Tips for Marriage

The Christian marriage life is one that is committed to honoring God. If you’re a Christian you are held to a higher standard in God’s eyes than those who do not belong to Him. Therefore, your lifestyle cannot be like people who are worldly or materialistic.

You have essentially committed your lives to the marriage and to Him.

A Christian marriage life comes with certain priorities that are required by God. Your commitment before God holds you to these priorities. He expects you to love, honor, and obey Him and live your life according to His Word.

Here are some suggestions you can use to help you along the way:

1. Commit yourselves to personal and spiritual growth. The closer each one of you comes to becoming like the person God intended you to be, the closer you will be to each other and to the Lord. The biblical concept of marriage is a oneness between two individuals that pictures the oneness of Christ with His church.

Matthew 19:6- So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.

2. Commit to praying together. Christianity allows you access to the power of God in your lives. Take advantage of this and use it to place a prayer covering over your marriage and family. Christian life and marriage are dependent upon each others spiritual growth.

Colossians 4:2- Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

3. Commit to yourselves to having fun together. The more you enjoy your time together the stronger the relationship will be. Be sure to find opportunities to laugh, to have deep meaningful conversations and get to know each other as friends.

Proverbs 17:17- A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

4.Commit to your sexual relationship. Physical intimacy is important in the marriage, God gave you the ability to give and receive pleasure from one another. It is not more spiritual to have a sexless marriage as some may think.

1st Corinthians 7:3-6- The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and like wise the wife to her husband. The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer.

By following these biblical principles in your Christian married life you will fulfill your vow before God and to one another. In Malachi 2:16 it is written, God hates divorce.

There are a couple of Christian Marriage e-books online that can help your marriage to be as God intended. To check them out click here and here.