Preserving & Promoting Love In Your Marriage

Read chapter 9 of Deepening Love--For Marital Happiness and answer the following questions.

Psalm 118:1 states: "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his love endures forever."

• Human love falters, fades, and fails. But whose love for you never will?

In response to the Lord's unfailing, everlasting love for us, we will honor him by preserving our marriage and following his will for our marriage, which includes preserving and promoting our mutual love and affections.

See pages 144-146.

• Do you desire to have your partner love you? What can you do to arouse that love in him or her for you?

Fifty-six percent of all marriages end in failure with the couples saying they do not love one another anymore. Those couples married with the same human loves you now share.

• Based on what happened to their love, what could happen to yours if you are not careful?

To preserve the love in your relationship:

• What do each of you have to be? See pages 147 & 148.
  What do each of you need to maintain on a daily basis? See pages 148-152.
  With God's help you must replace your sins against one another with what? See pages  152 & 153.
  Above all, your growth in what is needed? See pages 153 & 154.

If you do not spend enjoyable time together during your marriage, what effect will this have on your love for one another?

Flirting comments and digs about the attractiveness and desirability of someone else of the opposite sex will have what effect on your partner and on your love for one another? In your marriage vows you promise to forsake all others for your partner. Compare this promise to such comments and digs.

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