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Here are the second five of ten key ingredients for making your marriage blossom. For full content, listen to the podcast here.
Click here for notes on Keys 1-5. 6. Boundaries - 1 Corinthians 14:40 7. Goals - Proverbs 29:18 8. Financial Management - 2 Corinthians 9 9. The Spice of Life - Romans 12:10 10. Understanding the Personality Traits - Psalm 139:14, Romans 14:1
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The first five of ten key ingredients for making your marriage blossom. Listen to the podcast for full content.
1. Spiritual Growth - Ephesians 5:21-29 2. Good Communication - James 1:19 3. Negotiation - Isaiah 1:18 4. Power of Agreement - Amos 3:3 5. Conflict Resolution - Proverbs 15:1 In today's show, "heritage" is described as the deposit we have made in our children that they take through this life, and that they benefit from for eternity. It is likened to a deep well that is like a reservoir, able to be pulled from in the midst of the storms, floods and droughts of life.
What is required to build a strong legacy:
"Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil." (Pro. 3:7, NIV) Types of Legacy and How They Can be Built 1. Identity as it Relates to Self (Emotional Legacy) This refers to having a sense of well being and security. This is where a child grows up knowing he is accepted and loved. a. What is required to build this? A loving family context marked by:
b. How is this achieved?
2. Identity as it Relates to Others (Social Legacy) This refers to having healthy and appropriate relationships with others. "Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen." (1 Jn. 4:20, NIV) a. What is required to build this? A home life and family life that:
It teaches, models and reinforces healthy and appropriate interpersonal relationships. b. How is it achieved? By teaching, modeling and reinforcing:
3. Identity as it Relates to God (Spiritual Legacy) This refers to that most important of legacies - a personal and abiding relationship with the Lord. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." (Mk. 12:30) a. What is required to build this? Godly parents who teach, model and reinforce that personal and abiding relationship with Christ. b. How is it achieved? "These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." (Deut. 6:6-9)
Conclusion We rely on God, being mindful that He is our wisdom and strength as we build a strong family legacy. "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Eph. 2:10, NIV)
"And you have been made complete in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority." (Col. 2:10, BSB) "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." (Rom. 12:2) "Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.." (Ps. 100:3, NIV) 1. Takeover the Thoughts
"... we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." (2 Cor. 10:5, NIV, italics added) 2. Makeover the Actions
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Eph. 2:10, NIV, italics added) Value God's approval by making His Biblical standard your standard. Own and embrace who He says you are. |
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