Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo, the founder and senior pastor of David Christian Center spoke to the youths at The Ignite Conference. He spoke on the foundations singles should build before marriage.
He revealed that your single years are not the years you are waiting to marry. Unfortunately, that’s what most people think.
“Your single years are not a curse you are trying to escape from. They are a gift you should embrace. The gift of singleness is precious.
“ It is a gift by God that you might never have again when you marry. He said that many people are eagerly waiting to escape their single years. Embrace your single years because they are crucial to your successful life.
He then explained that marriage wasn’t designed to make you happy. “It is rather easier to be happy when you are single than when you are married.
He said that many singles are not happy now; they are postponing their happiness until they are married.
“Marriage wasn’t designed to make you happy. Marriage was designed to make you better. He said that one of the things he has noticed as a counselor is that there are so many unhappy people in marriages.
“The reason is they came with high expectations but low preparation. They thought marriage was going to make them happy and fulfilled. “If you are not happy before marriage, you won’t be happy inside marriage,” he said.
According to him, the proof that you are not ready for marriage is to be desperate for marriage because in your mind there is something special you are going to receive there; not knowing marriage is for giving and not for taking.
He said that there is nowhere in scripture where it is written: “thou shall marry and thou shall be happy”. There is nowhere in scripture where you will receive in marriage. Any mention of it is about what you will give and do for another person.
“The concept of marriage is like school. The University was not set up to make you happy. So lectures can be put at odd times. Its aim is not to make you happy but to make you better.
