The wedding ring - restoring the nations, the church and the individual believer

 

One afternoon in March / April 2020 my wife Angela and I were praying and interceding for our nation and the COVID pandemic. This was on a warm afternoon and as we were praying and interceding, i received a vision of a wedding ring laid on the side of a table. I told this to my wife and she said to me; pray into it and ask God what it means. Immediately i strongly felt in the spirit that we as a body of Christ, the church around the world, have so often walked away from our marriage covenant with our Father in Heaven. The nations around the world have walked away from their Christian heritage. The individual believer has sometimes left their walk with God. I prayed more into the vision and contemplated over it, asking God to reveal more. I knew that there was more to this vision. 

Up until 3 days ago, 24th September when my wife and I were in a conversation again about the vision, it suddenly dawned on me what the vision entailed and I started to write down everything the Spirit of God revealed to me. I am going to write down detailed what Holy Spirit showed me and I pray it will bless you and will challenge you to keep pursuing Jesus and for His Kingdom to be established here on earth as it is in heaven.

First of all I will share about what the wedding ring represents and then the 3 aspects of the vision and after that I will share about what I felt in the Spirit about the hope and restoration I believe God is bringing to the nations of the world, the body of Christ and the individual follower of Jesus. 

The wedding ring represents:    

1. Covenant

Father in heaven always wanted to have a covenant with His people and His people are you and me. He gave His son for us, so He would be able to reconcile Himself with us and have a covenant marriage and relationship with you and me. The conditional promises made to humanity by God, as revealed in Scripture. The agreement between God and the ancient Israelites, in which God promised to protect them if they kept His law and were faithful to Him.

2.   Commitment

The wedding ring represents commitment. Commitment from your spouse to you and from you to your spouse. In the same way God has made a commitment to pursue you no matter what happens and in the same way we are expected to be fully committed to our relationship with Him. Commitment comes from both sides.

3.       Responsibility

with being married comes also responsibility. When you are married with your spouse and your spouse with you, we have a responsibility to carry. We take care of one another in every way. In this way our Father in Heaven cares so much about you that He takes his responsibility in His marriage covenant with you very seriously, because He was willing to give up His son for you to be in this beautiful marriage covenant with you.

4.  Unconditional love

in marriage we should always aim to love one another unconditionally. Unconditional love means that we are willing to lay our lives down for one another. This means that we endeavour to live as much Christ-like in our marriage as we possibly can. We will be slow to anger, quick to listen to our spouses. We give our all into our marriage covenant with one another and in the same way Father God has given His all to us and His love is unconditional toward us, so He never leaves us nor forsakes us. Even when times are getting rough and you feel like giving up on God, He never gives up on us. That love is called Agape love. 

5.   Unity

In a marriage covenant we come together in a union. When a man and a woman decide to get married they become ONE. In the same way God wants to be in union with His bride. There’s nothing more important for Him, besides of course people surrendering their lives to Jesus and entering into a marriage covenant with Him, that we keep the union with Him. He wants to be a strong union with Him. In unity we can achieve so much more. 

6.  Purity

In marriage purity is so important and it’s key that even when you are married, you keep yourself pure in married life. God is a jealous God and doesn’t want to share us with anyone or anything. What sometimes can happen in a marriage is that either one of the spouses doesn’t feel connected so much anymore to her or his spouse and goes off wondering where he can get his satisfaction. This can easily end up becoming sexual immorality such a pornography addiction, sex addiction or any other addiction they can find or just leave their spouses, because they don’t feel love anymore. Well, let me say this; it happens between God and men too. We so easily walk away from our life of purity and holiness and prostitute ourselves with things that in the end can’t give us the satisfaction we are looking for in a relationship. Jesus is enough and He is passionate about you and keeps reaching out. 

7. Intimacy
As you are spending time with your spouse and being intimate with him or her, so does God want to be in an intimate relationship with you. He wants you to give Him your all, adore and love Him with all of your heart, mind, soul and all that is within you. Intimacy in a marriage is very key, because if you don’t have intimacy, there’s not a lot of connection between you and your spouse. In the same way your Father in heaven wants to be intimate with you and be connected with you in every area of your life.

                                                                              The 3 areas of the vision:

                                                                            The nations of the world
sadly the nations of the world have forgotten their Christian inheritance. Government leaders have exchanged Christian values into wicked values that have made their nations turn away from God and the fear of God. We have prostituted ourselves in a lot of things. We have accepted abortion up to birth and accept innocent people being killed just because they speak up against corrupt governments.We accept and join in with the wicked movie industry that promotes all sorts of sins. We don’t have any morals anymore and start playing our own judge. We as nations of the world hold their control and power over the church that is in very nature the solution for all the poverty, mental health, homelessness etc. Instead of embracing the church, we as nations have oppressed and stopped the church, the people of God, from looking after the poor and the needy. We’ve let corrupted government and corrupted police take over society. We as nations of the world, have to come back to Jesus and to our Christian heritage. We need to come back to our first love in Jesus!

The body of Christ

When I was thinking about the body of Christ, the church worldwide, there’s a couple of things I have seen happening that concern me about the state of the church around the world. We have sadly let too much of the world come into the church. There’s speaking negatively about each other’s churches, slandering men and women of God who stand up for their faith where others don’t, encouraging all sorts of sins in the church. We’ve partnered too much with the worldly thought patterns and giving ground to the jezebel spirit. We deny platform to men and women of God who support different political views then we as a church or denomination have. We as a body of Christ, the church completely condemn people of God who prophesy the word of the Lord and we tear them down, because we don’t step out in prophesy. We have even tried to make up moves of God throughout history. A real move of God is not to be controlled and will never die down. We have let inappropriate relationships happen in our churches and tried to cover it with the mantle of love. We have let race and colour divide us in our churches and denominations. This all happens when we take off our marriage covenant ring and go and accept all sorts of weird shenanigans in our churches and pulpits. We have walked away from the full gospel from time to time and don’t confront people about their sins and just want to grow our churches by making people feel good and make them want to hear what they want to hear. We need to go back to the roots of our relationship and covenant with Jesus. We cannot afford having people who are not ready when the Lamb, Jesus comes back for His bride. We as a church and body of Christ need to be ready for the coming of the Bridegroom. Someone said recently; we need to live rapture ready! Let’s get rid of all those things that stop us as a church and body of Christ to live in unison with one another and let’s unite in our marriage covenant with Jesus and unite in preaching the raw, saving gospel of Jesus Christ to a hungry and dying world out there. Let’s stop debating over our theological differences and actually as a church and body of Christ make a different in this world!

The individual believer

These are some of the clear things that I’ve received about us as the individual believer. We have for too long been content with the comfortable life we live. We have sometimes forgotten what it was like to be in a marriage covenant with our first Husband and Maker, Jesus Christ. We have laid aside our wedding ring and thought we would be able to live for Jesus without being in covenant with Him. We haven’t been able anymore to discern right from wrong or light from darkness. We have prostituted ourselves toward morality such as accepting sin again in our lives and thinking God will forgive me anyway, so I can keep on sinning. We have completely forgotten what it looks like to live a life of purity, holiness and sanctification. We join in with gossiping about our neighbour or that person at our work, bad mouthing other brothers and sisters, separate easily from our partners without even fighting for our marriages and easily think oh, God told me to divorce. In this we have completely forgotten that the enemy is out there to destroy marriages and families and we let this happen in our individual lives. We have from time to time forgotten our moral beliefs as followers of Jesus. This is what happens if we are not in covenant marriage with our first Husband and Maker, Jesus Christ. As individual followers of Jesus we need to get back to our first love. Get back to that point in our lives where we first fell in love with Jesus and started a marriage covenant with Him, to live a life of purity and holiness before our God and Father. I call forth the sons and daughters who have been sleeping or have put their wedding ring aside, because of disappointment or end up losing the fire of God through different storms in life and started to think we can do it ourselves, but to be honest, we are lost without Jesus.

What I sensed in Spirit:

I believe there’s hope for the nations, for the body of Christ and for us as individual believers. God really clearly told me that restoration is on its way for the nations of the world and that He is calling His people back to the marriage covenant with the Lamb, Jesus Christ. Father God is calling back His people and is calling back the nations and calling back the church to the marriage covenant of the Lamb. I believe when we come back to Jesus and as a body of Christ humble ourselves and pray, seek the face of God, repent of our sins and the sins of our nations, God will show up with power and heal and restore our land. Revival without repentance is not possible. To see real revival happen, we need to repent and humble ourselves and pray as the people of God. God can only restore and heal our land, when we as a body of Christ come together in unity, remembering our marriage covenant with Jesus, be committed to our walk with Jesus, taking up our responsibility as a body of Christ and showing unconditional love to one another. 

Prayer on behalf of the nations:
Lord, forgive us for walking away from our Christian heritage. As the nations of the world we want to repent for walking away from our biblical and godly values. Forgive us Lord for prostituting ourselves in immorality, hatred, racism etc. Lord we pray for our government leaders, would you awaken their hearts to you, and we pray Father that you would turn the hearts of the fathers back to the sons and the hearts of the sons back to the fathers. We pray Lord that you would sweep across the nations of the world with your Spirit! We ask Lord, for the nations, we ask that you would give us the nations for our inheritance and the end of the earth to our possession. We pray that nations will turn back to their biblical and godly values and most of all turn back to their first love in Jesus Christ.  In the mighty name of Jesus we pray, amen!


Prayer on behalf of the Church, the body of Christ:
Lord, we lift up your church, the body of Christ. We pray Father that you would take away any strive and ambition for titles and positions. We pray for the body of Christ to turn back to our first love in Jesus. We pray that church politics will end and the need to control a move of God. We pray that we as a body of Christ will get back to our true values and stop trying to fit into society with preaching a gospel that’s not the true Good News at all. We pray Father that you would bring reconciliation between men and women of God who have fallen out with one another over doctrinal and theological differences. We pray Father that you would pour your Spirit out once again upon your church. We pray Father that you would saturate us with your presence, glory and power. We pray for a returning of the bride of Christ and those we as a body of Christ, the church and its leaders and pastors will keep obeying the call on their lives to be carriers of the Good News of the Gospel. We pray that sin will be revealed in the church and that the church will repent of any hidden sin that’s been committed. We pray that honour and respect will get to the one that should receive honour and respect. We pray Lord forgive us as the church for running away from time to time from our responsibilities to love thy God and our neighbours as ourselves. Forgive us where we’ve been unforgiving, kept grudges amongst each other. Please forgive us where we have let racism sneak into our churches. We pray all this in Jesus mighty name, Amen!


 Prayer on behalf of the individual believer:
Lord, we ask forgiveness for our own selfish ways we have lived. Forgive us for racial and social injustice we have supported from time to time. Forgive us for not living fully in surrender to you. Forgive us for not allowing you to do what you need to do in our lives to make us more like you. Forgive us for so often running away when you have spoken to us to do certain things. Forgive us for our disobedience to your word. Lord, we ask you to impart a fresh fire into our hearts. We ask that you would impart your presence, glory and power in us Lord, so we can keep living a life that honours you. We ask for more of your love and more of your grace and we ask you to humble us where we need to humble ourselves. Convince us Lord where there are any wicked hidden sins in our own lives we need to confess, so we can receive freedom from that. We ask from you Lord to pour out your Holy Spirit once again over our own lives, so we can keep living a holy and pure life before you. Forgive us Lord where we’ve not listened to your voice and where we’ve laid down our dreams and visions you have given to us to pursue our own selfish goals. We ask you Lord to take us back to our first love in Jesus. We ask this all in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen!



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