COUPLES OF DESTINY II

I was in a Women’s Aglow meeting in Washington DC shortly after I had made that decision that I was going to continue to serve God wherever God opened the door, and if America would not allow me to immigrate than that was not my concern. As I was praying, the Lord said to me, “I am going to give you a man because I am going to teach The Church that there is still hope in marriage.” I did not know that there was a man who had fasted three weeks to find direction in his life. One thing I had always said to the Lord, “ If you ever give me a man, one thing I desire. I don’t care what he looks like, but please God I want a pure man” because only the pure in heart shall see God, not the mighty, not the strong, not the sophisticated, not the ones that look great, but a pure man. God gave me everything in one package.

Young people don’t go shopping for your mate. Ask God for the one that fits with you. I believe there cannot be revival today unless God touches marriages because marriage is the symbol of The Church. God is shaking, breaking and molding us. He is breaking down traditions in our lives to bring us into the right relationship.

God made the Garden of Eden. A garden speaks of a treasure. Let us understand what a garden is all about compared to other areas of the world. In Florida, where our home was for ten years, we lived in a deed-restricted area where you were not allowed to put up a fence because they wanted the view to be open. We did not have any thing to divide our garden from the neighbor’s garden or lawn. When you go to a country like Nigeria and a city like Lagos of twelve million people, a garden takes on a different importance. I was invited to speak in a woman’s conference, and we were invited to stay in the Bishop’s Court. I thought to myself, seeing the devastation around me, I wonder what kind of house the Bishop had. When we came to the house, we were amazed. First there was a tall security wall around the property, with security guards that had machine guns and guard dogs. As we went through the gates and into the garden area, there was a completely different environment that the Bishop had created.

God did not take Adam and Eve and tell them to create a garden. He created a garden and placed Adam and Eve in the garden not to make it grow, but to care for it. He did not say that He was going to make them farmers and teach them about farming and planting seeds. God created an environment and placed Adam and Eve in it to take care of the beauty that He had given them in their lives.

First of all, God put trees in the garden, and He said that they could eat of the trees for food. God never said that they could not eat from the tree of life, but they should not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Both trees were in that environment, and that environment I want to liken unto our marriage. It is a created environment that God has given. It is a protection for this world to bring forth beauty, creation, and glory. As God made that environment, He told Adam and Eve to care for it and tend to it. That is what man was created for. We are not created to be prophets or pastors. When I come before Christ, all these things will pass away, I am just a servant. Ministry is for the perfecting of The Church, and when The Church is perfected, the ministries will be gone.

If your life is ministry, and you sacrifice because of ministry and neglect your family, you are not taking care of the garden that God gave you. The Church is not taking care of the garden. Many of you are divorced because of false teachings. Many of us are injured because of wrong priorities, and we are like Adam and Eve, taken outside that garden environment. When we are outside that garden, we eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and we are separated from the purpose and plan of God in our life because of our independence and pride. We eat of knowledge because knowledge comes through information. Adam and Eve did not have all knowledge, but had the ability to learn knowledge and what it was to live outside the garden. Imagine what Adam and Eve felt when they had the first hunger pains and the first sense of weariness on their bodies. These things were all perfect in the garden. When we eat of the tree of knowledge in any relationship, we are outside of what God created.

In His Love,
      Sigi

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