There are times when a marriage is about saving a soul. God gives a person an assignment and asks them to enter into a commitment because He needs to use them as a vessel of honor to pull a soul out of the very pits of hell.

There are some individuals who have become so bound into a sin that they need unconditional love and someone that is assigned to them that will coach them and prove to them how much God really does love them. The person assigned to them is there to fight for them and endure the hardships that comes along with the battles. This is a high price to pay for a soul but it is not more than what Jesus Christ has done for us.

It is times like this that the scripture of laying your life down for a friend comes to mind. The person who takes on this assignment is doing just that. God does not leave this one sided. God will use this whole case to do things in many people’s lives and will use it to buffet people and show you people’s true hearts.

There are many times people on the outside looking in are not going to understand what is really going on. Some people will only see the good side of the marriage and think that all is good and wonderful. Other people may not understand why the person on assignment can stay or put up with the other person who is bound. They do not understand the love of God that has been placed in the person on assignment’s heart. This can come for any other person that may be bound and a person is assigned to them as well. It is not limited to marriage, but marriage is the subject that we are particularly talking about.

When God puts a love in a person’s heart it gives them extra compassion, endurance, strength, patience, and the ability to be long suffering through the storms that comes their way. This love helps to look past the person’s faults and see their heart and potential as God sees them. It is an unexplainable love that only comes from God himself. You cannot conjure up this love.

There is a special anointing that is placed upon a person who receives this love. It takes a special kind of person who God has created for such a task as this. The person has to be willing to stick around and endure the consequences of the other person’s sin. It takes a determination and stubbornness to not compromise and to not join in the bondage of sin or add to it.

Instead the person on assignment has to love the person bound through it by praying and fighting for them in the spirit realm. The person has to be a friend to the bound person by lending them an ear, be a shoulder to cry on, enjoy things of life where they can, and show them that no matter what, the love will not waiver. The person on the assignment has to be willing to be a teacher and a coach, to encourage the person to keep going and not to quit. Not matter what the person on assignment must be willing to stand on the truth of God no matter what.

When a person is bound in something like pornography, the person in the sin becomes damaged and destroyed in so many areas that they need attention like someone in the intensive care unit needs. They need someone to help guide them down the path of recovery and to bring them to Christ’s love and a life of salvation. It is like being a human life raft to help keep the person afloat when the sin is trying to drown them to where they will not be able to fulfill their assignments or make heaven their home.

This kind of assignment is hard work. The person chosen must be able to do deep intercession and willing to live an abnormal life that will not live up to the status quo. They must have a deep walk with God and be able to stay focused upon God as the journey takes place.

If you look in the Bible there are a few men and women of God who were to bring people to God and out of their wicked ways. Some were saved and some were not. But the ones who were on the assignment stayed the course no matter the outcome. Why did they do this, because God placed a love for them to have for the people, the souls that needed to be saved.

When a person takes on this assignment there could very well be an uncertainty on how long the assignment could be. In any case, marriage is a commitment and a covenant before God and unless He breaks the covenant, you are promising to stick by the person’s side until death separates you.

When you get married whether the person is bound or not, you are promising to be an example of God’s love to the other person and to lay down your life individually and be joined together with a new life as one. So ask yourself this, are you showing your spouse the love of God or are you selfishly expecting them to love you first? If your spouse was the only soul you were assigned to save, how would you rate your love walk with them?

You can ask God to put a love in your heart for your spouse. Then you can choose to walk it out every day. Be the example of God’s love to your spouse. It very well could save their soul.