MARRIAGE FORTRESS FOREVER
What does a fortress have to do with marriage? Everything!!!
A fortress is a fortified (secured) place, especially a large, permanent military stronghold that often includes a town.
In Psa.91:2 God is called our “fortress” or METSUDA
Psa. 91:2 “I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”
Where do you go when things go wrong and times get hard in your marriage? Your mother? Sister? Best Friend? Co-worker?
Are there times when you have taken refuge in anything and everything but God?
What keeps you from EXPERIENCING God as your fortress?
Could it be your pride?
Do you seek shelter somewhere else because you get ANGRY with God for letting you down?
When we wait on God, we are telling him that we will put our trust in Him to do what is right for our lives.
Maybe you FEEL unworthy or guilty of asking God for his help.
The devil is a liar and he will lie to you in order to keep you from going to God.
Do you think that your marital situation is IMPOSSIBLE?
He loves those impossible issues because then you will know it was him who created a miracle.
No one else can get HIS glory!!!
God doesn’t want to just dwell with His people, He wants to dwell within His people.
He is someone that you can RUN to for safety and security.
The City of Refuge in the Old Testament was somewhere that a person could run to if they had accidently killed someone. This place was within a day’s journey since they were strategically placed at various places in Israel.
God is compared to an eagle or a great bird. This is where the RIGHTEOUS can find shelter.
In the same way Jesus is our fortress and our strength.
Fortress walls were about 25 feet high and 25 feet thick in the Old Testament. People would work outside the walls during the day and then at night they could come inside the walls protection.
In Matthew, Jesus expressed how a mother hen longs to gather her chicks under her wings.
“…how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” Matt.23:37
Your life will be different if you let God shelter you under His wings.
As a couple, learn to take SHELTER behind those fortress walls.
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LOVE YOUR SPOUSE 
The enemy doesnt play fair, Ive seen in many cases. He is an accuser ofthe brother an have couples fighting against eachother. We r not fighting flesh and blood but demon forces. We must look. I to Jesus the author n finisher of our faith.
I seek His shelter!!
Hi Delphine! Thanks for your honest comment. First of all I would suggest that you go to your pastor. The problem with going to good friends and family is that they will give you advise that will benefit you. Although God is definitely concerned about you, He is concerned in reconciling your marriage. Can you let me know what city you live in so I can make a suggestion where you can get help?
Hi Kayekaye! Thanks for your excellent comment. You are so “right on!”
You seem like such a wise caring lady that I would just love to sit and chat with. I would be interested in talking one on one to you or someone like you. I have tried emailing someone to share my thoughts, but I would love to sit with someone and not have to email them but if this is the only way to get a wise caring person, then I am willing to do this. I am blessed with lots of kind loving people all around me. Prayer partners who pray with me. Friends and family who really do care very much about my pain. But at the same time I feel blessed by this, I feel like no one really understands my pain. My husband has chose to leave me after 23 years of sharing our lives together. A year later he is very involved in my life, just does not want to be committed to me any more. While its hard, having him so involved, I m still great full he is but it hurts alot. My story is a story that all those around me have heard of but no one has walked this path nor know how to deal with me. Would you or someone you know of be of any help to me? I am so scared to even ask for help because of all the wrong advice that is out there and while it sounds so good, its not! Could you be of any help to me?
Hi Delphine! My answer to you went on the comment above under Kayekaye. Sorry! Can you let me know what city you live in so I can make a suggestion where you can get help?
sure, the city is Rienholds Pa. My paster and his wife are very active in my life. They are as helpful as they can be. They listen to my heart whenever I want to pour it out to them.