‘Healthy Relationships Lead to Healthy Marriages’ – 5.31.2026

May 31, 2026
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HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS LEAD TO HEALTHY MARRIAGES

 

HEALTHY MARRIAGES ARE GOD’S PLAN.

 

We live in a culture that teaches:

  • Love is mostly about feelings.
  • Relationships are disposable.
  • Happiness matters more than holiness.

 

Genesis 2:18-24 NLT

 

    • Healthy marriages are not built accidentally.
  • The strongest marriages are not built on emotions, attraction, money, or personality. They are built on Jesus Christ!
  • Marriage is not a contract based on conditions. It is a covenant built on commitment.

 

HEALTHY MARRIAGES BEGIN WITH TOTAL SUBMISSION TO GOD.

 

Spirit-Guided Relationships: Wives and Husbands

21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. 25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body. 31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.  Ephesians 5:21-33 NLT

 

  • A Christ-centered marriage tells the Gospel story: commitment, redemption, grace, and covenant love.
  • We must pursue God personally, daily, and passionately.
  • Proper Biblical discipleship leads to healthy marriages.
  • Healthy marriages are impossible without dying to self. You don’t deserve anything.
  • Healthy marriages are made of two people continually growing spiritually.

 

HEALTHY MARRIAGES BUILD ON BIBLICAL TRUTH, NOT CULTURAL TRENDS.

  • Culture changes constantly. God’s Word does not.
  • The world says: “Follow your heart.”
  • God says: “Guard your heart.” Proverbs 4:23
  • The world says: “Do what makes YOU happy?”
  • God says: “Consider others above yourselves.” Philippians 2:3

 

NO MARRIAGE SURVIVES WITHOUT GRACE.

12 Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. 14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.  Colossians 3:12-14 NLT

  • There will be misunderstandings, failures, disappointments, and painful moments.

 

Most conflict in marriage comes from:

  • Pride
  • Selfishness
  • Unmet expectations
  • And unwillingness to serve

 

A healthy biblical marriage is built when:

  • Christ is first.
  • Love becomes selfless.
  • Grace becomes constant.
  • And both people commit to honoring God above themselves.

 

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