"Relationship"
Now my friend let's look at relationship: Webster's says the state of being related, connecting or binding in relationship. A romantic or passionate attachment.

Wow, here we are again with the #4, four words that stand out in the defining of the word relationship.

1. CONNECTING: To have or establish rapport, to establish a communications connection.
2. BINDING: imposing a obligation
3. ROMANTIC: Imaginary, visionary, marked by imaginative or emotional appeal, with the expressions of love and affection.
4. PASSIONATE: capable of being affected by or expressing intense feeling, easily aroused to anger...

Now my friend looking to the # 4, 4 rep. again two things 1. procreative power . We will pursue further in understanding the word relationship. You also see 4 words that are highlighted in with the word relationship and again we see the world trying to put stress and pressure upon what God intended to be joyful, fulfilling and rich. Everything looks good until we see the word binding: imposing an obligation....IMPOSING: something against ones will, forceful, powerful. This was not what God intended for marriage....this type of action. is totally against God's plan for the institution of marriage.

Ephesians 5:21-33
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. ( not in fear of each other)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. (the husband has a responsibility as Christ does to the church)
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (this is purpose and destiny if you know your purpose your marriage will see it's destiny and fulfillment)
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
There is such powerful revelation in Ephesians 5: 21-33. I ask you to read this over and over again, asking and reminding yourself that God is not mocked; whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. understand my friend, Love, passion, affection is not something demanded or forced. It's not something given out of obligation or necessity.
Now as we finish with the word Relationship we find out that this word has 12 letters and 12 is the # of God's government and governing power. We do not own each other or have the right to demand each other feelings or emotions it's not our governing power but God's. My friend when we allow God, Not church, not family, nor Job to govern our love, our passion, our commitment to each other than and only than will our marriage see a new beginning and the resurrection of our first love and passion....

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
The enemy may throw things in our path, and we will encounter things that will challenge us in our relationship. But God will use those to make us stronger in our love and our commitment to each other take time and read:
Genesis 50:20 also read Psalms 23:5

Marriage: 8
Relationship: 12
8+12=20
the # 20 means Redemption, Time of Waiting
everywhere you look you find God's purpose...if both of you walk in God's purpose than both the emotional and physical touch, passion, kiss and intimate moments will be a moment of fulfilling God's purpose as Adam declared about Eve in Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. and and your marriage will see its destiny....In those moments of passion whether it's a touch, a kiss or a heated moment of intense passion you will reach the destiny of what marriage is intended by God to be. And the resurrection of that first intense feeling that you felt as he/she walked across the room and you could not take your eyes from them.


created by:
Dr. Michael N. Smith Sr.