"Love has died and it can't be resurrected."
How it sounds in your head: You remember when you couldn't keep your hands off each other, when just seeing his name on your phone made you smile. Now there's just... nothing. Empty. The feeling is gone. You can't manufacture love. You can't force chemistry. It's just dead, and dead things stay dead.
"Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
-- Romans 5:5Enemy lie that love is a feeling to maintain rather than a covenant to receive from God constantly.
You feel absolutely nothing when you look at him. No butterflies, no warmth, just obligation or resentment. Every marriage book says you need to 'feel in love' and you don't. Your emotions don't lie, right? And they're screaming that this is over.
Lazarus was dead for FOUR DAYS, actively decomposing, wrapped in grave clothes, in a tomb. Jesus spoke ONE WORD—'Lazarus, come forth'—and death had no choice but to release him. What had been rotting became resurrected instantly. Your dead feelings have no authority over Jesus' resurrection power in your marriage.
I REFUSE the lie that love is dead in my marriage. IT IS WRITTEN that God's love has been poured out in my heart by the Holy Spirit—present, active, NOW. I am not dependent on my feelings; I am a conduit of Heaven's infinite love. IT IS WRITTEN that Jesus raises the dead, and if He called Lazarus out of a four-day-old grave, He's calling love out of this marriage right now. I don't need to manufacture feelings—I receive supernatural love from the Source. The BARAK blessing means I am blessed in my relationships, blessed in my covenant, blessed in my home. Dead love is just Lazarus before Jesus showed up. Resurrection is happening. Love is being resurrected in my heart, in my home, in this covenant—NOW.
The Father isn't waiting for you to feel something first—He's already pouring out His love into your heart like a waterfall, whether you feel it yet or not. Like He spoke to dead Lazarus, He's speaking 'LIVE' over your dead emotions, and they have no choice but to obey His voice.