However death might have begun to gnaw at your relationship, husband and wife, when you want God to restore life in your marriage, He will give you instructions. To you, wife, God will say: “wife, submit to your husband!” as it is written

“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.” Ephesians 5:22-23

This means that no matter the cruelty or disdain your husband shows towards you, God will always ask you to do your part; not to listen to the voice of disappointment, bitterness, or anger that urges you to insult him, despise him, or speak ill of him. God will constantly remind you: “Woman, respect, honor your husband; Speak to him with respect as if you were speaking to your boss, your supervisor, or any authority figure you respect at work, in your family, or in the country. Do not make the mistake of respecting your boss more than your own husband, even if the latter behaves like a fool in his own home!”

I know many voices will object that it’s too easy to do your part, while he behaves like a true fool and does not deserve your respect… but God will continue to give you the same instruction: “Submit to your husband!” God is not telling you: “Woman, let yourself be crushed or dominated by your husband.” No! But rather: “Honor him in your heart, in your words, and in your actions as the head, the established authority over your life.”

Beloved, remember: there is life in God’s Word, instruction, God’s commandment.

When, despite the inner voices urging you to insult, despise your husband, thus rebelling against the Word of God, you decide despite the suffering of your soul, to speak to him with respect, when you do your part in the household (keeping your home in order and cleanliness, ensuring the well-being of each other, etc.), you allow the resurrection power of Christ, the Spirit of life to penetrate your union.

You allow your intercessory prayers and supplications addressed to God to carry weight, because remember that your prayers only carry weight when you live in obedience to the Word of God.

By doing your part in marriage out of conscience towards God (because of the desire to please God and not your spouse), you are being faithful to God and, as such, you can call God faithful to manifest His justice in your marital situation. And when God manifests His justice in your favor, He does not act against your husband, but against the evil spirits that hold him in strongholds, inner prisons. If your husband is a prisoner of evil influences, rest assured that it is not your threats or insults or contempt that will get him out. Only the God of mercy and justice is able to open his eyes, make him aware of the evil he is doing, and deliver him from the grip of the darkness that holds him.

God needs your cooperation to deliver, free, save your spouse. Why? Because in marriage, you are now bound to your spouse, you are one flesh (1 Corinthians 6:16).

Regarding this, the Word of God declares that the husband’s body belongs to his wife. Therefore, the wife has authority, she holds power over her husband’s body, and likewise, the husband has authority, power over his wife’s body.

“The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.” 1 Corinthians 7:4

Through the covenant of marriage, God confers upon the spouse the power, an authority (very little known by most people) over the other’s body. Now, the evil spirits that imprison your spouse inhabit his body and control his soul. Therefore, God needs to go through your prayers to set your spouse free. In order to make your prayers ineffective, the devil will systematically push you towards disobedience to God by saturating your soul with thoughts of contempt, bitterness, and resentment telling you that it is too difficult to behave well towards him, that he hurts you too much, that you can no longer honor, respect, serve such a man because he deserves neither your respect nor your love.

As soon as your soul is thus laden with grievances against your spouse, all your prayers to the God of justice to deliver him become ineffective.

Yet, truthfully, through your prayers, you are the most qualified person to suppress the bad influences that control your husband because you have authority over his body, you have the power to set him free from any evil spirit that seizes him, provided that you yourself respect the laws of God that govern the functioning of marriage.

Indeed, how could a person who does not respect the law file a complaint before the judge against another who also does not respect the law? Their stance would not be tenable as they would themselves be disqualified, condemned by the judge…

This text is an excerpt from the book “GETTING OUT OF INNER PRISONS” written by Apostle Yvan CASTANOU.

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Obedience to His Word