November 24, 2024

I PROMISE: PARTNERSHIP

I promise our marriage will be about _________ & not about _________: the Promise of Partnership.

Genesis 2:24, “This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” (NLT)

The Hebrew word for “united” is echad (ekh-awd)—completely joined as one.

Ecclesiastes 4:12, “A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” (NLT)

Ephesians 5:21, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.” (NIV)

THE WIFE’S MAIL:

Ephesians 5:22-24, “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 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. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” (NIV)

THE HUSBAND’S MAIL:

Ephesians 5:25-28, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” (NIV)

Stop hyper-focusing on your spouse’s mail, and read YOUR OWN mail!