Keeping Your Vow, Week 3

Here are my notes for Week 2 of our churches series, Keep Your Vow. My original post with Week 1 can be found here!

Week Three - Never Give Up

Never giving up means - working as hard as you can to protect and preserve your marriage.

1 - Be empowered by God and not feelings and circumstances.

• control - we cannot control our marriage, God has to empower us.
• Ephesians 5:20-27
• vs. 18 - "influenced" by the Spirit
• marriage is about holiness, not happiness
• How do we let God empower our marriage? Follow Jesus. Surrender daily. Ask for help.

2 - Forgive completely (Put the rock down).

• Matthew 6:14-15
• forgiveness = costly sacrifice. Forgiveness is not about them, it's about you. Forgiveness is not trust. 
• Four steps to forgiveness: 1) believe the gospel, 2) trust God, 3)let go of power and control, 4) push past fear.

3 - Think 100%, not 50/50.

• Marriage is about what you can give (100%), not what you can get (50/50).
• Marriage is about sacrifice.
• Philippians 2:3-4

4 - Surround yourself with friends who never wan you or themselves to give up too.