Marriages start to die when couples stop talking. It's just the truth. Communication is a gracious gift from God—one that allows two individuals to express and understand thoughts, emotions, intentions, and perceptions.
There is nothing you can't talk through when Christ is at the center of your marriage. The key is keeping him there and looking to him FIRST.
Marriage is Selflessness, Not Selfishness
Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3
After a marriage grows cold, when somebody else comes along and begins to show affection towards you, you respond to them, and you become affectionate towards them. Then you start looking at your husband or wife differently. You compare them to this new person, and they always fall short.
God is always with us and will help us breathe through the difficult situations we face. He allows us to go through trials as a part of our refining process. Struggles send us running to God for help, for faith, for strength, for protection and direction. They are often pregnant with pain. Bursting with heartache. If we yield them to God, He uses them to rid our lives of trust-barriers like fear and doubt, and to bring glory and honor to him.
Christ is within us, before us, behind us. And He will never leave or forsake us. We're never alone.
it's not enough to listen to God's Word—we need to do it.
Christ doesn’t even exist in the place where Satan searches. The individual whose life resides in Jesus Christ is concealed in Him. The demons tremble in His presence; therefore all you place in Christ is impregnable.
Responsibility brings accountability.
~Ken Robins~
Results will show up when you do!
Being there is not a state of mind. Don't give up show up. The bible say to be ready in season and out of season.
Do not play with God. He has a plan and He is waiting for you to get with His plan.
Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must
be ready at all moments.
~C. S. Lewis~
One will say God got you and the other will say I got you.... I am often reminded of the Good Samaritan in these cases...
My father once told me, salvation doesn’t mean you never feel anything. He said the most saved person, if backed in a corner far enough will come out swinging. Maybe not literally, but I knew what he meant. I’ve never forgotten that and he said it to me in a car ride many years ago.
There’s never a wrong time to do the right thing.
There never was a real revival that did not produce
heartburn and hallelujahs.
~Vance Havner~
Here's a small step you can take to keep your thoughts rooted in truth. When you have a negative thought, ask yourself "Is it true?"
No matter what I see, I choose faith.
No matter what I feel, I choose faith.
Even in my doubt, I will lift my hands.
I don't see a way, but with God there's always a way.
I'm aching, but in my heart I choose to trust God.
Because of the faithfulness of God, I will choose to walk by faith.
Even in the waiting, I believe that He is good.
Don't be like Israel who ignored Gods warnings. Time is very short. Today is the day for your salvation!
A man in love is in constant pursuit. His every action is directed toward what - or whom - he loves most.
It's not unloving to say that Jesus is the only way to Heaven. It's unloving to pretend there are other ways.
Is the weight of the world on your shoulders? Are you tired of the strain of every day and the number of responsibilities on your plate? Don’t worry! Talk to Jesus. Tell Him every concern and every frustration. He’s with you in it!
According to the Bible, there are two forms of existence beyond the grave. There are two resurrections. First, there is the resurrection of the just and the unjust. We want to be a part of the first resurrection. When we put our faith in Jesus Christ, the first resurrection is the one that we’ll experience. It means that when we die, we immediately will go to Heaven.
When Christians die, they go directly into God’s presence. They don’t go to a fictitious place called Purgatory. We don’t find that word or concept in the pages of the Bible.
The moment believers die, they go into the presence of God. The apostle Paul wrote, “Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord” (2 Corinthians 5:8 NLT).
The moment believers die, they go to Heaven. And then at the rapture of the church, the remaining believers join them in Heaven.
But what about those who become Christians after the Rapture? A great revival will break out during that time, and millions of people will believe it. They won’t take the mark of the Beast, because God has told them not to. As a result, many of them will die the death of martyrs during the Tribulation (see Revelation 20:4).
On the other hand, when nonbelievers die, they go to a place of torment called Hades. There is no escape. Ultimately, Hades will empty itself of its occupants at the Great White Throne Judgment, where they’ll go from misery to greater misery. For those who wait until this time, it will be too late.
Death is coming. Everyone will face it. There’s no getting around it. The question is whether you will face it as a believer or as a nonbeliever.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
John Calvin worried about any suggestion that God has feelings and even wrote in his commentary on Hosea, “For it must ever be remembered, that God is exempt from every passion.”
While I respect Calvin, I disagree with him on this point. Hosea and, indeed, many portions of Scripture show us a God filled with deep emotion and feelings of love. Jesus, God incarnate, lived a life full of rich emotions. He loved, He knew sorrow, He wept openly, and expressed His righteous anger.
God moves when His people pray.
Stay connected to God! If you don’t feel connected to Him, soak in this and receive connection with Him through prayer!
OSWALD CHAMBERS
The Bible is a relation of facts, the truth of which must be tested. Life may go on all right for a while, when suddenly a bereavement comes, or some crisis; unrequited love or a new love, a disaster, a business collapse, or a shocking sin, and we turn up our Bibles again and God’s word comes straight home, and we say, “Why, I never saw that there before.”
OSWALD CHAMBERS
God engineers circumstances to see what we will do. Will we be the children of our Father in heaven, or will we go back again to the meaner, common–sense attitude? Will we stake all and stand true to Him? “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” The crown of life means I shall see that my Lord has got the victory after all, even in me.
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We are not in control even in those moments when we may delude ourselves into thinking we are. But, God is always in control and He is mighty in power!
“Grace is getting another chance even though you haven’t earned it or deserve it. (You may not even want it!)“—Fritz Ridenour
The Bible tells us that “when Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned” (Romans 5:12 NLT).
Novelist William Boyd said, “We all want to be happy, and we are all going to die. . . . You might say these are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.”
Death is not the end of existence. The real you is not this body you live in; it is your soul. It is your spirit that lives on after your body has gone.
History tells of the renowned atheist Voltaire, who was one of the most aggressive antagonists of the Christian faith. He did everything he could to undermine Christianity. But the nurse who attended him on his deathbed reportedly said that for all the wealth in Europe, she never would watch another atheist die.
In contrast, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody said on his deathbed, “I see earth receding; Heaven is opening; God is calling me.”
You can die like Voltaire. Or, you can die like Moody. But there will be a future judgment. And if you have put your faith in Jesus Christ, then you won’t be there.
There are people who, although they’re living in sin, are not happy there. They don’t feel comfortable or happy in the parties they go to. They’re tired of the backbiting, the games, and the selfishness of others. And they question whether their friends really are their friends. They’re miserable. They don’t want to be in darkness, but they don’t know the way out.
The good news is that someone like you can go into their world and say, “God loved you so much that He sent His only Son. And if you will believe in Him, you will not perish but have everlasting life.” If they’re true seekers, then they’ll have enough light to know that what they’re doing is wrong. They just don’t know what to do next.
God reaches people through people, and someone must tell them. At the same time, there will come a moment of decision in their lives. And every time they put that decision off, their hearts will get a little harder.
The fragrance of Christ is one of the great characteristics that God wants to build into our lives by His grace. "Now thanks be to God who… through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge." This spiritual aroma, which results from getting to know the Lord, blesses the heart of God. "For we are to God the fragrance of Christ." The Father loves to see the life of His Son being expressed in and through our humanity, even though this requires our dying to self. "For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh" (2 Corinthians 4:11).
In addition to the characteristic of triumphant living, God also wants to develop in our lives the fragrance of Christ. "Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge."
When considering the triumphant Christian life, we may wrongly think that victory depends upon getting out of impossible situations. Actually, we are already "more than conquerors" even while we are in the midst of the impossibilities.
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