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 Your Spiritual Immune System  

This is one of the most life-giving revelations you will ever encounter: you have a spiritual immune system just like you have a physical immune system. The implications for your marriage are staggering. Keep your spiritual immune system healthy, and you will be a spiritual force for intimacy and unity in your marriage.

I'm sure you remember 9th-grade science and your physical immune system. Get a good night's sleep, eat those vegetables, drink lots of water, and ad nausea. It still stands true, keep your immune system healthy, and you will get sick less often. You wash your hands to get bacteria off your skin and eat right to strengthen your immunity from disease and infection.

Your spiritual immune system acts similarly to your physical network. Keep the spiritual immune system healthy, and you will fend off the enemy's attacks and the world's intrusions into your life and marriage.

Take the Word of God as an example. Delight in the Word of God and let it saturate your soul and you will be made clean (John 15:4). You will have nothing to hide from your mate. Your conscience will be clear. Make the Word of God a central part of your relationship, and it will fireproof it from the world's grime.

Pray, and your communication lines to the Holy Spirit will be vibrant and clear. I can't overstate the importance of prioritizing prayer as a vital part of your marriage—preferably in the morning. You will feel spiritually in-tune with your spouse throughout the day when you pray together to start the day. Pray together, and unity can become a spiritual reality.

The parallels with your physical and spiritual systems are limitless. Get close to heat or fire, and you will burn your skin. Bring your spirit close to the Holy Spirit, and His fire will purify your life from the world, the flesh, and the devil. All of this has such striking ramifications for your marriage. God wants you to receive your spouse after the spirit, not after the flesh.

"So then, from now on, we have a new perspective that refuses to evaluate people merely by their outward appearances. For that's how we once viewed the Anointed One, but no longer do we see him with limited human insight (2 Cor. 5:16, TPT).