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What are the keys to a happy marriage?
JOSHUA 24:15 Choose today whom you will serve...As for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.
A united purpose to serve the LORD.
HEBREWS 13:4 Give honor to marriage and remain faithful to one another in marriage.
Faithfulness. Without faithfulness there is no real trust or intimacy.
ROMAN 15:1-2 We must not just please ourselves. We should help others do what is right and build them up in the Lord.
Self-sacrific. This means thinking of your spouse's needs and interests first.
ROMANS 15:5-6 May God...help you lived in complete harmony with each other, as is fitting for followers of Christ Jesus. Then all of you can join together with one voice, giving praise and glory to God.
Understanding and celebrating each other's differences.
EPHESIANS 5:21,33 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ...Each man must love his wife as he loves himself and wife must respect her husband.
Mutual submission
1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-5 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
Unconditional love.
JAMES 5:16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other.
Praying with and for each other.
PROVERBS 5:18-19 Rejoice in the wife of your youth...Let her breasts satisfy you always. May you always be captivated by her love.
SONG OF SONGS 1:2 Kiss me and kiss me again, for your love is sweeter than wine.
1 CORINTHIANS 7:3 The husband should fulfill his wife's sexual needs, and the wife should fuilfill her husband's needs.
A healthy sex life.
How can I show my affection for my spouse?
EPHESIANS 5:25 Husbands...love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her.
Christ loved the church enough to die for it. Commit that your love for your spouse will be strong.
SONG OF SONGS 7:11 Come, my love, let us go out to the fields and spend the night among the wildflowers.
Spending time with each other communicates your level of affection for each other. Make it a priority to find things you enjoy doing together.
SONG OF SONGS 1:9 You are as exciting, my darling, as a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.
Verbally express your affection for your spouse. Don't concentrate on your spouse's faults because this will cause him or her to focus on yours. Instead, find things to appreciate, and then express them. Your spouse will usually respond likewise.
What if I have already married an unbeliever? Should we stay together?
1 CORINTHIANS 7:12-14, 16 If a Christian man has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. And is a Christian woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him. For the Christian wife brings holiness to her marriage, and the Christian husband brings holiness to his marriage... Don't you wives realize that your husbands might be saved because of you? And don't you husbands realize that your wives might be saved because of you?
Don't leave your spouse just because he or she isn't a Christian. If possible, win your spouse to Christ with your love. But if that doesn't happen, continue to love him or her as Christ loved, sacrificially and unselfishly. Take your situation to God and ask him to draw your spouse to him. Also, pray that your faith will grow stronger so that you will not be tempted to fall away.
Promise from God
EPHESIANS 5:31 As the scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined his wife, and the two are united into one.
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