Experiencing God Means:
Recognizing God’s work in and around you.
Hearing and responding to God’s invitation to join his work.
Adjusting beliefs, character, and behavior to align with God and his ways.

Experiencing God “Questions:”
What is God working?
How can I join him?
What adjustments do I need to make?

Experiencing God in marriage:
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

…means joining God’s work IN my spouse.
What is God working in him/her?
How can I join what God is working?
What adjustments do I need to make?

…means joining God’s work THROUGH my spouse.
What work in my life is God showing my spouse?
How can I join God’s work through him/her?
What adjustments do I need to make?

…means joining God’s work WITH my spouse.
What work is God doing around us?
How can we join in?
What adjustments do we need to make?

…means experiencing God TOGETHER.
Have spiritual conversations together.
Pray together.
Serve together.
Give together.

…is possible even without my spouse’s partnership.
1 Corinthians 7:12 To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. 13 If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband.

Experiencing God in Singleness:
Singleness is hard.
Genesis 2:18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Singleness has advantages.
1 Corinthians 7:6 Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. 7 I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. … 32 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. 33 But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, 34 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. 35 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Experiencing God in Dating:
Practice for marriage!