Five kindnesses of devotional time together

A couple of Sundays while we started a premarital counseling I realized that our first recommendation, Always, to any couple who want to share their lives together is: Start praying together, for each other. They have not yet married and do not share a habitat, but they must start reading and studying the Bible together. Start a beautiful habit that has eternal value. As we mature in the faith our senses are exercised in discernment (Hebrews 5:14). As we go TOGETHER developing a habit of life, our God-Who seals this covenant of marriage making us one flesh-is revealing and forming this couple by His multiform grace.

I could just say that the first kindness of our God when a couple comes to Him in a private and peculiar time, and I use this peculiar word, because being two we are one, it is that God is present as that third cord of union. He is invited, he is recognized and he is exalted. Together we grow in love for Him who loved us so much that He gave us for each other. The Word urges us to be filled with the Holy Spirit and when we are in the presence of this three times Holy God, we are laying the foundations to then build what God wants, for our lives and our marriage. Prioritizing this aspect of our Christian lives with our husbands will teach us much of God's heart for His children.

Second Goodness It motivates us in the search for individual spiritual growth through prayer. It teaches us both to exercise ourselves in the prayer that pleases God. Our husband is our head and responsible for our growth in the faith. In Ephesians 5, we read from verses 25 to 27 "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it, to sanctify it, having purified it by washing the water with the word, In order to present it to himself, a church in all its glory, with no spot or wrinkle or anything similar, but to be holy and immaculate. "

But we must be subject, subject and respectful making the ministry given by God, our husbands, our heads, do it with pleasure and joy.

Third Goodness Devotional times as a couple help the husband develop his leadership and understand his call: the one God gave him. And to us, to understand, even more, the beauty of being a suitable help to listen to their needs and dependence on God, being able to ask for wisdom to collaborate in what God is doing in his life. The devotional as a couple motivates us to grow in the study of the Word. Colossians 3:16 commands that the Word of Christ dwell in abundance in us. Then these times of studying the Word more will help us to be able to apply it to the normal conflicts that occur on a daily basis. We will respond to each other with what is dwelling in our being. We will both be growing in the measure of faith that God has placed in each one (Romans 12: 3).

Fourth Goodness Devotional times as a couple allow us to see the heart of our spouse and for him to see ours, as well as our struggles with sin, with our fallen nature, with the world. In that time of intimacy with God we are vulnerable and we can see possible scars, giving us a clearer direction of where we should aim. It is easier for us to forgive and be forgiven. How can we be in front of our God with hardened and cold hearts without His amazing love melting and weakening?

Fifth Goodness It improves the communication in the couple and gives them the assurance that they are a team, that they are in the same race, Hebrews 12 "and we run with patience the race that lies ahead, looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of the faith." The devotional times sensitize us more to listen to the voice of God, His direction and His call.

We women are relational by nature and we seek to have sisters / friends who are willing to pray and study the Word with us. They are times of refreshment and intimacy, but these times are not close to the closeness and complicity that we can observe in the couples that every day can hear the voice of their God calling them to have communion with Him as when Adam and Eve were walking in the vegetable garden of the day.

Are we being intentional in our devotional time as one flesh that we are?

Are you treasuring this time that God has arranged for you in His perfect plan for your lives?

Do you show your husband that you are hungry and thirsty for the food of heaven that God has prepared for His sons and daughters who are thirsty and hungry in the midst of this perverse generation in which we live? Generation that say bad to good and good to bad.