How To Power Up Your Marriage?

Good morning, bloggers!

I was reading Bruce Black's blog last night about "marriage". He met a couple who knew a young couple whose marriage has gone sour! Just like Bruce said, "..the story I heard is all too familiar." Read on:

http://bruce-black.blogspot.com/2005/06/june-ward-and-boys.html

I would like to add one important advice to both of his list for those "planning to get married" and those "already married":

P R A Y E R ! !

Never underestimate the power of prayer. If you ask God, He will provide for you in the way He will. Some of the common cause of problems in marriage today:

1. Lack of communication.
2. Independent behavior.
3. Selfish demands.
4. Angry outbursts.
5. Involved in a wrong group of people (negative influence).
6. Dishonesty.
7. Annoying habits.
8. Disrespectful judgments.

I strongly believe every married couple or couples planning to get married ought to get themselves involved with a church where the Word of God is taught!. For a healthy marital investment, attend marriage enrichment seminars. It doesn't matter if your marriage is doing very well. I have heard people telling me, "Ha. I don't need this seminar. We're doing fine. What makes you think we need it?" My wife and I attended the "Dynamics of Marriage" and that doesn't mean our marriage is on the rocks. Just don't wait until your marriage is near or on the "rocks". It will be like you have fallen from the peak of the mountain to the bottom. It will be extremely hard to climb back to the peak. However, God is able to lighten your burdens in your marriage and lead you to the peak in no time. It all depends on your heart as well as your spouse. Please pray for all the "married" in the world today! It would be nice to have this, "..all too familiar" a quote that "marriage on the rocks" have become rare because they brought God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit in the middle of every "two shall become one flesh"!

"Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control." 1 Corinthians 7:5 (niv)

"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." 1 John 4:7-8 (niv)

Suggestions:
Links:
http://www.familydynamics.net/
http://www.fxcc.org/dynamicmarriage/
http://www.smalleymarriage.com
http://www.themarriagedance.com/
http://www.dnaofrelationships.com/

Books:
DNA of Relationships by Gary Smalley (A Wow!)
Five Steps to Romantic Love by Willard F. Harley Jr.
Love Busters by Willard F. Harley Jr.

Blessed Be His Name!

Mark Lowenstein <><