7 Ways To Strengthen and Maintain Your Marriage

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About This Episode There is a spiritual truth that goes like this: what we feed will be nourished, what we sow we will reap, what we pursue we will find, and what we water will grow. The opposite is true as well. Stop watering something, and it will eventually die. In this episode, Aaron and Jennifer talk about the importance of continual spiritual and relational maintenance. Marriages rarely fall apart all at once; they decay over time when they are not tended. Using 2 Peter 1, they share seven qualities to maintain so your marriage and your faith stay strong, effective, and fruitful.

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode What we water grows — The spiritual truth of sowing, feeding, and pursuing The abandoned building — Why anything that is not maintained slowly decays The grass is greener where you water it — Taking responsibility for our action and our inaction Exhort one another daily — Guarding against a heart hardened by the deceitfulness of sin Virtue and knowledge — Pursuing purity and growing in knowledge of God and your spouse Self-control and steadfastness — Training the flesh and standing firm in unity and faith Godliness and brotherly affection — Devotion to God and loving your spouse as a brother or sister in Christ Love — Not simply maintaining love but earnestly seeking it Salvation and maintenance — Our salvation rests in Christ alone; we labor to walk it out A new owner — Letting Christ renovate your marriage

Scripture Referenced 2 Peter 1 Hebrews 3:12-14

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