January 9, 2024 • 15 mins
Welcome back to our podcast! This season, Pastor Cyndi will be doing a deep and divine dive into Relationships. From dating, to roles, to the Godly standards of the bedroom. Pastor Cyndi is going to be laying it all out this season, and she continues with it Love; part four. Focusing in on what the Bible says about co-habitation, Pastor Cyndi takes on a deep dive into God Holy Word for the answer to the question: Should. Christians couples live together before marriage?
If you have questions you want answered, text us (518.560.1330) or email us (info@cynthiagarrisministries). We can’t wait to hear from you!
Don’t for get to follow Pastor Cyndi on TikTok (@cgministries) and on FB/Instagram (@cynthiagarrisministries). Catch her Sunday Morning Glow on FB at 8:30 am, get healing prayer on Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:00 am, or rewatch her sermons on our YT (@cgministries. Please visit our website for in person services info (cynthiagarrisministries.org).
Lastly, please feel free to give today, and thank you for helping us take the Healing Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world!
If you have questions you want answered, text us (518.560.1330) or email us (info@cynthiagarrisministries). We can’t wait to hear from you!
Don’t for get to follow Pastor Cyndi on TikTok (@cgministries) and on FB/Instagram (@cynthiagarrisministries). Catch her Sunday Morning Glow on FB at 8:30 am, get healing prayer on Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:00 am, or rewatch her sermons on our YT (@cgministries. Please visit our website for in person services info (cynthiagarrisministries.org).
Lastly, please feel free to give today, and thank you for helping us take the Healing Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Praisethe Lord, and thank you all so
much for joining me today on haveyou heard. I'm Cynthia Elaine, Pastor
cind Elaine, and it's a pleasureto share the word of God with you.
You and you believe me. Ilove it. How have you all
been? Yeah, it could havebeen worse. Always remember that. Praise
(00:26):
God and remember and know that Godis with you in every situation. Hi,
low, good, bad, themountains, the darkness, the valley.
He's there and you're just going through. Yay, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, you don't have to fear evil.
God is with you to protect you, to help keep you on the righteous
(00:51):
road, the straight and narrow.A man and a man praise the name
of Jesus. Let us go boldlyto the throne of Grace. Am'am heave
any father and the mighty name ofKing Jesus. I thank you so much
that you are my father. Ithank you though that you gave Heaven's treasure,
(01:14):
our Lord and Savior Jesus, toshow us the way to go to
the cross and our place, thatyou can reconcile your mankind, your people
back to you, thank you becauseyou love us. Now, Lord Jesus
showed us the way He's interceding forus. Because Lord, we have a
(01:40):
work to do in each person.You have a destiny for them, a
will, your will for them.And I ask you to bless this broadcast
to help them. Lord, tobe a blessing to them, that they
may be encouraged, that they maystay on the straight and now and as
the word go forth, that theirfaith cometh. Say Jesus's mighty name,
(02:00):
and I thank you, Lord,Amen, and a man. So I
have a question. Yes I dosomething I've been asked and people have talked
about and argued about and fell outabout and came to repentance about. Praise
(02:21):
God. It's have you heard thatas a Christian that it is okay to
live with your girlfriend or your boyfriend, you know, before you get married,
you all can live together and it'sall right because God understands or you
know, I've heard that I'm not, you know, sleeping when we weren't
(02:44):
talking about formication, we were talkingabout living together. I'm not sleeping with
anyone else. And we are goingto get married. M and you know,
we've been together all this time orthe phrase, or we have kids
to get there's nothing wrong with it. I want my kids raised up with
two parents in the home. Okay, you want your children raise it with
(03:07):
both parents. What's wrong with marriage? We are going to get married,
then go ahead and get married.And then its league is before God is
spiritual, and then it's legal beforemankind for you all to be together in
the house together as husband and wife. God honors marriages. Amen, Amen,
(03:28):
Amen. And so you know,some people say that what a Bible.
It don't command us not to livetogether or prohibit us from living together.
You know we God, yes hedoes sanctifying marriages, you know.
And yes, God he is againstsexual immorality. But the Bible doesn't say
(03:51):
that, so it should be allright. I mean, and you know
one has to wonder, well,if you say you're going to get married,
you can't wait. You waited allthis time before you met this person,
some twenty thirty years, so whynow? And suddenly you know,
(04:14):
God wants the best for us.And you know they they like to say,
well, it's not in the Bible. So you know he said,
well, you know, he wentin and he knew his wife, he
knew her, and so they said, well, it didn't say anything about
living together, because we not reallydoing anything wrong. We a it's cheaper
(04:35):
for me to live with him,for us to live together. So this
is what I want us to do. I want us to turn in our
Bibles, the preferably the KJV toJohn the fourth chapter. Matthew mac luke
and John, Yes, let's seewhat the Bible has to say. John
(04:59):
four eighteen. This is Jesus talkingto the woman at the well. For
thou hast had five husbands, andhe whom thou now hast, is not
thy husband. And that sayst thoutruly, so Jesus said to her in
sixteen John four sixteen, Jesus saithunto her, go call thy husband and
(05:23):
come hither. The woman answered andsaid, I have no husband. Jesus
said, unto her, thou hastwell said I have no husband. A
ma'am. Now you see she saidshe has no husband. When Jesus tell
her to go call, and Jesussaid, being a almighty, he said,
thou hast had five husbands. Hebegin to tell her about her life,
(05:47):
her lifestyle. You have had husbands, he said, and whom thou
now hast is not thy husband.So she has somebody, a ma'am that
is not her husband HM. PraiseGod. So she has someone that is
(06:11):
not her husband that she, forlack of better words, could be living
with and or could be counicating with, cause she's already had five So in
having a husband, that means youlive with your husband. Come on,
Holy Ghost. Amen. And thisperson now potentially she was, you know,
playing house as if he was herhusband, but she told Jesus the
(06:32):
truth. Praise God that he's nother husband. HM. Amen and amen
MM. Think about that. HM. Now in the NLT John four eighteen
(06:55):
says for you have had five husbandsand you aren't even married to the man
you're living with. Now, youcertainly spoke the truth. That's in the
NLT John four eighteen. It saysit the man you're living with. So,
as true believers, we're to pickup our cross and follow Jesus.
(07:18):
We're supposed to surrender and submit tothe will of God for our lives.
And Jesus here is saying the manyou're living with, he's not okay in
it. He's not approving of that. He's informing her that what you're doing
now a man, you know isnot what was right was what you was
(07:39):
doing with your other five husbands anddivorcing. Praise God, HM A man,
a man, a man, theman that you're living with, living
with now you aren't even married towho you're living with. He didn't say.
(08:05):
He didn't get all excited about that. They mad, so should we,
as believers in the Body of Christ, staying pure and holy, live
with our boyfriends or and or girlfriends. The scripture sudden certainly doesn't suggest it.
(08:33):
God honor's marriages. He said nothingabout people living together, playing house
and waiting until they get married.God talks about marriage, not y'all living
together and gonna get married. Notwe have all these children. That's fortunica.
You got'em out of fornication.Sex is for married people, that
(08:54):
sexual immorality. God speaks of that. So some people say, well,
we shouldn't live together because it's temptationto four unicate. It's more than that,
it's ungodly because God doesn't speak ofit in the Bible. He speaks
of marriage, not people living together, or we're gonna get together to save
(09:18):
money, and in a couple ofyears we're going to get married. When
you love God like he loves you, when you really surrender your will like
Saul did unto God. You don'twant what's wrong. You don't want what
Jesus don't whatever he don't want,you don't want. You don't have no
understanding. You don't do it untilyou get on your face and lay before
(09:39):
God in here answers from God Almighty. You don't just take it upon yourself
because you like this person, orI might lose them. Sloma says,
why hold onto something that isn't yours? You don't even know if that's the
person God has picked for you.Let God bring you to your spouse to
be. Let God give you yourspouse. If that means you have to
(10:01):
wait on him for years, andyou do that, it's worth the wait
because then you're with the righteous person, doing the will of God together,
praying together, praying one for another, being a power, a couple in
the body of Christ, in ChristJesus. Your spouse to understand when you're
consecrating and you're fast and for threeor for whatever it is, and it's
(10:24):
spending time with God, they won'tbe upset, they won't be angry.
Your spouse to understand about transparency andno adultery, because when you love God
and you marry a man a woman, a man that's stand in the presence
of God, adultery can't come nighbecause he knows what God expects of him.
(10:45):
And that's what God gives you.Ladies when we wait for God to
give us our husbands. Men,you want a woman that owes you soul.
She's just everything. She's your crown, a ma'am. That's what God
gives you when you wait on God. Don't get caught up, and well
you don't. Single hood is alsoa blessing. People are scared to be
(11:07):
single. I've been single for tenfifteen years. Now I'm doing I'm twenty,
I'm twenty five, I'm thirty onfour. Well, you know what
you are, an example a spiritualGod, a light in the darkness in
your singlehood. Enjoy it. Godhas blessed you with it. He sees
you, he hears you. Ifyou're a true child of God, Praise
(11:30):
God. When the season comes,then you shall have your spouse that God
has promised you. In the meantimeoccupied to he arrives. Amen and amen.
So have you heard that as aChristian, it's okay to live together
with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Well, according to John four eighteen and the
(11:54):
NLT for you have had five husbandsand you aren't even married to the man
you're living with now, Hm,you certainly spoke this truth. And then
Jesus began to deal with her mores It's turned spiritual. She had to
confess her sins, and she did, and Jesus was able to bless her,
(12:16):
and she went on to be awitness for the Lord, and more
and more people came to Christ becauseof her confession her time with the Lord.
Those women at the well, Amen. So if you contemplating I should
live with my girlfriend, I shouldlive with my boyfriend. Don't. If
you don't believe what was just readto you from the Word, you to
(12:39):
stay on your face until you hearfrom God. Now here's the thing.
Do you know God's voice? Sountil you got all that in order praise
God, I think you should waiton God before you move in with your
boyfriend, before you move in withyour girlfriend. From the word of God,
(13:01):
that's not spiritual, and that's notthe will of God for you for
his children. Amen and Amen,Thank you all so much. For listening.
I appreciate it. And have youheard that as a Christian it's okay
to live because I know you've heardthat. But according to the word MM
(13:22):
John four eighteen, that's not somethingGod wants for you. Hey, ma'am,
God bless you all, and thankyou all for again for joining me.
Have a blessed rest of your day, rest of your week. Walk
by faith and not by sight,Amaen, and I always remember, no
weapon formed against you should prosper.I wanna say to you all who are
(13:46):
sick in your body, just liftyour hands right where you are. And
as I stretch forth my hands,I know you can't see me, but
know that my hands are stretched forthto you. And in Jesus' name,
I thank God for you true trustin Him, wanting him to heal you,
believing that he can, having faithin God's healing power through his son,
(14:09):
who paid the price for your healingat Cavalry, for you to be
healed. Now in the thoughty ofthe name of Christ Jesus, I curse
the root and the seed of thatsickness or disease that's upon your body.
I curse the root and the seedof that bodily infirmity that may be upon
your body. And in Jesus's nameI commanded to go. In Jesus' name,
(14:35):
And in Jesus' name, I speakhealth and healing to your body,
to your skin, to your muscles, to your blood. Be thou heal
man, woman, boy or girl. Your faith has made thee whole.
Go rejoicing in Jesus' mighty name.Be healed. In Jesus' name. Amen,
(14:56):
in a man. That's my time, and I will join you again
next week. Praise God. Uhhave you heard? God? Bless
Welcome, Welcome, welcome, Praisethe Lord, and thank you all so
much for joining me today on haveyou heard. I'm Cynthia Elaine, Pastor
cind Elaine, and it's a pleasureto share the word of God with you.
You and you believe me. Ilove it. How have you all
been? Yeah, it could havebeen worse. Always remember that. Praise
(00:26):
God and remember and know that Godis with you in every situation. Hi,
low, good, bad, themountains, the darkness, the valley.
He's there and you're just going through. Yay, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, you don't have to fear evil.
God is with you to protect you, to help keep you on the righteous
(00:51):
road, the straight and narrow.A man and a man praise the name
of Jesus. Let us go boldlyto the throne of Grace. Am'am heave
any father and the mighty name ofKing Jesus. I thank you so much
that you are my father. Ithank you though that you gave Heaven's treasure,
(01:14):
our Lord and Savior Jesus, toshow us the way to go to
the cross and our place, thatyou can reconcile your mankind, your people
back to you, thank you becauseyou love us. Now, Lord Jesus
showed us the way He's interceding forus. Because Lord, we have a
(01:40):
work to do in each person.You have a destiny for them, a
will, your will for them.And I ask you to bless this broadcast
to help them. Lord, tobe a blessing to them, that they
may be encouraged, that they maystay on the straight and now and as
the word go forth, that theirfaith cometh. Say Jesus's mighty name,
(02:00):
and I thank you, Lord,Amen, and a man. So I
have a question. Yes I dosomething I've been asked and people have talked
about and argued about and fell outabout and came to repentance about. Praise
(02:21):
God. It's have you heard thatas a Christian that it is okay to
live with your girlfriend or your boyfriend, you know, before you get married,
you all can live together and it'sall right because God understands or you
know, I've heard that I'm not, you know, sleeping when we weren't
(02:44):
talking about formication, we were talkingabout living together. I'm not sleeping with
anyone else. And we are goingto get married. M and you know,
we've been together all this time orthe phrase, or we have kids
to get there's nothing wrong with it. I want my kids raised up with
two parents in the home. Okay, you want your children raise it with
(03:07):
both parents. What's wrong with marriage? We are going to get married,
then go ahead and get married.And then its league is before God is
spiritual, and then it's legal beforemankind for you all to be together in
the house together as husband and wife. God honors marriages. Amen, Amen,
(03:28):
Amen. And so you know,some people say that what a Bible.
It don't command us not to livetogether or prohibit us from living together.
You know we God, yes hedoes sanctifying marriages, you know.
And yes, God he is againstsexual immorality. But the Bible doesn't say
(03:51):
that, so it should be allright. I mean, and you know
one has to wonder, well,if you say you're going to get married,
you can't wait. You waited allthis time before you met this person,
some twenty thirty years, so whynow? And suddenly you know,
(04:14):
God wants the best for us.And you know they they like to say,
well, it's not in the Bible. So you know he said,
well, you know, he wentin and he knew his wife, he
knew her, and so they said, well, it didn't say anything about
living together, because we not reallydoing anything wrong. We a it's cheaper
(04:35):
for me to live with him,for us to live together. So this
is what I want us to do. I want us to turn in our
Bibles, the preferably the KJV toJohn the fourth chapter. Matthew mac luke
and John, Yes, let's seewhat the Bible has to say. John
(04:59):
four eighteen. This is Jesus talkingto the woman at the well. For
thou hast had five husbands, andhe whom thou now hast, is not
thy husband. And that sayst thoutruly, so Jesus said to her in
sixteen John four sixteen, Jesus saithunto her, go call thy husband and
(05:23):
come hither. The woman answered andsaid, I have no husband. Jesus
said, unto her, thou hastwell said I have no husband. A
ma'am. Now you see she saidshe has no husband. When Jesus tell
her to go call, and Jesussaid, being a almighty, he said,
thou hast had five husbands. Hebegin to tell her about her life,
(05:47):
her lifestyle. You have had husbands, he said, and whom thou
now hast is not thy husband.So she has somebody, a ma'am that
is not her husband HM. PraiseGod. So she has someone that is
(06:11):
not her husband that she, forlack of better words, could be living
with and or could be counicating with, cause she's already had five So in
having a husband, that means youlive with your husband. Come on,
Holy Ghost. Amen. And thisperson now potentially she was, you know,
playing house as if he was herhusband, but she told Jesus the
(06:32):
truth. Praise God that he's nother husband. HM. Amen and amen
MM. Think about that. HM. Now in the NLT John four eighteen
(06:55):
says for you have had five husbandsand you aren't even married to the man
you're living with. Now, youcertainly spoke the truth. That's in the
NLT John four eighteen. It saysit the man you're living with. So,
as true believers, we're to pickup our cross and follow Jesus.
(07:18):
We're supposed to surrender and submit tothe will of God for our lives.
And Jesus here is saying the manyou're living with, he's not okay in
it. He's not approving of that. He's informing her that what you're doing
now a man, you know isnot what was right was what you was
(07:39):
doing with your other five husbands anddivorcing. Praise God, HM A man,
a man, a man, theman that you're living with, living
with now you aren't even married towho you're living with. He didn't say.
(08:05):
He didn't get all excited about that. They mad, so should we,
as believers in the Body of Christ, staying pure and holy, live
with our boyfriends or and or girlfriends. The scripture sudden certainly doesn't suggest it.
(08:33):
God honor's marriages. He said nothingabout people living together, playing house
and waiting until they get married.God talks about marriage, not y'all living
together and gonna get married. Notwe have all these children. That's fortunica.
You got'em out of fornication.Sex is for married people, that
(08:54):
sexual immorality. God speaks of that. So some people say, well,
we shouldn't live together because it's temptationto four unicate. It's more than that,
it's ungodly because God doesn't speak ofit in the Bible. He speaks
of marriage, not people living together, or we're gonna get together to save
(09:18):
money, and in a couple ofyears we're going to get married. When
you love God like he loves you, when you really surrender your will like
Saul did unto God. You don'twant what's wrong. You don't want what
Jesus don't whatever he don't want,you don't want. You don't have no
understanding. You don't do it untilyou get on your face and lay before
(09:39):
God in here answers from God Almighty. You don't just take it upon yourself
because you like this person, orI might lose them. Sloma says,
why hold onto something that isn't yours? You don't even know if that's the
person God has picked for you.Let God bring you to your spouse to
be. Let God give you yourspouse. If that means you have to
(10:01):
wait on him for years, andyou do that, it's worth the wait
because then you're with the righteous person, doing the will of God together,
praying together, praying one for another, being a power, a couple in
the body of Christ, in ChristJesus. Your spouse to understand when you're
consecrating and you're fast and for threeor for whatever it is, and it's
(10:24):
spending time with God, they won'tbe upset, they won't be angry.
Your spouse to understand about transparency andno adultery, because when you love God
and you marry a man a woman, a man that's stand in the presence
of God, adultery can't come nighbecause he knows what God expects of him.
(10:45):
And that's what God gives you.Ladies when we wait for God to
give us our husbands. Men,you want a woman that owes you soul.
She's just everything. She's your crown, a ma'am. That's what God
gives you when you wait on God. Don't get caught up, and well
you don't. Single hood is alsoa blessing. People are scared to be
(11:07):
single. I've been single for tenfifteen years. Now I'm doing I'm twenty,
I'm twenty five, I'm thirty onfour. Well, you know what
you are, an example a spiritualGod, a light in the darkness in
your singlehood. Enjoy it. Godhas blessed you with it. He sees
you, he hears you. Ifyou're a true child of God, Praise
(11:30):
God. When the season comes,then you shall have your spouse that God
has promised you. In the meantimeoccupied to he arrives. Amen and amen.
So have you heard that as aChristian, it's okay to live together
with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Well, according to John four eighteen and the
(11:54):
NLT for you have had five husbandsand you aren't even married to the man
you're living with now, Hm,you certainly spoke this truth. And then
Jesus began to deal with her mores It's turned spiritual. She had to
confess her sins, and she did, and Jesus was able to bless her,
(12:16):
and she went on to be awitness for the Lord, and more
and more people came to Christ becauseof her confession her time with the Lord.
Those women at the well, Amen. So if you contemplating I should
live with my girlfriend, I shouldlive with my boyfriend. Don't. If
you don't believe what was just readto you from the Word, you to
(12:39):
stay on your face until you hearfrom God. Now here's the thing.
Do you know God's voice? Sountil you got all that in order praise
God, I think you should waiton God before you move in with your
boyfriend, before you move in withyour girlfriend. From the word of God,
(13:01):
that's not spiritual, and that's notthe will of God for you for
his children. Amen and Amen,Thank you all so much. For listening.
I appreciate it. And have youheard that as a Christian it's okay
to live because I know you've heardthat. But according to the word MM
(13:22):
John four eighteen, that's not somethingGod wants for you. Hey, ma'am,
God bless you all, and thankyou all for again for joining me.
Have a blessed rest of your day, rest of your week. Walk
by faith and not by sight,Amaen, and I always remember, no
weapon formed against you should prosper.I wanna say to you all who are
(13:46):
sick in your body, just liftyour hands right where you are. And
as I stretch forth my hands,I know you can't see me, but
know that my hands are stretched forthto you. And in Jesus' name,
I thank God for you true trustin Him, wanting him to heal you,
believing that he can, having faithin God's healing power through his son,
(14:09):
who paid the price for your healingat Cavalry, for you to be
healed. Now in the thoughty ofthe name of Christ Jesus, I curse
the root and the seed of thatsickness or disease that's upon your body.
I curse the root and the seedof that bodily infirmity that may be upon
your body. And in Jesus's nameI commanded to go. In Jesus' name,
(14:35):
And in Jesus' name, I speakhealth and healing to your body,
to your skin, to your muscles, to your blood. Be thou heal
man, woman, boy or girl. Your faith has made thee whole.
Go rejoicing in Jesus' mighty name.Be healed. In Jesus' name. Amen,
(14:56):
in a man. That's my time, and I will join you again
next week. Praise God. Uhhave you heard? God? Bless
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!