I recently got married….. Yayyyyyy!!!! It was such a peaceful experience. We were able to do just want we wanted and when we wanted. Everything seemed so perfect. Going into my marriage, everything didn’t seem as bad as people made it seem. From hearing questions of,
” When are you guys going to have children?” to ”Oh you haven’t experienced anything yet, just wait.”
I begin to look for things in my marriage to go wrong based on the conversation and advise received from “outsiders.” The media portrays marriage to be easy, simple, and that you won’ t experience trials and tribulations. What they don’t show or tell you is that you have to constantly pray. We’ve made it to 6 months and counting, but what I learned is that marriage isn’t something you can do in your own power. The enemy hates family and marriages. So you have to stay covered and protected through prayer at all times. He uses open doors and small issues to destroy the unity of marriage. We yet to experience anything major, but I’m glad that I have the wisdom and support to cover my Husband.
Genesis 2:24: “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to
his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” When you become one flesh, you are one body. The bible also says two is better than one. When you and your husband/wife are on one accord, it is better to defeat the enemy. Why do you think he tries to get one off track??? Who knew marriage was so much work? Who knew you had to die to your flesh daily? Who knew you had to choose to love your spouse daily??? These are the things people don’t prepare themselves for. Everyone is so caught up in the wedding and not marriage. It can be difficult when you don’t have the proper examples of love and commitment. This is when you connect with Godly couples through ministry or read your bible. Everything in you need and want in marriage is found in the Bible. People make reading the bible such a hassle, but it actually helps you navigate through life and relationships. You will only know when you try it for yourself. When you pray ask God to prepare for what you pray for. It won’t get easier, but you will be better prepared.
Here’s some scriptures that can help you navigate through your marriage.
Mark 10:9: “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9: “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?”
Ephesians 5:25-33: “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, …”
1 Corinthians 13:4-5: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”
Ephesians 4:2: “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”
Genesis 2:18–25: “Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’ … So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.”
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