Godly Success In Marriage

Fatigue and Rest

Key verses
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made. The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. (Psalm 145:13-14)

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When I’m running on empty, my husband helps fill my tank, and he checks me if I’m taking on too much. I do the same for him. Perhaps what a mate can do best is provide comfort, a place of welcome and solace when the discouragement piles up. One of us can send the other to bed early and say, “Get some sleep and don’t worry about a thing. I’m praying for you.”

I’m almost always too busy. But God sends people to help fill me up so I’m no longer simply running on fumes. Now I’m trying to learn to look for God’s provision in all things, to keep my sensors out to feel his hand brushing me, and that’s something we all can do – before we run out of gas.

The world tells us that busyness is good, that the most successful people are those who learn to live with little sleep and can accomplish fifty things in a day. But God says something else. Are we listening?


Author: Elizabeth Cody Newenhuyse

posted by Lighthouse @ 8:59 PM 0 Comments

Which one do you belong to?

Talking about communication, we can identify 4 unhealthy patterns of communication. Pray that we are not either one of them. There are :

The Four "Fowls"

1. Dove : "I Want Peace at ANY Price".
2. Hawk : "It's Your Fault".
3. Owl : "Let's Be Reasonable".
4. Ostrich : "Ignore It and It Will GO Away."

posted by Lighthouse @ 11:02 AM 0 Comments

Nothing shall be separate us from the love of God

Rom 8:38-39
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

posted by Lighthouse @ 2:55 PM 0 Comments

APPRECIATION

Paul and Timothy, bondservants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace. For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:1-11

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If you had only five minutes to express your appreciation to your spouse, what would you say to him or her? Reflect on your spouse’s character qualities, achievements, skills and talents, and the special things he or she does for you. When you have completed your list, consider putting it in the form of a letter or poem and give it to your spouse. Or keep your list and use it to give your mate one honest compliment each day in the coming week.

- Dave and Claudia Arp.

posted by Lighthouse @ 9:31 PM 0 Comments

It all began .........

It all began with a "Need", followed by "Prayer", followed by a "Choice - Decision" and it end with "Consequence". All decision will comes with a consequence.

THE KEY TO SUCCEEDING IN MARRIAGE IS PRAYING FOR THE RIGHT PERSON AND LEARNING TO LOVE THE PERSON THAT OUR LORD JESUS HAS GIVEN TO YOU.

Deu 8:2-10
"And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you. "Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you."

It take yearssss for me and my wife to be "today" and we thank God for the goodness that He has given us. Yes, we go thru UP and DOWN, just as how He allowed the children of Israelite to go thru hunger, HE also allowed us to go thru some difficult time, be it a short time or a period of time, and we have already walked 12 years of marriage and we are still walking and together with HIM. HE will continue to teach, guide us till the day we learn to humble ourselves. If my wife and i do not learn the lesson of humility before one another, how can we say we can humble before the Lord? and not just humility, but also obeying His commandment and give HIM all our heart.

And YES, i truly believe that we have to labour in love, but how? but there is one thing i know is that if you do not abide in HIM, it is very tiring to "labour" for love, it will not last, sometime you will get very frustrated especially you do not see the result. Sorry, i do not know how to put it in word. You need the conviction from the Lord. Only then, will you find the JOY of laboring even you may not see the result, remember, it is more blessed to give than to receive.

Abide in HIM is to surrender yourself fully on HIM, yeah it might sound doctrinal, but this is the reality. YOU have to let the Lord to mould both of you till both of you see all things as "ONE". Indeed they are many things my wife and i have not see in common, but thru communication and abiding in the Lord, we learn to see as "ONE".

posted by Lighthouse @ 2:19 PM 0 Comments