Marriage........

Hello everyone! I have finally found time to sit down and blog, well better yet time found me, lol! I am overjoyed about what God has placed on my heart to share. I think it's really important that we take time to listen to what God has to say........LIFE CHANGING! So here goes:: For the last few months, I have been receiving emails, text messages, private chats, and even been pulled to the side from women asking me, "How do you and your Husband manage to stay so much in love/together?" I am deeply honored that ANYONE would come to me with any type of advice, especially about relationships. Being in a marriage myself I do find myself not being "that wife" that God has called me to be, BUT I am so far from where I used to be and it's only because of God. And so my answer to the question that many women ask me is "GOD." He is what holds us together, He is what allows me to be all I can be in this marriage, He supplies and do what I CAN'T, when I am obedient and do what I CAN. A lot of times we try to love others with our heart, with things, with words, with actions and even with sacrifice -but truth be told WE CAN NEVER EVER TRULY LOVE SOMEONE UNTIL WE KNOW THE LOVE OF GOD. What? So you mean to tell me this "feeling" that I have towards my friend, boyfriend, spouse isn't love? Oh, no....it's love, it's just not God's love. 1 John 4:16 tells us that, "God is love." In order for us to love someone else in true love we would have to seek God first because He........He is LOVE. God is what holds my marriage together, the love that I have for God burns so deep within and overflows that it is able to run over into my relationship with my Husband. I couldn't serve him and love him the way he deserves if  I am not serving and loving God the way he deserves. Marriage is of God, marriage is shared between MAN & WOMAN, marriage is to not be taken lightly and approached with true knowledge of what it is and what it takes to have a strong union. Perry and I met in July 2000. We have been together(this July) will be 12 years; and married 3 years in June. He is an awesome husband and love me in the good and the bad......yes we have out up and downs, but what marriage doesn't? But because I know that "LOVE keeps no records of wrongs", (1Corinthians 13:5) We talk about, get through it and leave it alone....never to talked about again. 1Cor.13 is a GREAT chapter to read about LOVE. It's God teaching us how to love. So to all you Ladies who are looking for the "key" to a stronger, more loving marriage know God, seek God and strive to be that Woman of God.....everything will fall in to place. Also I challenge you to read Proverbs 31 -"The Wife of Noble Character" it is God teaching us how to be that Wife he has us to be to our Husbands. It totally changed my life for the good. And if you are much like me, and are trying to live out a godly life before you husband who has yet to receive Christ into their heart......HOLD ON, HANG IN THERE & DON'T GIVE UP! Continue to pray for him, fight for him and love him because God is MORE THAN ABLE. And when we delight(please him highly) in GOD he gives us the desires of our hearts(Psalms 37:4) And because I desire to see my Husband saved, I will continue to do what God tells me......all the while he is working on the heart of my Husband. I am excited to see what God has for us years down the road. I hope that this has been helpful. And I will leave you with this:: "Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.'' -Ephesians 5:22