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Series: Marriage Builders. How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage. Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery. ( Heb 13:4 NLT ). How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage.
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Series: MarriageBuilders How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery. (Heb 13:4 NLT)
How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage • Don’t minimize the problem 2) Magnify the consequences For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, and sleeping with another man's wife may cost you your very life. (Prov 6:26 NLT) 3) Maintain your marriage The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. (1 Cor 7:3 NIV)
How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage The top five needs of most men are: 1. Sexual fulfillment 2. Recreational companionship 3. An attractive spouse 4. Domestic support 5. Admiration
How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage The top five needs of most women are: 1. Affection 2. Conversation 3. Honesty and openness 4. Financial support 5. Family commitment
How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage 4) Manage your mind Temptation comes from the lure of our own evil desires. These evil desires lead to evil actions, and evil actions lead to death. (James 1:14-15 NLT) a) Accepting sinful thoughts in my mind b) Emotional non-physical involvement. • Physical involvement • Rationalizing the affair
How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage 5) Maintain proper relationships But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. (Eph 5:3 NIV) 6) Minimize the opportunity If you think you are standing strong, be careful, for you, too, may fall into the same sin. (1 Cor 10:12 NLT)
How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage 7) Make a commitment to God’s standards Drink water from your own cistern, And fresh water from your own well. (Prov 5:15 NASB)