Marriage

How do you cope with negative thoughts and feelings toward your husband or wife? Is it possible to feel happy and thankful once more? Here are 5 ways to break out of the rut of resentment you feel in your marriage.

For marriage to be what God designed it to be, we must choose to be committed to our mate and our marriage. Commitment is not based on feelings. Feelings cannot build a solid marriage. Love is not the basis for marriage. Marriage is the basis for love.

If in your efforts to conceive a baby you’re struggling with doubt and despair, here are seven powerful prayers inspired by biblical women who faced the same struggles.  

I can attest that when you respect your spouse and practice making your husband happy, he will turn around and pour that love right back onto you.

Ready to get started? Here are the top ten ways to make your husband happy:

In our flesh, our focus is usually on ourselves, on our own desires, comforts, and fears. It's not surprising, then, that we look forward to Heaven because we want to see loved ones who have gone before us. Or that we look to eternity with uncertainty because of our lack of understanding and fear of the unknown.

Prayer is a life-changing, uninterrupted connection to our heavenly Father and oh how he loves to hear his children pray! Check out these 10 prayers to pray over your husband using God’s Word.

It's easy to justify going to bed without praying together or without giving each other a good night kiss. Sometimes, even leaving your spouse to clean up the dishes from dinner and retreating to bed without an "I love you" or "Thank you for doing the dishes tonight" can lead to further roommate status when you don't have that time to connect (or the reverse is true in the morning).

I may be thought of as old-fashioned, but I believe wives can serve their husbands with both joy and gratitude. But before you tune me out, or take offense at what I’m suggesting, please consider these 10 meaningful ways wives can serve their husbands (yes, serve!).

There’s a battle over marriages today, and the enemy would love nothing more than to destroy yours, and to bring you down.

How do we stand up and fight for our marriages and ward off the evil and blatant attacks from the enemy that are so loud and easy to bend toward? Let's start by calling out the false claims and things we believe we "should" have in a Christian marriage. Then let's allow God to shift our perspectives and not strive for a fairy-tale marriage or become jaded by a hard-hearted relationship but thrive and grow together through faith and devotion.

Will my spouse and I still be married in heaven? What if I've been remarried--how will that work in heaven?

Prayers for a stronger marriage are a powerful force that can help create a solid, life-long marriage bond.

The key to having an all-out love for your husband and experiencing fulfillment in your marriage does not lie in how well your husband measures up to your expectations, but in how well you love God.*

The first thing you have to come to grips with is that your desire to date or even remarry is perfectly fine, healthy, and normal. If you decide to date again, don’t feel guilty because there is nothing wrong with you. Most importantly, don’t feel like you are cheating on or betraying your spouse because you are not.

While no two marriages are alike and while what works for one couple isn’t practical for another, there are certain key elements at the core of successful marriages. Here is a brief look at 5 of those elements.

Tell them, "Thank you," whenever they go out of their way to help you, even if it is just something simple. Be sure to express gratitude for their actions. This small act of kindness can go a long way and help your marriage become stronger. A marriage filled with gratitude is a marriage that will stand the test of time.

I began praying for my husband fourteen years ago. I wish I would’ve prayed the other fourteen. I would’ve been grateful instead of resentful of the man God gave me.

You and your spouse don’t have to be struggling in your marriage before you start seeing a marriage counselor. On the other hand, if you have been having doubts about your marriage, you might have already been seeing signs. Here are five signs you might need marriage counseling—and it is entirely okay if you do. There should never be judgment when it comes to marriage counseling. 

When you withhold respect, your husband will feel unloved, which will only hurt your Christian testimony to your husband–and to your kids.

Strengthen your marriage through seven days of Scripture and prayer for your spouse. Build a steady rhythm of inviting God’s love, wisdom, and grace into your relationship.