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Couples Building Rock Solid Marriages

Couples Building Rock Solid Marriages. TRADEMARKS. Intro. New Couples Announcements Retreat update Prayer. Design Your Time. How has your view of time changed since you were a child? A student? An adult How do you respond to the question “What’s the point of life?”. Psalm 90:12.

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Couples Building Rock Solid Marriages

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  1. Couples Building Rock Solid Marriages TRADEMARKS

  2. Intro New Couples Announcements Retreat update Prayer

  3. Design Your Time

  4. How has your view of time changed since you were a child? A student? An adult • How do you respond to the question “What’s the point of life?”

  5. Psalm 90:12 • “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” NIV

  6. Make us know something Lord that will bring us a heart of wisdom. A prayer: That God may instruct us to estimate our days aright. Taking a just account of our life To act as if we could see the whole thing May we be led by reflections upon the brevity of time, that we would give our earnest attention to the important/lasting things

  7. As individuals:List from 1 to 10 the most important things to you (what/who).

  8. Rocks of life

  9. Priority Determines Capacity The key to get the most done in life is not by simply adding but by prioritizing correctly. Priority determines capacity: What you put in first ultimately determines the capacity of your life/time. If this is not new info why don’t we put the big rocks first. What are the big rocks of my life? What are the non-negotiables? What is really important and why are they not going in first?

  10. As a couple • At the end of this season and looking back, what are the rocks that you know you want to go in first? (don’t want them to be leftovers that were crammed in at the end) • Discuss your big rock list with your spouse. Compare as a couple your big rock lists.

  11. Priority determines capacity • We live in a culture that does not ask us to prioritize. • Busyness destroys intimacy • Busyness and intimacy don’t go together • Genuine intimacy is the cry of our nation • #1 Female need is companionship • #1 Male need is respect • Our tendency to economize on relationships as we add more activity and little rocks. • We economize when we fail to prioritize. • Are you striving to prioritize?

  12. Priority determines capacity • The question is what or who is really important to you? • What would it look like for you to prioritize that which is really important? • What would have to change?

  13. Priority determines capacity • OT/NT would say the God rock goes in first. • If the God rock goes in 1st then it effects the direction of everything else in our lives. • Psalm 18:31 For who is God besides the Lord and who is the rock except God? • (Moses and King David both referred to God as the rock)

  14. How do you get the God Rock in first?

  15. Prioritize = ‘to seek’ • The bible all the way through the Old and New Testament encourages us at every turn to seek Him.

  16. Prioritize = seek in the bible • You, God, are my God, earnestly (only one thing) I seek you; I thirst for you,    my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land    where there is no water. Psalm 63:1 • I seek you with all my heart;    do not let me stray from your commands. (your commands become the priority and inform the decisions that I make) Psalm 119:10 • 5Evil men do not understand justice,         But those who seek the LORD understand all things. (for wisdom stick God in first) Prov. 28:5

  17. Sermon on the Mount • So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matt. 6:31-33

  18. At your tables • What makes it hard to put the God rock in first? • What would that look like as a married couple seeking to grow in intimacy? • Intimacy is not a mystery – it is a process. It is the fruit of being in process together as a couple. • What is the capacity of intimacy in your marriage as it reflects prioritizing the God rock?

  19. You are seeking something. What is it and is it growing your capacity for wisdom? • What is the more important? I have checked off my list or I have honored you? • Start your day with the 3 p’s: protection for my marriage – provision for this family – parden our sins. • Prioritize this week and increase your capacity to grow relationships, peace, future.

  20. First law: He is God and we’re not • Second: God doesn’t need us but we desperately need Him. • Third: What God demands, He supplies • Fourth: What you seek, you find.

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