Marriage Tidbits (Page 7)
Positive Thinking Equals Positive Change
Each and every day we all should be working to become a person whose mind is on the good and positive things and focused upon God. This is not always an easy task. It is hard to stay positive when nothing seems to change or get better. It is hard to stay positive or hopeful when you feel trapped or a victim of a spouse or loved one that seems to never change. It is hard…
Don’t Go Into A Marriage With Divorce As An Option
Divorces have been easily used as a solution to a marriage that is having problems – big and small. It has become highly acceptable and truthfully has devalued marriage in many ways. Divorce was once the thing barely talked about and only took place as the very last answer and not one of the first…
Valley of Pain
Have you found yourself in a place where you are not happy in your marriage or in a relationship of any kind and just feel miserable? It may be that you feel that anything you say or do just doesn’t make things better or give you the results you are looking for or even wonder what happened. The first thing is you need to look inside yourself and ask yourself, what is the…
Exposing The Lies and Truth For Change
In our marriages there are good times and bad times. Sometimes it may feel there are more bad times than good times. Then there are times when couples find themselves in troubling times and feel that there is nowhere to go. When you feel there is nowhere to go, you have entered into a captive mindset. The truth is God always gives us a place of escape but it doesn’t mean…
Marriage Is Not A Lonely Free Zone
Loneliness is one of the things that many people go into a marriage thinking they are not going to experience it. When they are single they allow lies such as: “You will find ‘prince charming’, ‘you will not be alone’, ‘obeying God will give you a fulfilling marriage’, or ‘as long as you are married, you won’t feel rejection as you did growing up’. Some single men may…
There Is Hope
Right now it is running rampant on how much pornography has become an addiction and has how acceptable it is even among the church. There are wonderful programs that are out there, like the Conquer Series who are reaching out to those who are wanting help and getting free from perversion. Unfortunately not enough churches are reaching out and using these resources to help…
Support In The Seasons
Each of us goes through different seasons in our lives. When we are married our spouse has to adjust to those seasons, just as we individually do. There are times that may come when your spouse is not walking in the same timing and season as you and that can make it more difficult. When a spouse is going through a tough time and does not communicate, it can cause you to…
Honoring The Heavenly Father
Father’s day is one of those days that we take a moment to honor the men in our lives. In a truth perspective we should be doing this every day in our actions, words, and our love towards them. Too many times we are pointing the fingers at their flaws or overlooking their flaws with excuses to the point of enablement. These are two very different sides of the response…
Patience – A Key To Love
There are many times in a marriage that you will experience hurt, pain, disappointment, and may question how all of it is going to turn out. You will feel yourself get frustrated and irritated at the things your spouse does that at one time may have been cute, overlooked, or secretly was hoping they would not do anymore. When you get into this place you can find yourself…
Love Heals
So many times in a marriage we end up wounding instead of healing our spouse. We react out of our own wounds that we don’t even take notice that our spouse is laying there helplessly bleeding. We look to them to heal us and tend to our wounds instead of seeing that they may be incapable of doing that themselves. How does a married couple get to this place? It is so…