Take Back Your Family- Week 4- 02/23/2025
Take Back Your Family
2025.02.23
Week 4: Take Back Your Marriage
Right now it’s like we’re pouring water on a dying plant.
Sometimes taking back your marriage feels like pouring water on a dying plant.
Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Sometimes taking back your marriage feels like pouring water on a dying plant.
What do you do when taking back your marriage feels like pouring water on a dying plant?
And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council, (Acts 6:12)
And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel. (Acts 6:15)
52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, (Acts 7:52)
59 And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
(Acts 7:59)
What do you do when taking back your marriage feels like pouring water on a dying plant?
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, (Ephesians 5:25)
Train the young women to love their husbands and children, (Titus 2:4)
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, (Ephesians 5:25)
Train the young women to love their husbands and children, (Titus 2:4)
What do you do when taking back your marriage feels like pouring water on a dying plant?
How do you follow God even when it’s difficult?
How do you follow God when God calls you to die?
60 And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Acts 7:60
54 Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. 55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Acts 7:54-55
Stephen knew God’s plan was bigger than his circumstances.
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1-2)
What do you do when taking back your marriage feels like pouring water on a dying plant?
Find God’s perspective.
Find God’s perspective.
Full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, (Acts 6:5)