RELATIONSHIP TIPS: HOW TO BEAUTIFY YOUR RELATIONSHIP (2)

A week ago we started off on this trail and considered certain helpful things you and I can do to beautify our relationships. The response to last week's post was amazing. Today we're continuing and looking at some additional truths that are very simple to apply and that can greatly improve our relationships.

Please remember that the things we share here are not just for head knowledge. My desire is to see relationships and marriages practically improve for the better as the things I share from the wisdom of God are deliberately applied. This is why I do what I do. What you'll learn here today will revolutionize you relationship/marriage and make it better than you imagined it could be. The things you learn will also help single people gather wisdom for the time to come.

1. Lift up Your Eyes:
It's very important for us to realise that the source of our help, our provision and our beauty is God. God is the one who changes us from one state of beauty to another. Some people are more passionate about God when they're single but as soon as they get engaged or become married, their interest in loving God suffers greatly. This doesn't have to be so. Some even do not give God a place of honour in their relationship, home and marriage. They suddenly lock God out and run the relationship as they choose. Truly it's pathetic. To have a beautiful relationship with your partner/spouse, you have to come to terms with the fact that beauty only comes from God. So, allow God beautify your relationship. Even in the way you deal with each other, He can inspire your mind to take creative steps that can make things a whole lot better for you both. Lift up your eyes to God. Don't outgrow the need to receive the comfort of His presence in the place of prayer. The presence of a partner/spouse was never meant to replace the presence of God in your life. Be open to God's inspiration. Remember that God takes pleasure in His people, He takes pleasure in all that concerns you, your marriage inclusive. He wants to beautify His people. Make your relationship and your home a dwelling place for Him to display His presence in. Together take out time as often as you can (daily if you're married), to adore Him with singing and to pray, not necessarily because you have a need but to enjoy His presence. God always beautifies His sanctuary. As you both give God the honour due Him and allow Him fill your union with His presence, He will fill your marriage and your home with supplies of love, peace, laughter, joy, provision etc.

2. Partner With His Agenda:
God has an agenda here and now on the earth today; it is to reconcile mankind to Himself. In our relationships and marriages we usually have and should have goals/dreams but we need to establish these goals and dreams in the light of God's agenda. Whether they are business or career dreams, they should be tailored into fulfilling God's agenda. When you support and promote God's cause, God prospers you. In other words, He beautifies you. Even scripture talks about the beauty of those who spread God's message of peace. If we're wise we'll make His agenda our agenda and so, enjoy His beauty. As a couple, sit and discuss what your contribution to God's agenda should be. No matter what we earn, we can all partner with God. I recommend that you give yourselves to His agenda and your possessions also to this cause. We're not here on earth for ourselves. We didn't bring ourselves here. Actually we're here for the furtherance of God's mission in the world today. God is very concerned about this mission - His agenda - letting the whole world know how much He cares for them and wants them to be with Him. As God enables us, with our efforts and money we should be making this happen everyday. There is a level of beauty your relationship/marriage will never see until you align yourselves with this agenda of Heaven.

3. Let Them See You as Jesus:
Just imagine how Jesus would have loved His wife and cherished her if it had been part of the plan for Him to be married when He was on earth. Don't you think He would have been a great husband to His wife and an amazing father to His children? As men and women we can all allow this thought inspire us because today, as a result of our faith in Jesus Christ, He lives in us by His Spirit. What kind of wife would Jesus have been? What kind of a husband would He be? Try to picture with me for a moment what our relationships/homes will be like if each of us determined to be just like Jesus to our partner/spouse. Satan would have to pack his things and flee because that environment will not be comfortable for him. Think about this. A whole lot will change in the way we talk to each other and in the way we sound when we talk to each other. There'll be true respect, real honour, strong commitment, unreserved support, servitude etc. This is how a relationship, a marriage and a home should be. I want to challenge you today to step up to this level of living. Let your partner/spouse henceforth see the Jesus they read of in the Bible in you. In your relationship and your home, be the express representation of Jesus. Let your spouse unmistakably witness in you and through you the goodness, peace, love and character of God as they relate with you everyday. If this cannot make our relationships beautiful, what else can?

My dear friend, beginning from your own relationship, let's start a revolution today with these truths. Practice what you've learnt and share them with others. We all, to a very good extent, can give ourselves to seeing that we apply these things in our relationships and/or marriages. It's my prayer and desire that God will inspire you, help you and strengthen you as you give yourself to seeing that what pleases Him becomes the norm in your relationship.

Keep Loving, Keep Living..............LOVE ISSUES
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