Percepts From God
If I am going to love, honor and respect, again I go back to creativity
, I go back to work. When you get to a conflict and you feel the temperature rising, remember the value of the vows. How about when one is in the mood for love and the other one is not. That happens now and then. Remember the vows.
Hey, Fellowship Church, I am so thrilled at what I am seeing in so many marriages here. God is doing great things. And he wants to do even greater things in every marriage here. My marriage needs improvement.
Your marriage needs improvement. So let"s do this thing together. Let"s commit to the MWE and let"s develop and live out the value of our vows. It is 4KEEPS. It is build with creativity and it will change the course of your life and mine.
This weekend we are wrapping up a series that we have really enjoyed called 4 KEEPS. It has been all about marriage. Over the last several weeks we have discussed issues like the marital work ethic, creative communication, creative conflict resolution. Last weekend we talked about a very popular subject, which dealt with sex busters and sex builders. Throughout this series we have been soliciting your questions because we want to know what you are thinking, what you are asking. Today I have asked my wife, Lisa, to come up on stage and help me field some of your FAQs, the most frequently asked questions that you here at Fellowship Church have about marriage.
Now to my right is a man who needs no introduction if you are a regular attender at Fellowship. We call him the goateed one, our spiritual development pastor, Preston Mitchell. Before Preston facilitates our discussion, let me say something up front that you need to understand. Lisa and I are not experts on marriage. However, we do have a great marriage and the reason we do is because we have built our lives individually and now collectively on the principles and precepts from God"s word, the Bible. I know in a crowd this size that we have people here who are single adults. About 45 to 50% of those folks who show up here are single. And if you are single, most of you are thinking about marriage. We want to address some of the questions that you have about marriage.
We have others here who are married and might be experiencing various degrees of difficulty in your marriage. We, hopefully, will address some of your questions. It is a pipe dream to think that we can understand and feel exactly what you are feeling. But we can hit some areas, talk about some issues and direct you to studies and counseling that can make your marriage a 4Keeps marriage.
Thank you, Ed. How many of you have enjoyed this tremendous series. Hasn"t it been great? Ed, you know, the first week of your series you talked about the value of the marriage vows. If you have said these vows or will in the future, how do you know for sure the other person is the right one?
Well, hopefully, you know that they are the right one prior to standing before a pastor and God and some friends for the event. What I share with singles comes from both the Bible and life experiences. I have a series of messages entitled RATING YOUR DATING WHILE WAITING FOR MATING. It breaks down a lot of what I teach. You can pick it up in the bookstore. But let me give you the cliff notes on it. If you are single and are considering a specific someone as a possible life partner, I think there are several tests that you need to take him or her through.
Ed Young Pastor tells us that the first test would be the spiritual test. You need to make sure that they know Christ personally. I am not talking about just lip service, but an actual story about their life before Christ, what happened when they met the Lord and what else God has done since that time. When you both are operating from the same spiritual dynamic, it helps you in conflict resolution. Marriage is about conflict in a real way. You have two self-centered sinners trying to do life God"s way, and you need to be on the same page spiritually and have knowledge of the ministry of reconciliation.
We need to understand the concept that God sent Christ to die on the cross for our sins, something that we don"t deserve, and that He rose again. If we have accepted that, we have it inside ourselves to want to make issues right. Speaking of the spiritual test, it also helps in raising children. Lisa and I have four. Child rearing is challenging. I don"t know where we would be without that common bond of Christ.
by: Ed Young
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