Week 3

 

 I came across these tips on my way round the web and think they are useful to add to my marriage challenge indeed! Marriage Helps

• Keep God FIRST!
• Pray Together!
• Respect and honor each other!
• Encourage each other to grow together!
• Read the Bible together as much as possible!
• Be swift to hear & slow to speak!
• Make time to communicate with each other!
• Protect and honor your marriage vows!
• Do not let others come between your marriage!
• Thank God everyday for your Mate & the Life you have together!
• Understand that “love” is a choice, not a feeling!(You must choose everyday to Love your mate)

I pretty much thinks this list sums up the whole status of marriage doesn’t it!

I have had a most trying week…everything I have tried to do the enemy has definately had a go at un-doing…however, I completely ignored this scheme and God turned it round….phew…( not easy tho)

Week 2/3

I know the challenge has ended for most but as I joined late I am still going with my goals.

The important thing for me here is that I have not given up…usually I start things only to find I give up halfway thru but I can see how God is gently pushing me along , reminding me.

My husband is kind of chuffed that I am actually purposed in this, he is obviously reaping some of the benefits too…lol

Iam so excited at how changes are ahppening within our marriage and my love for him really is like we first met, you know, goosey bumps when he calls me up on the phone and that kind of thing.

Our dd’s are going to be away next weekend and we both intend to kick back and enjoy to the max our precious time together…

Week 2 of The Challenge

This is so exciting!! I have engaged several women to join me altho they are not all on the net and things but that is great that I can rally up more to do it for themselves and their marriage.

 I guess Christine had no idea when she started this how much impact it was going to have on our *world*

What I have learned so far is that almost everything in my marriage had become comfortable, like wearing a pair of old slippers and gotten so used to them…ermmmm, didn’t like what God was showing me to be honest….

My goals were challenging but so far I have kept up the clean towels , may not always have gotten them put away upstairs but they are clean and dry!

Greeting him has not been each day as it depended on where I was on his return home but we have definately had more smoochies!!

Have made an effort to be off the pc when he is around and so far so good..except tonight coz I needed to do some stuff…

Still working on the intimate side…we both have had different things going on so we both shall work on that!

All in all, am pleased that God has brought this to my attention even if it’s meaning addressing this in *public* Only He knows exactly what I need to do and how and I trust Him to lead so I can follow.

Busy Week (week 1 of the challenge)

 

 

 

Whoa this whole 7 days past so quickly, I have hardly realised it did!!

 God is awesome, I set my heart and mind on 3 areas of my marriage to work on and boy have I already noticed a difference in me!

I guess what can happen in a relationship is, you become complacent and just take one another for granted, not realising you do  that. It is when God gets your attention and you act on it that things happen!

At the start, every distraction was sent to *help* me..NOT!!!! I could not get my brain and body to synchronise and every effort known to man was made in order for me to overcome this sudden attack…

By day 3/4 I think I *got* it, I worked out quickly was going on and focused entirely on giving it my attention. Can’t lie and say I was super wife every day, and that my dh was at the better end of my attitude…but I notice changes in me, my prayers and thoughts have changed so much for the better Glory to God.

He loves being greeted with a smoochy….and……because he gets the first attention of arriving home from a naff day at work he obviously feels more comfortable and happy coming through the door, not like he has just interrupted our day as it were…

He hasn’t asked once all week if we have clean towels whoo hoo!!

My goals for this next 7 days are:

1) praying for Him ( need to continue working on this one)

2) Initiating more intimate moments rather than wait for him to do so.

3) work on not being on the pc too much!! ( gulp…I asked him what he wanted me to work on!! )

 

 

 

My Personal Goals this Week:

 

On reflection my heart is so hungry to honour my dear husband. I want God’s blessing and annointing on my marriage. I desire to honour my God through our marriage and bring Glory to Him. 

 I will pray for him each day

 I will see that we have clean towels for the bathroom READY!

I will make the effort to greet him immediately when he comes home each day and give him a lingering smoochy!!and not just shout out a quick “hi” from wherever I am at the time, ( coz thats what been happening lately)…

Think this challenge is definitely going to do something in me and in him…olala

Proverbs 31:10-12 (King James Version)

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

 

I’ve joined The Marriage Challenge!!

 

Thanks to Amy I came across the above challenge HERE

This , for me, is a timely word in due season….

I have been thinking recently of my marriage and how I can improve matters. We all need to work on our marriage and the enemy is so cunning as to get us to be complacent about different areas within them…

I, too, need lots of grown up time and as our children are no longer babies and needing me 24/7 I can and should concentrate MORE on putting into the marriage rather than accept things the way they are or have become.

I am so UP for this challenge…perhaps you may want to join us?

Do so, we can all be accountable with one another….