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Building Your Marriage Under the Headship of Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ Must Be More Than Someone You Include in Your Marriage A Christian marriage isn’t Christ-centered simply because two believers get married, attend church together, or pray before dinner. Jesus Christ must be the Head of the marriage, and that means both husband and wife are accountable to Him for the way they live…
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Purpose, Partnership and God’s Glory
Understanding What Marriage Is Meant to Accomplish When we talk about preparing for marriage, much of the conversation naturally centers around the relationship itself. Do we love each other? Are we compatible? Can we communicate? Can we build a good life together? Those are important questions. But there is another question we don’t ask nearly…
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What God Has Joined Together
Understanding the Union God Created Marriage to Be When Jesus was questioned about marriage and divorce, He didn’t begin His answer with culture, personal happiness, compatibility, or even the circumstances surrounding a particular marriage. He took them all the way back to the beginning. Matthew 19:4–6 (NLT) says, “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied.…
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Prepare for Covenant, Not Just Marriage
Understanding the Commitment You’re Preparing to Make Before God 1. Understand What Makes Marriage a Covenant There’s something wonderful about looking forward to getting married. The excitement of meeting someone special, falling in love, and imagining the life you’ll share together can make marriage seem like the fulfillment of a beautiful dream. It’s such a…
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Allowing God Access to Prepare You
Are You Willing to Let God Work on You First? We want God to bless our future, but sometimes we aren’t nearly as eager to let Him prepare us for it. Now, a lot of us don’t like hearing that, and I get it. We have our plans, our expectations, and our own ideas about…
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Know Yourself Before Becoming a Wife
Understanding the Woman You Are Before Sharing Your Life with Someone Else 1. Know Who You Are in Christ Before you think about becoming a wife, it’s really important to have a good understanding of who you are without a husband. This isn’t about your career, your education, how much money you make, or how…
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Know God’s Design for Marriage
Before You Decide What You Want Marriage to Be, Learn What God Created It to Be There’s something about the thought of getting married that can send a woman’s imagination into overdrive. We think about having a husband who loves us, building a beautiful home together, raising children, and sharing our lives with someone who…
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Right Direction Leads to the Right Person
Psalm 119:105 (NLT): “Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” God’s presence is a place of peace, but it’s also so much more than that. It’s a place of direction, understanding, and spiritual growth. And if we’re honest, when we’re in wait mode, believing God for the…
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Walking Together Begins with Walking with God
Sometimes we think that once we become born-again believers, life should automatically fall into place. We may believe that because we pray, seek God, and desire to honor Him, the things closest to our hearts should happen in our timing. I know many single believers have marriage at the top of their prayer list. And…
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Crossing into the “Will I Ever” Lane
When Waiting Feels Like It’s Not Moving Psalm 91:15–16 (NLT) says, “When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with a long life and give them my salvation.” That’s not just a comforting verse—it’s a promise we can…
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Be Careful Not to Forget the Lord
When Something Else Starts Sitting Where Only God Belongs Matthew 6:19–21 (NLT) reminds us, “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your…
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The Final Destination
Where is God taking you I recently heard a woman say during an interview that she wanted more out of her marriage. She acknowledged that her husband was faithful, successful, a provider who paid the bills and helped raise their three children. By all visible measures, she was blessed. And yet, she felt unsettled. What…
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Let Me Take Your Name
When Faith Slips into Desperation Isaiah 4:1 (NLT) “In that day so few men will be left that seven women will fight for each man, saying, “Let us all marry you! We will provide our own food and clothing. Only let us take your name so we won’t be mocked as old maids.” So many…
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A Divided Mentality, What It Is and Why We should Avoid It
Revelations 3:7-8(NLT) “This is the message from the one who is holy and true, the one who has the key of David. What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open. 8 “I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no…
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A Heart That Burns for God
When God Revives a Heart Ezekiel 36:26-27 (NLT) “And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my…
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God Mends the Broken Heart
What Heartbreak Reveals About Your Heart Matthew 6:33(NLT) “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.” One of the realest questions a hurting heart ever asks is this: Can God actually protect my heart? Because when love shifts—when someone you thought was moving toward…
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Don’t Be Fooled by Appearance
How to Discern True Blessings from Counterfeits Sheri thought she had it all figured out. The man she believed was “the one” was handsome, charming, ambitious—and when he said he wanted to marry her, it felt like a dream finally coming true. Friends envied her, family congratulated her, and even her own heart raced with…
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The Disappointment and the Sting That Lingers
When a Season Ends and Your Heart Has to Catch Up There’s a familiar saying many of us have heard: People come into your life for a season, a reason, or a lifetime. It sounds comforting—until you find yourself standing in the aftermath of a relationship that ended sooner than you ever expected. That was…
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Women Like Me
Led by the Spirit in a Season That Feels Slow Hebrews 12:1(NLT): “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” A defining…
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When God Sends the Help You Need
Two Are Better Than One — God Designed It This Way Ecclesiastes 4:9–12 (NLT) paints a picture of how God designed life to work: “Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed… If one person falls, the other can reach out and help… A person standing alone can be…
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The Windows of Heaven
Giving: The Hidden Key to Alignment and Blessing Luke 6:37-38 (NLT) “Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full—pressed down, shaken together…
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Chosen Above All Others
Identity First. Connection Second. Destiny Always. 1 Kings 11:1-3 (NLT): “11 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites. 2 The Lord had clearly instructed the people of Israel, “You must not marry them, because they will turn your hearts to their gods.” Yet Solomon…
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The Act of Desperation
A Christian Woman’s Guide to Discernment, Emotional Healing, and Spiritual Strength. When Ignorance Keeps You Paralyzed Luke 12:48 (NLT) says, “But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with…
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Those Who Wear the Ring but Miss the Relationship
When Commitment Lacks Communion Proverbs 30:21-23 (NLT): “There are three things that make the earth tremble—no, four it cannot endure: a slave who becomes a king, an overbearing fool who prospers, a bitter woman who finally gets a husband, a servant girl who supplants her mistress.” Some wear the ring but have long forgotten the…
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New Beginnings Require Adjustment
How God Calls Us to Shift, Grow, and Prepare for What’s Next Proverbs 20:4 (ESV): “The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.” Fall has always been my favorite season. The cooler air, the vibrant colors of the leaves, the shift in light—it all signals change, and…
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The God Who Makes It Happen
Trusting His Timing, Not Ours Isaiah 60:22 (NLT): “At the right time, I, the Lord, will make it happen.” The truth revealed in Isaiah 60:22 is a powerful promise—it reminds us that timing belongs to God, not us. And if we’re honest, that’s a truth most of us have to keep revisiting. Because when waiting…
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God’s Shield of Love
When Marriage Feels Like the Final Destination For many single women, marriage feels like the final destination—the ultimate goal and purpose in life. That’s why some lose a part of themselves once they’ve slipped on the ring or walked down the aisle with their “finally-forever” husband. Finally, somebody noticed me. Finally, I’ve got a man.…
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The Benefit of Two People Together
The Strength of Covenant and Connection “Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble… A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and…
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Waiting on God for Marriage: Are You Speaking Words of Faith?
The Power of Speaking Life in the Waiting Season There’s something sacred about waiting for the kind of love your heart longs for—the kind you’ve prayed for, cried over, and maybe even fasted about. A husband. A true covering. Someone to walk with, grow with, and build a life rooted in faith and trust. For…
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Long Months of Drought Coming to an End
Scripture AnchorJeremiah 17:5-8 (NLT) says, “This is what the Lord says: Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness,…