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DEAR BROTHER

Text : Proverbs  19:14  

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Dear Brother, if you are married, we thank God for your life and we pray for wisdom to lead a fruitful life. Your marriage will not be a  barrier to fulfilling God's mandate for your life rather, it will give you a better platform to fulfilling it in Jesus name. 
Also, you need to take heed to God's word coming to you today so you could give qualitative advice to your sons and the younger generations. 

If you are not married, I say congratulations! This is because you still have the chance to retrace your steps and get it right maritally.

Dear brother, you must know and note that the wife you married can to a very large extent determine your success here on earth as far as God's mandate is concerned, and can invariably determine where you will spend your eternity. Why should you because of a fleeting pleasure jeopardise the eternal purpose of God for your life?

There was a king in Isreal by the name Jehoram, who did what the Lord considered to be evil in His sight. Categorically, the Bible says he did this evil because of the kind of  woman he married. 

He lived like the evil kings of Israel, following the example of Ahab’s dynasty, since he had married Ahab’s daughter, and he practiced what the LORD considered to be evil.2Ch 21:6. That is, if he had married another woman, there's a possibility that he could have led a different life.

Prior to this verse six, it was recorded concerning Jehoram, who was the first born son of his father, King Jehoshaphat, that  after he had assumed the throne and consolidated his rule over his father’s kingdom, he executed all of his brothers, along with some of the rulers of Israel. How more cruel can a man be?
 
Again in the next chapter, we saw that another man's destiny was cut short by this same woman. 
First she was the wife of King Jehoram and the brain behind the evils he perpetrated which ultimately led to his untimely and uncelebrated death. 
Now, she is the mother of king Ahaziah. 

Ahaziah was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. His mother was Athaliah, Omri’s granddaughter.
He followed the example of Ahab’s dynasty because his mother gave him evil counsel. 2Chron.
22:2-3.

Your wife will eventually become the mother of your children. If you don't like what you see in  her, don't marry her, because she will reproduce same in your children.

One woman destroyed the destinies of two generations to say the least, just because one man married wrongly.

See how his life was summarised in 
2Chron. 21:20  Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years. He left this earth—to nobody’s regret—and they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

Dear brother,  a prudent wife can only be gotten from the Lord. If she's not from the Lord, she's not good enough for you.

Note also that one important thing to consider is the family she came from. Abraham will not allow  his son, Isaac to marry from just any family, because a man (and woman) is as good as the upbringing he or she receives. BE WELL GUIDED. 


Bible Reading : 2 Chron. 21:1-20.


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