Tag: loving your spouse

Bible Verse of The Day – 9-9-14

1 Corinthians 7:3 (NKJV) 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

In the verse above, Paul is specifically addressing married couples. He is also speaking specifically about physical (sexual) affection. But today I want to speak about more than just sexual intimacy.

There are many, many married couples who’s relationships are way out of balance due to a lack of attention on the part of one or both of the members of the relationship.

This can be in both the emotional and the physical (non-sexual) aspects of your relationship. Sometimes couples just get too busy with their lives and their routines each day to remember to stop and take the time to show their spouse how much they love them and how much they mean to them.

Other times, a person may be irritated or annoyed with their spouse about something, and instead of discussing it and resolving a problem, they withhold their attention and affection from them. Sometimes this is done inadvertently, whereas other times some people may do this as a sort of punishment.

Either way, this needs to be fixed!

If we are married, our relationship with our spouse should be second only to our relationship with God. After God, our marriage comes first, before anything else, even before our children (if we have any). And especially before our jobs or our hobbies.

So I urge you today, if you’re married, obey God. Honor your spouse by giving them the attention they deserve. Don’t put it off. Don’t wait for tomorrow. We are not promised a tomorrow.

Love them. Hug them. Hold them. Show them and tell them how much they mean to you. Your relationship can only get better if you follow God’s leading!

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-315-0902

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Bible verse of The Day – 4-3-13

(Colossians 3:18-19 NKJV)  Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. {19} Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.

We wanted to take a minute today to address something that is so very critical in the body of Christ.

Over the past couple of years we have received so very many emails from both husbands and wives, telling us of the unfaithfulness of their spouse or the abusive behavior of their spouse.

We have spent a lot of time counseling some of these people and walking them through the repair and healing process for their marriage and for their own emotional condition.

It has been heartbreaking and rewarding at the same time. It has been fulfilling to know that we can share God’s words with couples and watch their marriages become healed and whole again. But it has also been so very sad to see how Christian couples can fall into such terrible states of disrepair in their relationships.

We urge you today to make the time and take the time that is needed to treat your relationship with your spouse the way it deserves to be treated, and to treat your spouse with love and respect.

There is not a single one of us who is perfect in our relationships. We all fall so terribly short sometimes. But it’s nothing that we can’t fix in ourselves, if we truly want to, with God’s help.

So take some time today, right now, and examine your relationship with your spouse. Be brutally honest with yourself and ask yourself if you’re giving your marriage 100%.

If you can’t honestly answer that question with a solid “yes”, please take the steps necessary to make it right. You can do this, with God’s help and wisdom.

We are here for you if you need our counsel. You are loved.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808

401-377-5400

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