One Flesh

Isn't it a mystery how two people can become one flesh! I'm still amazed by that concept of God's design. Although we've been married for only 11 years this merging of the two really does happen and the more we yield to God and each other the more this Divine Design is realized in our marriages.

Today I want to talk about one aspect of the One Flesh relationship intimacy.
I know in the world today a lot of women are working outside the home and when I was out there the last thing I wanted to do when I got home is enjoy this special time with my mate. I wanted to see my husband and kids, eat and go to bed without any extra activities...until the LORD convicted me of that. He started showing me and telling how important it is to have that time as a couple. In marriage lies the deepest bonding and intimacy possible in a human relationship.

We've all read this Scripture before right?
"Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does." 1 Corinthians 7:3-4

I know a lot of us are into so much throughout the day that when we come home we're done, but we still have to honor God's Word. One thing that will help my brothers is that you start romancing your wives as soon as you both wake up. As women we really like flowers. We just bloom when our husbands water us with kind and pleasing words of appreciation, affection and encouragement. Wives our men are blessed when we do the same and if you aren't a real good communicator just yet..men are visual, enough said. God wants us to really understand how important this area is and to yield ourselves one to another. A local Pastor had a Marriage Conference he had the 2x2x2 plan. Intimacy 2 times a week, Vacations 2x a year, and extended weekends just for the husband and wife 2x a month. I like that plan!

How can we accomplish this in a world where we are constantly being bombarded with me, myself and I? By having a sacrificial servant spirit that wants to serve the other person in every way possible instead of just wanting only to be served. One flesh..that's who we are, and that's an area that we all can serve our mates better in....

Have a great week ahead Visitors, FB & Tweet couples and make each moment you have with your spouse special!

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Show Your Honey Some Love

It's the weekend, so after your Sweetie gets home from a long day, after a long week why not take your spouse to the side and just look him or her in the eyes and tell them how much you love them! Then commit to getting together later on this evening to just sit, cuddle, and maybe read the Song of Solomon.

Have a great weekend and make each moment you have with your spouse special!

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God Bless Your Marriage & Family
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Keeping Your Foundation Strong

All year long my Pastor has been teaching us the importance of having good strong foundations. I was meditating this week on things we've learned and I started thinking about the importance of a good foundation. What does a good foundation provide? A good foundation provides stability to our house. In the Bible Jesus says a wise man that obeys him is likened to a man that builds his house on a Rock.
Matthew 7:24-27
24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

We know that Rock is Jesus. So as married couples Jesus of course is the best foundation to build upon, simply because He provides us with stability and security through our relationship with Him and our obedience to His Word. If we disobey him by doing our own thing, well then we chip away at the very Rock that helps keep us strong.

One area that can begin to chip away at our marriage foundation if we let them, is out of control feelings. Remember that song...Feelings oh oh oh feelings! Feelings are so wonderful! Right?! Well...they are but in marriage and even in life they can be your best friends or your worst enemies if they are not accompanied by, some gentleness and self control. Galatians 5:23
..gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Example..it's Christmas time right? If you and your husband plan to buy gifts you both have sat down and come up with a budget right?! I mean a good budget so when January comes your lights and gas won't be cut off because you've lost your minds shopping right?! Yes a budget, so you all will still be able to eat what you want to in 2010 instead of having to eat what you have to!LOL!!! Sorry I have loved ones that are on this vicious cycle and I don't want you to get on it, and if you are on it go look yourself in the mirror and say these words to yourself, "Christmas is about Jesus, and my friends and family KNOW that I love them whether I buy them a gift or not."
Ok so husband you are out shopping and man there is this bangin Dallas Cowboys golf club that you have to have that you know will bust your budget but you get it anyway because it makes you feel good just thinking about owning it! You go home and the wife starts adding up the receipts. A discussion about it starts and then for some reason before you know it, somebody has just gone from 0-10 in 5 seconds flat. Now for others that have learned to control their emotions a little better they may go from 0-3 and then eventually down to 0. I want to encourage you all through out this Christmas Season and for the coming New Year, ask God to help you communicate your feelings of disappointment, frustration, anger, etc..in a more godly way. Decide in advance how you will handle, talk, and address potentially stressful situations in your marriage. I say decide because having a made up mind is way better than just letting your feelings get out of hand and start chipping away at your foundation.

God richly bless each of your marriages and may God be glorified through our lives and homes! Love and Blessings to you all in abundance!!! (-:

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Who's Are You?

I hope that you were able to look up those definitions of both the fruit of the spirit and the works of the flesh that are found in Galatians chapter 5. I'm a living witness as many of you are too that walking in the Spirit produces life while walking in the flesh produces...

Ok, did you know that when you decided to marry your mate that each of you were marrying royalty?! YES! It is true. As Christians we are a royal priesthood and yes...a peculiar people LOL!! 1Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light;I remember one day early on in our marriage when my husband told me that one day he'll have to stand before God and make an account of how he treated God's daughter. At first I was like WOW! I NEVER looked at it that way before then I understood him a little better. I wondered why he was always very careful with his words and actions towards me. That was part of his foundation for marriage and I appreciated that then as much as I appreciate that carefulness now.
Of course after you marinade on that for awhile you begin to see that you too will one day stand before the judgment seat of Christ and make an account of everything that you did in your body good and bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10
Ooooh God's son or God's daughter, doesn't that just make you want to have a Selah moment....

So as you go through this week remember not only who you belong to, but who your mate belongs to as well. God the Father of heaven and earth.

God richly bless each of your marriages and may God be glorified through our lives and homes! Love and Blessings to you all in abundance!!! (-:

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Who Are You Talking To?

Have you ever said that to your mate? Has your mate ever said that to you?
Man, how do we get to the point of saying stuff like that to each other? For some it's a I got you now, so I'm going to be careless,maybe it's just taking that person for granted, for others it may be that you both forgot how to be friends, and seriously for some it may be out of ignorance. Do you remember how you talked to one another when you were courting? We were so mindful of the other persons feelings and we were so considerate, neither of us would dare say anything that would hurt or belittle the other right. So what happens married couples...maybe we get slack and comfortable, overly secure and careless. Some have experienced deep disappointments and have become ummm.. for lack of a better word rude and hateful. Some are just tired and have resorted to treating each other just any old kind of way. Well I came today to encourage you all to think about how you both communicated to one another when you were courting. Think about the smiles that you gave one another just because. Sometimes we have to go back to square one because we have deviated from the blue print so much. The Bible talks about the fruits of the Spirit you can recall them all right..ok me neither, so I'm going to put them up here,

Galatians 5:22,23^- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Now let's look at the opposite attributes of the flesh. Remember these...no, ok here ya go.

Galatians :19-21 -Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, quarreling, rivalry, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like. About these things I tell you again, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.

And that's where it gets not only ugly but dangerous because now we are in danger of missing Heaven. It's tight but it's right! I'm not able to go through each of the fruits right now as well as the works of the flesh and give you the Hebrew and or Greek definition but I encourage you to go through these lists and wherever the WORD hits you repent, meaning stop and turn and go in another direction. God is really concerned about marriages, all marriages and it's time to stop blaming the devil and acting like we live on Old Mcdevils Farm..here a devil , there a devil everywhere a devil, devil. Yes we have a formidable, yet defeated adversary who as long as we continue to operate in the fruit of the Spirit will stay defeated. It's when we crossover the Cross and we get into the flesh that we swing that door wide open, but we can't blame the devil for our actions no, no, we have power over our own choices especially as Christians. It's when we chose to flesh out that the devil comes and sets up strongholds in our marriages. Remember we are spirit beings having a human experience we CAN walk in the Spirit, just not on Sundays and Wednesdays but everyday. We can use our tongues to bless our mates and speak respectfully to one another and speak sweet things to each other. Please don't let the struggles or disappointments with your spouse keep you both from being awesome examples of God in your families and communities. God wants us to experience abundant life in every area and this area is a crucial one! John 10:10

Blessings of strength, joy, power, forgiveness, and perseverance on all the marriages represented in Jesus name. Your marriage WILL make it and your marriage WILL be all that God intended for it to be!!!

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