Month: July 2025

Date: Thursday, 3^rd July, 2025

Text:  Ruth 1:16-17

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

There will be challenges in any marriage. It takes determination and focus to sail through. When the storms of marriage come, not every marriage survives it. Some are blown away by it; some marriages sink permanently, never to rise again. But if Jesus Christ is in your ship, you can rest assured that you will rise above the storms.

This brings us to the ninth principle of marital success known as the Principle of Unwavering Commitment. Other words for ‘unwavering’ are resolute, firm, fixed, steadfast etc. To be commitment is to be dedicated to a cause, activity, etc. to be unwaveringly committed in marriage is to be resolutely loyal in marriage. It is not to share your marital commitment with another but with your spouse.

Ruth demonstrated this kind of unwavering commitment. She was married to Mahlon, one of Naomi’s sons for roughly ten years before he died. Her commitment for her husband was so strong that even after his death, when her mother-in-law encouraged her to depart from her and seek another life Ruth replied saying:

“Entreatme not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; for wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.” Ruth 1:16-17

She had tasted the love her husband shared with her and the goodness of the God of Israel, whom her husband served, and she was so determined to cling on until death separated her from her mother-in-law. Despite her husband’s death, she was loyal to her husband’s family, even though she had no child for the late husband. Death was not strong enough to kill her love for her husband’s family.

Most other women would have disregarded their old mother-in-laws as ‘archaic and old school’. Not so with Ruth. She respected the wisdom of the elderly mother-in-law and submitted to her authority. Eventually, it paid off because her mother-in-law made sure that God settled her; she remarried and became the great grandmother of King David and the matriarchal progenitor of our Lord Jesus Christ- Ruth 4:18-22; Matthew 1:1-16.

Ruth’s unwavering commitment gave her a permanent place among the greatest women on Earth. Up till today, her name is mentioned all over the world.

Action Nugget: Determine to be unwaveringly committed to your spouse, come what may.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 8-11

Date: Wednesday, 2^nd July, 2025

Text:  Ecclesiastes 4:9-11

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

The word of God says, “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?” Ecclesiastes 4:9-11

Marriage is not a union between two perfect spouses. Each individual in the union has his or her own strengths and weaknesses. The beauty of the union is that they perfect each other’s areas of strengths and weaknesses. Where the husband is weak, the wife is strong and where the wife is weak the husband is strong.

This brings us to the eighth principle of marital success called the Principle of Complementarity.

Complementarity between a husband and his wife relationship refers to the way the two of them being individuals’ different, and often with opposite qualities and needs fit together, creating a sense of completeness and balance. It’s when one spouse’s strengths compensate for the other’s weaknesses, and vice versa, leading to a more harmonious and fulfilling union.

Today, we see so many husbands and wives competing instead of complementing each other. This is very wrong. If you are a husband married to a wife who earns more than you, don’t feel inferior or intimidated. In a godly home, her own financial strength is meant to compensate for your own weakness.

Do everything to promote each other’s areas of strength and cover up for each other’s areas of weakness. Let the name of Christ be glorified in your home.

Prayer Nugget: Father, I receive understanding and wisdom to complement and not to compete with my spouse in Jesus name.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 4-7

Date: Tuesday, 1^st July, 2025

Text:  Genesis 17:1-27

Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan

Exhortation:

Happy new month folks! Welcome to the seventh month and the beginning of the second half of the year. The word of God says, “The glory of the latter house shall surpass the former.”- Haggai 2:9. We are also assured that better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof- Ecclesiastes 7:8. On the authority and strength of these scriptures, I decree that the second half of this year shall be more glorious than the first half in Jesus name. Again I decree that the second half of this year shall be better than the first in every ramification in Jesus name.

When it was time for God to fulfill his 25-year old promise to Abram, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” Genesis 17:1. It was a divine requirement for the Lord to perfect all that concerned Abram. In Romans 6:1, the Holy Spirit through Apostle Paul asked, “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” The answer came in the second verse saying, “God forbid!”

Abram cooperated with God by obeying him. He rededicated his life to God by going through the painful process of circumcising himself and every male member of his household- Genesis 17:9-27.

There was a paradigm shift in the life of Abram- his name and that of his wife were changed. Not long after these experiences, their long awaited child of promise was born; God perfected all that concerned them and their reproach was taken away- Genesis 21:1-7.

There is someone reading this devotional, God is about to perfect all that concerns you but he is asking you to walk before him and be perfect. Rededicate your life to Christ in obedience. Separate yourself unto him in holiness. Turn your back completely to the world and its sinful pleasures and focus your attention unto Christ alone who is the Author and Finisher of our faith.

God will finish what he has started in your life and perfect all that concerns you in Jesus name.

Let us pray!

Prayer Nuggets:

1. Thank you father for your mercy and grace in the first half of this year.
2. Father, thank you for bringing me into this new half.
3. By the blood of Jesus I break away from everything tying me down in worldliness.
4. Father, by the strength of your Holy Spirit I will walk before you and be perfect in Jesus name.
5. Father, please perfect all that concerns me in this new month in Jesus name.
6. Father, please, let the second half of this year be better and more glorious than the first in Jesus name.
7. Add your own prayer requests.

Bible in One Year: Proverbs 1-3