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Ladies and gentlemen, let me beg you, do not pull out the ring until you find someone whose character makes you want to fall on your knees and thank God.
You want a relationship story where you could look into the face of that person and say, ‘Only God could have done this.’” You want a relationship that inspires worship.
It is better to get the ideal person with bad timing than to get married at your ideal timing to the wrong person. The people of God do not have to compromise their convictions to find love.
How is love like death? They are alike in their strength. When death takes hold of something, it never lets go. Love is like this.
True love is stronger than death, more powerful than the grave.
Marry character. Let that be what turns you on.
if you do not possess the maturity and stability to care for her. If this is the case, you are just a boy playing games. But you are playing them with the delicate soul of a woman.
she was praying for me to be like Adam. She prayed I would go about the work God had called me to do. Then, in God’s perfect timing, he would open my eyes and I would see Eve.
The strongest bonds are formed when a man and a woman live out their marriage on mission together.
Freedom is not the absence of boundaries, it is the ability to fulfill created intent.
For all of life, the highest potential will be achieved, and the greatest satisfaction experienced, if we live in accordance with our Creator’s intended design.
God did not intend for man to simply be a cul-de-sac for God’s love and grace. Man is meant to be a conduit of love and grace flowing into other relationships.
Initiate conversations over dinner where you and your wife share what you are learning about God.
Do not settle for just providing for your family physically and financially. Take up the role of caretaker of their emotional and spiritual health as well.
Continuously ask God, your wife, and yourself, “What does she need to help her be fully who she is meant to be under God?” Then do all you can to supply her with the time and resources to accomplish that end.
begin to serve like this, even if you do not feel that your spouse deserves it. We did not deserve grace, yet Jesus served us anyway.
Lord, that is what I want. I want to be a man who will venture forth into the purposes my King, Jesus, has for me. And if marriage be your will for me, then Lord, let us be a couple who will sail out on mission together.
Your marriage will only be as strong as your mutual commitment to a common vision.
“The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends . . . Friendship must be about something . . . Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.”
When you believe that every day God has good for you to step into, it infuses the mundane with meaning.
your marriage is safest when it is on mission. Nothing forges stronger bonds of love than a mutual commitment to a compelling mission.
Until my ship breaks apart and I drown, I am sailing toward my true King, with my nose to the sunrise. That’s the kind of man I’m going to be. And Lord, I trust that you’ll bring a woman along that has the same vision that I do and we’ll be on a mission together.
waiting longer than you would like is absolutely worth it.
When a man does not submit to God, the next most God-like thing in his life assumes the role. Often that is himself.
When men think like this, often women and children are exploited. Look around the world today where lawlessness reigns.
To exploit human beings like this, they must first lose aspects of their humanity, namely...
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Ascend to the role of deity in your life and you actually lose your humanity.
When the structures fall, humanity does not flourish.
If you learn to trust him, he will make you the kind of person you are meant to be, and the world will be better for
