It is never in God’s plan for Married Couples to live apart- Mike Bamiloye
By Oluwafemi Dosu
The notable Drama Evangelist and president of Mount Zion Faith Ministries, Evang. Mike Bamiloye has declared that it is never in God’s plan for Married Couples to live apart.
Bamiloye who was bittered noted that certain jobs and carreer have endangered the homes and marriages of many married Sisters, saying the jobs may be bringing money home and putting food on the table, but removing peace and satisfaction and marital fulfilment from home.
Gospel Film News gathered that the veteran gospel filmmaker made this known today via his verified Facebook account. He further disclosed that himself and his wife have come across many loving couples who are living separately because of their jobs, condemning such act that it is not good.
In the write he titled FIGHT TO STAY TOGETHER Bamiloye quoted the book of Matthew 19:4-6 NKJV
[4] And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’
[5] and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
[6] So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
“Today, carreer is putting couples asunder. Today, business and desire to travel abroad is putting couple asunder. Today, employment and jobs are creating separations between married couples.
“Some COUPLES are weekend-married couples: the husband or wife only come home every Friday and return to his or her base; SO, DURING THE WEEK, the man cooks in the kitchen and even bath the children and take them to school before going to his work. Some women’s careers take them away from home as early as 6.00am daily and bring them back home at 10pm every single week day, and even on many occassions, their attentions are needed on Saturdays and Sundays; taking them away almost completely from their children and husbands.
“Matthew 19: 6: So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
“On the basis of the Word of God, NOTHING IS GOOD ENOUGH TO PUT HUSBAND AND WIFE ASUNDER.
No career is good enough
No job promotion or employment opportunities are good enough reasons to place a married couple in separation.
No Greener Pasture or Green Card or Visa Lotteries are good enough reasons for the husband and wife to live hundreds or thousands of miles away from each other,” he added.
Bamiloye revealed that on many occassions, himself and his wife have come across men and women who are living nations apart from each other.
He therefore narrated the ordeal of a woman whom he once met who travelled to US and had been there for more than fifteen years, living in her brother-in-law’s house. She had travelled to US briefly in search of job opportunities, with the hope of geting a job and inviting her husband to join her. She got a job but her husband insisted that she should come back home. She had tried to persuade her husband to come over till her visiting visa got expired and she got stucked there. Now after almost twenty years, the little girl she left behind had graduated from university and her husband had since married another woman and had children.
According to Bamiloye, the last time himself and his wife visited the church where they met the woman, she had eventually gone back to Nigeria to a distabilized marriage she left alone untendered and to estranged children she had left behind unloved. “IT IS NEVER IN THE PLAN OF GOD FOR MARRIED COUPLES TO LIVE APART,” he emphasized.
“FIGHT TO STAY TOGETHER AT ALL COST.
RESIST ANY SEEMINGLY “GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY” PLOTTED BY THE DEVIL TO SEPARATE YOU FROM YOUR HUSBAND OR FROM YOUR WIFE.
“The devil is ravaging homes and marriages of christians with subtle separations and divorces, and resulting in distorting the lives of the children.
Do you know that some ministers of God are playing into the devil subtle tricks?
“When a minister of God travel out of the house on ministrations and outreaches for weeks, living his wife alone to battle the affairs of the children; sleeping in hotels and guest houses, eating sumptuous meals and being treated as king by many hosts and organizers of programs; jumping from conferences to conventions and from workshops to seminars; taking his breakfast in Abuja Sheraton on Wednesday and his dinner in Portharcourt Protea Hotels, while the wife batttles with what to give the children back at home in Lagos, this is like drinking the Holy Communion wine with the devil’s glass cup. GOD NEVER PLANNED MINISTRY THAT WAY.
“God never planned that in ministry, your wife will be suffering at home with the children while you, the man of God, will abandon home for such an unacceptable long time. A schedule of a man of God should be planned in such a way that, the wife and the children will not be left behind for long, before coming back home to be with them and fill the home again as the father to the children and husband to the wife and priest to the home.
“When some wives of men of God are complaining that their husbands are living them alone too frequently, some men of God would pick a fight and think the woman is not mature enough in ministry matters. How do you want a woman to feel, who had been left home for five to six weeks, to cater for three or four children alone, while the man comes back home briefly only to carry his bag and his Bible to honor another series of invitations that would last another two to three weeks.
“Eventually, the the devil comes home to visit some of these women and plant in their heart seed of bitterness and stubbornness against the husband, resulting in serious attacks against the home and marraige. GOD NEVER PLANNED THE MINISTRY THIS WAY.
“When the Lord said, “…the TWO shall be ONE FLESH”. It mean, YOUR COMPLETENESS is in your TOGETHERNESS,” he concluded.
