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Keep Your Wedding Vows Part 1

These wedding vows are important; these vows are serious. These vows, spoken before many witnesses at a wedding ceremony, provide guardrails that keep us on the straight and narrow road that leads to blessing, peace, and harmony.  So my word of encouragement today is simple: Keep your wedding vows!

Be at Peace with One Another

What does salt and saltiness have to do with being at peace with one another?  That’s a good question; I’m glad that you asked. 
I think the key is contained in the phrase “have salt among yourselves.”

Keep the Marriage Bed Pure

God is the author of marriage. Marriage is his idea. He knows and understands
that two are better than one. He said, “It is not good for man to be alone.”
God, our Creator, is the one who designed marriage as a covenant relationship
in which one man and one woman come together in sexual unity. 

Bear With One Another Part 2

We will be known by our love and kindness so church planters when Colossians 3:13 says to bear graciously it flows from a heart full of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience which has the power to endure. We will be flowing from our lives the ability to forgive and able to have grace when another brother or sister has a moment that may not be at their best or what they would want to be.

Practice Hospitality

Romans 12:13 in the amplified version which says: “…contributing to the needs of God’s people, pursuing [the practice of] hospitality.”
Contributing within our marriages is a big one one, isn’t it? It’s doing ‘our-part’ to make the family dynamics flow smoothly. Sometimes, we all do forget to do our part to help the household flow, as we must try to ease off the burden of our spouse to simply put into words; ‘to be a blessing!’
When we contribute to the needs of others, including our family, we are showing hospitality.

Encourage One Another

Recognize the origins of this word “encouragement.”  It means to “make strong, hearten, or to give heart.” When we speak words of affirmation and encouragement to others, we build up hope in them.  

Resolve Conflict Through Forgiveness

We all long to be forgiven, but we find it difficult to forgive those who have hurt us. Even in a loving marriage, it can be difficult to forgive. But God calls us all to “put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”

The Wife Must Respect Her Husband Part 2

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

The blessing of this scripture is the honor and respect that we are to have for one another. It magnifies as husband and wife dwelling together in unity.

Walk in the Light

The apostle John gave those who listened to his message a wonderful promise.  He taught that if we walk in the light as Jesus is in the light we will have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus will cleanse us from all sin. Wow! People all over the world long to have fellowship with others.  We all long to be known and understood. We all want to have friends who enjoy spending time with us, friends who share their lives with us.  We all hate to be lonely. We want fellowship with others.  How wonderful that the apostle John gives us a very clear instruction and promise to meet our need. He says if we want to have fellowship with others, we need to walk in the light.

Perhaps more than anywhere else, married people want to have fellowship in marriage. John’s general promise that fellowship comes from walking in the light holds true in marriage as well.

Submit One to Another

In its simplest sense, what the Apostle Paul is saying here is that husbands and wives are to mutually submit to one another.  Husbands demonstrate this by their sacrificial love for their wives (as Christ did for the Church, see verses 25 and 33).  Wives demonstrate their mutual submission by their respect (we see this in verse 33) for their husbands.