Commitment and Contentment: God's Design for Relationships

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Paul is saying is if you can remain single do it why because you can do a lot more for God plain and simple and me and my wife would be the first to tell you that when we were single our single years were incredible in that we were able to follow God wholeheartedly. [00:01:35]

If you're single thank God for it right now and look to God and say Lord how do you want to use me those are invaluable years those are incredible years if God has you in that spot to be content in that spot the Bible actually says we'll get into it later in the study. [00:02:06]

Marriage is a safe haven God created between a man and a woman the passions the desires God created those things and marriage is that that boundary line like think of a fireplace I've used that analogy before you build your fire in the fireplace don't build it on the living room floor. [00:03:01]

The first thing we can glean is keep your commitment keep your commitment when you say I do it means I don't to everything else and that's why many people are worried about Mary oh I don't want to say I do and then you know but that's what commitment is and Paul's saying commit. [00:07:53]

Kill selfishness before it kills your marriage you serve the spouse it's about them not you that's how you fare proof your marriage every affair that I have ever heard about people close to me that I've seen I've witnessed some of them are so caught in that relationship it all began with selfishness. [00:12:04]

Remove the assassins a Moo removed the assassins most of us if not all of us there's a Delilah out there somewhere there's a Delilah she doesn't have to be a woman it could be anything that's going to come against you your spiritual strength in your marriage. [00:14:33]

Fasting often because what happens is everything's out of control I might might my diets out of control you just eat all the time and God says no fast begin to tell your body what to do you don't don't let your body control you you control your body fasting kills the bodily appetites. [00:23:11]

Fasting and prayer he said then come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control so number four I know you're not gonna like this point but that's okay fast often is a way as the way to discipline the body fasting often. [00:23:03]

Pray as if your marriage depends on it did you know that it does you show me a praying couple and I'll show you a marriage is staying strong you show me a couple that's distant and growing apart and not prayers not part of their life Bible studies not part of their life and it is growing apart. [00:38:24]

Prayer is the sword that strikes down fear it's the weapon that decimates the demonic activity prayer is what covers your family it saves your children it restores your marriages and we need to cry out Oh God bring back heart searching soul wrenching prayer that's what we need. [00:42:50]

Do you truly know Jesus Christ and I shared a while back I was able to go to a penitentiary down ways away from here and visit a prisoner and I thought about people on death row but there's death row here people are on death row death spiritually speaking The Walking Dead. [00:45:41]

Have you truly repented and believed in the gospel truly repentant and believed in the gospel well how would I know shame is their fruit is their fruit is their changed life is their love for God is their selflessness and humility and genuine is there any fruit I'm not asking for the full watermelon. [00:46:20]

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