HOW TO FIGHT Part 3: Clarify Expectations

HOPES <————Disappointment———> REALITY

Unrealistic Expectations
Unconscious
Unreasonable
Unspoken
Un-agreed

OWE/REPAY

John 13:34-35 NIV
34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Ephesians 5:22 NIV
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:21 NIV
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Submission is Mutual

Ephesians 5:22 NIV
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:25 NIV
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Ephesians 5:28 NIV
28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

1. Ask, “What’s in your box?”
2. Be quiet!

Romans 5:5 NIV
5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.