I'm getting married this Saturday!!! My fiance and I are very involved in our church and we make sure we pray together and read the bible together each day. We have promised to keep God in over our marriage since we both believe with all our hearts that God brought us together right on time. Are there other couples out there who keep God in their relationship? We believe this is the only true way for a marriage to stay strong and happy is with God. Anyone else agree?
2007-10-29 02:41:54 · 15 answers · asked by Green Eyes 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you so much to those of you who have responded. I feel so blessed to know that there are others that also believe that God must be the most important in life itself. My fiance and I are equally yoked and we have a love that I have never felt before. I surrendered my life to God. I knew my fiance but we were just acquatances at church. A few months later, he surrendered himself to the Lord also. We were both saved, but had backslidden and got things right with God and just obeyed. It wasn't long after, we ended up together and it has just been so right ever since. We truly believe God put us together and right on time. We have been through very important struggles and have overcome them with Jesus Christ our Savior. We often wondered why we'd never dated before, but we know this was on God's time. God has blessed us so much and we just praise Him for that! I pray everyone can have that joy that God has to offer to anyone who will accept Jesus Christ as their Savior!!!
2007-10-29 06:46:49 · update #1
My husband and I keep God in our marriage. Like you, we read the scriptures and pray together daily as well as attend church services every week. I think it's very important to have the same spiritual goals in a marriage. My husband and I feel like we become closer as spouses when we invite God into our marriage. It helps us bond as a couple.
Have you ever heard of the triangle marriage object lesson? Here's my own crude drawing of it: http://inlinethumb59.webshots.com/26234/2476853900102432100S500x500Q85.jpg
I believe that in order to have a successful marriage the Lord needs to be included. The marriage should be like a three-way triangle, where the Lord is at the top and the husband and wife at the bottom. The closer the husband and wife bring the Lord into their marriage the closer the become one with another. It's a three-way connection that is built to last if the couple simply do their part and strive to inlude the Lord in their marriage.
My goal is to have a Christ-centered marriage. It's not always easy but I feel like it's worth it. I've seen the positive effects in my own personal life and in the lives of others. I'm glad to hear that there are others who feel the same.
Congrats on your upcoming marriage! Best wishes!
2007-10-29 03:44:31 · answer #1 · answered by Laughing_Chick 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree without God in the center of our marriage and head over our house we would be in a mess. This is so important to do. Definitely continue to pray and read the Bible together and you will see your marriage prosper. God is great.
2007-10-30 05:45:06 · answer #2 · answered by Hadassah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband and I have been married for 37yrs. He was 21 and I was 18. We had different religions. But we are and were both Christians. We followed Jesus laws by Loving God with our whole hearts and mind and souls. And loving our neighbor as our self.
We treated each other with respect, love and kindness.
We didn't cheat on each other, hit each other. I'm finding that today this is rear.
We thought all this time it was the normam
2007-10-29 02:58:40 · answer #3 · answered by debbri48 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely agree. My husband and I have God as the Foundation for our marriage. We know that He brought us together, and He strengthens and enriches our marriage. My parents also kept God in their relationship. They were married for over 37 years, until my mother's death.
Congratulations on your upcoming marriage! Keep God as the center of your lives and stay strong in Him! God bless.
2007-10-29 03:19:22 · answer #4 · answered by kaz716 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Firstly,wish you all the best in your married life. It's demonstrated in real life that a common belief system is a great binder in any relationship. Even atheists don't deny this proven social phenomenon.Seen from that angle,I have reasons to believe that your's shall be a successful and happy marriage.All the best.
2007-10-29 03:01:00 · answer #5 · answered by brkshandilya 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, my husband and I don't pray together as much as we used to. It's something I regret letting go, and I knew we need to try to get into the habit of doing it again.
I think it's great that you've already got that foundation before you are married. Make sure you hold onto it.
2007-10-29 02:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by ∞Infinity∞ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is only one way to keep your marriage where God wants it to be. First off, congratulations on your wedding. and glad to know you are both Christians. Thats the place to begin, isnt it? GOd will bless you in this marriage as you want it to be for HIM. OOOH, the angels are singing now. amen. and God is smiling. ITs so neat. Hallelujah.
My husband and I each have been awful marriages in the past. ITs all done and over with, and we are in forgivness about it all. But, we found each other 6 years ago and married four years ago. He is 46, and I am 61, but it hasnt mattered. God very much brought us together, and He even has a sense of humor about it Long story, but let me say, that God knew what He was doing, and we are so very blessed. But, from being in horrible marriages, we had each known what we always wanted, but you cant make the other person be the Christian mate they are called to be.
WE believe that you are each FIRST off, submitted to God fully, then submitted to each other. ITs not about doing what man says the Bible says, his being boss and the woman the little dog under him that jsut barks when holllered at.
Nor is it the way the world teaches it, both are wrong.
God wants a husband and wife each submitted to Him first, and then submitted to EACH OTHER. HE is to be head of the family, thats clear, but that doesnt mean he is the big boss that just tromples all over every right she has to be an individual with rights too. WE are to treat each other the way we want to be treated, and as God really says to treat each other. TO recognize that each is a gift from God to be honored. WE look at it like this Marriage is like a trinity. of three in one. Its, God, the husband and the wife. THree in one, another blessed trinity that cnannot be broken, when in true covenant as supposed to be. Marriage is very sacred to God, and we must handle it that way. and then God will so bless us. And He is. What God brings together, noone is to pull apart. PPL say it takes two to bring a divorce. NO.
It takes two to make it work, and only one to bring a divorce. Because all we can do is do what God says in our role, and yes God does have very important differing roles for the husband and wife, each to play. BUt, we cant get the other to fullfill their Godly pupose in their role.
so with you both desiring this so much, you are already doing the main thing to keep your marriage sacred. You want to only honor God in all things, and you will be.
Obedience to God is always the key to all blessings.
God bless you boht, and may we be the first to pray you a very wonderful, long, Godly marriage, so centered in Him that its just as perfect as God designs it to be. PPL will say , it cant be perfect.. LIES. It can be, if you let God be the head of it all, and the center of it all. Perfection is in Jesus and we are called to that too, by obedience to the Father, just as Jesus was obedient, into perfection.
God bless you. Congrats, and let us know how you are doing from time to time.
You have only just begun . and blessings will overflow when you keep it Gods marriage.
Love ya in Jesus.
2007-10-29 03:29:16 · answer #7 · answered by full gospel shirley 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wholeheartedly for the past 30+ years.
Witnesses have fewer problems as a result of following Jehovah. It's a fact!
2007-10-29 02:58:49 · answer #8 · answered by Initial contact 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Almost every couple that I know keeps God in the dead center of our lives. That's why we have good realtionships, we remember what is important
2007-10-29 02:53:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. We have a family altar in our home. God is the glue that keeps it all together. Without God I don't see how homes make it.
2007-10-29 02:51:54 · answer #10 · answered by iwant_u2_wantme2000 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋