Marriage: A Spiritual Relationship

"All of us, at some point, need a miracle! That is when you really begin to appreciate and wish for MORE spirituality -- the power to, legally, tap into another dimension and alter the natural course of earthly events".

Spirituality of Marriage

Every relationship God creates has the same purpose, be it friend to friend or sister to sister, brother to brother, brother and sister, mother/father to sons/daughters, husband to wife, inlaws (yes, inlaws--smile) or extended family. Relationships are a spiritual thing intended to "have your back" in the spirit-realm."

As with the other relationships which we have covered these two weeks, marriage is a spiritual thing. Herein lies a truth that can set many free of horrible sufferings in their feelings for another human being. The following scripture is the root and soil, the unshakeable foundation upon which the relationship that God calls marriage acquires its identity and permanency:


Ephesians 5:31-33

31. 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.


32. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.


33. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Spiritual Identity of Marriage - WHAT is marriage?

Pastor Dee's Spirituality Definition For Marriage:

Marriage is the spiritual event displayed by an earthly ceremony of a man 'taking to himself' responsibility for the woman who is his spirit-mate.


31. 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.

First of all, ONLY A MAN CAN MARRY! Marriage is not an earthly event, it is a spiritual creation by the power of God. In the spirit-realm is where marriage takes place. This is why a man should be seeking from God, to discover who his 'spirit-mate' is, not his soul-mate, nor his sexual partner, nor his lifetime cook, launderer, housekeeper etc..

Yes, in this one thing it is true that it is a man's world (smile). Marriage is completely male-directed by supreme wisdom of God.

Spiritual Time Frame of Marriage

32. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Jesus Christ is the only 'legal' entry into the spirit-realm. All who believe that, comprise a great community of spiritual persons called the Bride of Christ aka The Church (the called out ones). We are called the Bride of Christ because Jesus loves us so seriously as to have laid down His life and suffered much opposition to rescuing us from spiritual. He committed to be the one responsible for each of us becoming the person God created us to be.

As Christ's relationship and responsiblity toward His Bride is permanently in effect, so is man on earth with his own wife.

Spiritual Effect of Marriage - What spiritual powers exist, release, in marriage?

33. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

The invisible heart thoughts of the man toward his wife and of the woman toward her husband is not invisible in the spirit-realm where spiritual powers are active 24-7. In the spirit-realm, the attitude of a husband and wife toward one another reflect their upholding or breaking powerful spiritual laws, perhaps unknown to them but well-known to the Evil one. God's powers of good and the Evil one's powers within curses are activiated upon BOTH by each one's attitude toward the other. WHY ARE POWERS ACTIVATED AGAINST BOTH BY THE INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDE OF ONLY ONE?

Marriage is God's greatest attempt to "have your back" in the spirit-realm. Since the purpose of any relationship is to protect you from the spiritual tricks and traps in Satan's plots to destroy you from becoming the person that God created you to be (self-actualization), what greater love than to give you someone who is permanently in your life for that purpose?


While God can give you parents and several friends, teachers who pass through your life and also the spiritual authorities in the ministry of Christ to you -- there is no other human being whom God has made "responsible" for your spiritual well-being through tending your spiritual and earthly needs . Parents once had that 'responsibility'. THAT is why Jesus says, that God has commanded a man to leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

YOU are chosen by God, Himself, to be held responsible and accountable to Him for the protection and building up of another human spirit! You are intended to be the catalyst in another person becoming all that God created them to be. This is the spirituality of marriage. No other relationship holds this spiritual identity or its reward (blessing) and punishment (curses). Frightening isn't it?

For these reasons a male "takes on a wife", but a female is "given in marriage".

For this reason God's scriptures command that the husband honor the wife in his leadership decisions, with the knowledge that she is a female, designed with a body physically weaker than his male strength.

Satan, in his attempt to destroy who God created each of you to be, has accomplished the cunning task of twisting this scripture in the minds of some who assumed that God meant the wife and any woman were spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically weaker than the husband or any man.

Through this cunning, the Evil one lays the trap for continual contention, despise and disrespect. Contention, despise and disrespect foster anger, hurt, bitterness, hate and eventual betrayal in all marriage relationships. Betrayal is the breaking of any portion of the covenant in the spirit-realm between God and yourselves. It occurs in marriages where the man and the woman do not grasp their spiritual identity, responsibility and powers.

God willing, we will continue or finish this topic tomorrow.