Monday | 02 March 2026
It behoves a courting couple to seek for reflection and counsel from godly fatherhood as they embark upon a courtship and endeavour to establish their marriage covenant in the image intended by God. This counsel is not merely sound advice for the promotion of a happy, gratifying marriage. It should minister faith to the couple by which they can believe for marriage according to God’s covenant purpose. By the faith received as they hear the word of Christ’s messengers, each individual is able to present themselves to God the Father. Joh 14:6. They do this, believing to receive seven Spirits from the Father as a specific remnant of His Spirit.
By this remnant of the Father’s Spirit, each person can be strengthened with might in their inner man. Eph 3:16. Strengthened in this manner, their identity is being fundamentally redefined in relation to the other. The man is being made to be the head of the woman. The woman is being made a helper comparable to him as one who proceeds from him. 1Co 11:12. By this means, they are being made one by the Father, having each received a remnant of His Spirit for this purpose. Mal 2:15.
The word of counsel that is offered to a courting couple is also the word that ministers grace through which a Christian couple’s marriage can be reformed. In this regard, the matters that are fundamental to establishing a Christian marriage covenant in the season of bonding are the same issues that a married couple will need to consider if they desire to be established as a worthy, firstfruits house. We can liken the word of the Father that is received by a courting couple to a ‘first-time’ initiative towards them. As it did for Joseph, this word ‘tries them’ as they continue, by faith, to apply themselves to the word as a married couple. Psa 105:19. This is the ‘second-time’ implication of the word through which they are able to bring forth good fruit for the Father. Mal 2:15.
Further Study:
Malachi 2
References:
Joh 14:6
Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’
Eph 3:16
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man.
1Co 11:12
For as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God.
Mal 2:15
But did He not make them one, having a remnant of the Spirit? And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Therefore, take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.
Psa 105:19
Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.