{"id":87,"date":"2015-01-15T03:52:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T03:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeewithpat.org\/coffeetime\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2021-06-19T00:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T00:13:41","slug":"marriage-guide-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/?page_id=87","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is a Christian Marriage?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jesus tells us how important it is to have a godly marriage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are so many divorces today that the world sees marriage as a contract that can be broken with no reason at all. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe with all my heart, that if Joe and I did not have Christ in the center of our marriage that we would have been one of those divorces. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Without Christ being the center of the marriage, you will not make it. As a couple you should daily, pray together.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

God honors a\u00a0 marriage where Christ is the head, and is directing the path of the couple.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, make Christ the head and center point of your marriage and see the difference your lives will take.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is Marriage?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Our precious two daughter’s and our two grand doggies.<\/p>\n

As of,\u00a0 June 18, 2021, Joe and I have been married for 44 years. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Has it been easy? No, at times it has truly been hard. We have had our ups and downs. But Praise God, we had enough sense to know that we must depend on God. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Being married 44 years, you get to really know each other. I can tell what Joe is thinking, before he says anything, and he knows the same about me.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have had to depend on God, when we\u00a0did not know what we needed to do, even to the point of where we would live.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have raised two Christian daughters.\u00a0 They love the Lord, but they also\u00a0know what it is like to have a good marriage. They know that it is being able to stay together through the good and the bad. <\/strong><\/p>\n

My parents\u00a0were married 62 years when Daddy went to be with the Lord.\u00a0 They raised six children. We asked Mama (after Daddy died), why we never heard them argue? She\u00a0said they had their moments, but they took them to the bedroom and never went to bed mad at each other. She said they never said things to hurt each other. They just were able to talk it out. She also said that there were times they did not agree, but they respected one another\u2018s opinion. They never used the words, \u201cI told you so.\u201d They just\u00a0cared for \u00a0one another enough to know what true love is all about. WOW! What a marriage!<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is the key, communication. Being able to talk it over in a\u00a0sensible manner, without shouting and raging a war.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Webster\u2019s Dictionary defines marriage as, \u201cthe state of being married; wedlock; the act of marring or the ceremony entered into by a man and woman so as to live together as husband and wife. The ability or being able.\u00a0 <\/strong>Did you understand the last five words of the definitions, \u201cthe ability or being able.\u201d That means once married we have the ability and are able to stay together, as husband and wife, til death do we part.<\/strong><\/p>\n

St. John 2: 1-9,11, \u201cOn the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, \u201cThey have no wine,\u201d Jesus said to her, \u201cWoman what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.\u201d His mother said to the servants, \u201cWhatever He says to you, do it.\u201d Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. Jesus said to them, \u201cFill the waterpots with water.\u201d And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, \u201cDraw some out now, take it to the master of the feast.\u201d And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants knew) the master of the feast called the bridegroom. This was the beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jesus also knew the marriage between a man and woman was so important that His first miracle was done at a wedding. He turn the water into wine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hebrews 13:4, \u201cMarriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Genesis 2: 24, \u201cTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What is a Christian Marriage? Jesus tells us how important it is to have a godly marriage. There are so many divorces today that the world sees marriage as a contract that can be broken with no reason at all. I believe with all my heart, that if Joe and I did not have Christ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeewithpat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}