Love Restored: Marriage
Genesis 2:22-24 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. (NIV)
Genesis 2:24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. (NIV)
United: to cling or hold fast; to stick to, cling to, or pursue closely
1. When you think something good, say it.
Hebrews 3:13 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. (NIV)
- Pursue her with words of affection.
- Pursue him with words of affirmation.
2. When you think of something special, do it.
James 4:17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. (NIV)
3. When you want something different, be it.
- To get what you once had, you must do what you once did.
Revelation 2:5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. (NIV)