By ’Dunni Orioke

At the Strategic Leaders Retreat, January 19, 2019

 Lead Bible References: Prov. 4:7, 24:7; Matthew 7: 24-27;

Introduction

Depth is a good thing. It suggests strength, soundness, seriousness, and stability. Securing depth for your marriage is working on yourself and your marriage to make it sound, well grounded, strong, stable and unbreakable.

During wedding services, the pastors always pray for couples when blessing their rings that “May your love and faith (in one another) prove true in the test of times as gold does in fire and may they endure all the days of your life together.” Marriage is made to work. You must work on your marriage until it is able to stand the tests of time. Every effort you put into making your marriage get deeply rooted is worth all the trouble. It will protect your marriage against the evil winds, storms and floods of life. It will bring your marriage to the point of being unbreakable.

Practically speaking, securing depth for your marriage is to make it stand the tests of time is doing things on daily basis that will make love, physical intimacy, emotional intimacy, sexual intimacy, understanding and togetherness to be very deep, very consuming, and profound or of great intensities.

The church worker and his/her marriage

As a church worker and a member who counts yourself to be very important to the wellbeing and growth of your church, you must take the affairs of your your life, marriage and home very seriously.  You are not an ordinary member. Your life and marriage must not be ordinary. Your life and marriage are very important to God because they affect the effectiveness of your witness for Him and his church. Your marriage can make or mar your service to God.

You must therefore be particular than others on-

Wisdom for securing depth for your marriage

Wisdom for securing depth for your marriage starts from the time of choice and courtship. The earlier you started to work on having an unbreakable marriage the better. The bible gives us wisdom for securing depth in our lives and marriages.

  1. Start off in a very sound, wise and positive way
    1. Wise choice

Choice of who to marry is a crucial decision.

Involve God.

Remember 2 Corinthians 6:14-16.

Has very strong effect on your Christian life and service.

     2. Positive courtship

Courtship must be positive, purpose driven, Spirit driven and pure Psalm 11:3 .

2. Marriage vows

3. Prayerfully document in black and white your commitments to making your marriage great or better than the best. Luke 14:28; Hebrew 2:2

4. Keeping love growing from strength to strength

5. Promoting intimacy and making it grow from strength to strength

  1. Faithfulness and responsibility

Forsake all others. Avoid undue closeness to the opposite sex.

Play your part excellently well all the time and in all things.

Faithfulness and responsibility are very potent in making the ground soft for the roots of your marriage go deeper and from strength to strength.

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