Relationships 3B How to Strengthen your Marriage! Conclusion

Season #34

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• Establishing love even when things go wrong.

• Paying bills on time and being responsible.

• Working together in relationships and building generational wealth.

• Sacrificing for love and loving someone through their infirmities.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

• Love is the foundation in which all married couples need to stand upon.

• Love starts at home and then it spreads abroad.

• If you are in a relationship with your spouse and you do not show love, everything else that you're doing out doors of your house, it means absolutely nothing.

• We have to be truthful with our spouses because that's what's going to allow us to constantly rejoice.

• The importance of fiery love in marriage.

• Song of Solomon 8:6-7 - "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned."

• Honoring marriage and keeping the marriage bed pure.

• Hebrews 13:4 - "Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."

• Sexual immorality can lead to worse consequences.

• When you're with your spouse, that's what it's about being at peace and being happy.

• Intimacy in marriage is not just about the sexual act, but also includes physical touch and emotional closeness.

• Pornography is harmful to marriages and can lead to disrespect and loss of integrity for women.

• The book of Genesis teaches that a man and woman were created to be suitable helpers for each other, and should be by each other's side in marriage.

• Genesis 2:18-24 "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."

• It's important to pray and seek God's guidance when choosing a suitable spouse.

• It's best to keep family and friends out of marriage conflicts and seek the guidance of a trusted counselor.

• Rooting and grounding a marriage in the Word of God can lead to better communication and a stronger connection between spouses.