The document discusses statistics on marriages and annulments in the Philippines. It notes that the number of annulment cases filed annually has been rising, with over 10,000 cases filed in 2012. Most cases are filed within the first 5 years of marriage and involve couples who have children. Women in their 20s are more likely than men to file for annulment. Psychological incapacity is the most commonly cited reason for annulment. The document also discusses God's purposes for marriage as companionship, partnership, romance, and lifelong commitment.

1. THE
VOW
SERIES 1
GEN 2:24

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

3. STATISTICS OF MARRIAGES IN THE
PHILIPPINES
The number of marriage annulment and nullity
cases filed in the country has been steadily
rising for the past eight years, with an average
of 28 couples seeking to have their marriages
declared null and void per day in 2012,
records from the Office of the Solicitor
General.

4. STATISTICS OF MARRIAGES IN THE
PHILIPPINES
 A total of 10,528 annulment cases were brought
before the OSG last year, or over 1,000 cases more
than the 9,133 filed in 2011, government records
obtained by GMA News.
 -“The data from the OSG showed that 82 percent of
those who filed these cases had children and out of
that number, 59 percent had at least one or two
children, 22 percent had three to four children and
one percent had five to six children,” the report said.
 “It was learned that of those who filed for
annulment, 61 percent were women with 90 percent
of them in their 20s, while only 4 percent were in
their 30s,” the report said.

5. STATISTICS OF MARRIAGES IN THE
PHILIPPINES
 “The same study revealed that only 39 percent of men
initiated the filing of the complaint with 70 percent of
them in their 20s,” it said.
 The report added that only 25 percent of the men who
asked for an annulment were in their 30s or 40s.
 It also noted that the longer the marriage, the lower the
chances of the parties seeking annulment.
 “Some 35 percent of married couples filed their
annulment cases within the first five years of their
marriage,” the report said.
 The OSG report said that of marriages that lasted five
years or more, only 26 percent ended in annulment,
while those that lasted more than 10 years, only 17
percent opted for annulment.

6. STATISTICS OF MARRIAGES IN THE
PHILIPPINES
 The OSG report said that of marriages that lasted
five years or more, only 26 percent ended in
annulment, while those that lasted more than 10
years, only 17 percent opted for annulment .
 The common ground cited for annulment was
psychological incapacity. Other grounds included
lack of authority of the solemnizing officer,
bigamous or polygamous marriages and marriages
where one or both parties were below the marrying
age.

7. STATISTICS OF DIVORCE IN USA
70% of married men and 60% of married
women have extra marital affairs.
Less than half of couples who are married will
stay married for 15 years only.
Every 10 to 13 seconds another couple
divorces.
We want all of you to see the Big Picture of
why God created for.
Marriage is God‟s idea for you to enjoy life
with each other.

8. GOD CREATED
MARRIAGE FOR…

9. 1
COMPANIONSHIP

10. Companionship
The Lord God said, “It is not good
for the man to be alone. I will
make a helper suitable for him.”
Genesis 2:18

11. 2
PARTNERSHIP

12. PARTNERSHIP
God blessed them and said to
them, “Be fruitful and increase in
number; fill the earth and subdue
it. Rule over the fish of the sea
and the birds of the air and over
every living creature that moves
on the ground.”
Genesis 1:28

13. 3
ROMANCE

14. ROMANCE
The man said, “This is now bone of
my bones and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called „woman,‟ for
she was taken out of man.”
Genesis 2:23

15. 4
LIFE LONG COMMITMENT

16. LIFE LONG COMMITMENT
“So they are no longer two, but one.
Therefore what God has joined
together, let man not separate.”
Matthew 19:6
Marriage is design to be
permanent. Divorce and or
annulment will never be an option.

17. HOW DO YOU LIVE IN
THAT DESIGN OF
GOD?

18. VOW #1
I WILL PRIORITIZE
MY SPOUSE

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

20. LEAVE MEANS TO
ABANDON,
UNITED MEANS TO STICK,
TO CLING OR GLUED.

21. AFTER MARRIAGE THE
PRIORITY SWITCHES
FROM YOUR BLOODLINE
TO YOUR SPOUSE.

22. SEVEN STICKY
COMPETITORS OF
YOUR SPOUSE.

23. 1
YOUR PARENTS.

24. 2
YOUR CHILDREN.

25. 3
THE NEED OF OTHERS.

26. 4
YOUR CAREER.

27. 5
YOUR HOBBIES.

28. 6
YOUR MINISTRY.

29. 7
YOUR FRIENDS.

30. HOW TO PRIORITIZE
YOUR SPOUSE

31. 1
MAKE GOD
PRIORITY ONE

32. DEUTERONOMY 6:5
Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and
with all your soul and with
all your strength.

33. YOUR NUMBER ONE RELATIONSHIP MUST
BE GOD. THIS IS THE VERY FOUNDATION
THAT WE NEED IN ORDER TO BE BETTER
SPOUSES. WITHOUT THIS THEN YOUR
MARRIAGE WILL NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL.

34. GOD IS NUMBER ONE
YOUR SPOUSE IS
NUMBER TWO.

35. MATTHEW 6:33
“But seek first his
kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these
things will be given to you
as well.”

36. HEALTHY MARRIAGE COUNTS A LOT.
NO MATTER HOW SUCCESSFUL YOU
ARE IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE BUT
YOU FAIL IN YOUR MARRIAGE THEN
IT IS STILL UNFULFILLED LIFE.

37. 2
SERVE YOUR
SPOUSE

38. EPHESIANS 5:22–24
“Wives, SUBMIT to your husbands as
to the Lord. For the husband is the
head of the wife as Christ is the head
of the church, his body, of which he is
the Savior. Now as the church submits
to Christ, so also wives should submit
to their husbands in everything. ”

39. EPHESIANS 5:25–30
“Husbands, LOVE your wives, just as Christ
loved the church and gave himself up for her to
make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with
water through the word, and to present her to
himself as a radiant church, without stain or
wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and
blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to
love their wives as their own bodies. He who
loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever
hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for
it, just as Christ does the church— for we are
members of his body. ”

40. EPHESIANS 5:33
“However, each one of you also
must LOVE his wife as he loves
himself, and the wife must
RESPECT her husband.”

41. 3
ENJOY YOUR
SPOUSE

42. PROVERBS 5:18
May your fountain be
blessed, and may you
rejoice in the wife of your
youth

43. CONCLUSION

44. OF THE SEVEN
COMPETITORS
WHICH ONE IS THE
TEMPTATION FOR
YOU?

45. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO
DO TO CHANGE YOUR
WAYS?

46. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO
ASK FROM GOD FOR?