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Cain's Wife

"Cain lay with his wife," says the bible. I wonder what went through her mind as they made love. How do you manage to live with a man who is under God's punishment?

Cain was hidden from God's presence, a restless wanderer, a wanted man, and he went out from the presence of the Lord [Gen.4]. I cannot imagine a worse life scenario. He "restlessly" wandered on earth, aimless, and yet this young woman found him attractive. Why?

Well, I really shouldn't be surprised at what Cain's wife did--falling in love with an accursed man. I mean, just look at a lot of young women today, sleeping with men before marriage and preferring live-in arrangements than be wed before God. That, too is being accursed, and many go for it and the world sees them as smart and "mature." Some even consider it a miracle from God. 

Thus, I can imagine what probably went through the mind of Cain's wife--being herself a resident of Nod where Cain settled down. Cain found her there, and Nod meant "wanderer." People there must have just wandered around, trying this and that,  going here and there, looking for what worked and what didn't, trying out their luck. God could have given the place its name, or it was probably what Cain called it. 

Imagine this guy, son of Adam and Eve--very first couple God created and lived and talked with, first hand model of God's very image and likeness, activated to life by God's own very breath! Wow! Cain must have carried such appeal! Outward appeal takes precedence over character with some women. 

I can also imagine Cain's life ambition and daring. He was a city builder [4.17]. He was an enterprising, business-like, go-getter of a man. What young girl from Nod wouldn't fall for that? He was determined to make it big. And most women fall for such type even today. "This man will be a good provider, and he is the key to my material success!" Even in church, materialism is a big factor in   courtship--how much does he make? What's his job? What's his position in the company? What's his ambition?

Honestly, if a guy were like Abel today, nothing else in mind except how to please God, with no other earthly or material ambition, we'd probably reject him in courtship, even violently, like hacking the guy to death in our hearts as Cain did. Honestly, what would you prefer, a janitor who's a desperate God-seeker or a lawyer or engineer who attends church?

You see, a man God cursed can be so, so successful in life. Cain built a city! That's a gross achievement. What a success! You'd get everyone's praise, even probably the church's if you're that successful. They'd pray for you and declare that God's on your side for being so prosperous. Wealth and possessions can blind to the max. 

Indeed, Cain was able to build not just a city but a whole race. His clan were accomplished livestock farmers, musicians, and industrialists [4.20-22]. They were so successful there didn't seem any sign of Cain being accursed. Cain's wife had been right after all. 

However, this was very far from the truth. Wealth and possession can be very blinding, as we have earlier said. Cain's family may have been prosperous but they were rottenly poor in character and morals. This can be gleaned from Lamech's attitude. He will kill (or killed) a man just for wounding him [4.23]. Then he bragged about being avenged more than Cain would have been. They were a clan of taking vengeance in their hands for the slightest offense against them. You think you can live with such people?

Key to Your Husband's Spiritual Success

You're really the key to your husband's spiritual success. Church is good but it will do your husband no good as far as his spiritual standing is concerned. Church is just for fellowship and rituals.

The woman is the glory of man, says Paul to the Corinthians. Your husband may be so successful in his career or in church, but if you, second Eves, are doing poorly in spirit, your husband gets NO glory. I've seen couples who look so good in church but have rotten marriages. In the spirit, they have zero glory--God is not pleased to see them. 

If you want your marriage to be a delight to God (which is the essence of worship for couples), you second Eves should make sure that:

1. You submit to your husband in all things.

2. You have a healthy spiritual life, and this means Jesus' life and character is seen in you daily.

3. You are one flesh with your husband.

It is totally useless to serve God in church if you, second Eves, do not do your responsibility to your life partner--being the glory of your husband.

When the Husband Cheats

When a Christian husband cheats, what does the wife do?

Often, the wife punishes the husband with threats of separation or divorce or similar harsh words. The husband often does the same when the wife cheats. But if you're in the move of God, you should be aware of what marital cheating means in the spirit realms.

Does this happen even to people in the present move of God?

Oh yes. And if it happens, the cheating party is no longer in God's present move. He or she has been left behind. But there's hope of catching up.

So, what should the wife do in case of a husband cheating? She should be aware of what's happening in the spirit realms. First, the husband is NOT the enemy. He is a victim of the devil. He is made to believe that he is so handsome that girls fall for him. Second, it's not about marriage anymore--it's about both husband and wife getting out of the devil's trap.

Remember, The Devil is Out to Destroy the Family!

Why the husband cheats is all about the devil's grand plan to destroy the family. The devil wants to kill the next generation of radical believers. He knows that the next generation of Kingdom children and young men and women always have double or triple the anointing to build God's Kingdom and demolish Satan's plans. So the enemy hates strong families in Christ.

So he always targets the husband and wife--often the husband. And if the wife reacts negatively--hating the husband, being a pain in the neck to get even, demanding separation or divorce--then both the husband and wife are defeated. Only the devil wins. 

Sure Remedy

The wife should pray for the husband to genuinely repent, asking God and his wife for forgiveness. After he does repent, the wife should forgive him and love him, helping him in every way to defeat the devil and his schemes. She must help him get up again and be a strong Christian, able to catch up with the present move of God. 

In this way, the devil is out-smarted and the family (especially the kids) is saved. 


If you're not yet in the move of God, you should join Him now so your marriage can be saved. Repent of all your sins and totally surrender your life to Jesus. Then ask God to save your marriage--He will.

This is the age of martial separations, divorce, rotten marriages, and broken homes. The devil is working like crazy to destroy families. DON'T HELP him! 

Christian wife, you should be wise and discerning. You better get this clearly, second Eves!

The Prophetic-Apostolic Wife

The universal priesthood of all believers is taken more seriously in the prophetic-apostolic move of God. Thus, wives are no longer housewives bound to household chores. Without foregoing that, they also should be expert ministers with their husbands--well trained in the Spirit of God. 

It's okay for wives to teach in church. They should preach to and lead and train younger women and ladies in church, and teach children, too (Titus). Paul prohibited women in church to preach to men. And he stressed that the ruling should be observed in all God's churches. And because God's Word is alive and active, that truth should be true to us even today. The prophetic-apostolic wife then should master the Word and be able to share it with other women boldly, with God's anointing. 

The wife should be able to do warfare in the spirit, be sensitive to God's leading, and be powerful in intercession, especially for her husband. Her husband, of course, should be deep in the rhema Word of God and anointed to declare it with Holy Spirit power and with signs and wonders from God. She should know how to move in the Spirit of God and be knowledgeable in all the ways of the Father in Scriptures. Needless to say, a prophetic-apostolic wife should be strong in God and His Word.

However, she should also remain in submission to her husband, and this should be evident to all. As her power and stature in God grows and become stronger, all the more she should be in submission to her husband. She is her husband's glory, so she should support her husband's spiritual stature and advancement in the spirit by remaining in submission to him. Without this total submission in all things, her husband's standing in God is null and void, and anything he does is garbage in the spirit. In fact, without this submission, her husband has better quit in any church position he has--more so if he's a minister.


She must meekly agree with the husband's final decisions in God, as she also contributes to that decision with what God has placed in her mind and heart. It's always a husband-wife team, with the husband as the team leader. 


This can only work if both husband and wife are immersed in God's spoken Word in the bible, and if Jesus' LIFE is seen in them daily. In fact, this is more important than any Sunday church program that churches religiously do, thinking it to be important in God's eyes.

The prophetic-apostolic wife is in charge of the children's educational progress, both spiritual and intellectual. Dad should influence the children with his apostolic fervor and inspiration, imparting the Jesus LIFE that is in him to them, but it is mom who should daily supervise their overall development. Dad should also help in this process. 

The prophetic-apostolic wife is not anymore the household help of everyone in church. Pastors' wives are often thought of as maid-servants for running everyone's errands, and especially cooking food and doing the dishes. This chore should be shared by all. But a prophetic-apostolic wife's first role is to be in the likeness of Jesus Christ in all aspects of life--more so in being the wife of her husband. 


If the husband is a father in faith, his wife automatically becomes mother in faith--because they are one flesh in God's eyes. Being a mother in faith, the prophetic-apostolic wife should be able to assist her husband in all the dimensions of the move, raising up their sons and daughters in faith in the rigors of spiritual fathering. With her husband, they should be able to bring down to earth the dimensions of God's very Kingdom.

Many church women today advance in careers and call the shots in church, but such is NOT the God-assigned role for them. Careers are good and helping in church is fine, but what really matters is for the wife to be like Jesus as she becomes one flesh with her anointed husband and promote his glory in Christ.

The Servant Girl

At the height of Commander Naaman’s military career (2King 5), Aram raided certain areas of Israel from time to time. One day Aram's troops captured an Israelite girl. Watch this story, second Eves.

Naaman was a decorated general. He was “great in the sight of Aram’s king.” Yet, he had one big problem he could not get rid of. Even his war skills and bravery were useless in fighting it off—leprosy. What did honors, rewards, promotions, and trophies mean when your life melted away due to gangrene?

Leprosy deadened the nerves so that a person afflicted by it lost the ability to feel pain on the skin and muscles. His hand can touch red-hot flames and not feel a thing. As the disease eats you, you gradually become a walking dead. Like a zombie. If you’ve seen zombie movies you’d see how these creatures want nothing but eat flesh. Trophies, riches, possessions, relationships, etc. don’t mean a thing to them. It’s flesh or nothing.

Spiritual Zombinism

If you suffer from spiritual zombinism you crave for flesh—anything that feeds your carnality. Everything else God shows or gives you becomes empty. Naaman didn’t just suffer leprosy—he was a walking zombie in spirit. Often, you’re spiritual condition is reflected on what people see in you on the outside. Thus, he was arrogant. His ego hurt when Elisha, God’s prophet, didn’t even care to go out and attend him personally. Is that the way God’s servant treats a person in need? Is that God’s love?

But it was God’s love; the problem was, Naaman was turning into a Zombie in spirit and could not recognize God’s love which Elisha was giving him. All he cared about was eat more flesh to feed his ego and boost his pride. Church people with spiritual leprosy negate anything of God and recognize what satisfies the flesh alone. Yet, most of them get religious trophies in church and gain riches and promotions like Naaman did.

Nothing but Glory for Her God

Now, the girl was of a different spirit. She was a war victim, her people were badly persecuted, she was taken captive, and then forced to serve Naaman’s wife. Yet, in all the misfortunes in her life, she had only one thing in heart—God’s glory.

Now this is odd—she was never named at all, yet she was among the few who believed in God and God’s holy servant, Elisha. It was a time of national backsliding with the evil King Joram son of Ahab in the lead. We see Ahab and wife Jezebel and their families highlighted in both books of Kings, and yet this young girl with an amazing faith left unsung except for a few short sentences. Here we see how God’s eyes operate. The greater you are to Him the lesser treatment you get. See, second Eves?

Anyway, Naaman and his wife and their country being the enemy, the young girl nonetheless helped them. She gave them a tip for Naaman’s leprosy: “If you could go see our prophet in Samaria, you’d be healed!” Why didn’t she just let him rot in gangrene? That could have spelled Israel’s victory. Helping the enemy was serious betrayal, wasn’t it?

To the young girl, everything boiled down to God’s glory—not who won or lost. She also risked her life recommending God’s prophet. What if Naaman went to Elisha and God refused to heal? What if Elisha refused to do anything with him? Elisha had a prejudice against the rich and famous—like the way he rejected Naaman’s gold and silver rewards, and the way he refused to see him personally. 

She knew how to operate in the prophetic—believing the genuine man of God was the same as believing God. The church today needs prophetic leadership in the Spirit realms, like what Elisha had, and prophetic believers who would stake their lives for God and His anointed servants.