Foundation of Relationships

The Good News (Gospel) According to Matthew
Today’s Focus: Relationships, Marriage and Divorce According to the Kingdom pt 1
Foundation of Relationships
Series Scriptures: Matthew 19:1-12; 1 Corinthians 7; Genesis 1:27-28; Genesis 2

Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Over the next couple of days we will be discussing this very important topic for all citizens, young and adults. Today we will discuss the foundation of relationships, then marriage itself, then we will wrap up with divorce. I know many will have questions and the Lord has answers. Please feel free to send any questions or feedback on these important topics.

Foundation of Relationships
So many people say their relationships are founded on love and trust and the reality is, it is more founded on material lust, sex and emotional need. In order to get to the marriage we must understand what makes it up and what sustains it. First, a marriage is a relationship. What is a relationship and what is its foundation? Well, the first relationship on Earth was between Adam and God. This was a father/son relationship. This relationship was the most important because it was the relationship to establish the order of the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth through the children on God. The way Adam showed love to God was by obedience to the commandments God set for him in Genesis 2. Same way we should show love to our parents and please them is through obedience, especially if they are following the Word of God.
1. So the first thing before you even think about marriage with another person is getting your relationship with God established and in order. This ensures that you are not looking for the mate but you are preparing yourself for your assignment and to receive FROM GOD your mate.
The goal here is to know what God wants you to do for Him because your assignment and your mate’s assignment shall work together to help build the Kingdom of God. But this starts as an individual first and your relationship with God. This is where many of our relationships and marriages are breaking up. Yes, some are financial but if we really get down to the real problems, you will see a problem in their personal relationship with God and where God did not fill emotional voids, we filled them with that person. When that person lets us down then we are further torn down than before.

So, if you do not have a personal relationship with God then you lend yourself to picking the wrong mate and feeling the consequences of such actions, which then carry over to the children and now we start having these generational curses that are passed down to our children because of our actions. The only person that needs to validate who you are is God because no matter what man says, what He sees is all that matters. Now that is the love of a Father!

So, to have this foundational relationship with God, you have to put your opinions and your beliefs aside and hear His Voice and read His Word and do as He has instructed us to do. This is a Kingdom Principal – Your Opinion Does Not Matter. When you speak what you think then you lend yourself to arguments, but when you state what the King has mandated then you refer the person with questions to the King! Much easier. The only way in these times that we are going to survive and experience true Kingdom life and Kingdom relationships then we have to have a relationship with the King!

Abba’s Ambassador,
Min. Calvin Calhoun, Jr.