fresh again with this as our foundation.
@@melaniemartin730 Its not really in the bible. It sounds nice but a covenant is really just an agreement between two parties, while a contract is legal document. A covenant can be broken in the same way a legal agreement can. I dont think it matters what you call it. God permitted certificates of divorce in certain situations which legally allowed women to remarry.
This brought me to tears. I am single, but just the thought of loving someone as God loves me blows me away 💗 God has shown me how much he loves me and I believe it’s more than I even know to acknowledge. I’ve been in abusive relationships and when you said, your relationship is only as good as your relationship with God, everything sank in. When I was far from God, no relationship in my life was healthy. Now, I have restored my relationship with family and made friends in Christ. I know God has a man in my future that will reflect the relationship we have together now ❤️ this teaching was beautiful
When you start loving Christ first you begin to take every gripe you have about your spouse to the Lord and say “hmmm you deal with it”😂😂. I straight snitch on my husband to Jesus all the time. I find myself loving my husband unconditionally more than ever once I started to LOVE JESUS first🥰🥰
Please pray for my marriage. My husband is a truck driver and he is driving across the country most of the week. So I spend way too much time alone. And I honestly believe God has a lot better job for my husband that won't tale him out of town so much. Thank you SO SO much! I really really appreciate your prayers!
It's as if I am listening to one of church's sermons. So rich and deep in scripture. The fire of God burns in me while I listen to the preaching. But it burns so deeply. May God bless the servants of this church and grow it beyond thought.
"Marriage is not about happiness, it's about holiness." Love it, marriage has responsibilities which must be honored and shouldered despite how we feel. Also, the woman at the well. Jesus saying she had five husbands and the one she's living with now is not her husband being evidence that cohabitation is not marriage in God's eyes. That marriage is something more. -- Just discovered your sermons, enjoy them and am learning much. May God continue to bless you, as He is blessing others through you.
My last marriage which I thought my ex husband understood covenant marriage and vowed he wouldn’t repeat what he did with his first marriage, apparently didn’t believe or understand covenant marriage. He repeated what he did the first go around and wanted us to no longer be married. It makes my head tilt when someone says they believe In what the Bible says but don’t obey it. I’ve moved on, it was his choice. And Father God has already healed and restored my heart because I made sure I stayed close to HIM. This was a very good teaching and have learned a lot more about what God wants for us who choose to marry.
What you did wrong was sleeping with someone else's spouse during a civil marriage it's called adultery. Listen to david pawson on the topic. Read the Bible and understand the context. Matthew 5 32 and 19 9 says saving for fornication that's a single person sex sin. Matthew was written t jews and they knew what that means. Churches including genhunger gets it wrong. Read the Bible do research and you'll find that their is no biblical grounds for divorce. If ypire on a adulterous civil marriage you are living in sin. Repent
There is contention about what constitutes biblical grounds for divorce and remarriage based on wording differences between Hebrew and English. Some believe the adultery clause was centered on the Jewish form of engagement and not marriage, either way the only way you can Biblically divorce (depending on school of thought) is if your spouse commits adultery or a non believer abandons you. If he was the problem with his previous marriage and divorced under non Biblical grounds, he had no Biblical grounds to stand on. Yes I do believe some second marriages can be blessed by God but there are so many wolves in sheep’s clothing out there. Sounds like he was one of those.
@@tanieldillman476 True, they become one flesh, imagine someone has messed around with 10 people, they soul tie become one with ten people, have been married united 10 times. It’s not the paper but the act of sex that makes them one flesh.
This teaching is SPOT ON!! I was married in a covenant marriage October 2022...6 months later my husband left me for another option...because he wasn't "in love with me". I'm forsaken... but not alone for Yah is my husband.
Thank you so much for this sermon. I’m one month into a separation from my husband of 15 years. We have four small children. Christ has never been the center of our marriage. The more my faith increased this last year the more my husband grew distant. The first and most pervasive statement from him is I deserve to be happy. I’m doing a lot of praying, reading of my Bible and repentance of my own sins in our marriage. I pray daily for his salvation, reconciliation and an intact family unit. Without a heart posture towards Jesus and our own sin nature, a joy filled marriage seems nearly impossible.
Pray fast and believe God can restore anything and anyone. Fight for your marriage if talking doesn’t work just pray that he comes back and be your husband and the father for your kids he needs to be. Don’t be afraid to ask that in prayer because ultimately thats is what Gods wants as well.
An extremely SELFISH spouse does not get that it's not ALL ABOUT THEM, and they are not looking to give. I am amazed that a person can be kind, gentle, and encouraging, but OH...SO...SELFISH. It manifests in many other ways. Truly, truly, love HAS TO BE A CHOICE! Marriage is about DYING to self to live unto CHRIST. Ephesians 5 is God's instructions for marriage, however, people need to be taught, IN ADVANCE of marriage, specific practical applications, by couples who have "been there and done that." "I'm going to change my spouse because I'm NOT going to change my character;" true SELFISHNESS at its finest!
This was such a blessing for me as a single man who is ready to court. The breakdown of the three marriages was so on point and real. The part about you looking in mirror 🪞 is extremely true. We have three options to choose from. Praise God for your ministry. Thank you pastor Vlad. Your book single and ready to mingle has been a blessing as well. 🙌🏾
Thank you Pastor Vlad. A covenant is Holy and the closer you are to God the closer you can be in your relationship with your spouse. Thanks for reminding us that we don't love based on how the person behave or how they love us. We love just as Christ loved us. Profound message !♡
Amazing message, we must love our spouse like Christ loves us and give our life like He did. Two imperfect people coming together can only be perfect when Christ is the Lord of our hearts.
Thank you Pastor Vlad for the sharing. I have been married for 11years to a man of different culture and race. In the first few years of marriage there are lots of arguments leaving for days that we would not speak with each other. Marriage is not of bed of roses, both of us are not perfect. But through God grace and guidance, family and friends support, God has been seeing us through our marriage. We are still working in our marriage by His grace.
To submit to one another and to put Christ first in a marriage. To love, not as the world loves, but Godly love for one another. Love is a choice. God bless this ministry and bless you all!
Vlad, I’ve listened to 3 of your marriage sermons in the last 24 hours and I’m blown away at how God us speaking to me through them. I feel like Gods used this and your 5 reasons/Biblical Men sermon in particular to save my current relationship. Bless you, and thank you Jesus ❤
I have been married 3 times before & just recently married for the 4th. Being the husband in a marriage, I have lived & continue to live in this truth that was preached with this sermon. Thanks be to our lord Christ, that I am fully aware now & blessed to have that “covenant marriage” with my new wife. For it not being lead by Christ daily, I would still be lost and broken. Gods word is both of our strength, no matter how difficult it gets. The confidence & trust in each comes from our confidence & trust in God. With this, we can endure all… Amen! Thank you pastor
WOW! WOW! WOW! This was awesome. What spoke to me is that my husband is a mirror for my change, love should not be based on how he make me feel but is an action, and that sex is how the covenant is created but it is not the covenant itself. Thank you for this message. God bless you man of God.
Please Pray for my marriage and relationships. the day we married after that few months later complains start, arguments begin cause my husband have gambling issues etc.. 😢😢
Pray but keep your funds seperately. Do not give him any money and do not pay for any debt if he has taken any. Be strict and firm and set your boundries. If possible talk to him and if he wants to get rid of the addiction then you can together set a gambling block on him if its available where you live. It helps. If the gambling is triggered by alcohol, he must get rid of that addiction too or it will not end. Be strong. May the Lord bless you both and keep you from harm. You can message me privately if need to talk.
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. - 1 Peter 3:1
Oh honey, gambling addiction is so devastating. Please set very strong financial boundaries, make sure he doesn't have the main control of your finances. Find out what triggers make him gamble, if it's alcohol then make sure that's minimised. If there is support groups please consider contacting one for support. Please make sure that you have plenty of self care and take care of yourself. I'm praying for you.💕
I take home the fact that God designed marriage, so we are not 100% satisfied by our spouse. because he is jealous for us, and he wants to fill that gap with his word to sanctifie us. thank you for your openness it really ministers how we are saved by his good works not our own.
I really like the way you put together the difference between contract and convent marriage. Personally loved the quote "GOD will purposely give a wife/husband who don’t meet all your conditions to teach you how to love unconditionally". Thank you so much for the spiritual encouragement toward the covenant marriage. 😃🙏
I recently got married and when I was still single and had not even met my wife yet, I already prayed to God about her & made my commitment to God that I would choose to love,honour and cherish her,especially when we were in the middle of a relationship difficulty, as I had a realistic understanding that these moments will come about, even & especially with her being the one God chose for me...that I would choose of my own free will yet guided by the Holy Spirit, my wife has all the qualities of character I prayed for which meant she is a God fearing woman who loves God more than me & I prayed for that because it's better for me & for us & I know I must love God & his principles more than I love her & that is better for her because when we both love God & his principles and seek the kingdom first...we will love & honour each other & see each other how God sees each of us...my wife is an awesome woman of God who is loving,respectful, caring and wise,she also has no fear of challenging me if I am not seeing or I'm being stubborn in a carnal way...& I do the same for her...in love...we present our perspectives to each other objectively and with love,supported by words of encouragement and praise...& say things like "we can do better",we can do this " we will grow stronger together ❤️ " We honoured God through our courtship and God honoured us & ordained our union. So single men and women...know what your asking for when you pray for God to bring you or help you search for your wife or husband...be realistic yet believing in faith about how God is there to guide you both & make your bond stronger & true. Embrace the reality & the beauty of the sand paper ministry or as iron sharpens iron. What comes from this is "honesty" yet it is honesty that allows it to mature and fulfil your growth & potential for a long future together ❤️ In Jesus name, Amen 🙏
Stumbled upon this message as I'm experiencing marital issues. It's simply reinforcing to me God's command to love on my wife even when she doesn't express it back. Thank for the blessing!
Great sermon , so real , don't let the sun go down in disagreement ! Lots of adjustments when married , aka still single , only 61 , there is always hope and divine guidance and prayer❤ Thank You pastor Slav!
This message was excellent! I really like that you said we almost always marry a person that is not perfect for us. That it’s to challenge us and it helps for our character and etc to be revealed.
Thank you a much for this sermon. I was asking in prayer last night about it and you have given answers to my questions. Thank Yahweh/Yeshua and thank you Vlad
My goodness. This is so deep and I'm convicted of my view of marriage. Marriage should not be entered into lightly because it is a daily sacrifice and giving. Thank you. I've been blessed. I needed this as a single person who is planning to get married one day. ❤
I can’t describe how thankful I am for you, and for this lesson. A particular subject was mentioned and I was suddenly overwhelmed with the reminder of a transgression I had committed in the past. I felt an intense urge to pray for forgiveness. I had one of the most rewarding interactions with God. And I feel so much lighter. God spoke to me today, and I felt his forgiveness and love. I thank him for this inspiration he sent through you.
Thanks for putting my philosophy towards marriage and speaking into reality. People think I’m crazy but I’m in a covenant marriage with a man who doesn’t know Christ. I’m in it for the long haul but I am believing for his salvation.
involves spiritual, emotional, and physical closeness. In the Old Testament, we are taught, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). Married couples are meant to be unified in every possible way.
Amen and thank you for preaching the truth so that the Holy Spirit can work in us as the temple of God the Father thanks to the blood of Jesus Christ 🙏❤️🙏
What stood out to me, so much. Especially when you spoke of how our spouses are what will show us our true selves as far as our flaws and the things we need to work on.
I have listened to a lot of talks on marriage and read a lot of books. I think I got the most out of this message than all the others. I had recently prayed asking the Lord what I could do-- what am I doing wrong, etc... and this is was the answer I received. I sort of knew this before, but this message made it very clear. It has given me a paradigm shift-- a new way of seeing things, which is what I think I needed. I really wish I would have known this before getting married or at least early in our marriage. We have been married for a long time. Both are committed to staying married, but suffering in the process, not really resolving the issues. Thank you Pastor Vlad for your teaching, but also for being so transparent and saying hard things that others are afraid to do. We need the truth. You also made me laugh too, which was nice. God bless you and your lovely wife.
I'm very thankful to God for everything that He is teaching me through your words, that I know for sure that are His words by the Holy Spirit. Since day 1, I've been trying to figure out what God wants me to do with my marriage, and it's been like a roller coster. But God all the time is telling me you are the problem, not him. My parents had a contract marriage for 50 years, and one day, they came apart. That was terrible for me because they were my best example of a marriage even when they were not Christians. So now I can understand after 19 years of marriage that even though we got married with God blessing, I'm running a contract marriage. Your words let me know what I need to change on me so we can become a convenant marriage. God bless you.
Your sermon confirmed what I said to a couple where the. Man needs a renewal of the mind. And I had to pray against that spirit of cohabitation. I shared that with him these spirits assignment are to could our mind. From be Christ mind
Last year I came out of 13 years of doubt, and the main question on my mind was "how can I be a better husband?" These messages from Vlad on marriage have been such a huge blessing in my continuing education.
This was mind blowing message. Thanks so much for you deep understanding of what Christians and covenant marriage should be . May the lord give you more grace to help hurting marriages that lack this basic truth. Thanks
Thank you, I was brought to you and your service by a woman who I believe God meant me to meet. After being divorced for over 16 years I thought that I would live my life alone, so did she and she has been divorced for 3 1/2 years. You have touched my heart and I love that every thing you preach is biblically based. Thank you again.
I'm praying for my marriage to be restored we've been divorced for 21 years and they're still praying and praying and praying and I appreciate this teaching because it helps to reinforce what I'm doing
Thank-you, very good sermon, so helpful. 1."We always marry the wrong person...you become soulmates by living through those years." 2."Here is to help you discover who you're really like" (bad and good parts) 3."in covenant, you bind your heart. Marriage is a covenant where death of 2 wills, birth one." Thank-you
Wow!!! Being listening to many of His preachings about marriage and now I'm feeling sorry for My Husband!!! ❤... What hit me the most was.... Marriage is not about Happiness but About Holiness!!!!🤔❤️🤔❤️
I truly appreciate your teaching on marriage. I’m in the middle of paying that my x wife since ten years ago and I come back to our marriage. God is working on this I believe.
The bottom line in solving any problems is drawing closer to God and resist the devil. It is impossible to sense God's present and fight at the same time. Let God fill you with His Love until it spills over , than confront your wife. 😊
I’ve listened twice now 😂 it’s so good! So true! The fish part I didn’t find so funny 😢 only because that has happened to me 🤷🏽♀️ but God heals and restores everything
Wow I 100% agree with you as Joel has an audience of 3 million and I do follow him. This right here is real preaching, it's given raw and it's truth. Different ministers have different anointings or agendas. Our culture cannot handle this realness as they aren't ready for THE ONLY TRUTH which exposes our flaws. I'd love nothing more than for everyone everywhere to receive this and put into practice Gods beauty for our real lives...the world is still drinking milk however remain in faith that at the appointed time they can and will eat these solids.
Thank you so much. I have found your sermons on marriage and the roles that we each have in marriage and relationships convicting and eye opening. I am divorced sadly, but believe that God has a beautiful plan for me. I want to make sure that I do everything that I can for God to someday have a Godly marriage to a Godly man that he has chosen for me. You are a beautiful Real blessing!! Thank you 🙏🏼
I Agree 💯! Marriage is Sacred and a Vow that you take Because you Love each other & want to Spend the rest of your life with each other. Marriage takes works patient’s real commitment communicating etc. not just run from each other when you can’t anymore! Foremost GOD is First to run to Help.
I'm not a very religious person but a spiritual person. I do however feel that he will speak to us when we need to be spoken to & I heard his message thru this sermon today. Thank u for helping me receive his message. ❤
You boldly speak truth. It all gave me light bulb moments. But the Covent marriage all of it. You and your wife speak with love, humility and truth. You are standing up for Gods first institution. Family. A Family is created with a covenant between a man and a woman.
Greetings in Jesus. Great topic and treatment. I really need to stick a pin. I do not agree with Christ followers marrying at Court. Marriage is an institution of God. With Biblical references in mind, matrimony was such a celebration that the occasion lasted for several days, I understand! It should not be treated as a secular agreement done within the space of the same ppl who give marriage rights to ppl of similar biological genitalia. Neither should we be so carried away by the ceremony itself that we end up indebted for years to celebrate...Marriage and Matrimony are sacred and should be treated with intentionality to give God the primary Glory as authentic marriage is a reflection of Christ and His Body / Ecclesia. 🙏🌹🙌
This message describing the various types of relationships people do, has to be totally in agreement with God's covenant plan for marriage. I am elated by the unadulterated word and teaching. God bless you dearly my Bro. Praises and Glory to God❤
Thank you for this sermon. Being convicted on how to be a better wife is humbling, beautiful seeing it through God's eyes, and learning to love my husband like Christ sees him, is a blessing.
I am blessed by this message. I have been looking for guidance that I can share with my nieces and two young adults who got married recently. Everything on point. Thank you, Pastor Vlad, for letting God use you.
Just this morning I was blaming my husband for not being enough. And I started to think I need something better. Thank you PS Vlad. I will pray that God teaches me to love my man just as Christ loves me.
This was so wonderful.. our marriage has crumbled because it was not Christ Centered . My husband left 5 weeks ago and by Gods Grace he has drawn me closer to Jesus than I have ever been. Brothers and sisters in Christ, please put Christ at the center of your marriage. I thought I’d be with my husband another 30 years. I don’t have any control. I’m praying 🙏 for Gods will. Thank you Vlad for this amazing message.
Similar situation with my husband and I we got together and spent 17 years together both unsaved. He was verbally and emotionally abusive for many years. I got saved May 2023, he said that turned him off. In July he cheated on me, in October he moved in with the woman he cheated with. In November he lost his job, and his new woman started treating him badly, then started hitting him and yelling for him to get out. Then she called the police and said he assaulted her and her 12 year old daughter! Now my husband is in jail with no bail waiting for trial. We have a 2 year old daughter together as well. I've been getting closer and closet to God during this time, and I know He'll either save my husband, or he'll send me a godly husband and godly father for my daughter. Everything is in God's hands. He knows what's best for us. ❤
I pray for your marriage. Same thing happened to me. Husband has been gone for 4 months and just told me he isn't returning. So heartbroken 💔 but leaving it in God's hands.
It really takes maturity for Covenant marriage.
It will force you to grow after God shows you your flesh mess! Only God!
@@speakrighttogod Yes, you either grow in Christ's image, or that of the world.
I have filed for divorce but I still pray for my husband and our marriage. We have been talking in the last couple of days and we both agreed that marriage is a covenant between ourselves and God. God has provided us as individuals man and woman with biblical instruction on how to be as a husband and wife. That by following these instructions we honor God and simultaneously honor our spouse. We have decided to start fresh again with this as our foundation.
Amen 🙏. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ.🙏🙏🙏
So happy for you guys, to God be the glory!!
I learned that you honor God by honoring your spouse. I've been married a long time and am now just beginning to grasp this idea. Glory to God
Marriage should be more than a piece of paper. Marriage should be a sacred covenant. Amen.
What were the scriptures about marriage, a sacred covenant?🌹💐🌹💐🌹💐
@@melaniemartin730 Its not really in the bible. It sounds nice but a covenant is really just an agreement between two parties, while a contract is legal document. A covenant can be broken in the same way a legal agreement can. I dont think it matters what you call it. God permitted certificates of divorce in certain situations which legally allowed women to remarry.
Who says marriage IS just a piece of paper?
No one ever says that about their home mortgage or car lease.
But yet it is….
@@melaniemartin7300:07 you are you 🎉doing good morning 🎉on weand blessings
This brought me to tears. I am single, but just the thought of loving someone as God loves me blows me away 💗 God has shown me how much he loves me and I believe it’s more than I even know to acknowledge. I’ve been in abusive relationships and when you said, your relationship is only as good as your relationship with God, everything sank in. When I was far from God, no relationship in my life was healthy. Now, I have restored my relationship with family and made friends in Christ. I know God has a man in my future that will reflect the relationship we have together now ❤️ this teaching was beautiful
When you start loving Christ first you begin to take every gripe you have about your spouse to the Lord and say “hmmm you deal with it”😂😂. I straight snitch on my husband to Jesus all the time. I find myself loving my husband unconditionally more than ever once I started to LOVE JESUS first🥰🥰
😂😂😂 I know your husband will be surprised when y’all both get to heaven.. He will be like girl u was snitching on me the whole time😂😂to JESUS
Please pray for my marriage. My husband is a truck driver and he is driving across the country most of the week. So I spend way too much time alone. And I honestly believe God has a lot better job for my husband that won't tale him out of town so much.
Thank you SO SO much!
I really really appreciate your prayers!
I’ll pray right now sister!
Praying sis ❤
Prayers for you n your hubby in Jesus name I agree amen.
Same here . He’s away for maximum 10 days but two one week is to much for me
@@jannellebritto938 I'm so sorry 😞
And I am praying for you and your husband!
It's as if I am listening to one of church's sermons. So rich and deep in scripture. The fire of God burns in me while I listen to the preaching. But it burns so deeply. May God bless the servants of this church and grow it beyond thought.
"Marriage is not about happiness, it's about holiness." Love it, marriage has responsibilities which must be honored and shouldered despite how we feel. Also, the woman at the well. Jesus saying she had five husbands and the one she's living with now is not her husband being evidence that cohabitation is not marriage in God's eyes. That marriage is something more. -- Just discovered your sermons, enjoy them and am learning much. May God continue to bless you, as He is blessing others through you.
but what is the marriage then, what make marriage a marriage?
Never call out the men with mistress think it may have
My last marriage which I thought my ex husband understood covenant marriage and vowed he wouldn’t repeat what he did with his first marriage, apparently didn’t believe or understand covenant marriage. He repeated what he did the first go around and wanted us to no longer be married. It makes my head tilt when someone says they believe In what the Bible says but don’t obey it. I’ve moved on, it was his choice. And Father God has already healed and restored my heart because I made sure I stayed close to HIM. This was a very good teaching and have learned a lot more about what God wants for us who choose to marry.
What you did wrong was sleeping with someone else's spouse during a civil marriage it's called adultery. Listen to david pawson on the topic. Read the Bible and understand the context. Matthew 5 32 and 19 9 says saving for fornication that's a single person sex sin. Matthew was written t jews and they knew what that means. Churches including genhunger gets it wrong. Read the Bible do research and you'll find that their is no biblical grounds for divorce. If ypire on a adulterous civil marriage you are living in sin. Repent
There is contention about what constitutes biblical grounds for divorce and remarriage based on wording differences between Hebrew and English. Some believe the adultery clause was centered on the Jewish form of engagement and not marriage, either way the only way you can Biblically divorce (depending on school of thought) is if your spouse commits adultery or a non believer abandons you. If he was the problem with his previous marriage and divorced under non Biblical grounds, he had no Biblical grounds to stand on. Yes I do believe some second marriages can be blessed by God but there are so many wolves in sheep’s clothing out there. Sounds like he was one of those.
When it comes to cohabitation, living together doesn't constitute marriage...period!🌹🌺🌹🌺🌹🌺
It technically is a marriage, just not a godly or wise one.
@@tanieldillman476 True, they become one flesh, imagine someone has messed around with 10 people, they soul tie become one with ten people, have been married united 10 times. It’s not the paper but the act of sex that makes them one flesh.
@@YarelySilvas exactly
@@YarelySilvas, so when a person has sex for the very first time, they are being joined in "marriage"?
@@moroccogirl9096that is the way God intended it.
This teaching is SPOT ON!! I was married in a covenant marriage October 2022...6 months later my husband left me for another option...because he wasn't "in love with me". I'm forsaken... but not alone for Yah is my husband.
Prayers that God will bring him back to his first love.
I’m so sorry that happened to you! Praying that your husband sees his error and returns to you! ❤
Thank you so much for this sermon. I’m one month into a separation from my husband of 15 years. We have four small children. Christ has never been the center of our marriage. The more my faith increased this last year the more my husband grew distant. The first and most pervasive statement from
him is I deserve to be happy. I’m doing a lot of praying, reading of my Bible and repentance of my own sins in our marriage. I pray daily for his salvation, reconciliation and an intact family unit. Without a heart posture towards Jesus and our own sin nature, a joy filled marriage seems nearly impossible.
Pray fast and believe God can restore anything and anyone. Fight for your marriage if talking doesn’t work just pray that he comes back and be your husband and the father for your kids he needs to be. Don’t be afraid to ask that in prayer because ultimately thats is what Gods wants as well.
Every couple getting married should watch this prior to getting married.
An extremely SELFISH spouse does not get that it's not ALL ABOUT THEM, and they are not looking to give. I am amazed that a person can be kind, gentle, and encouraging, but OH...SO...SELFISH. It manifests in many other ways. Truly, truly, love HAS TO BE A CHOICE! Marriage is about DYING to self to live unto CHRIST. Ephesians 5 is God's instructions for marriage, however, people need to be taught, IN ADVANCE of marriage, specific practical applications, by couples who have "been there and done that."
"I'm going to change my spouse because I'm NOT going to change my character;" true SELFISHNESS at its finest!
I could not sop thinking about God sending us a partner that is not complete to teach us about unconditional love! Thank you for an amazing sermon!
This was such a blessing for me as a single man who is ready to court.
The breakdown of the three marriages was so on point and real.
The part about you looking in mirror 🪞 is extremely true. We have three options to choose from.
Praise God for your ministry. Thank you pastor Vlad. Your book single and ready to mingle has been a blessing as well. 🙌🏾
Choose a woman that’s in proverbs 31. In short court a Christian woman.🙏❤️
Thank you Pastor Vlad. A covenant is Holy and the closer you are to God the closer you can be in your relationship with your spouse. Thanks for reminding us that we don't love based on how the person behave or how they love us. We love just as Christ loved us. Profound message !♡
Amazing message, we must love our spouse like Christ loves us and give our life like He did. Two imperfect people coming together can only be perfect when Christ is the Lord of our hearts.
Pray for me, I desire a peaceful marriage filled with love, peace and joy 😊
Thank you Pastor Vlad for the sharing. I have been married for 11years to a man of different culture and race. In the first few years of marriage there are lots of arguments leaving for days that we would not speak with each other. Marriage is not of bed of roses, both of us are not perfect. But through God grace and guidance, family and friends support, God has been seeing us through our marriage. We are still working in our marriage by His grace.
Yes it is a blessing now I want to Covenant marriage not just a marriage by law our circumstances or benefit
Amen! Better be cancelled by culture than be cancelled by God. ❤🙏🏼
To submit to one another and to put Christ first in a marriage. To love, not as the world loves, but Godly love for one another. Love is a choice. God bless this ministry and bless you all!
This was a great sermon. I wished my ex spouse would have seen it the same way. I pray the Lord brings me a covenant spouse.
Vlad, I’ve listened to 3 of your marriage sermons in the last 24 hours and I’m blown away at how God us speaking to me through them. I feel like Gods used this and your 5 reasons/Biblical Men sermon in particular to save my current relationship. Bless you, and thank you Jesus ❤
I have been married 3 times before & just recently married for the 4th. Being the husband in a marriage, I have lived & continue to live in this truth that was preached with this sermon. Thanks be to our lord Christ, that I am fully aware now & blessed to have that “covenant marriage” with my new wife. For it not being lead by Christ daily, I would still be lost and broken. Gods word is both of our strength, no matter how difficult it gets. The confidence & trust in each comes from our confidence & trust in God. With this, we can endure all… Amen! Thank you pastor
WOW! WOW! WOW! This was awesome. What spoke to me is that my husband is a mirror for my change, love should not be based on how he make me feel but is an action, and that sex is how the covenant is created but it is not the covenant itself. Thank you for this message. God bless you man of God.
Humility makes a marriage better
Please Pray for my marriage and relationships. the day we married after that few months later complains start, arguments begin cause my husband have gambling issues etc.. 😢😢
What's going on?🤲🤲🤲
Praying for you and your husband, Sister!🙏❤️
Pray but keep your funds seperately. Do not give him any money and do not pay for any debt if he has taken any. Be strict and firm and set your boundries. If possible talk to him and if he wants to get rid of the addiction then you can together set a gambling block on him if its available where you live. It helps. If the gambling is triggered by alcohol, he must get rid of that addiction too or it will not end. Be strong. May the Lord bless you both and keep you from harm. You can message me privately if need to talk.
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. - 1 Peter 3:1
Oh honey, gambling addiction is so devastating. Please set very strong financial boundaries, make sure he doesn't have the main control of your finances.
Find out what triggers make him gamble, if it's alcohol then make sure that's minimised. If there is support groups please consider contacting one for support.
Please make sure that you have plenty of self care and take care of yourself. I'm praying for you.💕
I take home the fact that God designed marriage, so we are not 100% satisfied by our spouse. because he is jealous for us, and he wants to fill that gap with his word to sanctifie us. thank you for your openness it really ministers how we are saved by his good works not our own.
I really like the way you put together the difference between contract and convent marriage.
Personally loved the quote "GOD will purposely give a wife/husband who don’t meet all your conditions to teach you how to love unconditionally". Thank you so much for the spiritual encouragement toward the covenant marriage. 😃🙏
" joy is a choice," dear Vla. You're so damn right! We are all selfish people. We really want to be pleased all the time! God has mercy on us.
I recently got married and when I was still single and had not even met my wife yet, I already prayed to God about her & made my commitment to God that I would choose to love,honour and cherish her,especially when we were in the middle of a relationship difficulty, as I had a realistic understanding that these moments will come about, even & especially with her being the one God chose for me...that I would choose of my own free will yet guided by the Holy Spirit, my wife has all the qualities of character I prayed for which meant she is a God fearing woman who loves God more than me & I prayed for that because it's better for me & for us & I know I must love God & his principles more than I love her & that is better for her because when we both love God & his principles and seek the kingdom first...we will love & honour each other & see each other how God sees each of us...my wife is an awesome woman of God who is loving,respectful, caring and wise,she also has no fear of challenging me if I am not seeing or I'm being stubborn in a carnal way...& I do the same for her...in love...we present our perspectives to each other objectively and with love,supported by words of encouragement and praise...& say things like "we can do better",we can do this " we will grow stronger together ❤️ "
We honoured God through our courtship and God honoured us & ordained our union.
So single men and women...know what your asking for when you pray for God to bring you or help you search for your wife or husband...be realistic yet believing in faith about how God is there to guide you both & make your bond stronger & true.
Embrace the reality & the beauty of the sand paper ministry or as iron sharpens iron.
What comes from this is "honesty" yet it is honesty that allows it to mature and fulfil your growth & potential for a long future together ❤️
In Jesus name, Amen 🙏
Stumbled upon this message as I'm experiencing marital issues. It's simply reinforcing to me God's command to love on my wife even when she doesn't express it back. Thank for the blessing!
Great sermon , so real , don't let the sun go down in disagreement ! Lots of adjustments when married , aka still single , only 61 , there is always hope and divine guidance and prayer❤ Thank You pastor Slav!
Whew! This truth needs to be taught on a regular basis at churches and home. This is as clear as it gets!
This is an amazing concept we love because of Christ loving us no matter what the situation is. It’s truly about service.
Marriage is not about a big wedding!
“Love doesn’t live for its own happiness.”💯
Much blessed to absorb the Christian Marriage concept more✨🌟
This message was excellent! I really like that you said we almost always marry a person that is not perfect for us. That it’s to challenge us and it helps for our character and etc to be revealed.
Thank you a much for this sermon. I was asking in prayer last night about it and you have given answers to my questions. Thank Yahweh/Yeshua and thank you Vlad
My goodness. This is so deep and I'm convicted of my view of marriage. Marriage should not be entered into lightly because it is a daily sacrifice and giving. Thank you. I've been blessed. I needed this as a single person who is planning to get married one day. ❤
I can’t describe how thankful I am for you, and for this lesson. A particular subject was mentioned and I was suddenly overwhelmed with the reminder of a transgression I had committed in the past. I felt an intense urge to pray for forgiveness. I had one of the most rewarding interactions with God. And I feel so much lighter. God spoke to me today, and I felt his forgiveness and love. I thank him for this inspiration he sent through you.
Thanks for putting my philosophy towards marriage and speaking into reality. People think I’m crazy but I’m in a covenant marriage with a man who doesn’t know Christ. I’m in it for the long haul but I am believing for his salvation.
Great message! Side note; i like when he gets excited and his voice gets higher, he sounds like Gru from Despicable Me 😂
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involves spiritual, emotional, and physical closeness. In the Old Testament, we are taught, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). Married couples are meant to be unified in every possible way.
Only promise from Jesus for Christians is to take up your cross and follow him. Very good picture of marriage and life in general.
Amen and thank you for preaching the truth so that the Holy Spirit can work in us as the temple of God the Father thanks to the blood of Jesus Christ 🙏❤️🙏
This really gave me an understanding of truly loving as Christ loves the church
What stood out to me, so much. Especially when you spoke of how our spouses are what will show us our true selves as far as our flaws and the things we need to work on.
I have listened to a lot of talks on marriage and read a lot of books. I think I got the most out of this message than all the others. I had recently prayed asking the Lord what I could do-- what am I doing wrong, etc... and this is was the answer I received. I sort of knew this before, but this message made it very clear. It has given me a paradigm shift-- a new way of seeing things, which is what I think I needed. I really wish I would have known this before getting married or at least early in our marriage. We have been married for a long time. Both are committed to staying married, but suffering in the process, not really resolving the issues. Thank you Pastor Vlad for your teaching, but also for being so transparent and saying hard things that others are afraid to do. We need the truth. You also made me laugh too, which was nice. God bless you and your lovely wife.
These sermons on marriage have been a major blessing to my heart. I sent it over to my wife hopefully she enjoys there sermons as well!
Thank You Jesus Christ 🔥🔥🔥🇬🇧
I'm very thankful to God for everything that He is teaching me through your words, that I know for sure that are His words by the Holy Spirit.
Since day 1, I've been trying to figure out what God wants me to do with my marriage, and it's been like a roller coster. But God all the time is telling me you are the problem, not him. My parents had a contract marriage for 50 years, and one day, they came apart. That was terrible for me because they were my best example of a marriage even when they were not Christians. So now I can understand after 19 years of marriage that even though we got married with God blessing, I'm running a contract marriage. Your words let me know what I need to change on me so we can become a convenant marriage.
God bless you.
What a massage every single person should hear this before they commit to marriage ❤❤❤❤it
Your sermon confirmed what I said to a couple where the. Man needs a renewal of the mind. And I had to pray against that spirit of cohabitation. I shared that with him these spirits assignment are to could our mind. From be Christ mind
Last year I came out of 13 years of doubt, and the main question on my mind was "how can I be a better husband?" These messages from Vlad on marriage have been such a huge blessing in my continuing education.
What i have learnt from your sermon is to put Jesu in the center of a relationship. Thanks Pastor....
This was mind blowing message. Thanks so much for you deep understanding of what Christians and covenant marriage should be . May the lord give you more grace to help hurting marriages that lack this basic truth. Thanks
This was an amazing sermon!
Pastor Vlad is so anointed🙏
Yes!!!
Thank you, I was brought to you and your service by a woman who I believe God meant me to meet. After being divorced for over 16 years I thought that I would live my life alone, so did she and she has been divorced for 3 1/2 years. You have touched my heart and I love that every thing you preach is biblically based. Thank you again.
I'm praying for my marriage to be restored we've been divorced for 21 years and they're still praying and praying and praying and I appreciate this teaching because it helps to reinforce what I'm doing
Why? Why eat your vomit?
Thank-you, very good sermon, so helpful.
1."We always marry the wrong person...you become soulmates by living through those years."
2."Here is to help you discover who you're really like" (bad and good parts)
3."in covenant, you bind your heart. Marriage is a covenant where death of 2 wills, birth one."
Thank-you
Wow!!! Being listening to many of His preachings about marriage and now I'm feeling sorry for My Husband!!! ❤... What hit me the most was.... Marriage is not about Happiness but About Holiness!!!!🤔❤️🤔❤️
“In Christ we live for our holiness and not our happiness.”
“I stay married not to be loved but because I choose to love.”
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I truly appreciate your teaching on marriage. I’m in the middle of paying that my x wife since ten years ago and I come back to our marriage. God is working on this I believe.
This was so beautiful and edifying ❤I will take every word into my heart as I prepare to be a future wife to a man of God 😊
The thing about the hymen is wrong, but everything else spot on.
Best free marriage advice I’ve ever heard thanks
Glory to God for this sermon
So many gems in this sermon, thank you Pastor Vlad. Thanks lord for suggesting this video in my feed just when I needed it.
Wow, this message is on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The bottom line in solving any problems is drawing closer to God and resist the devil. It is impossible to sense God's present and fight at the same time.
Let God fill you with His Love until it spills over , than confront your wife. 😊
I’ve listened twice now 😂 it’s so good! So true! The fish part I didn’t find so funny 😢 only because that has happened to me 🤷🏽♀️ but God heals and restores everything
Hoping that Pastor Joel Osteen will preach this preaching to his congregation and not just the feeling good sermons. Praying this in Jesus’s name.
Wow I 100% agree with you as Joel has an audience of 3 million and I do follow him. This right here is real preaching, it's given raw and it's truth. Different ministers have different anointings or agendas. Our culture cannot handle this realness as they aren't ready for THE ONLY TRUTH which exposes our flaws. I'd love nothing more than for everyone everywhere to receive this and put into practice Gods beauty for our real lives...the world is still drinking milk however remain in faith that at the appointed time they can and will eat these solids.
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BEWARE Osteen is a False Teacher called out by a great many!!
Thank you so much. I have found your sermons on marriage and the roles that we each have in marriage and relationships convicting and eye opening. I am divorced sadly, but believe that God has a beautiful plan for me. I want to make sure that I do everything that I can for God to someday have a Godly marriage to a Godly man that he has chosen for me. You are a beautiful Real blessing!! Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you for this message. I needed to hear this because I need to live as a covenant husband with my wife
Such a blessing. Not married but great preparation
I Agree 💯! Marriage is Sacred and a Vow that you take Because you Love each other & want to Spend the rest of your life with each other. Marriage takes works patient’s real commitment communicating etc. not just run from each other when you can’t anymore! Foremost GOD is First to run to Help.
I'm not a very religious person but a spiritual person. I do however feel that he will speak to us when we need to be spoken to & I heard his message thru this sermon today. Thank u for helping me receive his message. ❤
Wow ! I’m completely touched and blessed by your preaching! ❤
You boldly speak truth. It all gave me light bulb moments. But the Covent marriage all of it. You and your wife speak with love, humility and truth. You are standing up for Gods first institution. Family. A Family is created with a covenant between a man and a woman.
I love the message. Thank you for teaching the Word as God has said it.
Greetings in Jesus. Great topic and treatment.
I really need to stick a pin.
I do not agree with Christ followers marrying at Court. Marriage is an institution of God. With Biblical references in mind, matrimony was such a celebration that the occasion lasted for several days, I understand! It should not be treated as a secular agreement done within the space of the same ppl who give marriage rights to ppl of similar biological genitalia. Neither should we be so carried away by the ceremony itself that we end up indebted for years to celebrate...Marriage and Matrimony are sacred and should be treated with intentionality to give God the primary Glory as authentic marriage is a reflection of Christ and His Body / Ecclesia. 🙏🌹🙌
Hallelujah ❤️
Thank you for honoring the word of God.
Amen. I've learnt that we would never find a perfect partner and I always wanted that perfect someone.
This was excellent just as every message I've listened to by you, Vlad. You bring great blessings to me each day listening to you.
This message describing the various types of relationships people do, has to be totally in agreement with God's covenant plan for marriage. I am elated by the unadulterated word and teaching. God bless you dearly my Bro. Praises and Glory to God❤
Thank you for this sermon. Being convicted on how to be a better wife is humbling, beautiful seeing it through God's eyes, and learning to love my husband like Christ sees him, is a blessing.
this message makes me really don't want to get married for sure, because my happiness is more important to me than anything else.
This sermon is a Wake up call for female in flesh and spiritual. Almighty God I am your in Jesus Christ name 🙏.
About marriage preaching is very important to go through it accordingly to Bible. My God bless you!
I am blessed by this message. I have been looking for guidance that I can share with my nieces and two young adults who got married recently. Everything on point. Thank you, Pastor Vlad, for letting God use you.
Thanks you Pastor Vlad for the fruitful message! Pray for my marriage. God bless.
Just this morning I was blaming my husband for not being enough. And I started to think I need something better. Thank you PS Vlad. I will pray that God teaches me to love my man just as Christ loves me.
I wish this message to get to the whole world
Praise the lord. ❤