TEN SUGGESTIONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
Here's a little something that I taught during our CICF Valentines Prom Night. It's my hope that it will help strenghten your marriage.
Ten Suggestions for a Successful Christian Marriage
1. Make God the center and number one priority of your marriage, and put your wife or husband as the next most important priority. There must be no interference from your family or friends with this sacred bond of marriage.
2. Never consider divorce or living apart as an option. It is not a solution to your problem. Divorce is not an acceptable alternative because God says it is not.
3. Do not compare your spouse or your marriage to others. There is not another marriage on earth like yours. Let God make your marriage the way He wants it to be.
4. Forgive your spouse. You are to forgive as Christ has forgiven you. Since you are both not perfect, be willing to forgive one another.
5. Stop all criticism. Love does not criticize and find fault. If you are critical of your spouse, you do not have a heart of love. Instead of criticism, try a little praise!
6. Communicate with your spouse. Start listening to what your spouse is saying as well as to what he or she is not saying.
7. Refuse any relationship outside your marriage in which affection is sought or given. Do not seek to make someone else a substitute for what you are not getting in your marriage. You will never solve your problem doing this.
8. Trust your spouse, and also, earn the right to be trusted. A marriage must be based on trust. It cannot survive without it.
9. Do something every day to please your spouse – something that you know will bring your wife or husband joy and happiness.
10. Thank God every day for the 3 best qualities in your spouse. Write them down. Concentrate on them and the positive will soon outshine the negative.
Ten Suggestions for a Successful Christian Marriage
1. Make God the center and number one priority of your marriage, and put your wife or husband as the next most important priority. There must be no interference from your family or friends with this sacred bond of marriage.
2. Never consider divorce or living apart as an option. It is not a solution to your problem. Divorce is not an acceptable alternative because God says it is not.
3. Do not compare your spouse or your marriage to others. There is not another marriage on earth like yours. Let God make your marriage the way He wants it to be.
4. Forgive your spouse. You are to forgive as Christ has forgiven you. Since you are both not perfect, be willing to forgive one another.
5. Stop all criticism. Love does not criticize and find fault. If you are critical of your spouse, you do not have a heart of love. Instead of criticism, try a little praise!
6. Communicate with your spouse. Start listening to what your spouse is saying as well as to what he or she is not saying.
7. Refuse any relationship outside your marriage in which affection is sought or given. Do not seek to make someone else a substitute for what you are not getting in your marriage. You will never solve your problem doing this.
8. Trust your spouse, and also, earn the right to be trusted. A marriage must be based on trust. It cannot survive without it.
9. Do something every day to please your spouse – something that you know will bring your wife or husband joy and happiness.
10. Thank God every day for the 3 best qualities in your spouse. Write them down. Concentrate on them and the positive will soon outshine the negative.
