Spiritual Covenant, Spiritual Healing

"The healing of the hurt of a broken relationship requires dependence upon the Spirit of God."

MARRIAGE is a spiritual union, a covenant or blood promise between a man and a woman. This is what it was created to be in the beginning between Adam and Eve. A covenant is a spiritual agreement, and a spiritual agreement, a union made by covenant, cannot be lightly set aside. It contrasts with a contract. A contract is a physical legality dependent on the integrity of the signers. In a contract, two parties agree upon a common goal beneficial to both. But the two parties remain separate entities. In a covenant, the two parties become one completely, with no separation between them.

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24)

Covenant being a spiritual union is also set in place with spiritual rules, unalterable by physical choices or mental thinking. Speaking of our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit, the apostle Paul told the Corinthian church to flee sex outside of marriage because it is a sin against the spiritual union of the bodies of husband and wife. Physical choices create sin in what is a spiritual covenant, which can only be made between a man and a woman. God is unalterable on this. Jesus came to earth to bring us complete forgiveness. All of our sins are cleansed by His blood. We need only to speak our repentance and turn our hearts toward Him to be set back on the path of right-standing with God. But the healing of the hurt of a broken relationship requires dependence upon the Spirit of God, as it is the breaking of a spiritual union.

Put another way, spiritual healing is needed for what is a spiritual problem. Man’s psychology, whether within the church or outside of it, cannot do in the heart of a couple whose marriage covenant has been broken what is required to reunite them. The spiritual always affects the physical, working from the inside of men to the outside. The physical needs healing but until the heart is forgiven and cleansed by Christ’s blood, and there is healing of the mind through the Word of God, any outside, external advice will fall far short.

Put even simpler, this isn’t a sex problem. The desire for sex outside of marriage is a spiritual problem, a deception of the enemy, which holds people in bondage to it. The desire for any other source of mental soothing, whether that is drinking, drug abuse, or extreme over-dedication to a hobby or employment, is the devil’s way of putting his foot in the door. He needs only an inch in order to make a mile, then though we desire freedom and healing of our marriage relationship, bad advice keeps us broken. Bad advice being anything outside of God’s Word and God’s Spirit.

The Spirit is needed to heal spiritual problems, then He can be trusted to heal the mind (our thinking) and our behaviors as well. He can exit from us any relationships which are not appropriate and bring to us, favor with those who will be beneficial to us. Favor with man comes became we have favor with God. We must learn to rely upon Him minute-by-minute, to speak His words, to make His choices for us and cease all that we have dug up outside of Him. It isn’t any different than expecting a man to buy his salvation. We find this ludicrous yet have put our education ahead of His truth. He educates men in areas of physical and mental healing so that they can walk by faith in the Spirit and help others. Advice made outside of the wisdom and knowledge of God is so many jelly beans in a bag. Just a rattling noise.

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)

“We don’t use worldly weapons designed to kill the body or destroy physical structures, nor do we use the world’s weapons of lies, distortion, manipulation, deceit, flattery, coercion, sanctions, or trickery. On the contrary, our weapons are from God and have divine power to free the mind, heal the heart, and demolish Satan’s stronghold of fear, lies and selfishness. We demolish every idea, argument, doctrine, teaching or concept that infects the mind and distorts or obstructs the truth about God, and we reclaim the thoughts, feelings and attitudes into the truth about God as revealed by Jesus Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5, Remedy)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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