YOUNG WOMEN ISSUES PAGE TWO
WEDDING DAY COUNSEL
About to marry
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Good day young men and women still single. Marrying right is not as easy as you think, real spiritual warfare surrounds marriage, go through my previous messages to young men and women, will help you to marry right. Assuming you now succeed in marrying a good person that GOD gives you and wedding plans are on course, take note of the following.
Evil forces always look for every chance they can use to perpetrate evil, you never know who has an evil plan. One-way they usually carry out evil works is during huge gathering where they can always mix with people to perpetrate evil. As a believer in CHRIST take nothing for granted as you plan your wedding. Many have collected afflictions during wedding. Strange wedding gifts can wreak havoc in the lives of couples, disasters have struck people and wedding guests on wedding days. Some ungodly wedding traditions have exposed couples to demonic influence and infiltration, huge wedding expenses have put couples under debts, etc. A few safety tips.
1. Both of you might be born-again, but your parents might not be, not all in-laws are born-again. Wedding, just like burials and family functions can hardly be monopolised by one person since it involves many people who also have the right to contribute. As a bride or groom, you must work with your partner's family. They might not be as spiritually strong as you are, they have friends whose nature and intent you might not know. You cannot choose their guests for them. There are many things you cannot control or predict. The enemy can easily sneak in to carry out their operations. You will need many hands to fix things and you do not know others they will enlist. This is why you need GOD who only sees all things and can fix all things. The first step you must take before embarking on any wedding arrangements is joint prayers to cover the entire ceremony with the blood of JESUS, Fire, several divine protection scriptures and petition heaven for Angelic help and intervention. This first step will help a lot. When the LORD took my mother home, I wanted to do a simple homegoing ceremony for her, but my siblings opted for a grand ceremony. This will expose the entire process to many people. I knew I had spiritual enemies who will look for any chance they get to do evil. I can only play my part, others must play theirs. I went before heaven and covered the entire process in prayers. Yes, the enemy tried many things but I never stopped praying before during and after the entire process. I also raised a few Pastors to pray along. The few Pastors who are members of a Pastors body I coordinate also prayed concerning the entire process at a meeting we had. One of the things I did is to send GOD seeds and sacrifices in appreciation for GOD taking my mother home and for HIS Mercy concerning the entire process before, during and after. On the morning of the Wake keep day, I had a Pastor prayer warrior in the house leading prayers for the occasion while I was busy running here and there. I knew agents were in attendance at wake keep, Church and reception looking for opportunities to strike, but I already put all these in prayers and all glory went to GOD. Several moves also were made after the entire celebration, but Divine Mercy keep helping us. All glory to GOD. Young man and woman, do the same before, during and after your wedding, it will help. Above all, send GOD wedding thanksgiving seed before and after the wedding. Sacrifice activate divine intervention, it works !
2. To the best of your ability, ensure only genuine believers you trust are in key places : officiating ministers, bridal train (keep them small if need be), groom's men, MC at reception, Praise and worship leaders, caterers, ushers, etc. You will agree that it is not always that easy to guarantee genuine believers in some areas, especially if your in-laws chose the Church and are in charge of reception and cooking. This is where you need heaven's intervention in real prayers before any wedding arrangement commence. Remember, there are also fake Churches and false ministers and your in-laws might not know any better. Choice of Church is very important. Genuine blessings from genuine ministers on your wedding day is good. Ensure that after receiving all the wedding blessings from the truly anointed officiating ministers, appreciate them with offerings you can afford. Don't forget that part, quite important. Put that in your wedding budget and give it to them even if possibly before the wedding.
3. Resolutely stand against any fetish or idolatrous practices in your wedding plans. Make it clear to all your in-laws from the foundation of your courtship that you are a genuinely born-again person and don't do fetish nor idolatry. Once they know that, they will not ask you for strong drinks as dowry, take you to shrines for prayers and oblations, ask masquerades to come dance and pray for you, require sacrificial items to gods, etc. If they attempt any of such, stand your ground against it in your own interest.
4. Plan financially ahead before the wedding. Ensure you do not go beyond your means nor get desperate for money during the ceremony. Once you can pay for what you need, will be easy to control things for good and not be sabotaged. Do the best wedding ceremony you can afford, even if it will be a simple ceremony in a small space. The most important thing is GOD'S presence, not crowd. Check your purse, make plans accordingly, become one and go have honeymoon.
5. Do your dancing and singing at reception, but cut out money spraying. Make this very clear in announcement and have security on ground to enforce this. Money spraying is against the law in Nigeria anyway (not sure of other countries) and also evil forces have used such means to afflict couples and wedding guests. Avoid it. Givers can drop envelopes or at best have cartons on ground they can put the money inside. Gifts will come, you cannot avoid this. Ensure you cover that area in prayers before wedding so that enemies will not come to drop 'spiritual bombs' as gifts.
As I said earlier, no matter how small the ceremony is, you cannot have final say over all arrangements, especially if it must require others who also have rights to play their part. Because of this, the enemy can use several strategies to move in. You cannot be everywhere coordinating everything at once. Many things can happen you will not see, invited and uninvited guests will come. This is why you must have adequate prayer cover added to sacrifice sent to heaven for HIS Mercy to rest on the entire process. I wish you a glorious wedding in CHRIST JESUS.
