Five Ways to Damage Your Marriage

Review from Episode 233

1. Neglect it - again
2. Treat each other disrespectfully - again
3. Separate from each other as much as possible

This week...

4. Resist our God given responsibilities

• Husbands have to perfect love
• Wives have to master submission

5. Fail to kiss and make-out

1. This can be a challenge because life is so busy
2. Don't stop working at it
   1. Kiss goodbye
   2. Kiss hello
   3. Kiss goodnight
   4. Kiss for no reason
3. Making out takes some time
   1. Slow down and focus on each other
   2. Remind yourself of how wonderful you are together

Five Ways to Damage Your Marriage (Part 1)

1. Neglect it - again

• Neglect occurs over a process of time
• Neglect always diminishes value
• Failure to invest over a process of time erodes our marriages

2. Treat each other disrespectfully - again

• When we aren’t kind
• When we are rude
• When we never express love

3. Separate from each other as much as possible

• Think me and not we
• If you are always heading in different directions, your marriage will suffer
• If you never take the time to talk, your marriage will suffer
• We have found that we have to schedule time each day . . .

Christian Womanhood

1. 1. It involves cultivating selflessness
      1. She is warm
         1. Safe and trustworthy v. 11-12
         2. Good - agreeable, pleasant, better (root is joyful and delightful)
         3. Illustration “You’re better than that”
         4. Don’t allow issues to turn you into a hard, cold, sarcastic, eye-rolling wife)
         5. Financially - no need of spoil
         6. Personally - does good and not evil
            1. Be careful that the familiar does not become an irritation
         7. Deeply - “good and not evil”
            1. Can He share? When and how he wants to share?
         8. Romantically - intimately - no need of spoil, good and not evil
            1. Beware of hurts, bitterness, frustrations, struggles
               1. Talk them out, work it out, get help-out
            2. Don’t fizzle; make it sizzle

1. 1. 1. She is wise
         1. Think - every time
         2. Be kind - every time
         3. Psalm 19:14
         4. Psalm 141:3
         5. Eph. 4:32

1. 1. 1. She wants him to win v. 23
         1. Follow him - treat him like the leader God made him to be Eph 5:22-24
         2. Promote him - with reverence and awe Eph 5:33
         3. Be counter cultural

Conclusion:

Pro 31:28-31

So many women seek validation, praise, honor, status

They want the priceless label, but sell themselves short