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God’s Advice for a Happy Marriage

God’s Advice for a Happy Marriage. Presented by Pastor Lyell Willis. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. Proverbs. Whoso finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour of the LORD. Proverbs 18:22

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God’s Advice for a Happy Marriage

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  1. God’s Advice for a Happy Marriage Presented by Pastor Lyell Willis

  2. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson

  3. Proverbs Whoso finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favour of the LORD. Proverbs 18:22 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth, and be thou ravished always with her love. Proverbs 5:18-19

  4. Intimacy in marriage aka Why isn’t my spouse perfect like me?

  5. Intimacy in marriage And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, andI was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. Genesis 3:8-10

  6. 1 Corinthians 2:9-14 For what man knows the thingsof a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?

  7. 1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known… (ginosko=to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of, perceive, feel) the mind… (nous= a particular mode of thinking and judging i.e. thoughts, feelings, purposes, desires) of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

  8. Communication Derives from Latin: • Communico: share by giving or receiving • Communio: strengthen or fortify • Communionis: sharing in common • Communitas: fellowship; affability; courteous, politeness

  9. Intimacy Derives from the Latin word: INTIMUS: innermost ,deepest secret, most intimate friend. To sum up the word: ‘IN TO ME – SEE’

  10. Other Useful Latin Sayings • Hic puer est stultissimus omniun = This boy is the stupidest of all. • Nullam gratuitum prandium = There is no free lunch. • Quando omni flunkus moritatus = When all else fails play dead. • Quid est illa in auqua = What’s that in the water?

  11. Man (male and female) were designed and made for LOVE He that loves not, knows not God;for God is love 1 John 4:8 The God who is love made us in his image Get this straight – ‘Things can’t love us’

  12. Made for LOVE And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them… And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. Genesis 1:26-28,31

  13. American Sociological Review 2006 One fourth of the participants indicated they had no one with whom they could discuss important matters

  14. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Threefold: to intensify, treble

  15. Ben Harper (‘Fight Outta You’) …I would rather take your punch than not give you a shot I’d rather find out who you are than who you’re not

  16. Take Control G.Walsh 2005

  17. Old Jewish saying… ‘the iniquities of the angry man far outweigh his merits’ In other words the unrighteousness, wickedness, gross injustice of the angry man are far more than his good points

  18. Forgiveness Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:31-32

  19. Forgiveness And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Jeremiah 31:34 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. Psalms 103:12

  20. A key to effective communication …speaking the truth in love. Ephesians 4:15

  21. Communicating • A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. Proverbs 25:11-12 • A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! Proverbs 15:23 • Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones Proverbs 16:24

  22. Communicating • Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted Galatians 6:1 • And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4 :8 • A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak Eccles 3:7

  23. Too shy? One of the meanings of arrogance is: ‘…which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree’ You are not alone: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7

  24. ‘Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle’ PLATO - Greek author & philosopher427 – 347BC This includes your spouse

  25. God’s advice for a happy marriage www.thewordthatworks.com.au www.trf.org.au

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