FOM
Notes
Let’s Pray About It
Part 5
of 6 in the series “Getting Out Of The Doghouse”
May 17, 2009 Pastor
POPPING THE REAL MARRIAGE QUESTION
Is God (central) in our marriage?
FOUR ELEMENTS OF A SPIRITUALLY
DYNAMIC MARRIAGE
ä (Spiritual)
growth
If two people are in an active and
growing relationship with God, the two people will be growing (towards)
one another, not (further) away
“ . . and
said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to
his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
So they are no longer two, but one.
Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Matthew 19:5-6
“ . . . if my people, who
are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive
their sin and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
ä Active (prayer)
life
A couple that commits to pray (for)
one another and (with) one another has more opportunity to see things from
God’s perspective
“Therefore confess your
sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and
effective.”
James 5:16
“What other nation is so
great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us
whenever we pray to him?”
Deuteronomy 4:7
ä Obedient (lifestyle)
Love is a (verb). If you don’t feel like loving someone, commit
to loving (actions). Action
should lead (feelings), not feelings leading action.
“Do not merely listen to
the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do
what it says.”
James 1:22
“This is how we know what
love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life
for us. And we ought to lay down our
lives for our brothers . . . Dear children, let us not love with words or
tongue but with actions and in truth.”
I John 3:16,18
ä Celebrate (God)
together
When a couple celebrates God together,
they remember that God is telling (His) story through (their) story
“But we had to celebrate
and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was
lost and is found.”
Luke 15:32