Power Couple

The excitement of marriage and young love brings on so many dreams and goals. As we plan the rest of our lives with the one we vow to love forever, we have images of marriages that we admire. We look in awe to couples that seem to have it all together and are happy and prospering. I’ve heard people call them power couples. This term is actually pretty cool because without the power of God there probably wouldn’t be much to admire. While looking up to a successful marriage as a model is good, we also have to realize that each marriage is joined together with different assignments from God and our households may not run smoothly with someone else’s system and structure in place. It is very important to seek God for our own pattern while staying within the limits and standard of His word. We also must remember that the ones we look to are usually older and more mature. These couples have been through their own process and what they look like now is probably much different from their beginning years. We could learn much from their wise counsel, but also have to let God mature us in our own process as we grow in our experiences with one another. In the first years of marriage, it often doesn’t look like what we imagined it to be as we are learning each other and getting to really see the good, the bad, and the ugly. The only way two people can successful and happily love each other forever is with the help and grace of God! We all have our own annoying habits and quirks that need to be dealt with and only God can help us pray or, accept them, or get deliverance when needed. We must remember that what we desired in our marriage from the beginning God will give us when we trust in Him. We have to delight ourselves in Him, commit our ways to him, and rest in Him patiently (my personal hardest).
 
Psalm 37:3-9New King James Version (NKJV)
3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;
Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself also in the Lord,
And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it to pass.
6 He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,
And your justice as the noonday.
7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath;
Do not fret--it only causes harm.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off;
But those who wait on the Lord,
They shall inherit the earth.

​The years go fast, and when we do things God’s way people will soon be looking at us as power couples and seeking our wise counsel. Be encouraged and let God grow you individually as He grows you together with your spouse. May you be united in the spirit by the bond of peace and rooted and grounded in love.
 
Father, we thank You for the dreams and desires that You put in our hearts for our marriage. Grow us in unity as we continue to seek You and wise counsel from the ones that you have placed as a model before us. Forgive us for not resting in You patiently as you process us in our journey together. We know that You are faithful and we put our trust in You. Make us diligent and intentional about who You have called us to be and the assignment that You have given us for our marriage. We delight ourselves in You and know that we will see the desires of our heart. We stand on Your promises and commit ourselves to Your ways. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen!