Keep Watch

When implementing such positive words, growing tactics and binding together to live life as a team; marriages begin to thrive.  The shift from day to day unhealthy decisions to moment to moment consciously choosing healthy decisions for your marriage will cause one factor to appear in the equation. 

“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)

“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. . . (Genesis 1:31a)

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

(Genesis 3:1)

From the beginning of creation, the enemy comes to steal and destroy God’s goodness.  God made the very first couple and deemed male and female VERY good.  No conflict occurred between the two.  No stress created havoc in their lives.  No shame/guilt hindered their connection.  Until. . .the enemy came into the picture and worked diligently to place a wedge between male and female.  It all started with one question creating doubt in Eve’s mind of the Truth God spoke. 

The enemy still works with such diligence today.  He desires messy marriages complete with broken people out to tear each other down.  Therefore, we must show the enemy Who already won the battle.  Marriages may get messy from time to time, but do not allow the enemy to enter with a wedge to place so tightly between you and your spouse.  Stand firm on His Truth!  God’s Word is Truth and the enemy places lies all around in hopes to develop doubt within each of us.  Keep watch out for those lies and put the enemy in his place! 

But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”  (Mark 8:33)

This world holds human concerns, fleshly desires, brokenness and disappointments. . .live in the world but not OF the world.

“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.   After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

(Ephesians 5:21-31)

And every day pray for one another and for the marriage.

Keep praying harder than the devil can work.