1 Corinthians 13

Having a Christ centered marriage is the key to having a successful marriage, but what does that look like? I'm here to talk about that today in this blog! Here are some tips below!

Pray with + for each other

Prayer is a powerful tool in any marriage, but too often it’s put on the back burner and considered a last resort. Not only are we told to pray in scripture–we’re told to pray without ceasing. First hand in my marriage, I have seen the power of what prayer can do. We have both seen so many prayers being answered that we never thought would be. The Lord is so good and we learned together that putting everything in his hands and in prayer changes everything. Pull prayer to the forefront of your marriage. Seek the will of God in all that you do and give him the glory for all that He’s done.

• Submit

Marriage is designed to mirror the relationship between Christ and the church, and so we submit to our husbands as a reflection of that love. In return, the husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. You are serving each other just as Christ did, loving each other just as Christ did, and speaking in kindness just as Christ did.

• Never stop dating

Never stop dating your spouse. It is so important to keep that light alive and thriving, continuing to go on dates and having those moments together really keep that fire alive. Personally we love to have date nights where we bake or cook together, play board games, or go out on an actual date such as dinner and a movie, or even just going to main event and playing arcade games.

• Keeping Christ at the center of anything and everything

Personally we have hit some pretty tough road blocks, and only being married for almost three months, it was tough to get through. We constantly prayed, gave everything to the Lord, and let him lead every time and the outcome in those situations were far greater than the outcome would’ve been if we, ourselves, took the problems and tried to fix them. Not only us, but everyone needs to know that we can not do this life, solve these problems, or overcome these obstacles on our own, we need to solely lean and depend on the Lord to get us through. I have only been married for almost three months, and there is still so much to learn, but the Lord has taught me more in these three months about marriage than I ever knew about, or thought I knew, in my entire lifetime. Marriage is a total and complete blessing and when you have Christ in the center, it is 10X sweeter. “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love flaunts not itself and is not puffed up, does not behave itself improperly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; “rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they shall fail; if there are tongues, they shall cease; and if there is knowledge, it shall vanish. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is imperfect shall pass away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, and I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see as through a glass, dimly, but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I also am known. So now abide faith, hope, and love, these three. But the greatest of these is love.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13 ‬‬‬ 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Ephesians 5:22-25 Proverbs 5:18 Stay blessed, YOU are his beloved ✌🏽