The truth is, God does not only desire to anoint marriages—He desires to clothe them with favor: the favor of God and the favor of one another. Many couples pray for power to endure, wisdom to lead, or strength to persevere, but overlook the role of divine favor in sustaining love. Yet Scripture shows us something profound. In 1 Samuel 10:1, Samuel anointed Saul and kissed him. That kiss was not just affection—it was favor. In marriage, the anointing gives a couple the grace to stand. But favor gives them the grace to flow. You can have a deeply anointed marriage—prayerful, principled, committed—yet if God’s favor is not actively at work between husband and wife, love can feel heavy, communication strained, and progress slow. Favor is what softens hearts, opens understanding, restores joy, and causes love to be received, not resisted. Favor in marriage is God’s trust resting upon the union. It is His endorsement that allows love to move freely without constant striving. When favor is present, words land gently, forgiveness comes quicker, patience grows deeper, and affection flows more naturally. Without it, love may still exist—but it must labor to survive. Think of it this way: - The anointing in marriage is the power to love sacrificially. - Favor is the atmosphere that makes that love welcomed and multiplied. The anointing gives you strength to stay faithful. Favor opens hearts so that faithfulness is cherished. The anointing helps you pray together. Favor helps you understand one another. The anointing keeps the covenant intact. Favor keeps the covenant joyful. When God’s favor rests on a marriage, what is in the husband blesses the wife, and what is in the wife refreshes the husband. Love does not just endure—it advances. The home becomes a place of peace, not pressure. Purpose flows through the union, not around it. Marriage anointed by God is powerful. Marriage favored by God is fruitful. But when anointing and favor meet in a couple, love becomes a witness, unity becomes strength, and the marriage fulfills exactly what God intended from the beginning.

Book of Daniel, In Daniel 9 and 10, after Daniel prayed and fasted for 21 days, the angel finally appeared. And the first thing he said was: “I have heard your prayer from the first day.” Pause and reflect on that. Don’t let the enemy whisper lies that because you haven’t seen an immediate breakthrough, God hasn’t heard you. He has. Your prayers are never ignored. Every tear, every cry, every declaration reaches the throne of heaven. Then the angel adds something even more staggering: “I have come because of your words.” Your words—yes, the ones you speak in faith—are not powerless. They are not just sound; they are spiritual weapons. Your words move heaven. They stir angels. They shift the very activity of the unseen realm. Every declaration, every decree, every prayer spoken in alignment with God’s will carries weight, authority, and destiny-shaping power. The Spirit is saying to you: - Speak boldly. - Persist relentlessly. - Declare the Word without hesitation. The heavens move in response to your words. Angels are dispatched. Strategies of the enemy are overturned. Mountains begin to shift. Your words are divine leverage—use them. Speak them. Stand in faith. Heaven is listening, and your season of breakthrough is responding.

My wife and I have been working on a submission course. It’s blessed us so much. We’ve learned so much making the course! For married couples and singles it’s going to bless you BIG TIME. How many of you guys are ready?!

I was reading about seeking the Lord early and something really hit me — David shows us this pattern in Psalm 5, and it’s wild because he’s not just talking about prayer, he’s talking about priority, and David literally says in Psalm 5:3 (NKJV), “My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up,” and that word direct there carries the picture of arranging a sacrifice on an altar, meaning David wasn’t just casually talking to God — he was laying his heart, his thoughts, his plans, and his day on the altar before God before the world could touch him, and that blew my mind because it shows that mornings are spiritual battlegrounds for dominion over your mind, emotions, and direction, and this connects with Lamentations 3:22–23 (NKJV), “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness,” meaning God literally releases fresh mercy, fresh grace, and fresh strength every morning, so when you seek Him early, you are stepping into the fresh supply of heaven for that specific day, and then David doubles down in Psalm 63:1 (NKJV), “O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water,” and this is crazy because David is saying even when life feels dry, pressure-filled, or wilderness-like, early pursuit is how you stay spiritually hydrated, and the mystery is this: when you seek God first, you are not starting your day from earth trying to reach heaven — you are starting your day from heaven’s perspective and then walking into earth, and it shows me that mornings are like spiritual “first fruits,” and God has always honored first fruits throughout Scripture, meaning when you give God the first part of your day, He anoints the rest of it, and it also shows that if you don’t fill your spirit first, the world will fill your soul by default, and it just reminded me that the remnant cannot afford reactive Christianity — we have to be people who meet God before we meet people, because intimacy in the morning produces authority in the day, clarity in decisions, sensitivity to the Spirit, and strength against temptation, and the real mystery is this: seeking God early is not about religious routine, it’s about spiritual positioning, because when your voice meets God at sunrise, His wisdom meets your future before you ever step into it.

I was reading 1 Samuel 21 and something really hit me — when David was running from Saul, he came to Ahimelech, and even though he was in fear and survival mode and not perfect in how he handled it, he still received the showbread and Goliath’s sword, and it blew my mind because David literally says in 1 Samuel 21:3 (NKJV), “Now therefore, what have you on hand? Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever can be found,” and Ahimelech responds in 1 Samuel 21:4, “There is no common bread on hand; but there is holy bread,” and then it says in 1 Samuel 21:6, “So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread which had been taken from before the LORD,” and this is wild because only priests were supposed to eat that bread, yet God allowed covenant purpose to override religious restriction, showing me that God is after covenant and mercy over systems, that when God has marked you, He will sustain you even in messy, wilderness, survival seasons; and the bread is deeper than food — it is prophetic of Christ as the true Bread of Life, meaning intimacy with Jesus is what keeps you alive when everything else is collapsing, and then David asks for a weapon and in 1 Samuel 21:9 it says, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, there it is, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod… And David said, ‘There is none like it; give it to me,’” and that is crazy because it means the very thing sent to destroy you can become the very thing that establishes your authority, and together it reveals priesthood and kingship — bread is priesthood (communion, presence, identity, sustaining life in God) and the sword is kingship (dominion, warfare, authority, enforcing covenant on earth), and the mystery is this: David was not yet sitting on the throne, but heaven was already feeding him like a priest and arming him like a king, which means sometimes God will treat you according to who you are becoming, not where you currently are, and it also shows that wilderness seasons are not abandonment, they are hidden ordination rooms where God feeds your spirit and trains your hands for war, and it just reminded me that we cannot just be presence people without authority or authority people without presence — the remnant must carry both, because intimacy without dominion creates powerless believers, and dominion without intimacy creates dangerous ones, but when you carry both, you become unstoppable in God’s purpose.