This document discusses the importance of pursuing your spouse in marriage. It notes that during courtship and the early years of marriage, couples pursue each other through acts like talking on the phone and missing each other. However, over time this pursuit often stops, leading marriages to become cold. The document advises making a vow to always pursue your spouse. It provides biblical passages about being united and clinging to one another. Overall, it encourages converting good intentions into actions like saying kind words, doing special things, and pursuing each other to strengthen marriages.

1. THE
VOW
SERIES 2
GEN 2:24

2. GENESIS 2:24
That is why a man leaves his
father and mother and is united to
his wife, and they become one
flesh.

3. BY NATURE
WE TEND TO PURSUE
WHAT WE DON’T HAVE.

4. DURING COURTSHIP WE PURSUE
EACH OTHER, WE TALK TOO
LONG BY PHONE AND WE ARE
GETTING TIRED, WE ALWAYS
WANT TO SEE EACH OTHER.

5. ON THE FIRST YEAR OF
MARRIAGE WE ARE VERY
SWEET, WE MISS EACH OTHER
WHEN SOMEONE IS AWAY EVEN
FOR JUST HOURS ETC.

6. AFTER FEW YEARS OF
MARRIAGE WE BECOME COLD,
WE DON’T MISS EACH JUST AS
BEFORE AND SO WE
ENCOUNTER PROBLEMS IN OUR
MARRIAGE.

7. WHY?
BECAUSE WE STOP PURSUING
EACH OTHER.

8. SOME NEGLECT THEIR
AND EXPECT THAT
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK,
OF COURSE NOT.

9. SOME NEGLECT THEIR
AND EXPECT THAT
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK,
OF COURSE NOT.

10. VOW #2
I PROMISE
TO ALWAYS PURSUE MY
NUMBER TWO.

11. UNITED
IN HEBREW IT IS DAPAQ WHICH
MEANS TO CLING, OR ADHERE, TO
CATCH BY PURSUIT, OR PURSUE
HARD WITH AFFECTION AND
DEVOTION.

12. PSALM 76:3
There he broke the flashing
arrows,
the shields and the swords, the
weapons of war.

13. JOB 41:17
They are joined fast to one
another;
they cling together and cannot
be parted.

14. JOB 41:17
As they turned and fled toward the
wilderness to the rock of Rimmon,
the Israelites cut down five thousand
men along the roads. They kept
pressing after the Benjamites as far
as Gidom and struck down two
thousand more.

15. THE REASON WHY A LOT
MARRIAGES ARE STRUGGLING
IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT
CONVERTING THEIR GOOD
INTENTIONS INTO ACTIONS.

16. WE JUDGE OUR SPOUSE
BY HIS/HER ACTIONS AND
OURSELVES BY OUR
INTENTIONS.

17. CONVERT YOUR
GOOD INTENTIONS
TO INTO ACTIONS.

18. 1
WHEN YOU THINK
SOMETHING GOOD,
SAY IT.

19. HEBREWS 3:13
But encourage one another daily,
as long as it is called “Today,” so
that none of you may be hardened
by sin’s deceitfulness.

20. 2
WHEN YOU THINK
SOMETHING SPECIAL,
DO IT.

21. JAMES 4:17
If anyone, then, knows the good
they ought to do and doesn’t do it,
it is sin for them.

22. 3
WHEN YOU WANT
SOMETHING DIFFERENT,
BE IT.

23. ROMANS 12:2
Don’t copy the behavior and customs
of this world, but let God transform
you into a new person by changing
the way you think. Then you will
learn to know God’s will for you,
which is good and pleasing and
perfect.

24. YOU BRING IT - LESS OF
YOU AND MORE OF JESUS
CHRIST

25. WOMEN ARE
MULTIPLIERS. THEY
MULTIPLY WHAT YOU GIVE
TO THEM.

26. IF YOU DON’T LIKE WHAT
YOU ARE GETTING THEN
LOOK AT WHAT YOU ARE
GIVING.

27. TO GET SOMETHING ON
WHAT YOU’VE NEVER
HAD, YOU MUST DO WHAT
YOU’VE NEVER DONE.

28. TO GET WHAT YOU ONCE
HAD, YOU MUST DO WHAT
YOU ONCE DID. AND
WHAT YOU ONCE DID, YOU
PURSUE IT.

29. REVELATION 2:5
Consider how far you have fallen!
Repent and do the things you did at
first. If you do not repent, I will
come to you and remove your
lampstand from its place.