5 precepts for a Successful Christian Marriage

INTRODUTION

1. What is precept?
2. It is a general Rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought
3. That a general rule put in place to guide and regulate the practise of a person or profession Example: In law '' there is the law precept of being innocent until proven guilty''.

1. Eph 5:30 Here we are talking of Christian Marriage so what is Christian Marriage? a. We are talking about or mean a marriage where the two who are getting married are Born Again people
2. The two are children of God.
3. That the marriage is consumated in the church and House of God and convenant taken before God, the Priest and God's people.
4. Here we are talking of making Success.
5. Success is a choice
6. One can chose to be success or you can choose to fail conseiously or what is success therefore? Success is simply defined as ''The Accomplishment of an Aim or Purpose'' So let me give you 5 basic precepts that if applied can make you achieve success in this Union and marriage
7. Purpose:Eph 5:31 says ''For the cause''
8. Frpm this marriage on divine purpose
9. The wedding will finish and the marriage will soon start.
10. Christian Marriage must run on divine purpose and agenda if it must weather the storms and sreceed
11. Both of you must find out what is God's Purpose for your home to achieve and pursue it with all your strength and spirit
12. Divine Puroses are purpose of eternal value. God and him centered purpose.
13. Price: Eph 5:31 says ''Shall a man leave his father and mother''
14. To be successful in anything, thereis always a price to be paid.
15. No success comes without a cost marriage or building a Christian home inclusive.
16. Both of you who are in the convenant of marriage have somethings you must let go for the success of this union.
17. Your journey starts now and until both of you shall leave at full old age.
18. Both parents also have sacrifices ot make you must let these individuals live and build their home. Only prayer and counsel
19. Friends and well wishers also must sacrifice by given them space to champion their course which they have chosen. They have madetheir choiceand their friends must try to leave by it. However if there is danger of life at anytime, intervention may be employed to safe life.
20. Promote: Eph 5:31 ''And shall be joined into his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
21. In this business for marriage you must seek to promote one another. b. You promote what is good in your partner and demote what is not good.
22. Individual partners must also seek to promote what is good in them and work to purify what is not good or what will destroy their marriage
23. This cover the way you communicate with each other,
24. Please remember that you will have what you say Mk 11:23
25. This speaks of support and care for one another.
26. Play: Eph 5:32 ''This is a great mystery''
27. Marriage is itself a mystery put by God himself Gen 2:21-25
28. The Bible said in v25 ''And they were both naked, the man and his wife and they were not ashamed.
29. Please not that shame will automatically follow when the woman you are naked with is not your wife.
30. To play very well you must be friends.
31. Friendship in marriage is not anthsmatic it has to be cultivated.
32. So many things has to be done by both partners in order to cultivate friendship in marriage.
33. Don't wait for the other to do first you take the initiative and try to do your part first.
34. We must not deriving or defraud one another in the areas of conjugal love 1Cor 7:1-5, 1Thess 4:3-6
35. Practice: Eph 5:33 says ''Never the less let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverance her husband''
36. This final injuction is not easy but i like to say that it is practice that will bring you to a place of perfection
37. The practice of love and reverance has to be consistant in the home for you to successful.
38. I mean the practice of love and reverance between both of you even when you start having your children you ensure these two percepts are still in place.
39. Don't be emotional about thr children to the netriment of your love for one another and the respect to one another.
40. Love and reverance must be practical and expressed convincingli.