How to Have a Thriving Marriage
5 Principles of a Thriving Marriage
1. Keep Jesus at the Center
Matthew 19:3-6 NIV
Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Ecclesiastes 4:12 NKJV
Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
5 Principles of a Thriving Marriage
1. Keep Jesus at the Center
2. Understand Marital Banking
Colossians 3:13 NLT
Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.
1 Corinthians 13:7 TPT
Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.
5 Principles of a Thriving Marriage
1. Keep Jesus at the Center
2. Understand Marital Banking
3. Cultivate a servants heart towards each other
Ephesians 5:21-28 NIV
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
5 Principles of a Thriving Marriage
1. Keep Jesus at the Center
2. Understand Marital Banking
3. Cultivate a servants heart towards each other
4. Resolve conflict effectively
Ephesians 4:26-27 NLT
And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry for anger gives a foothold to the devil.
5 Principles of a Thriving Marriage
1. Keep Jesus at the Center
2. Understand Marital Banking
3. Cultivate a servants heart towards each other
4. Resolve conflict effectively
5. Keep the fire burning
Proverbs 5:18 NLT
Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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