Every Couple should enjoy their life journey together. Start today!

2. John 10:10
English Standard Version (ESV)
10.
The thief comes only to steal
and kill and destroy. I came that
they may have life and have it
abundantly.

3. Jesus came so that we could have an
enjoyable life. These lessons will
empower us to live at whatever stage or
place in life we find ourselves during
our journey. We will look at how to
enjoy single life, married life and as you
mature in age senior or mature life.

4. Married Life:
Enjoy the Journey

5. Today’s lesson will empower and
encourage couples by giving them
Biblical principles on how to enjoy
their marriage and how to relate
with each other.

6. Turn to
Genesis 2:20-24

7. Genesis 2:20-24
20.
The man gave names to all
livestock and to the birds of the
heavens and to every beast of the
field. But for Adamthere was not
found a helper fit for him.

8. 21.
So the LORD God caused
a deep sleep to fall upon the man,
and while he slept took one of his
ribs and closed up its place with
flesh. 22.
And the rib that
the LORD God had taken from the
man he madeinto a woman and
brought her to the man.

9. 23.
Then the man said, “This at last
is bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh; she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”
24.
Therefore a man shall leave his
father and his mother and hold fast
to his wife, and they shall become
one flesh.

10. • Marriage was God’s idea for man
and woman, and for earth. Sin came
after marriage did change God’s
design for marriage.
Man and woman would benefit from
married life: emotionally, mentally,
physically, financially, spiritually; for a
fulfilled life.

11. Remember: Marriage is God’sGod’s
ideaidea and even though Adam and
Eve fell in the garden, marriage
never did, because man was, and
still is using a God idea that can
produce great earthly results if
used the way He intended it to be
used.

12. God’s Purpose for His Idea (Marriage)
Marriage is a covenant; a contract
between two persons to live and model
together a loving, lifelong relationship
for mutual care, respect and enjoyment
of each other, to reproduce themselves
in children, making a family, which
would become the basic unit of
society.

13. Marriage Relate Tips
• Learn about the differences in a
man and women
(physiological, emotional, mental,
etc.)
Tip #1 Learn

14. • Learn about each other’s purposes, Learn about each other’s purposes,
temperaments, gifts, and talents, temperaments, gifts, and talents,
and help each other develop them. and help each other develop them.
Don’t force development, help it!Don’t force development, help it!

15. • Learn how to disagree without
internalizing the disagreement
causing future problems.
Disagreeing is part of marriage that
will strength or weaken it.
You chose which one it will be by
your choice.

16. • Ask God to show you yourself.
Learning you and making the changes
to be more like Jesus will produce
greater results in the marriage.
Maturity always looks at itself and
makes the necessary changes on itself,
which creates an environment ready for
change.

17. • Learning the One Flesh Process
This process is more like fusing two
different elements together instead
of gluing. Fusion produces an
inseparable bond. The process is
painful to achieve, but great results
are achieved once reached.

18. Genesis 2:24 English Standard Version (ESV)
24.
Therefore a man shall leave his
father and his mother and hold fast to
his wife, and they shall become one
flesh.

19. Tip #2 Laugh
Proverbs 17:22 The Amplified Bible
22.
A happy heart is good
medicine and a cheerful mind works
healing, but a broken spirit dries up
the bones.

20. What can laughter do?
• Lower blood pressure
• Increase vascular blood flow and
oxygenation of the blood
• Give a workout to the diaphragm and
abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg, and
back muscles
•

21. •Defend against respiratory
infections–even reducing the
frequency of colds
• Increase memory and learning; in a
study at Johns Hopkins University
Medical School, humor during
instruction led to increased test
scores

22. • Reduce certain stress hormones
such as cortisol and adrenaline

23. Tip #3 Live
• Enjoy your time together .
Invest in your life together
( vacations, date nights, etc.)
John 10:10 English Standard Version (ESV)
10.
…I came that they may have
life and have it abundantly.

24. • Create good, wholesome, and fun
memories, which will be used in
intense seasons. What you don’t
take time to create can’t be used in
the future.

25. Tip #4 Love
• Love will allow you to dislike
and disagree but love must be
built upon each day so that it
their when you need it in the
marriage.

26. • Emotional love is only one facet
of love the kind of love we have to
build upon is agape love found in
1 Corinthians 13:4-7

27. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
4.
Love is patient and kind; love does
not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5.
or
rude. It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful; 6.
it does
not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices
with the truth.7.
Love bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.

28. Enjoying the marital journey with
each other that produces a
purposeful, wholesome, enjoyable,
and great model for others to follow
is a choice we make or don’t make.
It’s still your choice!