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and I’m going to give you real quickly
seven ingredients that we must have for
our marriage to last the
distance so the first thing is Faith and
then we see something else in First
Peter chapter 3 and verse one he says
that you are to submit he talks about
accepting God’s plan for your home and
when he does that he starts off by
telling the women to submit to the
husband as the head of the homes 1
Corinthians 11 and verse3 says that God
has placed and I’m just the message boy
I’m just here to give you this and and
and this is what it says he says if you
want to know and listen listen you can
choose to ignore this you can say that’s
that’s not modern enough that’s not
Progressive enough for the way I see it
but he says I want you to know that the
head of every man is Christ and the head
of the woman is the man and the head of
Christ is God
so you must accept God’s plan for the
home the second word is acceptance what
does that mean that means you accept one
another’s role and the man is the head
that does not say the man is the boss
the head of the home is not the boss of
the home then what does it mean what
does the head of the home mean it means
you have as the man the
responsibility of the home you see
equality of worth is established in the
Bible he said we’re neither male nor
female in God’s eyes and he says there’s
no one worth more than the other but
when it comes to function we’re not the
same in the function and God said the
head of the home not the boss of the
home it and the word head means
responsibility it does not mean you have
greater privilege it does not mean that
you have greater privilege it means you
have greater responsibility it means if
the marriage is not working you have
greater responsibility sir to be the
head of the home means if the family is
in shambles you have greater
responsibility it means you take
responsibility it means you have to do
the best that you can do and understand
the failure uh if I let my family Fall
to Pieces it’s not her fault I have to
take
responsibility and I have to understand
and God says if you if you understand
understand this and each one understands
their role then you can begin to have
the ingredients faith and then
understanding the role that each one and
acceptance of that role a lot of fussing
and fighting over this very thing but
once it begins to get in place God can
bless that home thirdly there’s
contentment First Peter chapter 3 it
said that we’re hirs together
when you study the life of Abraham and
you study the life of Sarah they had a
spirit of contentment when they started
out they were not wealthy now Abraham
became extremely wealthy and Sarah
became extremely wealthy the Bible said
they had very much cattle Gold Silver
and land and possessions they were
extremely wealthy later in life but when
they started out they had nothing they
were not wealthy they learn the secret
of contentment and that’s why the Bible
said they’re HS together meaning that if
you don’t have this and you don’t have
that really if you reach that point
where I have my husband I have my wife
and I have my God and I have food and I
have clothes and I am content then you
will begin to see the blessing of God
we’re living in such a materialistic
Society we live in such under such
Financial pressure and we don’t
understand the secret of
contentment when you can get along with
God and with one another and you Jesus
said if you’ve got food and clothing be
content if you’ve got more than that I’m
happy for you if you’ve got just
everything that money can buy I’m happy
for you the Bible said God takes
pleasure in the prosperity of his
servants but to whom little is not
enough nothing is
enough and if you can’t be happy just
you and your wife or you and your
husband and God you won’t be happy when
it’s you and your wife in 10 homes and
10 cars and 10 it all goes back down to
what really matters in life if you have
your wife if you have your husband if
you have your God if you’ve got food and
clothing you have all that you need for
contentment in your life the next thing
that we see in this text the next
ingredient is forgiveness for he goes on
to say in 1 Peter 3 beginning with verse
8 through1 be of one mind having
compassion for one another love for one
another tenderhearted be courteous be
loving in other words what he’s saying
is you got to be forgiving all married
people must learn to forgive not
returning evil for evil and reviling or
or or or just attacking reviling for
reviling but on the contrary blessing
knowing that you were called to this
knowing that if you’re in marriage
you’re called to to to to to not to be
courteous to not render evil for evil to
not render uh attack for attack you’re
called to this and then he goes on to to
say if you want the next verse says
would you like to love life ain’t that
powerful he who would love life how many
of you want to love your life how many
of you are tired of getting up and being
mad how many of you’d like to get up and
love life
today he said I’m going to tell you how
to do it how many of you’d like to see
good days how many Of You’ like to see
good days in your house the Bible said
in Deuteronomy that your home could be
filled with Days of Heaven on Earth it’s
that’s a Bible verse that your days will
be he how many of you’d like to see good
days and how many of you’d like to love
your
life he said then let them refrain and
this is all in context with don’t re
don’t give them as good as they send you
don’t forget be courteous be kind be
forgiving love one another he said and
refrain your tongue from evil and your
lips from speaking Gile the King James
says all married people must learn to
forgive all married people people must
practice forgiveness and you know the
number one thing that destroys homes
literal physical homes is not tornadoes
it’s not
earthquakes it’s
termites the number one Destroyer little
bitty things that you let crawl into
your house and those little things team
up and little things that bitterness
that unwillingness to forgive that
spirit that carries a grudge that Spirit
not rendering evil for evil or railing
for railing but counterwise blessing so
there are three levels that you can live
life on the first level is the hellish
level and the hellish level is when you
give back evil for good that somebody’s
being good to you and doing good to you
and trying to do good to you and you
turn around with a bitter angry spirit
and rail at them and they they you’re
doing they are doing good and you’re
doing evil that’s the hellish level and
then there’s the human level the human
level is well if you’re good to me then
I’ll be good to you if you’re kind to me
then I’ll be kind to you if you’re
loving to me then I’ll be loving to you
that’s human level love I’ll give you
what you give me if you hurt me I’ll
hurt you that’s really how human level
functions I do to you what you do to me
hellish level say I do good to you if
you do evil to me but Heavenly level
says I will do and give you back good
for evil not railing for railing not
attack for attack but good for evil
listen to me and sometimes the wife has
to practice it and sometimes the husband
has to be the one who this time I’m
going to give good from
Evil and we cannot allow ourselves to
not function in forgiveness forgiveness
is so important and the longer we allow
those termites to come up through the
floor and eat away at our homes and
Destroy because of bitterness and
unforgiveness the fifth thing I’m almost
done the fifth thing we see in this text
is
communication he says he that loves life
as I said will refrain his tongue from
evil and his lips from speaking G
Abraham and Sarah were so different the
Lord spoke to me and said Jensen and
Sharice are so
different so different but Proverbs 18
and 21 says you got to learn to
communicate death and life are in the
power of your
tongue and then
romance likewise you husbands dwell
together with them with knowledge dwell
means to live with sharing dwell means
not just to be in the house but to dwell
to live with in sharing the physical
part of marriage giving honor listen to
those words everybody say those words
giving honor to the wife giving honor to
the wife there’s nothing worse than to
hear a guy put his wife down publicly
and privately giving honor giving honor
God help us to give honor give honor to
your wife give honor value show her that
she is the number one human relationship
in your
life sincere
compliments sincere
compliments no cheap
jokes everybody needs
compliments everybody when Sharice tells
me I look good I feel so good I feel
whether I look good or not I believe it
if she tells me
we need to give more compliments to one
another we need to speak
more things if you think it speak it if
you think it if you think they’re
amazing if you notice something and you
see them doing something and you think
that’s incredible it’s so easy to keep
that to yourself but say it give
compliments to one another speak it use
your communication skills keep joy and
excitement and romance in your marriage
call your spouse and check in with them
all day communicate tell them you’re on
your ride home the Love mobile is coming
in sensitize your lips I’ll be
there do something that speaks and
verbalizes your love one for another do
it
spontaneously do it
as often as you can say I love you out
loud let your children hear it let
people see it but most of all let her
know it let him know
it men don’t always want to be the
aggressor men also want to know that
their wife wants them and desires
them how do you fight fair I’m almost
done here’s the last point the last
thing we see in this text is he says
make sure that you do all of these
things that I’ve
said that your prayers be not hindered
the last thing the last ingredient is
prayer prayer in the marriage prayer in
the family prayer in the home praying
for one another agreeing
speaking the name of Jesus over your
family the name of Jesus over your
marriage and I I I know this isn’t some
super duper sermon this morning but if
we could just practice half of what
we’re preaching up here today our homes
we would see good days we would see we
would have a good life we would live a
good life we would see more contentment
and peace and joy and moments that
really is all we have when it’s all said
and done with one another
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