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11 Years today!

theolivebranchadmin — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:33:42 +0000

June 4th, 2015, 11 years today!

Nothing that lasts grows fast. There must be roots that form downwards first, the foundation must be solid and even if it looks like there aren’t fruits at first, we must not forget the law of growth and process. That is something we emphasize so much in TOB. The leaves will come out eventually, then flowers, then seed and then fruit. We started this brand with a blog and now it has grown into something far greater than we imagined.

We are three individuals, all medical doctors in different parts of the world, different time zones, living separate lives and in these individual lives there have been many changes and transitions. Sometimes the olive branch has transitioned as well, bending and stretching, but always growing. We have been on the precipice of giving up many times but through your prayers, your love and by the help of God, we are still standing today, still rooted, still reaching.

You have seen some of our fruits and you have seen some of our leaves. Many of you have been there through every single season and we see you, we truly do. With a community now, a foundation and so much more still unfolding, we are deeply thankful for those who were with us in the very beginning, for those who found us along the way and for those who are still here. We are equally grateful to our volunteers, our web and design team, our families, and our friends. Every soul who has ever engaged with us, thank you. You believed in something that was still becoming and that is a gift we do not take lightly. Thank you for your support and your ideas. Thank you for seeing us. Even in the moments we struggled to see ourselves, you were there.

We also recently did an impact survey and we were so moved and honored by the responses. We would love to hear even more from you, so please take a moment to fill it out here (Google form)

To anyone reading this today, wherever in the world you are, this part is for you. The world may feel heavy right now. There may be uncertainty pressing in from every side, clouds of sadness gathered and for some, you may be in a wilderness season, waiting and wondering. Some of you may be welcoming new life into the world and some may be in the process of saying goodbye. You may be surrounded by so much noise and fear that silence has started to feel like the only safe place left.
But please, do not stay there. Step out and feel again. There is still hope as long as there is breath in you, there is still so much waiting for you on the other side of this moment. There are still territories to conquer, mountains to overcome and a version of yourself you have not yet met. You are still wanted, still needed, still so deeply significant. Do not give up. Life will not always feel this way. Good people still exist and good things are still making their way to you. Some may even be happening right now.

As we mark eleven years, we send our love across every time zone represented in this community. We hope we have touched you in ways that words cannot fully capture and we hope that what you have received here has stirred something in you that reaches beyond these walls. Because the world is hurting and it needs people like you, people who have known tenderness, to carry it forward. Let the love you have received become the love you give away, in the way you speak, in the way you show up, in the quiet moments where a kind word or a warm presence can completely change someone’s day both online and offline. Do not get lost in the cruelty that the world sometimes shows. Hold on to your joy and choose, again and again, to be the kind of person someone else needed and found. Spread love today.

By Ayokunle for The Olive Branch.

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Singles’ World January Edition ’25

theolivebranchadmin — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:41:11 +0000

FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN MARRIAGE: VOCATIONAL INCOMPATIBILITY

Compliments of the season to you all! Welcome to the first edition of Singles’ World in 2025. In the last edition, I discussed spatial incompatibility with you, which I consider an important foundational issue that can unsettle many homes if not resolved before marriage. If the man faces north and the woman faces south, they are spatially incompatible. You must resolve where both of you will settle in life, or else you may just be a nomadic or visiting couple. You will not really know each other, and your children may lack fatherly care, motherly care, or both. Besides, you may open the doors of your home to strange women and strange men. When infidelity sets in, divorce or broken home is inevitable.

In this edition, we will look at vocational or career incompatibility as another foundational issue that many intending couples often gloss over before marrying. When a marriage is built on vocational incompatibility, there will be upheavals that can be injurious to the stability of the home. You may be genetically and spatially compatible, and yet you are not vocationally compatible. In Genesis 2:18, God said he would provide Adam with an helpmeet that is suitable or compatible with him. You and your partner must be compatible physically, spiritually, intellectually, vocationally etc. or else there will be schism.

If we are honest and sincere about ourselves during courtship, our problems will be manageable, but we sometimes become desperate in getting married and overlook the weightier matters of life that can weigh down our marriages. For instance, if you are called a pastor in the future, it is not any sister that you can marry. This is because it is not every Christian sister that is wired to marry a pastor. A pastor’s wife should be godly, virtuous, humble, supportive, hospitable, prayerful, wise, faithful, teachable and loyal to her husband, family and church. A woman who is a human rights activist, feminist, or political activist will be incompatible with her husband’s pastoral ministry. This is because the core values of a pastoral ministry are radically different from those of human rights activism or feminism.

A feminist touts gender equality by compromising the biblical stand on the head position of the husband in the family. I have heard cases of women who refused to cooperate with their husbands’ pastoral ministries on the grounds that they were not called into the pastoral ministry. This can be challenging if it is not addressed before marriage. If you marry a potential pastor when you know undoubtedly that your vocation or personality is incompatible with the core values of the pastoral ministry of your husband, you are preparing for unmanageable trouble.

In addition, if you are a costumier or a professional theatre practitioner, whose vocation demands the deployment of African myths and rituals, traditional music and dance as well as the extensive use of makeups on stage, you are incompatible with a man called into the pastoral ministry. Of course, if your vocation is a Christian drama, you are compatible with a man’s pastoral ministry.

Similarly, the work of a missionary involves frequent relocation, cultural adjustments, and unpredictable living conditions. If you value a settled lifestyle, you should not marry a missionary. Some Christian missionary organisations today ensure that missionaries marry missionaries to ensure stability in families.

In addition, if you are an 8-to-4 office worker and you want to marry a military officer whose work requires frequent deployments and unpredictable schedules that can be very challenging for a spouse with a traditional office job, you may not enjoy a settled home for life. Again, if you are a politician, your life as a public officer requires transparency. Such a man is incompatible with a woman who is a private investigator, detective or investigative journalist whose job requires confidentiality.

In the Bible, Aquila and Priscilla as a married couple shared a vocational compatibility as tentmakers and ministers- Acts 18:2-3. Ruth and Boaz too were vocationally compatible as farmers and harvesters. Therefore, vocational compatibility is important in marriage relationships. If you are married to a spouse whose career is incompatible with yours, it is a terrible foundational problem that you will have to face for many years. It may be difficult to change one’s career after marriage in order to resolve the debacle. Prevention is usually cheaper, safer and more effective. May the Lord help you.

By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please do not forget to send me your comments and testimonies. If you are not born again, please surrender your life to Jesus Christ today. Tomorrow may be too late. Until then, God bless you. Amen.

Pastor Jide Ajidahun

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SINGLE’S WORLD- NOVEMBER EDITION ’23

theolivebranchadmin — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:12:12 +0000

FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN MARRIAGE: SPOILT BRAT 6
In the last edition of the Singles’ World, I discussed temper as one of the behavioural traits of a spoilt brat. It is usually a foundational issue which often makes marriage challenging. You have an unpredictable and irascible partner who will always constitute a nuisance in the home. They are easily irritable, and they flare up at the slightly provocation.
Unfortunately, it has now become a dangerous habit that may be difficult to overcome. You will have to be careful in making such a person your marriage partner. Just as I said before, that is one of the reasons why spousal assault is on the increase in society today. Don’t forget that foundational issues are usually difficult to handle. It is better to avoid them than to manage them. In this edition, I will discuss another feature of spoilt brats. This is to help you to avoid them as marriage partners if you want to live long. May the Lord help you to do His will in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
In addition to disobedience, naughtiness, attention-seeking, despondency, obstructiveness and temper, I will consider one other behavioural indicator of a spoilt brat:
Ingratitude: Dorothy Hamill describes a spoilt brat for us when she said “I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, and they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don’t have to think about anything but skating. You’re just plain spoiled.” That is a spoilt brat or a juvenile delinquent. They are left unto themselves till they are spoilt irremediably.
Children generally don’t understand the importance of gratitude, and they are generally selfish. They just want everything to be theirs. If they are not taught to show gratitude when they should, they will grow up with the attitude of ingratitude. Again, there are indulgent parents who don’t care about this virtue. They will excuse this on the grounds that he is still a child. For instance, your guest or friend gives your child a gift or money; such a child should be told to thank the person immediately and the day after. If he is an African boy, he should be taught how to prostrate and show gratitude. In fact, he should be taught the appropriate words of appreciation.
Similarly, an African girl should be taught how to kneel down and thank the person politely. Indulgent parents will just thank the person on behalf of the child without ordering or teaching the child to do it. Gradually and unfortunately, the child will grow up and get married with this vice and think it is a virtue. For your information, one of the serious problems many couples are facing today is ingratitude or lack of appreciation. This can very painful, especially for women. Most men are guilty of this act of ingratitude in marriage relationships.
An adage says “An act of ingratitude is like when one is robbed.” Women too are guilty of it. When men help their wives to fetch water, to stay with ‘junior’ when she is away, to run some errands, etc., they expect their wives to thank them. When they give their wives special birthday gifts, they expect their wives to show some gratitude. Unfortunately, some wives see it as the normal thing that husbands should do for their wives. They wonder why the need for any special gratitude. For the regular cooking at home, cleaning of the house, taking care of the children etc., wives want their husbands to thank them.
Many husbands do not see any reason why they should thank them. For them, these are their responsibilities; why the need to thank their wives for doing their jobs. In fact, some spouses often forget to show gratitude to their partners until they are reminded. A French proverb says “Gratitude is the heart’s memory.” In fact, some see it as an unnecessary burden. Gratitude is not a burden. It is one of the cultural ethics that we must all embrace, and it is also Biblical. In Esther 6:11b, King Ahasuerus showed gratitude to Mordecai for revealing the plot of the enemies by honouring him with royal apparel.
In Exodus 2:20, Reuel, the priest of Midian rebuked his daughters for not showing gratitude to Moses, who had helped them to fetch water to water their flock. The priest sent for Moses to eat bread. In Luke 17, out of the ten lepers that Jesus Christ healed, only one of them came back, and with a loud voice glorified God. In Luke 17:16, the Bible says the man “fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks…” Only one out of ten, shows that there are many ingrates in the world today.
Unfortunately, that is one of the marks of these last days. In 2 Timothy 3:2, the Bible says in these perilous times, men shall be unthankful. When a child misses this very important home training, it becomes a problem for him or her in life, except there is a conscious effort to unlearn ingratitude and add gratitude as a virtue to his or her faith. Before you get there, there will be a lot of altercations at home or at work and in the church. Proverbs 22:6 says “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Spoilt brats are ingrates because they were not taught gratitude. No matter your labour for your spouse even if you are dying, if he/she is a spoilt brat, there will be no gratitude. And that can be very painful and discouraging. Without it in the house, your partner’s love for you can die. Your employer’s labour on you may also die. That is why Cicero said “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. When your partner lacks it, that marriage will be tempestuous. An ungrateful man or woman will hinder others from being helped. Publilius Syrus said “One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.”
David said in Psalm 107:8 “Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men.” Spoilt brats don’t care about this. Gratitude is a motivating factor in life. It compels you to do more, but spoilt brats will always discourage you. When you notice ingratitude in your partner, it may not matter to you now because you are desperate in getting married, but it will surely weigh you down in future when it will be too late to do anything about it. An ingrate man or woman should be avoided. That is why Ausonius said “Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.” It is also said that “A grateful dog has more worth than an ungrateful man.”
Spoilt brats are to be avoided if you want to enjoy your marriage and have long life in good health. Ingratitude is one of their markers. Avoid them, please. According to Lagbaja, a spoilt brat cannot pound yam unless you buy her a yam pounder. She cannot grind pepper without a blender. You will need to get her a cook because she cannot cook. She will need a vacuum cleaner because she cannot sweep the floor. She will need a drycleaner because she cannot wash clothes. She will need a nanny because she cannot nurse a baby. The list is endless. Finally, Lagbaja said a spoilt brat (Akebaje) is useless. The only thing she can do is to dance; a butter dance.
Somebody said “Ungrateful bastards will always be ungrateful because that is who they are. They have been manipulating their way through life since birth and there is no escaping that. The best thing to do is to get away from such people as soon as possible…”
By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please do not forget to send me your comments and testimonies. If you are not born again, please surrender your life to Jesus Christ today. Tomorrow may be too late. Until then, God bless you. Amen.

Pastor Jide Ajidahun

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Laugh out loud.

theolivebranchadmin — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:22:24 +0000

In the spirit of all honesty,

There was big part of me that was never used to flexibility. I made my plans, made sure i covered all the bases and that nothing could go wrong.
I knew where i wanted to be in life and i knew what i wanted to do. I knew the path or paths i could take. It was always Plan A, B, C and even D.
I now realize everything i did, i did because of anxiety.

Anxiety the big A word.

I didn’t know i was a very anxious person till a later part of medical school. It was so much worse then because i could never wait for the results to be pasted, i had to know my scores beforehand. I wouldn’t be able to sleep until i was done with a presentation. The anxiety led to almost perfectionism. I wanted all bases to be covered.
By the time I graduated, it had tripled and i didn’t even know. I went through house job with regular pep talks and lots of hidden tears.
By this time, it became clear. Anxiety had grown into fear and it had created a big room in my heart and i wasn’t aware. I had been caught completely off guard.

Fear, the boggart

It’s not so big when you’ve figured it out. The way it reminds you of your inadequacies, the way it whispers that you’re not so good at what you do, the way it creeps in when you get a good news, the way it grabs a hold of you when you’re alone and the way it lies.
In one of my favorite movie of all time, there’s something they called a boggart. A boggart takes the form of what the person is most afraid of and at the moment all you can see is that thing that you think could hurt you. It leaves you crippled, shaking to your bones and helpless.

What are you afraid of?

Failure. The big F word. I was scared of failing. I couldn’t comprehend it and i felt i wouldn’t be able to handle it even though I had dealt with failure a couple of times. I thought dealing with it would give me the courage to just try no matter what the outcome was but i was still scared of failing. This isn’t only academical by the way. This goes across all boards. Failing in life, failing in relationships.
I wanted to get it right at once.
In the midst of this, i had created this frost, this high wall that bred anxiety.
I was anxious all the time and even while sleeping, you could drop a pin and i would get up immediately.

Let’s take a walk.

In that movie i love so much, the boggart is defeated by laughing at it. The moment you laugh at it, it takes a very amusing form. That’s the entire lifespan of fear.
It gets defeated in a split second.
I will always use my experiences to open your eyes to see a life in which you arent alone. I’m writing this not fully emancipated from anxiety, in the process of it but this is completely freeing.
I was afraid to let people in for a long time and when i started being a bit personal in my writings, i didn’t know i was touching a life or two. I didn’t know people were reading and people were learning but trust me when I say, 4 to 5 years ago, i wouldn’t have been able to share this.

The spirit of power.

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline”
2 Timothy 1:7 NLT .

God moves even when there is silence. He is moving as long as you’re open and receptive.
You have to remind yourself that everything that fear stands for is not of God.
To keep you trapped, God has given you freedom, to keep you from realizing your gifts, to prevent you from walking in power and to make sure you live a mediocre life filled with timidity. God doesn’t stand for that.
There’s nothing wrong in not knowing what the nearest future holds.. you have entrusted it in the hands of someone who knows your end from the beginning. There’s nothing wrong in a few slip ups along the way, nothing wrong with process, with learning. God wants us to grow and to develop. He wants us to be the best version of what he created.
Theres so much power in us to cast out the fear that binds us if we only open up.
I’m not saying fear will disappear forever but just like when the dementors come close and a patronus is casted. Perfect love casts out fear.
God is that perfect love and he casts out all fear whenever it wants to slip in.

So please, laugh at that boggart today and remind it whose child you are. Walk with that realization that greater is the power, the essence, the being that lives in you than that of the world.

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Home.

theolivebranchadmin — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:42:09 +0000

I breathed a sigh of relief as soon as the cab dropped me at the junction. The journey from Lagos had been so stressful; I just wanted to sleep the moment I got home. As soon as I paid the cabman, I started to trek home. I looked around and nothing had changed. The Bike men still gathered at the junction to look for passengers, People still selling recharge cards and of course, the way cars always sped on this road. It made me miss how I and my sister would walk home after coming from the market.
We were just two children at first; I and my sister. You would think we were twins or sometimes people would say I was older.
As children; 2 years apart with her being older, we were mischievous, adventurous and definitely two different people. We are still two different people. I thought I hated my sister when we were young. She was so calm and collected and I was stubborn, noisy and talkative. It was why i was so jealous. I wanted to be like her and it was very difficult for me. It was my internal conflict that resulted into a noisy child, a bit too hard hearted for a young girl, very talkative because I wanted all the attention and very stubborn because I felt I could do it all on my own. We would fight and quarrel and point fingers to each other.

“Aunty, you will not leave the road now o, until someone will hit you and you will be calling police” A bald headed motorcyclist screamed as he drove past. I quickly walked to the far end of the road and arranged my hair that had scattered from the wind. My sister would have probably scolded me for not concentrating and I would never admit I was the one that was at fault then. But even with the differences, she was my best friend.
She always looked after me and sometimes took the blame for what I did. She would tell me stories about the animal kingdom so I could sleep off and each night had different parts. She knew how scared of the dark i was and she would wait till i fell asleep before she did and she constantly reassured me the nightmares i had were just a figment of my imagination.
My lips were already cracking from the middle even after all the lip gloss I had applied. It was almost harmattan in Nigeria but it was already harmattan in Akure. The leaves had this crunchy sound when they were stepped on and the wind was annoyingly cold and dry at the same time. It reminded me of how my mum would always make sure we wore our sweaters during harmattan season.

“Fidelis open the gate” my knuckles hurt from knocking the gate. I quickly adjusted my dress and my hair before the gateman opened.
“Ha! Madam welcome o” he said as he opened and prostrated. Fidelis was always extra. He had been the gateman even before I left home and he was one of the happiest humans I had ever encountered. I was happy he hadn’t changed. It meant happiness still existed.
“Mummy and daddy dey for backyard” he smiled like he knew something I didn’t. I just nodded and entered the house through the front. Mum always forgot to lock the front door and she would scold me as a child for doing the same not knowing I got it from her. As I walked to my room, I noticed the walls had been re painted. Some pictures weren’t on the wall again and some were just put there but one in particular caught my eye.
On a very cold night in December, when I was 10 years, my mum had another child. It was a day before Christmas and we were hanging Christmas décor when she went into labor. He was a breech baby and it was an obviously difficult labor but everyone came out alive. I fell in love with Tayo the moment I saw him. There was nothing more precious than seeing him open his toothless gums and give the most beautiful smile. He grew as fast as I did and soon, he started doing everything I did. He always wanted me to tell him stories about the animal kingdom and I would tell him from part 1 to 100. He would crawl up to me in the night to tell me about the big bad wolf he saw in his dreams and I would tell him it was just a nightmare. I would stay up at night with him sometimes and look at the stars. He always wondered why there were so many stars and why they shined so bright and I would tell him it was the people we loved that had died that went up and turned to stars.

When I turned 20, Tayo died of Leukemia. He had fought it for 2 years and he lost. He died with the brightest smile on his face and that image haunted me for a very long time.
On the day of his burial, I was the only one who wept uncontrollably; you would think I was his mother. My nightmares resumed and became an unending loop. In all my nightmares, I always saw Tayo and the big bad wolf. It took me a year and a half to recover from his death and by this time, my sister had graduated from the university and had moved to Canada. She would always deny she didn’t move to get away from the grief but I knew she did. I saw the joy in her eyes whenever she played with Tayo, they were alike and she understood him more than I did. Sometimes I would wonder who loved Tayo more between I and my sister and I would ask him but he would smile and tell us he loved us the way we loved him. My mum and dad moved on as quickly as they could and gave most of Tayo’s things to the orphanage.
I left the country after turning 22 and moved to London. I found temporary peace there. No memories, no nightmares, just peace and now i was back after 8 years.
I entered my room to see boxes beside my bed. I dropped my hand bag on the table and sat on the bed. The bed wasn’t dusty neither was the room. A visitor probably stayed here for a while.
“Pamilerin” I heard as I looked up to see my mother, still looking young and radiant as ever. She smiled to show her perfect teeth. “Mummy” I stood up to hug her. We held each other tight for a while before she finally let me go.
“My baby has finally come home” we sat on the bed and she started inspecting my face, probably looking for pimples. Old habits don’t die hard. “Where is your remaining luggage” she looked at my hand bag on the table. “The cab will bring them later. I had to get here as soon as I could” she nodded and stood to go to the bathroom.
I followed her but stood by the door. “Mummy, how bad is it?” I whispered. She washed her hands and took my own hands. “About that, i didnt want to tell you on the phone” She started smiling. “Tell me what?” I asked with concern. “it was a false alarm, his health is perfect” she answered. I sat down immediately to steady my feet because of the relief i felt. “Mummy, Thank God!” I hugged her tightly and refused to let any tears drop.
“That’s not why I asked you to come home Pamilerin” she brought out her phone and started searching for something.
“Is there something else wrong? and its Pam mummy, you don’t need to call the full name” I scoffed and went to switch on the TV.
“I named you Oluwapamilerin on the day of your birth not Pam. Pam doesn’t mean laughter” she exclaimed and I actually burst out laughing. I wasn’t going to argue with her.
“Now back to what I was saying” she started smiling again.
“Mummy, this smile is suspicious” I didn’t know she had infected me and I was smiling too.
“Just freshen up and meet us in the dining, I’m sure your dad can’t wait to see you” she stood up and left the room before I could even say a word.
I quickly showered and put on a beige dress from my mum’s closet. The driver hadn’t brought my other luggage and the dress was really nice. I fit in perfectly into the dress and it just showed how much weight I had lost.

I packed my hair into a bun and ran downstairs to join my mother in the kitchen. There was a tall girl in the kitchen assisting my mum. I guessed it was the maid. “Good evening madam” the girl greeted. “Her name is Maria” my mum introduced her. “Good evening Maria” I replied and went to the dining.
As I walked towards the dining, I overheard 2 other voices. I wasn’t mentally prepared to greet family friends I hadn’t seen in over 8 years, but I breathed in and decided to suck it up. I walked in and immediately ran to hug my father.
“Daddy” I held him so tight and he felt so small in my embrace.
“My daughter” he released me a bit and held my hands. I noticed He had added weight from the last time I saw him and he looked really happy.
“Pam, do you remember Mr. and Mrs. Dimeji” my dad asked and my brain scanned their faces. They looked familiar but I couldn’t quite place where I knew them from. I nodded and they smiled while hugging me. They seemed more excited to see me than I was to see them.
“Can you remember Lade? I’m sure you do after all the drama at the Christmas parties” the man and the woman laughed while the guy beside them looked up to see me.
I remembered clearly. It was Lade
Our Christmas parties used to be the most talked about those years. We would host family friends and my parents work partners and just eat, drink and have fun. The kids used to have a separate area for playing and we often left the adults to talk. I had a lot of friends but I was really close to one.
Lade was one of the few who understood me. He would always give me the attention I needed, tolerate my stubbornness and still made me laugh. We were opposites, we would fight and everyone would tease us but we barely cared. Even till we became teenagers, we still remained close. He was the only one that called me by my second name because it was personal to him.
He was there when we buried Tayo and he shared in my grief. I got better because of him and for a while I thought I couldn’t function without him.
He left for the states the day after my 20th birthday and I lost contact with him soon after. Distance was an issue but I was the major issue. The last time we saw was at the airport in Lagos when he was leaving and He told me he loved me.
“Morountodun” he smiled.

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Single’s world – June edition 22

theolivebranchadmin — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:00:37 +0000

THOSE WHO ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO MARRY
I welcome you again to the June edition of our Singles World for 2022. Here again, I will be discussing with you the twelfth characteristic of those you should not marry. May the Lord lead you and guide you into choosing right in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Don’t Marry Someone who is Frigid and Sexually Unresponsive.
12. Just as it will be precarious for you to marry an impotent man, to marry someone who is frigid and sexually unresponsive will also be calamitous. As I discussed with you earlier, sex was created by God for the benefit of the husband and his wife in a marriage relationship. Without it, marriage will be meaningless. In fact, one reason why God wants us to marry is to prevent us from falling into immorality. And for the singles that are burning, the Bible admonishes them to go and marry provided they are qualified and ready- 1 Corinthians 7:1-9. So the Bible recognises the place of sex in a marriage relationship. That is why husbands and wives are admonished not to deny one another of sex.

In the world today, there are people especially women that are frigid and sexually unresponsive. No matter how you try to seduce and arouse them, they will be cold and insensitive. That is indeed a serious issue. Whoever that is frigid and sexually impassive should keep off from marriage. Marriage without sex is like soup without salt or like salt that has lost its savour. Such a marriage has no value. Some of the characteristics of people that are frigid and sexually unresponsive include:
 They lack sexual desire and even if they show desire for it, it will be with a great effort (hyposexuality). Such women will be unable to achieve orgasm called orgasmic dysfunction or female orgasmic disorder (anorgasmia) during any sexual act. Consequently, they will not long for another sexual act again. It is like somebody who does not always have appetite for food and anytime you force her to eat, it is always a battle. She can even throw up or mess up the food. You can imagine what the person that prepared the food will feel.

So, a frigid woman lacks sexual desire. In fact, sexual act is a burden for her rather than a pleasurable act. Each time, she sees sex as a tool of oppression by the man rather than as a tool of love. A student who does not have any desire to study will fail. A Christian who does not have any desire to pray and read his Bible cannot grow spiritually. A patient who does not have a desire to take his medications as prescribed by his doctor is inviting death. Similarly, a married woman who does not have any desire for sex with her husband is inviting adultery and divorce into her home.

 Some women will experience pain during intercourse. Since they are not really interested in it, their unresponsiveness to sexual stimulation and arousal will cause them pain. When what you ought to be enjoying is giving you pains, the right thing to do is to call it quit. While that is satisfactory to the wife, it is displeasing to the husband. To such women, it is like eating while you are having a stomach ache. You cannot be crying and laughing at the same time. When women are in pains during sex, it is the final whistle.

 Frigid women don’t experience much sensation in their genital and erogenous areas no matter the depth and the duration of the foreplay. Hence, sex becomes a weight and an encumbrance for her.

 Lack of interest in sexual talks: Such women are usually not interested in any form of sexual talk.
Some of the causes of female sexual dysfunction include depression, history of rape, family history of sexual abuse and wife battery, stress, poor body image, relationship issues, trauma, hormonal and anatomical problems, untreated diseases, medications, hereditary and spiritual issues. If you want to marry a frigid woman, be expecting some of the following:
 A dreary and unexciting marriage
 A fruitless marriage
 An angry husband
 Troubles
 Infidelity and children born out of wedlock
 Divorce/Broken home
Now, how will you know that your fiancée is frigid and sexually unresponsive without trying to go to bed with her? Fornication is not the right way to detect a frigid and a sexually unresponsive woman. So, don’t ever try that way.
 First, you can pray sincerely and ask God to reveal the woman to you? If indeed she has this female sexual dysfunction, the Lord can reveal it to you and even her entire health condition.
 Second, you can discuss her sexual, medical and psychosocial history with her although she may not tell you the whole truth. The Holy Spirit will help you to discover the hidden truth.
 Third, although such women don’t like opening up to doctors about their sexual and mental conditions, an attempt should be made for her to see a qualified doctor for appropriate diagnosis and treatment. She can also see mental health professionals or sex therapists. Her hormonal analysis may require estrogen hormone therapy depending on the diagnosis.
 Fourth, if you are very sensitive too, you will discover that she is not interested in sexual talks each time you raise it with her. Also, some of his friends may tell you jokingly or indirectly. Each time you are close to her you will notice that she is terribly impassive sexually. You will feel like you are sitting with another man.
By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please, don’t forget to send me your comments and testimonies. In case, you are not born again, please, surrender your life to Jesus Christ today. Till then, stay safe and God bless you. Amen.

Pastor Jide Ajidahun

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Those who are not qualified to marry Feb 22 edition

theolivebranchadmin — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:59:41 +0000

THOSE WHO ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO MARRY
Welcome again to the February edition of our Singles World for 2022. In this edition, I will be discussing with you the eighth characteristic of those who are not qualified to marry. May the Lord help us in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
8.
Don’t Marry an Unforgiving Person
An Unforgiving Person: Outside the marriage relationship, friends offend us and we offend them too. In some cases, we are pained that we often find it difficult to forgive the person. For instance, your friend borrowed money from you and refused to return it till you left school. Again, your trusted friend snatches away your fiancée or your fiancé elopes with another guy without any serious fight or disagreement even when you are busy talking about your wedding plans and age is not really on your side. Your dad too could have rejected you because you gave your life to Jesus Christ instead of following his ancestral god. Your uncle too could have sexually abused you. All these examples could be very hurtful, painful, agonising and tormenting. You could have vowed never to forgive them.

One of the wonders of marriage, if you find the right partner anyway, is that you soon forget all these bitter experiences because you have found a new lover who understands you and who expectedly will lavish you with excess love. Second, marriage will take you far away from these excruciating environments where you have been hurt. You are now out of school. You are free from that bullying senior, cantankerous roommate, randy lecturer, treacherous friend etc. Your marriage is like an escape from these evil acquaintances and compensation for the acts of injustice done to you over the years. You may not even see many of your offenders for life.

Now that you are married, you think offences are over. Wait a minute! Offences have just started. You can run away from those old friends and relations that troubled and provoked you badly but you cannot run away from your spouse. You have sworn to live together till death do you part on for better for worse basis. Not so? Yes! That is it. Somebody said, “Marriage is the Ministry of Offence and you must be a Permanent Secretary in the Department of Forgiveness.” When you are in courtship, you are mad with love. You try as much as possible to forgive and absolve so much insult but in marriage, it is a different ball game. That is why Steve Jobs said “When you are in love wonders happen. But once you get married you wonder what happened.” Andrew Kutto also says “marriage is the only battle in the world where the combatants share a bed.” That is the reality of marriage today.
Offences are unavoidable in a marriage relationship. In Matt. 18:7, Jesus said “for it must needs be that offences come…” If you cannot forgive, marriage is not meant for you. When some people are offended, they vow never to forgive. Some say the matter will only be solved when they get to Heaven. There is no room for such in Heaven. Those who fail to forgive those who offend them will not make Heaven. In Mark 11:26, Jesus said, “But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is heaven forgive your trespasses.” If your sins are not forgiven, you cannot make Heaven. In the family, only God knows how often you will offend your spouse daily. The offences may range from trivial to very serious offences. The two lovers who hardly quarrel during courtship and even when they quarrel they are quick to forgive will soon discover that it is a different atmosphere in marriage.

Some of the offences in the home include but are not limited to the following for which some may not forgive:
Assault and battery: Beating and assaulting your spouse.
When a wife is building a house secretly without telling her husband
When the wife buys a car without telling the husband.
Infidelity. Having side chicks.
When your spouse discovers that you are engaged in fetishism
When you publicly abuse your spouse and his family.
When you leak publicly some secrets that your spouse has shared with you privately.
Betrayal
Defame the character of your spouse/Disparage your spouse.
Tell lies against your spouse.
Attempt to poison your spouse.
Disobedience to the husband.
Abandoning your responsibility in the house: when the husband does not pay school fees or when he does not bother about what the family will eat or when the wife is nonchalant about cooking, cleaning of the house, taking care of the children etc.
Lack of submission to the husband
Lack of love for the wife.
Sexual denial.
Shouting at your spouse.
The list is endless. Only God knows how many times your spouse will offend you in a day. As long as humans relate, there will be offences. Offences abound more in a family relationship because of many factors such as incompatibility, parental interference, economic hardship, third party interference, lack of spirituality, personality issues, demonic attack etc. That is why someone said “No marriage is perfect. Those celebrating 30 years, 40 years, 50 years of togetherness, are celebrating forgiveness, tolerance, ignoring the husband’s stupidity and overlooking the wife’s misbehaviour” or eccentricities.
If you are not ready to be a Permanent Secretary in the Department of Forgiveness in your home, don’t marry then. And if you know any brother or sister who finds it difficult to forgive, don’t marry him or her because the relationship will be tempestuous. When you are living together with a spouse who has refused to forgive your offence of two years ago, your life is not safe. Such a spouse will be carrying bitterness, malice and hatred in his or her heart. Such a person will be looking for an opportunity to revenge.
You will recall a wife who killed her husband recently after both of them had just returned from a trip abroad. We learnt the man was very wealthy. Immediately both of them returned from their overseas trip and the wife learnt that her husband had impregnated another woman, she poisoned him and when the man was battling with the effect of the poison, she ironed his manhood and the man died. Such spousal attacks are common today in society due to a lack of forgiveness. Ephesians 4:32 says “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”
It takes maturity, tolerance, patience, spirituality and grace to forgive because some offences can greatly hurt. As Christians, we have to forgive. Unfortunately, when you refuse to forgive, you hurt yourself the more. Your heart is like a dustbin of offences. Just as a dustbin stinks if it is not emptied, you also will be stinking because you have refused to empty the offences stored up in your heart. Marriage is not for you folks!
May the Lord deliver you from this demonic unforgiving spirit. Until you are delivered, keep away from marriage.

By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please, don’t forget to send me your comments and testimonies. Till then, stay safe and God bless you. Amen.

Pastor Jide Ajidahun

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Those who are not qualified to marry 3 – July 21 edition

theolivebranchadmin — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:27:47 +0000

THOSE WHO ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO MARRY
Welcome to the July edition of our Singles World, I will discuss with you again another person that you should not marry. May the Lord guide and lead you by His Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

3.
Don’t Marry a Woman who is not ready to Complement Your Efforts and Share Her Money with You
The trend now among the modern Christian women in the church is that the family responsibility is entirely the headache of the husband. Since he is the head and he enjoys the leadership given to Him by God, let him demonstrate his competence and headship by shouldering the family responsibilities. The spirits of competition and jealousy are at work here, no doubt. To these women, the husband cannot be bragging and commanding everybody at home just like that. He has to pay for his commando posture at home.
Another reason why our Christian sisters today push the family responsibility on the husband is their belief that 1 Timothy 5:8 that says “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel” is referring to the husband. They believe that the Bible is talking to the Christian husbands and urging them to provide for their families.
The third reason is the belief that men cannot be trusted. They aver that if you help and labour with a man today with all your resources, he will disappoint you tomorrow either by marrying another woman or by his acts of infidelity. They wonder, therefore, why they should support their husbands with their money when they can be thrown out of the house they jointly built because of a stupid small and seductive girl.
The fear of widowhood and its attendant consequences particularly in Africa contribute to the stance of women on this also. In some African cultures, it is believed that when the husband dies, the wife must be the cause. Her punishment includes assault, abuse, seizing from her all the property in the house, and virtually stripping her naked. This is one of the barbarities in African culture. Again, why should they send me out of the house that I built with my husband? Why should they seize the car that I bought with my own money? Or why did they impound the car that my husband bought for me? Consequently, Christian sisters, therefore, think that the way out is for them to face their lives and allow the husbands to face the home.
However, the life of a believer is patterned after the word of God and not after the culture or the norms of the world. We are to follow the footsteps of Jesus Christ and not the footsteps of the world. 1 Peter 2:21 says “Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.” In Romans 12:2, we are warned not to be conformed to this world because we are not of this world. The word of God is both impeccable and unimpeachable. It must be used to run our lives as Christians. Therefore, we cannot do anything other than what the word of God has commanded us to do. We can therefore rest and commit our future into the hands of God.
It is not right and scriptural to leave the family responsibility completely in the hands of the husband. If any sister holds on to this old people’s fable and insists that she cannot support her husband financially at home, such a sister should not get married. In Genesis 2:18, the Bible says “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” “I will make a helper suitable for him”- NIV. “I will make one like himself as a help to him”- Bible in Basic English.
In the beginning, God created Eve as a helper for Adam. The work of a helpmeet is to help and not to compete with him or be a burden to the man she is expected to help. A helper is a supporter. Granted that the man has the responsibility to take care of his home, the wife must assist and support him. When you interact and you find these sisters maintaining their stand that they cannot support their husbands financially, run away from such sisters. They are stressors. They are not meant for marriage.
According to Matthew 19:5, both the husband and the wife have become one flesh. They are no more two. According to 1 Corinthians 12:21, they need each other just as the eye cannot say unto the hand, I do not need thee. The role played by husbands and wives is complementary. They are not to live independently. These purported Christian sisters can share their bodies with their husbands but they cannot share their money with them. Don’t marry them. Nature even teaches us that we need one another. For instance, without the husband, there is no conception. Both the husband and the wife must cooperate and give before they can have children.
If you marry a woman who is not ready to support you financially, it means you alone will finance the following in the family:
Payment of the school fees of the children.
Feeding of the entire family.
Payment of the medical bills and purchase of drugs.
Payment of electricity bills.
Provision of water/payment of water bills.
Fuelling and maintenance of the family car/husband’s car always.
Purchase of clothes for the family and especially for the children.
Family building project.
Maintenance of the building and household gadgets.
Security bills.
Provision and maintenance of plumbing facilities
Provision of TV facilities.
Travelling expenses etc.
Accommodation rent.
Support for your in-laws and your relations too. Etc.
The implication of this is that you may not be able to provide the best for the family except you are a very wealthy man. Why others send their children to good private schools, you will send your children to local public schools. You may not be able to give them good and quality food and provide the family with modern gadgets such a plasma TV, computer systems, Wi-Fi, Refrigerator, Washing machine etc. Besides, the stress of meeting all the family needs without the support of the wife is killing. You may develop high blood pressure and go grey while you are still young. Sincerely, you may not live long. Ecclesiastes 4:9 says, “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.” It is better for both of you to labour together so that you can go far. When you leave the whole family responsibility to the man alone, the Bible says you have no reward. The reward is reserved for both of you.
Don’t marry any sister who believes that it is your entire responsibility to provide everything for the family while she must spend her own money the way she likes. Remember that widows are more than widowers in town. Don’t die before your time. Live and enjoy the fruits of your labour. You are warned!
In case, you are already married and your wife is not supporting you financially, don’t overstress yourself. Do the little that you can do within your available resources that can be acknowledged by both man and God that you have tried. Eat well and create time to rest. If you die because of stress, your wife will collect your gratuity while mourning in her black attire and spend it the way she likes. She may even fund your burial expenses from your gratuity. She can even remarry and move on in life. One day, she will say that you didn’t give yourself rest of mind. Be wise, bro!
By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please, don’t forget to send me your comments and testimonies. Till then, stay safe and God bless you. Amen.

Pastor Jide Ajidahun

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Those who are not qualified to marry 2- June’21 edition

theolivebranchadmin — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 06:06:41 +0000

THOSE WHO ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO MARRY
In the May edition of our Singles World, I began a new series of teachings on those who are not qualified to get married. In the teaching, I told you not to marry a jobless man unless you want to die young. In this June edition, I will discuss with you another person you should not marry. May the Lord guide us and lead us by His Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
2.
Don’t Marry a Woman who is not Ready to Submit to her Husband.
One of the contentions of feminist movements in the modern society is that women must arise and fight for their liberation from the hands of men who use the marriage institution to claim superiority over them. Hence, women must claim equality with men. By implication, modern wives must see themselves as equal to their husbands. Therefore, they must not allow themselves to be caged under the so-called authority of the Bible. So, women clamour for equal rights with men.
While it is not right for the husband to use his position to oppress and abuse his wife, the Bible declares unambiguously in Ephesians 5:22 and says, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.” The Bible in Basic English says, “Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.” The Easy-to-Read-Version says “Wives, be willing to serve your husbands the same as the Lord.” In Colossians 3:18, the Amplified Bible says, “Wives, be subject to your husbands [subordinate and adapt yourselves to them], as is right and fitting and your proper duty in the Lord.” So, the duty of a Christian wife in the home is to submit to her husband and obey him for the following reasons:
According to 1Timothy 2:13, “Adam was first formed, then Eve.” The man was first made as the head of the creation before Eve was formed.
Another reason is that the man is the head of the woman- 1 Corinthians 11:3 just as Christ is the head of every man.
According to 1 Corinthians 11:8, the man was not formed or created out of the woman but the woman was formed out of the man.
According 1 Corinthians 11:9, the man was not created for the woman’s sake but the woman was created for the man’s sake. In other words, the woman was created for the benefit of the man; the woman was made to help the man.
This is the order of God in the family and it must be followed- 1 Corinthians 11:3.
It is the will of God for the Christian wives to submit themselves to their own husbands.
The issue of submission has become a touchy issue for some women who claim to be born again. They see submission to the husband as oppressive, foolish and slavish. The Bible was not written by the Association of African or American Husbands. It was written by the Spirit of God. It is therefore dangerous and preposterous to subject it to human interpretation or declare it as obsolete and irrelevant to the modern day Christian women. The basic teaching of the Word of God concerning the marriage institution is that wives should be submissive (obedient) to their own husbands.
According to Pastor Enoch Adeboye, he said, when you obey your husband when it is convenient for you, that is cooperation but if you obey your husband when it is not convenient for you that is submission. I cannot agree more with this great man of God on this. Wives want to obey their husbands only when it is convenient for them. That is not submission. Submission means that you are under the authority of the husband. Therefore, you are to obey your husband. You should be willing to serve him. In Genesis 3:16, God told Eve and by extension to the entire womenfolk and said “And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” The Living Bible version says, “And he shall be your master.”
The wife is to submit to the leadership of her husband because he is her master. Even Sarah called her husband, Abraham, her lord-1 Peter 3:6. You simply obey your lord and master. That is the position of the Bible on this. Of course, God is not expecting the Christian husband to abuse this privilege by oppressing and suppressing his wife. This should not in any way make a demon or a tyrant out of the man because of this honour.
The Christian wives in the Church today do not want to be under the authority of their husbands because of their education, so-called enlightenment and financial independence. Some of the things that these women say are these:
I want to be free.
I don’t want any man to control me.
I don’t want any man to dictate to me when to travel and when not to travel.
I don’t want any man to tell me which friends I should associate with and which friends I should not associate with.
I want to go out when I like and come back when I like.
I want total freedom.
I don’t want any man to regulate how I spend my money.
Men are domineering.
Let us look at the following:
If you do not want to be under the authority of your husband, please, don’t get married.
If you don’t need your husband’s permission to do anything that you want to do, please, do not get married.
If you want to travel when you like and return when you like without anybody’s permission, please, keep off from marriage.
If you do not want to be obedient to your husband, you are not qualified for marriage.
If you only want to obey your husband when it is convenient for you, marriage is not meant for you.
This rule of submission is one of the basic and key pillars of marriage. Show me a submissive wife, I will show you a peaceful home and a loving husband. Show me a disobedient wife, I will show you an unloving husband as well as a turbulent home.
Men! As soon as you notice that this woman does not believe in this teaching of submission, please, run away from her or else, there will be two husbands in the home. And you know the implications? There will be no peace except you are ready to accept her lack of submission which you will never enjoy. Imagine your wife coming home when she likes, travelling against your instructions, taking her personal decisions without your consent, changing the children’s school without informing you, building her own personal house against your counsel even when you have one under the pretext that she wants to have her personal house without giving you any reason!
Brother, you cannot enjoy such a wife. Keep away from her, please! Don’t marry her for any reason. Don’t let any prophet deceive you that she is the will of God for your life. God cannot give you a woman who will willingly be disobedient to His word. Keep off from her, I say. Such women are not materials for marriage. They will be rottenness in your bones- Proverbs 12:4. If you want to enjoy your marriage and your life to the fullest, don’t marry them. It is my prayer that you will not marry the woman that will kill you. The Lord will help. Amen.

By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please, don’t forget to send me your comments and testimonies. Till then, stay safe and God bless you. Amen.

Pastor Jide Ajidahun

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The Questions Singles Ask – February ’21 edition.

theolivebranchadmin — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 21:09:53 +0000

THE QUESTIONS SINGLES ASK 26
It is my joy again to welcome you to the February edition of our Singles World. In this edition, I will continue with more questions and answers on dreams and relationships. May the answers come from the throne of the Lord in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Question: I am in a relationship with a brother and both of us are trusting God for a lasting union. Recently, I had a dream in which I was about to get married to this brother. I had put on my wedding gown. It was like my wedding day. We were all seated inside the church waiting for the bridegroom. To my surprise, the bridegroom did not come. The officiating ministers waited and waited. I tried calling my fiancé but his line was switched off. I started crying as people began to leave the church. I cried till I woke up. Please, what does this dream mean?
Answer: This dream means disappointment and shame. It means no marriage for you. The devil is planning to shock you with marital disappointment. The ideal thing is for both the bride and the bridegroom to be present on the wedding day. If one of them is absent, there is no wedding. The other person that is present will be publicly disgraced. Just as you cried in the dream as people began to leave the church, the devil wants you to suffer a major marital set back that will open you up to public shame and ridicule. God forbid!
Can you imagine what the people that you have invited will be saying? Can you imagine the financial waste? It is better imagined than experienced. Your fiancé may break the relationship suddenly when it will be most painful for you. He may die suddenly when it is close to your wedding day. A major calamity may befall him or you before or on your wedding day. Reject the dream and pray violently against marital disappointment occasioned by sudden death or breaking up of the relationship.
Pray for yourself also just as you pray for your fiancé. Even when the date of your wedding has been fixed, you have to pray against all forms of hindrances, calamities, delays, frustrations and disappointments, accidents and so on. Don’t be afraid if only you can pray. Listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit as you continue in the relationship. Whatever the Lord tells you to do, do it. Meanwhile, prayerfully find out if your fiancé is not under any evil covenant or spell. Find out if he does not have a spirit wife. Find out if he is not a cultist who has sworn never to get married or who has sworn to die on his wedding day.
Question: I dreamt that I was having my wedding but I did not recognise anybody in attendance including my fiancé who sat beside me and even the ministers who put on black clothes. I was afraid because the man sitting beside me was not my fiancé in real life. The man was dark and tall. He was always looking at me and admiring me but I was not comfortable with him.

Answer: This dream means that you have a marriage covenant with the kingdom of darkness. The man sitting beside you as the bridegroom is your spirit husband and those ministers in black clothes are the agents of darkness sent as the officiating ministers at your wedding in the kingdom of darkness. Ordinarily, you should be happy on your wedding day sitting beside your groom but you are sad because this man and the ministers are agents of darkness. He was admiring you because he wanted to be in a permanent marriage covenant relationship with you.
Pray aggressively against every demonic marriage covenant between you and the kingdom of darkness. Detach yourself from every marriage covenant between you and any spirit husband. Take some days to pray and fast against every marital failure and manipulation. The Lord will set you free. In case, you are not born again, you need to give your life to Jesus Christ.
Question: I dreamt and I saw that my fiancée has the head of a dog. What does this mean? I am scared.
Answer: It means your fiancée is a dog. It means she is a filthy, vile, despicable, immoral and promiscuous person. Can you imagine a man getting married to a dog? Ps 22:20 says “Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.|” Your darling needs deliverance from the spirit of the dog. Matthew 7:6 says “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs.” This is because dogs are unclean. It shows, therefore, that your bride is unclean. Matt. Philippians 3:2 says “Beware of dogs.”
You have to be careful with this woman. She may be a marine agent. By implication, if you marry her, you will be in marital bondage and your sexual life will be perverted. If you interact with her by the wisdom of God, you will know that she is not an ordinary person. Even if she is being manipulated, you will also know. I counsel you to let her go, while you trust God for another person. If you marry her stubbornly in the name of love, you may not recover from the bondage. Thank God that God has revealed her to you.
You need the power of God to be free from the bondage of the devil. If you are not born again, you will not enjoy the freedom and the liberty that Jesus Christ has given freely to all those who believe in Him. Do you want to be free from satanic bondage, marital frustration, the spirit of the dog and demonic marriage? Then, give your life to Jesus Christ. Confess and renounce all your sins. The Lord will forgive you your sins and set you free. You may need to go for deliverance and the Lord will deliver you.

Prayers:
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I set you free from every marriage covenant with the kingdom of darkness. I terminate every marriage relationship between you and the spirit wife and the spirit husband. I paralyse all the ministers of darkness that have been assigned to conduct your wedding. I scatter every demonic marriage organised for you in the kingdom of darkness. I separate you from every relationship with demonic partners. Your marriage will not be frustrated. You will not be disappointed. Every agent of darkness programmed into your marital life is paralysed by fire. On your wedding day, you will not be disgraced. Your marriage will not be manipulated. The Lord God will help you, and you will not be put to shame in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please, don’t forget to send me your comments and testimonies. Till then, stay safe and God bless you. Amen.

Pastor Jide Ajidahun

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