Marriages based on: "Thus saith the Lord"

[Classik]

The "Thus saith the Lord" thing may be true at times. However, I don't always believe it when people say, 'It was God that told me'.


My pastor also agrees that God can talk to a man or a woman and tell him/her: that person is your life partner. However, he doesn't give it all his attention. He says that most guys are cowards and always like using such "Thus saith the Lord" measures to deceive or intimidate some woman into marrying them. If you love a woman, walk straight to her, tell her: I love you - I wanna marry you, my Pastor says.
Period!!!

Or would God tell a man something and not also tell a woman??? Maybe, maybe not.
It is left for the woman to say either yes or no.


Some homes are already in a mess as a result of the "Thus saith the Lord thing".

I think, discernment is inevitable.
Marriage things isn't a child's play. The "Thus saith the Lord" thing has caused a lot of problems.

 

[joethemechanic]

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about "Headship" and Eph 5 ?

 

[Classik]

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about "Headship" and Eph 5 ?

Some guys don't seem bold enough to approach a woman on marrital terms. Some end up telling you: God said you are mine - when God has not spoken.

Some feel 'there is nothing more to do' when it has to do with God saying something. They accept whatever they were told: God said.

At times we realise that God trully didn't say anything...

 

[joethemechanic]

Some feel 'there is nothing more to do' when it has to do with God saying something. They accept whatever they were told:

Wow really?

Being that I'm from the big city, it is hard to imagine a woman believing that. Even the very most Christian girls here are way too worldly to buy into that.

 

[handy]

Probably not a case of being "too worldly to buy into that" but being too wise to buy into that. ;)

 

[Classik]

Thank God some of us have this spirit of discernment thing....

 

[God's_gift]

hehehe

 

[joethemechanic]

I'm still having a hard time picturing this happening in real life. How old are these people?

Sorry but I just can't imagine any woman that I have ever met believing it

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Some feel 'there is nothing more to do' when it has to do with God saying something. They accept whatever they were told: God said.

Any woman who caves in to that probably deserves the sap who deceived her.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Sorry but I just can't imagine any woman that I have ever met believing it

That's what I was thinking.

Maybe in a cult.

 

[Classik]

Any woman who caves in to that probably deserves the sap who deceived her.

Exactly!!!!



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We are no longer in the OT. This worked in the OT - and most of the Thus Saith the Lord thing was true. (Even the people of the OT had spirit of discernment.)


So, I wonder why some of us have decided to allow themselves to be fooled by the fake Thus Saith the Lord thing (not only in marrital terms)

 

[God's_gift]

Exactly!!!!



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We are no longer in the OT. This worked in the OT - and most of the Thus Saith the Lord thing was true. (Even the people of the OT had spirit of discernment.)


So, I wonder why some of us have decided to allow themselves to be fooled by the fake Thus Saith the Lord thing (not only in marrital terms)

because of lack of wisdom

 

[joethemechanic]

[video=youtube;8cRrbcv_qKA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cRrbcv_qKA[/video]


This just keeps coming to mind

 

[for_his_glory]

With my husband and myself it wasn't so much a "Thus sayest the Lord" thing it was more like, "well, I told you I would put the right one in your path now it's up to you". We met in July, started dating in September and married the following January back in 1998 and have been happily married 14 years now and just as much in love the day we got married.

 

[farouk]

With my husband and myself it wasn't so much a "Thus sayest the Lord" thing it was more like, "well, I told you I would put the right one in your path now it's up to you". We met in July, started dating in September and married the following January back in 1998 and have been happily married 14 years now and just as much in love the day we got married.

forHisglory:

Wonderful. Sort of brings tears to the eyes, really . God bless you guys richly.

 

[handy]

I can't think of one marriage in the Old Testament that was a "You must marry me because God said so..." Rebecca and Issac comes closest, but Rebecca was very willing to go with the servant and be Issac's wife.

 

[handy]

With my husband and myself it wasn't so much a "Thus sayest the Lord" thing it was more like, "well, I told you I would put the right one in your path now it's up to you". We met in July, started dating in September and married the following January back in 1998 and have been happily married 14 years now and just as much in love the day we got married.

:muchlove Nice. Steve and I have been married for 14 years now as well. It really is wonderful when one finds one life's mate.

LOL Something must have been in the water in 1997... Steve and I met in March, were engaged in August and married in February.

 

[tim-from-pa]

The Lord told me the woman I was to marry. When I was dating my wife, I looked into the palm of her hand and I knew one day she and I would be the parents of our children. To this day, I'm not sure the significance of looking at her hand. I never told her that until long after we were married. As a matter of fact, I was a tad like Jonah at first and tried to get away! It never dawned on me to tell her that then, as those men who say those kinds of things are probably talking from the imaginations of their heart and just want to force their wishful thinking by adding the Lord's name to it. I noticed that both in the bible and by experience, I found that the true calling of the Lord often times causes a Jonah-like reaction.

In my case it was discrete and the Lord barred me from saying anything and indeed I did not want to say anything.

Now for the irony. After we were married, I then heard from a co-worker of hers repeat what she once said about me. She said, "See that man there? He's going to be my husband one day!" and she set her mind to it. Interesting how both of us had premarital inclinations to each other. She apparently was the aggressor, and I was prescient and read her signals. To this day, she's the boss--- she even does all the driving, both at home here and on long trips. :toofunny

 

[farouk]

:muchlove Nice. Steve and I have been married for 14 years now as well. It really is wonderful when one finds one life's mate.

LOL Something must have been in the water in 1997... Steve and I met in March, were engaged in August and married in February.

handy:

Wonderful

 

[Classik]

The Lord told me the woman I was to marry. When I was dating my wife, I looked into the palm of her hand and I knew one day she and I would be the parents of our children. To this day, I'm not sure the significance of looking at her hand. I never told her that until long after we were married. As a matter of fact, I was a tad like Jonah at first and tried to get away! It never dawned on me to tell her that then, as those men who say those kinds of things are probably talking from the imaginations of their heart and just want to force their wishful thinking by adding the Lord's name to it. I noticed that both in the bible and by experience, I found that the true calling of the Lord often times causes a Jonah-like reaction.

In my case it was discrete and the Lord barred me from saying anything and indeed I did not want to say anything.

Now for the irony. After we were married, I then heard from a co-worker of hers repeat what she once said about me. She said, "See that man there? He's going to be my husband one day!" and she set her mind to it. Interesting how both of us had premarital inclinations to each other. She apparently was the aggressor, and I was prescient and read her signals. To this day, she's the boss--- she even does all the driving, both at home here and on long trips. :toofunny

You must be a happy man. Thank God for you.