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Happily Ever After #3 – creating new pathways for marriage

This series is about allowing God to speak into our marriage relationships so as to bring renewal and vitality.
You know it’s hard to fight, it’s hard to carry un-forgiveness, it’s hard to be a bully, it’s hard to sleep with someone else’s wife, it’s hard to be angry, it’s hard to be manipulative, it’s hard to feed your porn addiction – if you’re full of what we talked about the first week…
If somewhere in our experience we know the encouragement in Christ, comfort from love (agape), any fellowship in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy…
In Galatians 5:16-26 the apostle Paul outlines for us principles for marital and relationship bliss. It’s not always that there is some huge breakdown or wanting the relationship to fail… [sometimes]. It’s often pressure points that are draining us of our spiritual and/or relational vitality. Like a slow leak the relationship withers like a flower in the hot sun…