How to love your wife

(Biblical advice by our beloved Pastor, Rev. Provy R. Cadeliña, to Preacher Dennis on his wedding day. Glad, I was able then to record on my phone. A very good counsel to keep and such wisdom to share.)

Unless a man has a sense of wholeness in his heart, satisfying everyday with the love of God, there is no way that he would be able to endure all the trials in married life. Kaya dapat ang lalaki bago pa yan nag-asawa, satisfied na siya sa pag-ibig ng Panginoon sa kaniya. It so happened that the Lord had to create a partner to Adam, not because he is lonely but because he was alone. There is a difference between being lonely and being alone. Lonely means that you are sad. Alone means that you do not have companion. Adam was not lonely, he was just alone. And so God had to give him a partner to tend the garden. And that is the wife.

The man or the husband is only capable of dispensing love to his wife in the same measure that he would be able to feed on God’s love toward him. Therefore, a man must focus on God, he must focus on Christ, and he must continue to learn and continue to explore and dig the depth, the width, and the height of God’s love. For it is until then that a man is only able to give divine agape love to his wife - a love that is unconditional, a love that is sacrificial, and a love that is enduring. That love only comes from God. And if a man knows how to feed on God’s love, he will be able to show to his wife that same love that Christ had given to the church.

I first posted this text on Facebook on January 31, 2015.
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Such priviledged to be one the groomsmen.
Caliyo-Sagadraca Nuptials
January 30, 2015

Preacher Dennis Caliyo. A labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. He became the resident preacher of Hosanna Bible Baptist Church - Claveria, Cagayan on 2007. A faithful man in the ministry by the grace of God. The Lord provided him a help meet named Ma'am Shiena.

#AnsweredPrayer

Sir Dennis was my prayer partner during our prayer meeting in our church at HBBC Bacarra on November 5, 2014. When I asked his prayer request, he beamed as he said, 'lifetime partner.' Penned this on my journal a night after. November 20, 2014, he later gave an update with a text message informing that I will be one of his groomsmen!

1st and 2nd photos above are copied from Ma'am Shiena's Facebook.

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