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Let us sit back and listen as the
servant of God brings forth the Word of
Life.
Praise the Lord.
We give God praise for this morning again.
And we are looking up to him for
all that he has in store for us
today.
I would like us to bow our heads
as we pray, as we take this devotional
challenge this morning.
Shall we pray?
Dear Father, once again we thank you for
this new day.
We thank you, Father, because you are the
living God who daily loots us with benefits.
We're grateful that in your mercy you've gathered
us across different nations.
Thank you, Lord, that you have declared in
your Word, you have not said to the
house of Jacob, seek him in vain.
And so, Lord, our eyes are on you,
our hearts are expecting.
Just as your Word did come last night,
that this beginning of miracles.
Lord, we are trusting you that, God, you
will rot mightily among us even this day.
As we come, Lord, looking into your Word
this morning, on the issues of our personal
communion with you, we pray, Father, that you
will be gracious unto us, you will speak
to our lives.
We pray, Father, that you will rekindle your
fire on each of our altars.
We look to you that beyond our asking,
Lord, you will help us.
In Jesus' name we are praying, Amen.
Amen.
This morning, our devotional challenge will be focusing
on the issue of our personal or individual
altar.
And we'll be looking at the need to
have and to maintain our personal communion, our
personal altar.
And as the Lord may be guiding us,
we'll be looking at God's wisdom on how
to go about it.
We'll read a few scriptures, but first I
want us to begin with the book of
Hebrews, chapter 11.
Turn with me to Hebrews 11.
Hebrews chapter 11.
And we shall be reading verses 8 to
12.
Hebrews 11.
We'll read verse 8 to 12.
I'll be reading from the New King James
Version.
Hebrews 11, verse 8 to 12.
By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called
to go out to the place he received
as an inheritance.
And he went out, not knowing where he
was going.
By faith, he dwelt in the land of
promise, as in a foreign country, dwelling in
tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with
him of the same promise.
For he waited for the city which has
foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Verse 11.
By faith, Sarah herself also received strength
to conceive seed, and she bore a child
when she was past the age because she
judged him faithful who had promised.
Verse 12.
Therefore, from one man and him as good
as they were born as many as the
stars of the sky in multitude, innumerable as
the sun, which is by the seashore.
I will be reading other passages as we
go along by the grace of God.
As we consider the issue of our personal
altar, and the need to have a personal
altar, the need to maintain our personal altar,
and our God will help us that despite
all the demands of family, all the demands
of raising children, all the demands of work
schedules, we're able to maintain it.
I was led of the Lord to begin
this by looking at this passage that is
before us this morning.
I sense the way to consider the issue
of personal altar is more than just the
matter of our personal quiet time.
I sense it's going deeper to the matter
of our prayer life, the matter of our
personal communion as it were with the Lord.
The first thing that I want to draw
attention to, brethren, this morning is how crucial
that is in our marriage relationship.
The need, just wanting to emphasize briefly, the
need that as husband or as a wife,
we must build our own personal communion with
the Lord.
You will note with me from the passage
we read, it says, by faith Abraham obeyed
when he was called out to go to
the place which he will receive as an
inheritance.
Our focus this morning is not on the
issue of faith.
But we're looking at the matter of their
faith as a result of their walk with
the Lord.
You note that earlier on in that Hebrews
11, the scripture has laid it clearly that
for anyone who will please God, there's a
way to walk with him.
He must walk with God by faith.
But what is touching my attention, I mean,
catching my attention that I wanted to draw
our attention to this morning is that the
scripture began by saying, Abraham, by faith, he
obeyed when he was called out to go
to a place which he will receive as
an inheritance.
And he went out not knowing where he
was going.
The scripture followed that even the way he
dwelled in the land of promise was by
faith.
What does that say to us that I
wanted us to note?
It was that whatever we saw about Abraham,
whatever action we saw Abraham take, they were
not arbitrary.
They were springing out of his relationship with
God.
They were springing out of his knowledge of
God, out of his communion with God.
You see, the scripture says he obeyed when
he was called out to go to the
place which he will receive.
That is, he had heard God.
He was in a communion, as it were,
with the Lord.
And so when God spoke, he obeyed.
He had a personal walk with God.
He was in communion with the Lord.
And all else that we see about Abraham
that is noteworthy today, that enabled him, together
with his wife, to fulfill the divine purpose.
They were springing out of their relationship with
God.
Now I want to remind us what the
Lord pointed our attention to last night as
we were looking at that John chapter 2.
You will note that the instruction the Lord
Jesus gave, I mean, sorry, that Mary gave
to the servant was, Whatsoever he says to
you, do.
Now I'm bringing this in because there's no
way a man can actually walk in the
light of God's counsel except he's in fellowship
with God.
The first matter I wanted us to note,
Abraham had a walk with God.
Abraham was in communion with God.
And all else we see about him in
his marriage, in his life, was springing out
of that personal communion, personal relationship with God.
But what makes this passage a matter for
me, as the Lord was bringing it to
my attention, as we're looking at this matter
of personal order, is as I now come
to verse 11, I would like you to
please note with me that Hebrews chapter 11
and the 11th verse.
The Holy Spirit says, What
is the matter that I wanted us to
please note?
That whether as a husband, for us to
have a fulfilling matrimony, it must be springing
out of a communion of our personal fellowship
with the Lord.
For a husband to be a correct husband,
to be able to provide leadership as we
see in the case of Abraham here, it
must be one that is in communion with
the Lord.
The Lord was taught again last night, as
the word of God came, and the Holy
Spirit was pointing to the fact that every
man at the beginning brings forth the good
wine.
And the servant of the Lord was saying,
as the Lord brought the message yesterday, that
it is natural, the law of the natural
is the law of diminishing returns.
That whatever is springing from the natural, it
will diminish with time.
What that means is that to sustain a
fruitful and a fulfilling marriage, there's a need
for connection to the divine source.
There's a need that there's a springing out
of our communion as it were with the
Lord.
So for Abraham to be able to provide
the kind of leadership we see in, that
was not going to lead his wife, nor
his family into the bush, it was from
their communion with the Lord.
It was from his personal fellowship with God.
Now, if all that we read ended there,
there will have been no need to speak
about our personal altar.
It is that the Holy Spirit now says,
by faith, Sarah herself also received strength to
conceive seed.
What that says to me is that it
was not just Abraham who had the walk
with God.
It was not Abraham alone who had personal
communion with the Lord, Sarah herself.
Let me note for wives that are listening.
On one count, it is crucial.
A man did his family well to be
the husband that God intends him to be,
whether in the matter of loving his wife
as he should.
He must be in touch with the divine
source, with the divine strength.
He must be one that is in communion
as it were with the Lord.
But beyond that, the wife also, the scripture
says, Sarah herself also received strength.
So, in the married relationship, we want to
first note this morning.
Both husband and wife must continually be in
communion with the Lord.
Must continually be a people who touch base
with heaven.
Must be people who are having sweet communion,
sweet fellowship with God.
It looks to me, several issues will be
easily resolved.
Several issues will take their proper place when
you have a man at the head of
the home who is in touch with heaven.
And you have a wife who is also
in communion with God.
As I'm looking at the movement of Abraham,
what is that Abraham might have added a
problem in obeying God if he did not
have a wife who also has a standing
before God.
And you will agree with me that there
are many times you'll find that a man
is eager and is pushful for the things
of God.
He's earnest.
He wants to do the will of God.
But because somehow the wife is not in
tune, you'll find a problem.
There are challenges we have met before.
I don't intend to go into some of
the things that may be said as we
go on.
But there are challenges you have met in
marriage before.
Where a man says, this is the way
God is leading.
But because the wife has no hearing for
God, she has not built her own personal
relationship with God, it becomes a problem.
At other times, even when she's following, she
may be doing so murmuring or passively.
So I want to emphasize in this as
we look at this, the matter of our
personal altar this morning.
As the man, the head of the home,
if you must lead your house well, if
you must be the man God intends you
to be, it cannot be outside of drawing
from the source of life.
That you are in communion continually as it
were with the Lord.
As a wife, it will not just be
a baggage that is carried along.
And if you will be the correct help
as it were to your husband, it must
be that you yourself, you have this personal
altar that is within your communion as it
were with the Lord.
You know what taught me, even though I
don't want to dwell on this too long,
from that Hebrews 11, is the way verse
12 now brings it with the word.
I don't know how it is read in
your own version, but in the New King
James Version it says, Therefore, from one man,
and him as good as dead, were born
as many as the stars of the sky
in multitude, innumerable as the sun which is
by the seashore.
Is the word, therefore, that actually taught me.
We read of Abraham, we read of his
obedience, we read of his lifestyle, how he
dwelled, and the scripture is saying all of
this was springing out of his faith, out
of his relationship with God.
And then the Holy Spirit says, by faith,
Sarah herself.
And all that we saw about Sarah, then
the scripture now says, therefore.
It looks that the robustness, the wholesomeness that
we find in this couple's life was not
just the question of maybe the man having
a walk with God, having a personal growing
fellowship with God, and the wife being otherwise.
It is that both man and woman are
in communion.
They are in communion as it were with
the Lord.
I am so touched as I look at
the life of Sarah, and I want to
again say only to all our sisters.
It is not enough that your husband is
praying for you or is praying with you.
It is crucial that you are in continuous
touch with heaven.
You will not be able to be the
help that God intends you to be unless
you are a woman who also have your
personal standing in the presence of God.
I'm touched when we look at 1 Peter
3, it points to the kind of woman
that Sarah was.
Will you mind if we just read that?
1 Peter 3, I don't also intend to
dwell there, but just to point out something
about the necessity of our personal communion, personal
order, and our walk with the Lord.
1 Peter 3, I will just quickly read
verse 1 to 6.
1 Peter 3, verse 1 to 6.
My emphasis is not all that is spoken
there, but just to point our attention to
something.
The Scripture says, Wives, likewise, be submissive to
your own husbands, that even if some do
not obey the word, they without the word
may be warned by the conduct of their
wives.
When they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by
fear, do not let your adornment be merely
outward, arranging the heir, wearing gold or putting
on fine apparel.
Verse 4, rather, let it be the hidden
person of the heart, the incorruptible beauty of
a gentle and a quiet spirit, which is
very precious in the sight of God.
Verse 5, for in this manner, in former
times, the only women who trusted in God
also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own
husband.
As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose
daughters you are, if you do good and
are not afraid with any terror.
My focus is just that verse 4 and
verse 5.
The Scripture says the adornment, what should be
the focus?
What should be a priority in the life
even of a wife, of a woman?
It says, not the adornment of what is
outward, but your inner life.
Rather, let it be the hidden person of
the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a
gentle and a quiet spirit, which is very
precious in the sight of God.
When God has a woman, a wife, who
is meek, who God works on, what a
treasure, what a blessing to that married.
And when we have a man who, by
God's grace, is continuously in communion with the
Lord, what a blessing it will be to
his family.
So the first critical matter I just wanted
us to note in this morning, in the
matter of our personal altar, is that both
the man and his wife must be growing,
must be progressive in their personal communion.
It brings a genuine blessing onto the marriage.
Just taking an example about the life and
the marriage of Abraham and Sarah, I would
like us just to read Genesis 21, Genesis
chapter 21, and we will read verse 9
to 12.
Just something, again, my attention was drawn to,
to see how the relationship they both have,
how it became a blessing and a help,
even in their union.
Are you there with me?
Genesis chapter 21, I would like to read
verse 9 to 12.
It says, And Sarah saw the son of
Aga, the Egyptian, whom she had borne to
Abraham, scoffing.
Verse 10.
Therefore, she said to Abraham, Cast out this
born woman and her son, for the son
of this born woman shall not be heir
with my son, namely with Isaac.
And the matter was very displeasing in Abraham's
sight because of his son.
But God said to Abraham, Do not let
it be displeasing in your sight because of
the lad or because of your born woman.
Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to
her voice, for in Isaac your seed shall
be called.
I'm touched as I look at this passage
because we see what naturally transpires in a
marital relationship.
It is not every time that we will
agree over a matter.
It is not every time that what the
husband is suggesting will be palatable to the
wife.
It is not every time that what the
wife is saying will be welcomed by the
husband.
But when God has both a man and
a woman who is in touch with him,
oh, it results many issues.
I just wanted to look.
Here was a situation in marriage.
I'm not dealing with all the details.
I'm only making a reference to emphasize the
need that as a man, we must not
lag behind in keeping our communion with the
Lord.
As a wife, you must be at your
best in focusing on developing our personal relationship
with the Lord.
Now, the scripture says that Sarah saw what
you call Ishmael as a mock Isaac.
And she says, look, cast out this born
woman and her son, for the son of
this born woman shall not be heir with
my son, namely with Isaac.
It sounds authoritative somehow.
But as we learn about Sarah's life, we
know she's a submissive woman.
Now, I wanted us to note the response
of Abraham to that.
The scripture says the matter was very displeasing
in Abraham's sight because of his son.
Here is a wife bringing the suggestion that
the husband cannot take.
No, no, no, no.
It cannot be like that.
How was this resolved?
Verse 12 says, but God.
But God said to Abraham.
Now, I don't want us to miss a
matter.
As simple as that may sound, do you
know it's not every man that hears God?
Sometimes the issue as a husband, you are
insisting upon.
It may be somehow wanting to help your
life, but you are insisting and saying and
resisting whatever your wife is suggesting.
How wonderful it would be if you are
a man who is in fellowship with God.
If you are a man who is in
communion with God, the Bible says, but God
said to Abraham.
Sarah has spoken.
Abraham is not pleased with it, but God.
Because there is a man who is in
communion with the Lord.
He says, don't let what Sarah said displease
you.
Because of the lad or because of your
born woman.
And it taught me that it was God
who was not saying to Abraham, whatever Sarah
has said to you, listen to her voice.
You will note there brethren, that in the
fall, the reason why one of the things
that God rebuked Adam for was that he
heard the voice of his wife.
You may wonder, does it not contradict the
way of dealings and the set up of
authority in the family?
No.
When what the wife is saying is of
the Lord.
But again, it takes a woman also who
is in personal fellowship with God to be
able to speak in a manner that will
be helpful to the other.
Now did you see that God didn't just
say, whatever Sarah said to you, listen to
her voice.
There was a reason.
He said, because in Isaac your seed shall
be called.
She is in tune with the counsel of
God.
The first challenge that is coming to me
this morning for us to consider, dear brethren,
is as the head of the home, as
a man, are you one who hears God?
Are you one who is in fellowship with
God?
And not just that you are speaking of
the past, you are in continuous communion with
the Lord.
We like that as the Lord is bringing
it to us here, to have a fruitful
and a fulfilling matrimony.
This matter of our individual personal communion with
God is critical.
Yes, we will have family altar.
Yes, we will pray together as couple.
But all of those will be enriched when
we have men who are in tune with
heaven.
When we have wives who are in tune
with God.
Family issues and disagreements will be resolved easily
when you have a man that is continually
in fellowship with God.
Issues of obedience or submission will not be
a big matter.
When you have a wife, even when what
the husband is saying is not seemingly immediately
agreeable.
If that woman is one who hears God.
As the Holy Spirit saying that whatsoever he
says to you, do it.
How wonderful it will be.
Abraham could only arise to do what Sarah
said because the scripture says what God said
to Abraham.
And by God's grace, some of the blessings
we see.
I realize that it is not every time
that as a husband, the man gets it
right.
But part of the help that God has
packaged in the wife is such that if
there is a woman who is also spiritual,
who is also knowing the man of God,
she can be able to supply that.
So the first critical matter, as we look
at the need to have and to maintain
our personal oath is that first as a
man, as a wife, we must build our
oath.
It is basic.
It is fundamental into enriching our matrimony, into
our fulfilling, as it were, the purpose of
God.
Now, within the short time that I have
left, I just want to explore that.
And how do we maintain this personal communion?
Given the challenges of children upbringing, given the
challenges of family life, given the challenges of
workplace, how do we maintain our personal communion?
Let me first note, dear brethren, that I
sense if the enemy wants to scatter any
life or any marriage, the first place it
will knock at is your personal relationship with
God.
I think that is from several things we
see in the scripture that is apparent.
The strength of God's people is the Lord
himself.
We have been taught over and over again
that the greatest treasure any life can carry
is the presence of God.
Our Lord Jesus declared, as one of his
teachings in the gospel, he said to the
disciples, very soon all of you will leave
me.
But he who sent me is with me.
The father has never left me alone.
If there's anything, first, that we see in
the Lord Jesus that is instructive for us
is that our greatest treasure is the presence
of God in our life.
The greatest thing that we must cherish, we
must focus on our personal communion, that there's
nothing between our soul and the Savior.
And honestly speaking, any backsliding, any cracking down
of any life that affects marriage, normally, normally
we begin with when personal communion with God
has broken down.
When personal fellowship with God has broken down,
I recall in one of the teachings on
the steps to betraying the master.
You will recall, as many of us have
come through that message, that backsliding does not
just happen suddenly.
From the illustration of the life of Peter,
it is when a life who has been
in fellowship with God begin now to follow
Jesus from a distance.
And several things we want to come in
between our personal communion with the Lord.
Sometimes there are legitimate things.
Sometimes there are the challenges of raising up
children.
Sometimes there are the demands at our workplace.
But if we must maintain our communion with
the Lord because we've seen its value, the
first thing that I want us to note
is it must be a priority.
It must be a priority.
Time will not allow me, but I want
to count on our knowledge of Scripture to
follow the passage in Luke chapter 10, verse
38 to 42.
We know the story well, the story of
Jesus in the house of Martha.
And I think as we read down, the
Lord Jesus emphasized to Martha after she was
occupied with how she was going to minister
to the Lord with physical things, while Mary
sat at His feet.
The Lord did say, Martha, you are worried
about many things, but one thing is needful.
If we will maintain our personal communion with
the Lord, that is crucial to enriching our
matrimony.
Our personal communion with the Lord must be
a priority.
The psalmist says, one thing I have desired
of the Lord, that will I seek after.
I will pursue it.
He will pursue it because to Him, that
is a priority.
My dear brothers and sisters, can I ask,
how is your personal fellowship with the Lord?
As a husband, how is your personal fellowship
with the Lord?
If you reflect and look back, some of
the challenges that are coming to your marriage,
could it not be while you slept?
Could it not be while something began to
go wrong in your fellowship with God?
I want to sincerely say marital unfaithfulness does
not happen quickly, particularly for somebody who has
had a walk with God.
It begins with a drifting.
It begins when your personal fellowship with the
Lord is no longer a priority.
When so many other things are beginning to
come between you and the Lord.
So if we will maintain a personal communion
with the Lord, it must become our priority.
I have no doubt in marriage, there are
different phases of life.
I recall that as a young married person,
many years back, I had a, what do
I call it?
A pattern in the times of my own
personal, apart from personal communion in the morning.
In the evening, when I return from work,
the first thing I want to do is
to get to my room and spend some
time with the Lord.
As a single person, it was wonderful.
As a married person, particularly, I remember when
we had our first child, the first challenge
I remember was that the moment I come
in, particularly when the child has now begun
to walk and wants his daddy.
When I have gone in, she must come,
daddy, daddy, daddy.
I recall many times my wife will come
and pull the child out and say, no,
daddy is busy.
The child doesn't understand daddy is busy.
Daddy has gone all day.
Daddy has returned.
She must have her daddy.
And the Lord has to say to me,
so Lord, how do I balance this?
He said, yes, she has a right as
a child to her daddy.
It is you that must rearrange your time.
And that's going to bring me to the
second thing that I see with the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Because personal communion with God was a priority.
We don't have space or time, but I
know that if you check through the scriptures,
you will see that despite the demand of
ministry.
Despite the demand of fellowship, even with disciples,
the Lord Jesus organized his life, his way
in such a way that that communion was
not compromised.
And one wisdom God gave me then was
rather than go back home quickly to say
that's when I will pray.
I rather when everything is done in the
office, shut the door, still spend some time
with the Lord.
And then you can go back home and
relax.
The child can have the priority of your
communion because it is in his light that
we continually see light.
So the first thing, we must maintain our
personal order.
As a husband, it must be priority.
As a wife, it must be your priority.
If you know that there's no way you
can be effective, there's no way that your
marriage can take its purpose except you are
touching base continually with God.
It must be our priority.
But I want to end this session this
morning with something the Lord made in my
heart that I just want us to share
with and then we'll be praying in the
matter of maintaining our personal communion, our personal
order.
Please turn with me to Proverbs 8.
Proverbs 8.
I will just raise issues then I will
be stopping for us to pray together this
morning.
Proverbs 8.
And we will read verse 34, verse 35,
and verse 36.
It says, Blessed are who listen to me,
watching daily at my doors, waiting
at my doorway for those who find me,
find life and receive favor from the Lord.
But those who fail to find me, harm
themselves.
All who hate me, they love death.
What is the matter I want us to
pray about this morning as we conclude this?
As I've noted with us, for our marriage
to be fulfilling, we must make the matter
of our individual communion with the Lord a
primary thing.
If, as we pray together as couples, if
it would be enriching, it must be that
there's a husband who is in touch with
heaven.
There's a wife who is in communion at
her own level, as it were, with the
Lord.
But looking at how do we maintain our
personal communion with the Lord?
And I said the first thing I see
from God's Word, which I'm trusting the Holy
Spirit will expand to us much more individually,
is that all who get in tune with
the Lord, they may be a priority.
Our personal fellowships aid, verse 34, and who
listens to me?
The Holy Spirit says it again, there's a
blessedness.
There's a blessedness in being a husband who
hears God.
Being a wife who is in communion continually
with God.
But how is this done?
The scripture says, watching daily at my gates.
Watching daily at my gates.
Waiting at the post of my doors.
The emphasis I sense God wants me to
bring is the matter of watching daily.
Watching daily.
Several things we want to come in between
our fellowship, as it were, in the Lord.
But for us to maintain our fellowship with
God, it must be a daily thing.
It must be a daily thing.
The moment you begin to miss your personal
fellowship with God, you know there's danger.
The moment, whether work, whether even ministry, becomes
the issue that clouds you out from communion
with the Lord, you are beginning to enter
a danger zone.
And one of the deceptions, particularly for those
of us in ministry, is to think, because
you have preached to others, you have received
revelation and spoken, it means you are also
alright.
That's deception.
God needs to get us to the place
where continually he has access to our inner
man.
And for this to be, it must become
a daily thing.
As I'm concluding, as I see my time
is gone, I want to ask you, dear
brother, how is your fellowship with God?
How is your personal communion with God?
As God has brought us to this retreat,
can we call on God together to revisit
your altar?
You cannot be the correct blessing to your
wife and to your children unless you are
a man who God has access to all
the time.
And the way to build it, it must
be a priority.
It must be something you are engaging on
a daily basis, watching daily at my gates,
waiting.
So it is not just being there daily.
There must be a waiting.
And that's why I was saying that we're
taking this beyond just that you have your
quiet time.
Because it's possible for your quiet time to
become a routine.
But when you are a man waiting to
hear God, because God says, those who listen
to me are those who are blessed.
How wonderful.
The Lord says, those who find me, find
life.
It means to find him, we must seek
him.
We must seek him and to obtain favor
from the Lord.
What is the last point I should raise?
Those who sin against me wrong their own
soul.
And all those who hate me, they love
death.
One version says, when you break communion with
God, you are flirting with death.
Oh, I pray the Lord will help us
to see the gravity.
The importance of me keeping in tune with
heaven.
So much that any time you find that
things are beginning to go low, you must
learn the wisdom of Jesus in Luke chapter
5 verse 16.
The scripture says, he often withdraws to lonely
places and he prays.
As I see my time is gone for
now, I would like us to pray together
this morning.
Honestly speaking, dear brothers and sisters, all the
issues God will be bringing, it will become
deeper with us when we have men who
take their communion with God as a priority.
When we have wives who are not just
being carried along as a wheelbarrow in their
marital relationship, but they are in tune with
heaven.
Let it not be said, you say, I
don't know anything, I don't know what to
say.
No, we must cultivate it.
I would like us to bow our heads
as we pray together at this time.
This very, very first devotional challenge we're having
this morning.
Can I ask you, how is your altar?
As the husband, how is your personal altar
with the Lord?
As a wife, how is your personal communion
with the Lord?
Are you such a husband that hears the
Lord, that the Bible says like Abraham, what
God said.
That issues are resolved, direction is given, because
you are maintaining your communion with the Lord.
Are you the wife that the Holy Spirit
will speak of like Sarah and say Sarah
herself.
Whose priority is not just the adornment of
the physical, but you are eager about your
inner life.
You will help your husband far when you
are such a woman.
Can we pray together this morning as couples?
Can we again examine before the Lord, how
is my altar?
Brother, is the fire on your altar, is
it going low?
That's danger.
The Bible says, those who ignore me, they
are only courting death.
They are flirting with death.
Those who find me, they find life.
Can we pray this morning, the Lord, fresh
grace to be a man who watches daily
at your gates.
Who waits at the post of your door.
Please bow your heads as we pray.
Bow your heads as we pray.
Let's speak to God.
I will be calling on our sister to
please take us up in prayer as we
conclude this session.
You may need to join your hands with
your spouse.
And please let's pray together.
Your husband needs to be a man in
tune with God.
Never be content as a wife that maybe
is getting things for you, but his relationship
with God is down.
It will be spelling doom and danger to
you.
Can we pray this morning?
Can we pray?
Marriage cannot be sustained without the life of
God.
Sister Inka, please help us to pray further.
Thank you.
In this morning, we are grateful unto you.
Thank you, Lord, for the way you have
come for us again this morning.
Thank you, Lord, for the way you have
spoken to us.
Father, our prayer.
Oh, Lord, as we lift up our hearts
unto you this morning, that's for every man
and for every husband.
Lord, we beg you that there will be
a cultivation and a maintenance.
Oh, Lord, of a continuous current walk and
relationship with you in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Father, we beg you, oh God, particularly for
the wives.
We are the ones that normally get busy
with other things.
We are the ones that normally shoots our
eyes away.
There are several other things that take our
time and our attention.
Father, we plead with you this morning.
Please show us your mercy in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Father, we pray for everyone.
Oh, Lord, as we had you this morning,
everyone whose altar, the fire on our altars
have gone down.
We beg you, oh Lord, let fire from
on high.
Let the fires upon our altar be rekindled
as we go back to sit at your
feet like Mary did in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
For every man, for every woman, for every
husband and wife, please help us.
Oh, Lord, in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Thank you, our father in Jesus mighty name.
Amen.