Thursday, March 31, 2005

Spiritual Intamacy

We finished our series on Improving Communication in marriage. This week's topic was growing closer to your spouse through spiritual intamacy. We listed ways we could get spiritually closer to our spouse....
1. Read the bible together
2. Pray together
3. Pray aloud for one another
4. Attend a marriage conference
5. Do a devotion together.
6. Discuss this weeks sermon and how to apply to your lives.

Also we listed things that would get in the way.... we've heard them all... no time, kids, work, etc... truth is nothing should get in the way of spending time with God.

Then we listed one thing that we as a couple would commit to doing each day.
Eddie and I chose to read Psalm 16 together every night.

1 Keep me safe, O God,
for in you I take refuge.

2 I said to the LORD , "You are my Lord;
apart from you I have no good thing."
3 As for the saints who are in the land,
they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. [b]
4 The sorrows of those will increase
who run after other gods.
I will not pour out their libations of blood
or take up their names on my lips.

5 LORD , you have assigned me my portion and my cup;
you have made my lot secure.
6 The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.

7 I will praise the LORD , who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
8 I have set the LORD always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.

9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure,
10 because you will not abandon me to the grave, [c]
nor will you let your Holy One [d] see decay.
11 You have made [e] known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand

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