CLIMBING OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF SHALLOW LIVING

A person's partner in marriage should join together with them in worshipping God. A married couple, joined together spiritually have grounds for feeling hopeful about their future. This commitment by one person to another, agreeing to do, or not to do something in their future, give grounds for divine expectations. By following God's Word, becoming attached in holy matrimony, they are no longer marked by sinful appetites, passions of the body, animal instincts, carnal and/or fleshly desires involving the body as distinguished from the spirit or mind. Having been taken in marriage, the heart is placed in a consecrated location where things sacred are kept. Two people enter into a complex spiritual state involving beliefs, feelings, values, and dispositions to act in certain virtuous ways.

Be slow and exercise caution, showing great care or attention in love.  When falling in love, fall deep enough to stay there. Things are done quickly enough if done correctly. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone. To last a long time requires years of preparation. Only greatness counts, only something done as opposed to something said  last. What is valued greatly costs much. The metals high in worth and cost are  the heaviest.

Under the wing of the almighty, there is absence of mental stress and anxiety. We find harmonious relations; freedom from disputes. God has the whole world in His hands. When we believe, there is the experience of being free from danger or injury, a shelter from danger and hardship. God's strength may be drawn upon when needed.

To have the consortium of a spouse in a trustful relationship to act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief is beautiful. There is strength in a union that we can bestow our trust upon.

We each have our own calling. As sons and daughters in Christ, we should treat each-other as brothers and sisters under the authority of our Lord and Savior. Be a person who reduces the intensity of fear, who calms and pacifies.  

Like a solitary traveler isolated from others, lacking companions or companionship in the wilderness, exclusive of anyone or anything else, we find our strength. When we are faced with direct and violent assaults on our strongholds, and by overcoming resistance we pass into and through hostile opposition by faith. This teaches us to conduct or comport ourselves intuitively as through some inexplicable perceptive powers while refusing to accept defeat by the enemy. It is these times that God, our source of sustenance, is made unmistakably clear.  

If heaven is to be our eternal home and there is no doubt about this in the heart, if need be, shall we lay our life down for our belief in Christ? When we have no fear of death, the enemy's power to cause pain, injury or loss is no more.

Ostentatious display of religion, intended to attract notice and impress others. A cheap showy presentation lacking grace or social taste. Down a notch must we tune our spiritual magnetism. Let our works uplift, elevate, inspire, excite, and stimulate others to seek God with their whole heart.

God is with us. This hebrew name appears in chapters 7 and 8 of the book of Isaiah as part of a prophecy restoring confidence and relieving anxiety to the house of David and king Ahaz of Judah of God's covering that is intended to protect from damage or injury against enemy kings.

In marriage, we cannot take on the model of the world. Marriage is the building block upon which society was built by God. They are no longer two, but one, and let no man separate. Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the church. The divine holy institution of marriage. Be the example to your children as Christ was to the world.

"we all hear them speaking in our own native tongues [and telling of] the mighty works of God!" We stand on the foundation of truth. A way is made when there seems to be none. We serve a Great and Mighty God. Trending for centuries...

Some of us have lost the ability to love. Past failures have stripped us of our potential to outwardly entrust our affection. Pray that ability to demonstrate love is made discernible.

When our strength fail to meet the hopes of our expectations and there are no earthly options available, our faith is strengthened. It is from weakness that our dependence on God is made strong. Allow Him to provide all of our needs and we shall never want again. When He sends us the person or thing He has chosen for us, the union is Blessed and lasts forever.