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    Love is Not Enough: But with God
    Love is Not Enough: But with God
    Love is Not Enough: But with God
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    Love is Not Enough: But with God

    By Ken C Sayres

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    This book is about marriage, the triumphs and lows and everything in between. It is a book with wisdom and guidance to help the husband and the future husband to navigate these two extremes in marriage and how with God they are able to manage them well. It resonates with the husband directly throughout the book but also wife friendly as well.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmphaloz Publishing House
    Release dateMay 10, 2019
    ISBN9781393018360
    Love is Not Enough: But with God

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      Love is Not Enough - Ken C Sayres

      Ephesians 5:18-21

      "…but be filled with the Spirit, ¹⁹addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, ²⁰giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, ²¹submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ."

      Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 You Must Die!!!

      Chapter 2 Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

      Chapter 3 Intimacy or an (End…To…Me…)

      Chapter 4 Friends

      Chapter 5 Establish The Atmosphere

      Chapter 6 He who finds a wife

      Chapter 7 Wives who Submit

      Chapter 8 Love Nuggets

      Closing Prayer

      Supplemental Prayers, Quotes & Affirmations for Husbands and their Wives

      References

      Acknowledgments

      Dedication

      Foreword

      As the saying goes, all we need is love, but in marriage, we need a lot more than that. That blissful unadulterated feeling when you meet the girl of your dreams and work up the courage to ask her to marry you, is the love that contains enough fuel to carry you to the altar. The anticipatory anxiety and total excitement of the wedding day is just enough to get you to those two beautiful words, I do. After all of this comes the honeymoon and the honeymoon speaks for itself. If you’re married and had a honeymoon, you know what I’m talking about. Matter of fact, there is so much passion that comes with the honeymoon, it leads to an entire period in your marriage. Depending on your life circumstances and situations, that honeymoon period can be as short as 3 months or could last as long as a couple of years. If you already have kids or have them soon after getting married, you are likely on the lower end of that time spectrum. There are other circumstances beside children that will factor into the duration of your honeymoon period but you catch my d rift.

      Eventually, you and your wife will get to know each other and all of your habits, quirks, flaws, and imperfections. Your roles and responsibilities as a couple will change as you evolve as a family. There may be changes in the people in your lives, in your careers, your socioeconomic status, etc. These changes will alter the flavor of your relationship in ways that you can’t imagine until they occur and those circumstances are different for all of us. However, the common thread is; there is no such thing as an easy marriage because marriages have to survive life and life is hard, complicated and unpredictable.

      After a few years of marriage, it may seem as if love is impossible. Or it may seem that way from the outside looking in, depending on the kind of marriage examples that are in your sphere of influence. Truth is, love is not enough unless you recognize that initial passion is translated into a love for that moment in time. However, the equation that will transform those vowels from the honeymoon period into that enduring love includes more than how you felt in those blissful moments. It includes faith, communication, mutual respect, teamwork, spontaneity, creativity, care, and compassion. These are not things that happen because you think or say them, they are achievements manifested only though actions and genuine work. When you make those vowels and take that oath of marriage, you’re making the ultimate life commitment to your wife or husband. As a husband, I internalized that commitment to my wife which means it had nothing to do with the outside world or any other person. That internalization process means my commitment to her is present when I pray, when I think, when I am upset, when I am discouraged or disappointed, but also when I am happy, excited and overjoyed and most importantly there is no backdoor. Over time, it just becomes as much a part of me as anything else. That internalization also drives my motivation to make things work or improve them because I continue to challenge myself to come up with a new approach or surprise to create new experiences.

      This book offers readers the scriptures, perspectives, assignments, and wisdom to work on those approaches that are vital to a long prosperous marriage. Its author and contributors have been on the roller coaster of married life and know how to hang on to survive and eventually conquer the ride. As you read on, it will be clear that it is everything else you do that will form the bond to carry the love through the peaks and valleys of life. If you don’t do the work and your marriage ends prematurely, then you would have experienced the honeymoon but will miss out on the honeycomb. Don’t miss out on the honeycomb!!!

      Patrick Seche

      (Euridece’s Husband of 15 years and counting…)

      Introduction

      It was 2012 when I realized I had the desire to share my experience as a married man with others. I desired this hoping that others would learn from the knowledge that I had acquired throughout the years. Prior to getting married, I remember my wife and I sitting in our premarital counseling class at church. The instructors, Ron and Marva Gibson, were sharing with us how they had been married for over twenty years, and how they were just then figuring out this marriage thing. My fiancé and I looked at each other, smiled, and said that would never be us. Ultimately, it was us, and it took several years of marriage to finally find our groove and settle in a place of genuine acceptance and understanding of one ano ther.

      Had my wife and I been listening; we would have received some very important nuggets of wisdom from our instructors. We were in such a happy go lucky phase, as this was our first relationship where we both valued our Lord more than each other. Don’t get me wrong, the sessions were great. We definitely learned a thing or two; however, by the time my wife and I got to premarital class, we were just going through the motions. Our minds were set, our date was set, and all that stood in the way of us getting married at our church was this class. But little did we know. We had no idea what was on the other side of saying I do.

      This is by no means a horror story advising you not to marry. TRUST me, marriage is good! The purpose of this book is to share some of the wisdom I have acquired over my eighteen years of marriage. I hope to help men understand their role as husband, lover, provider, and protector. This book is a manual about washing your wife with the Word. It is comprised of stories, scriptures, assignments, and reflections. Lord willing, relationships will be strengthened, and God will receive the glory. In this book, you will find nuggets of information to develop a sound, Godly marriage. Now that the euphoric sensation of her saying yes to marrying you has subsided a bit, you are now ready for the hard truths and the nuggets of wisdom that took my marriage to the next level.

      Let me tell you a little about myself. I am a Christian who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe wholeheartedly that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. Everything I talk about in this book will be rooted in biblical principles and reinforced with biblical scriptures. I would like to review with you some basic understandings in regards to a Godly marriage.

      God created the institution of marriage because He said it is not good for man to be alone, and it was to become a reflection of Him. You know the story: God caused a deep sleep to come upon Adam while He surgically removed a rib from his side and shaped woman. Did you catch that? Genesis 2:7, says that God formed man from the dust of the Earth, but verse 22 says He made woman from a rib. The New American Standard Bible says He FASHIONED the rib into a woman, while the Amplified Bible says HE BUILT UP woman out of the rib. This speaks to the delicate nature of a woman. She was

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