Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth
as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for
them of my Father which is in heaven (Matthew 18:19).

I want to share with you now about the covenant of marriage
between Gloria and me. There are some things that even the
minister who pronounced us husband and wife could not do
for us. We became one flesh, but there was more to it than that.
There was also a mental union and a spiritual union. The
preacher could not join us mentally. A mental union
cannot be pronounced and produced in 10 minutes.

It takes time. So too does a spiritual union before God. We are married physically. The Word of God says that her body belongs
to me, and my body belongs to her (1 Corinthians 7:4-5). We are married sexually. We don’t use it, either of us, in bribery or
extortion.

That is dishonorable.

We also are married mentally. It has taken Gloria time to figure
out that I don’t think like everybody else. (My mother and father could have told her that!) Actually, most people are that way.
We all think and act differently. No two people think exactly alike.

Gloria and I had to work at learning to think like each other.
As we did so, we started complementing each other. God
created us that way, to be one, to be full and strong together, instead of divided and weak in division and despair.

We also have been joined together spiritually. That is something
no preacher can do for us. God brought us together. In marriage, there is a miracle action that takes place just as when we
are born again. In the new birth, we became one with Jesus.

Gloria and I became one with each other when we stood before
the minister and were pronounced husband and wife. We agreed
to that union. There was a prayer of agreement, a prayer of covenant.

Marriage takes pulling with one another, praying with and for
one another. It takes seeking God to find out what we can do
to help, support, encourage and understand one another.
We have been at it now for over 30 years and
because of God’s honor between us, it gets sweeter
and stronger every day.

There were some things that I did for a long time which just
irritated Gloria, and I could not figure out why she was so
upset. That still happens occasionally. I can tell when she
is irritated about something, but she has too much spiritual
sense to throw a fit about it.

We have to be honorable in marriage and in the home.
We have to learn honor all over again, and we have to
teach it at home. We have to sit down with our children
and talk to them about it over and over.

Parents, teachers and pastors must all work together to
teach these principles to our children, so they will grow
up to be honorable young men and women. Then they
will pass on to their children and grandchildren what
they have learned from us.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries