I loved this encouragement I read today. We always need to remember to stand strong in battle for our marriage, for our children, and for our home. As I watched my children last night with my husband Jeremy decorate our tree, laugh with joy, help each other in the chaos of cleaning after a busy day, and just eat and fellowship together, I thought how blessed I am. How blessed I am that God provided for me and was faithful. He gave me a wonderful husband who is devoted to Christ, his marriage, and his children, and who will sacrifice himself and give of himself first to lead us, guide us, and provide shelter for us.
We might not always agree, but the Lord joined a beautiful, sweet union years ago, and seeing the fruit of our marriage- our home, lives, and children, is what I am thankful for today.
Remember, we are in a spiritual war. From a Christian led conference, these words were spoken. What a sword of truth for today. And be wise and only walk with those who would lift your marriage up and support your family.
From my husband's wise example before this conference quote---, "Anyone who wants to separate a marriage or yank a parent from their own children in the home is an enemy, not a friend at all."This can go past people, it can relate to television, society, and education and their subtle, yet snake like influences to lead others away from Jesus. It's true, don't associate or let evil in. Satan seeks to kill, steal, and destroy. Create Christian likeminded fellowship with those who will support your marriage, hold you accountable to Christian parenting, and who will be a rock of prayer to let sparks fly in building one another up.
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In the face of serious disintegration of marriage and the home, the church is humbly seeking to intensify its protest against contemporary social evils. Realizing the great damage that follows marital discord and estrangements, it seeks to point the way to better living and stronger homes. It vigorously denounces the unbending self-righteousness and undisciplined self-indulgence that break open so many homes to illicit relationships and darkening hostilities. It calls husbands and wives back from their flights away from responsibility to creative leadership in bringing light and love into marriage and home. This message calls for the full recognition of marriage as having been instituted by God. It regards marital relationships as major channels of insight to achieve wholeness of life. In it, men and women can realize the relation of God to man and Christ to the church. It calls for a lifelong commitment of love that endures to the end. It provides the broadest context where duty, love, forgiveness, and sorrow teach the dearest lessons of life. The church must be ready to help married couples to be Christian in life's most intimate relationship, to achieve personal maturity in life's most delicate emotional expressions, and to assume full responsibility in family life and home.
Christ supported the original intent of marriage and reaffirmed its sanctity. Mark 10:6-9. He recognized the complementary elements of masculine and feminine natures and gave to each companion responsibility for a constructive contribution to marital unity and purpose. He restored the original intent of marriage to be monogamous and permanent. The union of two lives constitutes a separate social unit. Each is to leave his parents to be joined to each other with the full intention of living together until death separates.
The physical union in marriage is a sex relationship to be expressed in mutual consent. As a physical expression of love, sex experience forms a bond which ties the whole partnership living into one. Complete physical unity, when it represents marital harmony, becomes a vital source of sustained happiness and mutual respect. In addition to procreation, sex experience has other functions in which the husband and wife express to one another their exclusive and mutual love. When it is an act of mutual agreement and enjoyment, it becomes a symbol of success, a means of deepening love, and a perpetual source of marital happiness. It sustains confidence and commitments confessed in the marriage vow. Within the Christian ideal it becomes a definitely spiritual experience.
The Christian home has a mission to fulfill."
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