Summer Speaker – Ed Ainsworth

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NLT
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!

MARRIAGE

WIN OR LOSE

INTRODUCTION

A NOTE TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE NOT MARRIED BUT YOU WANT TO BE MARRIED SOME DAY OR DIVORCED AND WANT TO MARRIED AGAIN.

Make sure that your future mate knows that you
and Jesus are a package deal!!!

IF YOU CAN WIN AT MARRIAGE, YOU CAN OBVIOUSLY LOSE AT MARRIAGE. SOME ARE LOSING AT MARRIAGE AND THEY ARE NOT DIVORCED.

72% OF ALL CHURCHES LACK A SUBSTANTIVE MARRIAGE MINISTRY.

COMMUNIO.ORG

IF YOU ARE NOT WORKING ON YOUR MARRIAGE YOU ARE WORKING ON YOUR DIVORCE.

WIN = COMMUNICATION

LOSE = QUIET / PASSIVE

THE SOURCE OF A WORD OR WORDS DETERMINES IT’S WEIGHT.

WIN = TIME INVESTED

LOSE = NO INTENTION

DATE YOUR MATE.

WIN = VALUE GIVEN

LOSE = DEVALUED

I WOULD RATHER BE RECONCILED THAN RIGHT.

If you can vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon a goal, it will come to pass.

Skip Bertman, Hall of
Fame LSU Baseball

SOUNDS LIKE

Mark 11:23-24 NIV
23 “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Ephesians 3:20 NIV
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

TAKEAWAY

THE MATH OF MARRIAGE

COMMUNICATION + TIME
INVESTED + VALUE = LOVE