Let’s Stay Together –
Let’s Rekindle
Introduction
Redefining Intimacy In Marriage:
S – Spiritual Compatibility
Compatible Couples Share The Following:
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b.
c.
d.
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers…. —2 Corinthians 6:14-15 (NKJV)
14 Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. 15 Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? —2 Corinthians 6:14-15 (TMB)
Three Ways To Build Compatibility:
1. Prayer and Worship Together
2. Study and Spiritual Conversations
3. Serve Together
E – Emotional Connection
Factors That Hinder Married Couples From Emotionally Connecting:
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b.
c.
d. Lack of
e. Unresolved
f. Emotional
g. Lack of
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. —1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NLT)
X - X-Ray Communication
24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
25 Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame. —Genesis 2:24-25 (NLT)25 So stop telling lies. Let us tell our neighbors the truth, for we are all parts of the same body. —Ephesians 4:25 (NLT)
Secrecy Leads To:
a. Erosion of
b.
c.
d. Resentment and
e. Loss of
Conclusion
3 The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. 4 The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife. —1 Corinthians 7:3-4 (NLT)
My Next Steps:
- Be intentional about building spiritual compatibility.
- Eliminate secrecy from my marriage.
- Bring your spouse to church next week.
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