PREPARED TO BE A PRUDENT BRIDE:

Rev 21:2 “Then I, John,* saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband”.

As the New Jerusalem is to God, so is a bride to her bridegroom. The Bible said, the bride of Christ comes down from heaven. In Proverb 19: 14, it says, “a prudent wife comes from the Lord”. Are you presently in the Lord, in the place of spiritual formation? Are you complete in Christ and ready for the bridegroom?

 
The bridegroom that is complete in Christ and fit for marriage needs a “prudent” bride from the Lord; she must come from the Lord. The Hebrew word for prudent is “Sakal” meaning, “cause to be wise, to succeed”. From the beginning, God created an androgynous man and divinely separated the female from the male. He took the female, worked on her in His heavenly laboratory and fashioned her to be a “Prudent Bride, A Helpmeet”. Then, when she is completed and fit to marry a Hero, God brought her to the bridegroom. So my sister, are you in Christ and complete in Him or outside of Christ?

 
A prudent wife is taken from man like Eve who was taken out of Adam and now returning back to him with great interest. She is fully prepared to cause the bridegroom to succeed as a Hero. She is trained to serve, to be the King’s helpmeet.

 
The mandate of the man is to govern the earth and demonstrate the love of Christ to his wife. The mandate of the woman is to help the man in governing the earth through her wisdom. She is the type of the Holy Spirit in the home and he is the type of Jesus in the marriage. He learn from Jesus Christ how to be an ideal husband, while she learn from the Holy Spirit how to be a helpmeet, comforter and the wisdom of her husband. With her wisdom, the home is build, but the foolish bride will destroy it for she lacks wisdom because she rebel against the Holy Spirit's instruction.

 
Until Eve was completed and fitted for marriage, before God brought her to the man. As long as you are not in the presence of the Lord as a lady, and be train by the Holy Spirit, God will never introduce you to the bridegroom no matter how much prayers you offer to Him. You will be on your own.

 
As I earlier said, the Bride must prepare herself, must make herself ready. Tomorrow, we will look at certain features of what Scripture says about the Preparation of the Bride, namely who prepares the Bride, and when and where does this preparation take place. We have all heard various teachings and opinions of her preparation, but we must adhere to the clear teaching of Scripture alone.