Duly Prepared for Marriage

By Susan Obiageri Onyeka

The book DULY PREPARED FOR MARRIAGE is a frank and factual account of how people aspiring to marry and be married ought to prepare themselves. It presents practical steps which, if followed will provide divine guidance to right choices considering that choice making in marriage is very critical to the success of every marriage.

The book also suggests practical methods of oiling the engine of marriage in about every aspect of marriage as well as sustaining an exciting love life between the couple.
Duly prepared for marriage, a manual on building and sustaining happy marriages and homes is a bundle of godly wisdom for intending couples as well as married couples.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Susan Obiageri Onyeka
• Release date: Jul 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310031199

Susan Obiageri Onyeka

Onyeka Susan Obiageri is an accomplished and celebrated wife to Mr. Emeka Onyeka, a successful business man and committed Christian. They have been happily married for sixteen years and they are blessed with four wonderful children.Significantly, Susan has been counseling the young unmarried and newlyweds in the past ten years. By the grace of God, the counseling sessions have helped to resolve knotty issues and brought healing and solutions in the marriages.She is a gospel singer and inspirational speaker also an educationist with specialization in Adult Education.

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Duly Prepared

For

Marriage

A Manual on Building and Sustaining Happy Marriages and Homes

Onyeka Susan Obiageri

Duly Prepared for Marriage

By Onyeka Susan Obiageri

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Copyright 2015 Onyeka Susan Obiageri

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Content

Introduction

Chapter 1 Getting Prepared While Single

Chapter 2 Choosing the Right Partner

Chapter 3 Courtship and Engagement

Chapter 4 The Traditional \ Wedding Ceremony

Chapter 5 New Home, New Life

Chapter 6 Lovemaking in Marriage

Chapter 7 Conflict

Chapter 8 The Secret of Keeping Your Love Alive

Introduction

A young man who came into my office one day sat back in despair after our business transactions and said to me, Mama, please I need your advice for my heart is greatly troubled. This is barely six months after my marriage and I just discovered that I can no longer cope with the lady I married, and I want to call it quits, but my mind is in crisis considering what people will say. Please, I need your advice. When I interviewed the man as to what must have led to such an incendiary situation, I then discovered that both the man and his wife were not duly prepared for that marriage.

Marriage is far beyond a wedding. These are two different things. Marriage is a life-time commitment. It is a solemn agreement between two people (male & female) to spend their lives together until death parts them while wedding is a ceremony to symbolize the love you are committed to.

Marriage originated from God the Creator of the whole Universe. He is the only wise God who in His wisdom foresaw the Earth and determined the existence of humans and the population of the earth with humans so that humans should rule over other creations. Genesis Chapter 1 verses 27 and 28.

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

God had a vision and a purpose for the couple which none of the two could have attained unless they became one in purpose, agreement, understanding and love as stated in Genesis Chapter 1 verse 27. The vision and purpose of God was for them to live a life of dominion and have comfort but only in the accomplishment of the responsibilities commanded them.

The beauty of the world today, the pleasures, Science and Technology, the continents and the increase in human population and the discovery of other planets is because God said be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue and dominate the earth through marriage. So, one has to be duly prepared in order to achieve God’s plan and purpose.

To be duly prepared means to adequately make ready before hand for a specific purpose. Most young people spend a lot of time preparing for the wedding and not for the marriage. Selection of the right wedding dress, type of hall decorations, colour codes, ashebis, guest list, the fancy cars, etc. There are more to preparing for marriage than all these. After the wedding, marriage continues. Marriage is meant for adults and not children, in point of fact adults who are duly prepared for it.

By the special grace of God and through the help of the Holy Spirit, I write this to help myself and others who are married and those aspiring to be married. I pray that God helps me not to fail in this area. Philippians Chapter 3 verse13 (KJV).

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are