How can marriage be more fun? Check out this message that focuses on the emotional, physical and spiritual connections that renew and strengthen marriage relationships! See the outline below and the video above!
BETTER TOGETHER–FUN
(Lamentations 3:19-23) I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
- Are great marriages possible?
Choose Life
(Deuteronomy 30:19-20) This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life…
–> Life-giving relationships look to God as the source of life.
–>Life-giving relationships happen when two servants are in love.
–>Life-giving relationships choose to love with God’s love every day.
FUN
(Ecclesiastes 9:9 NLT) Live happily with the woman you love through all the meaningless days of life that God has given you under the sun. The wife God gives you is your reward for all your earthly toil.
(Ecclesiastes 9:9) Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love…
- Emotionally. (1 Peter 3:8-9) Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- Physically.
(Proverbs 5:18-19) May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
(Song of Solomon 4:5) Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.
- The Bible teaches that the remedy to marital unfaithfulness is a passionate, sexually intimate life between husband and wife.
- Spiritually.
(Hebrews 3:1 GW) Brothers and sisters, you are holy partners in a heavenly calling.
(Matthew 6:21) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
(Revelation 2:4-5a) Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.
- Choices lead; feelings follow.
Marriage and Family Counselors We Recommend
Families United, (765) 762-0611. www.familiesunited.biz
Wellspring Counseling Center, (765) 237-3326. http://www.wellspringcenter.net
Good Reading on Sexuality
Farrel, Bill & Pam. Red, Hot Monogamy: Making your Marriage Sizzle.