You Asked For It- Week 4

MARRIAGE – HELP!

7 MARRIAGE TRAPS

#1 –

Selfishness Is A That Must Be Radically From Any Relationship For It To Survive.

Philippians 2: – ³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.  Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, ⁴ not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. ⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; ⁷ rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant…

We Overcome Selfishness By .

Marriage Is Like , If You’re Serving You’re .

#2 – EXPECTATIONS

James 4: ¹ What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? ² You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them.

Top Unrealistic Expectations:

My Spouse Is Responsible For My

My Spouse Knows My And My Thoughts

My Spouse And I Can Any Problem

We Overcome Unrealistic Expectations By Recognizing The Nature Of Humans And The Nature Of Our God.

#3 –

Genesis 2:25 – Adam and his wife were both naked and felt no shame.

Secrets Don’t Protect A Relationship, They It

Ephesians 5:11-12 – Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead, you expose them; for it is disgraceful even to speak of things which are done by them in secret.

We Overcome Secrecy By Being .

James 5:16 – Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.

#4 – NEGATIVE

Proverbs 13:3 – Whoever guards his mouth, preserves his life. Whoever opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Ephesians 4:29 – Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those that listen.

People Tend To Become What The Most Important People In Their Life They Can Become.

We Overcome Negative Speech By Choosing Our Words .

#5 –

Galatians 6:4-5 – “Each one of you should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone without comparing themselves to somebody else, for each one should carry their own load.

Avoid Comparison With:

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We Overcome Comparison By Living In .

#6 – FIGHTING

Relationships Have Conflict. But Healthy Relationships Know How To Conflict In The Right Way.

Unhealthy Conflict Resolution:

The Treatment

Bringing Up The

Statements

Involvement w/ Friends & Family

James 1:19 – my dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.

We Overcome Fighting Dirty By Attacking Instead Of Attacking .

#7 – PUTTING EACH OTHER ()

When God Is , The Rest Is .

Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning, God…

Psalm 127:1 – unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.

We Overcome Idolatry By Prioritizing Our Own Relationship With Christ.