MARRIAGE RESURRECTION
Text: Ephesians 5:22-31
- Every marriage can be a better marriage.
- Jesus wants to give your marriage a new life.
- Finding yourself in love is easy; growing in love takes determination and creativity.
- You must believe that Jesus is the giver of every good and perfect gift.
1. 4 REASONS THAT MARRIAGES DIE.
A. Marriages DIE because of poor communication.
- Communication is to love, what blood is to the body.
- If you want to be reconciled, stop worrying about who wins the argument.
- Trying to intimidate your wife through anger is not communication.
- Communication is when the husband can tell the wife, and the wife can tell the husband.
Matthew 12:34
B. Marriages DIE because of neglect.
C. Marriages DIE because of poor money management. Prov. 22:7
D. Marriages DIE because of the inability to dwell with your partner, according to
knowledge. I Peter 3:7
Before marriage, opposites attract, and after marriage, opposites irritate.
2. THERE ARE DIFFERENCES THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO ACCEPT IF YOU WANT YOUR MARRIAGE TO LIVE.
- The difference between right-brain caring and left-brain logic.
- Enjoy the process rather than accepting the goal.
-Women enjoy the process. Men want the goal.
- Spiritual authority vs. Feminine intuition. Eph. 5:23
-Husbands, it is our job to be providers, protectors, and the promise-keeper in the home.
-Follow the Lord – God brings things together.
3. 6 THINGS TO RESURRECT YOUR MARRIAGE.
- Forgive and forget the past.
- Submission in the Bible is mutual.
- Eliminate absentee parents- “Provoke not children to wrath.”
- Start talking and communicating, and stop snarling.
- Live in sexual freedom. I Cor. 7:4
- Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the Church, and Wives reverence your husband.
*God’s word provides the answers. Follow them, and we will have His blessings.