Do you wish marriage came with an instruction manual? Look no further than the very Creator of marriage. Within God’s Word is a blueprint for marriage where you can discover his design, intention, and instructions for marriage.
This book contains one year of weekly devotions (four devotions each month) to help you grow closer to God and each other as a couple. In reading these devotions with your spouse, you will:
• Discover God’s purpose and plan for marriage.
• Grow closer to God.
• Strengthen your marital bond.
• Master taking on life’s challenges as a team.
• Learn practical ways to improve, not just your marriage, but other relationships.
This book dives into subjects such as teamwork, forgiveness, vulnerability, allowing your spouse freedom to be who they are, finances, parental interference, unconditional love, healthy boundaries, supporting each other, carrying each other’s burdens, listening with compassion, and healthy conflict resolution.
Included with each devotion are discussion questions to inspire thought and conversation with each other about your personal struggles and to help you apply each teaching to your own lives and marriage. You will, as a couple, connect at a deeper level. Even if your marriage is a well-oiled machine, these devotions are a great way to study Scripture together, communicate deep thoughts, and connect spiritually each week.
Storms in life threaten to overtake your marriage but using the protective umbrella of God’s Word, you can divert the rain into a cup that overflows!
This book is part of a series to improve marriages. The series includes couple's devotions, date plans, and marriage challenges (assignments) to work on different aspects of marriage at the same time.
The spiritual marriage-transforming truths.
Scripture compares marriage to the union between Christ and the Church. Jesus—the bridegroom—and the Church—his bride. Furthermore, we are told when our long-anticipated Christ returns for us, we will be united with him in a “wedding ceremony” (Ephesians 5:31-32, Revelation 19:7-9, 21:1-2). Just as Jesus came to serve and to give up his life for his bride, so are we to serve one another and to give up our lives for one another. A God-reflecting marriage looks more like service and sacrifice than seeking fulfillment. Nurturing our marriage through serving our spouse is parallel to our relationship with Christ and when sacrifice is our stance, our marriage will more accurately reflect the image of God.
Self-sacrifice is not a foreign concept in Christianity. All Christ-followers, married or not, are required to deny themselves for a greater cause (Luke 9:23). Marriage follows the same principle. Once we lose ourselves, we find real life (Matthew 10:39). In the same way, once we die to our selfish desires, only then will our marriage thrive. Selfishness and marriage cannot coexist.
To recap: our marriage purpose is to, as a unified team, reflect the image of God, resemble the union of Jesus and the church, to prepare one another for the upcoming “wedding ceremony,” to sharpen one another, to snuff out our selfishness, to spur one another toward purity and righteousness, to cheer one another on, so that we can continue this spiritual battle and fight the enemy together with one power-packed punch!