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    Strategic Marriage Management
    Strategic Marriage Management
    Strategic Marriage Management
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    Strategic Marriage Management

    By Margaret Hungwe

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    We are living in a busy busy world where everything is fast we want instant gratification even in marriages. It is sad to see that couples are putting less or no effort at all into making their marriages work. They would rather be known as great strategist in the market place while their marriage is falling apart. Some spouses are so manipulative, selfish , they think the world revolves around them, no one can rebuke them or if truth be told they throw tantrums. Negatism can also cripple a marriage as it strips out all confidence and it makes the other spouse become doubtful of their capabilities and wonder if their opinion is valued. In marriages the joys of family often extend right into the wallet are we being good steward in our finances, who should be the breadwinner and are we living according to our means? Is sexual intimacy an easy subject to talk about as a couple? Could there be intrusive extended families that are impacting the marriage?This book has been written to address all these issues . Your marriage is far more important than you may have ever imagined because it affects God’s reputation on this planet. That’s why it’s essential for you to set Jesus Christ apart as the Builder of your home
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherprint sky
    Release dateJul 20, 2020
    ISBN9780620888806
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      CHAPTER 1: GOD’S INTENTION ON MARRIAGE

      You can only manage what you know. The person who seeks to effectively manage the things of life, always strives to understand the purpose for which the things exist. It is very critical for the thoughtful and strategic person, to endeavor to know and to fulfil the intention behind the institutions in which they find themselves. This is not only so in the cooperate world but concerns all institutions in which humans participate, marriage included.

      Marriage exists to fulfil God’s many purposes, it is an institution that carries forward God’s intentions in His world. Since marriage is God ordained and we are partners in doing God’s will on earth, we must know what marriage is, and why it is. Only by correctly using the power that this knowledge gives us can we come up with strategies to manage the institution in a way that pleases God.

      In the first Book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, we find this knowledge. It teaches us the following:

      God instituted marriage as a partnership of loyalty between one man and one woman.

      Marriage is the firmest and God ordained foundation for building a family.

      God designed sexual expression to help married couples build intimacy.

      Marriage mirrors God’s covenant relationship with His people.

      Each partner’s roles mark out the place in which each spouse finds their fulfilment and blessing.

      To effectively manage a marriage, there is a need to understand what the owner and designer of marriage saw and demands. This chapter is dedicated to looking at marriage comprehensively based on what the Bible teaches.

      Genesis 2:

      ¹⁸ The 

      Lord

       God said, It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him. but for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found. ²³ The man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man. ²⁴ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. ²⁵ Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

      This Chapter of Genesis gives a clear account of human life and how God designed marriage.  In it God puts man in the garden to work and tend it.  God gave His man the honours to name everything that was in the garden.  The Man simply decided what to call an animal or a plant and it was so. But from all the animals that God created there was none suitable to be a helpmate for Adam. Then God decided to make this helpmate out of Adam himself.

      In verse 18, the Bible says that God saw it was not good for man to be alone in the garden, therefore God decided to make man a helper, one suitable for HIM.  The one woman whom God was going to make was suitable for the one man, Adam. That means the first woman was suitable for that first man and not necessarily suitable for every man.  Have you ever wondered what attracts a man to a certain woman or what draws a woman to a man?

      Genesis 2:

      ²¹ So the 

      Lord

       God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. ²² Then the 

      Lord

       God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

      Since the help mate was supposed to be suitable for the man she had to come out of the man, so God chooses the man’s rib as the raw material to make the woman.  After making the suitable helper, God brings her to Adam. Without being informed what or who she is, Adam says;

      This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.

      Adam knew already his position on earth, that he was mandated to give names to everything in the garden.  A suitable helper comes, and he says she would be called ‘woman’, the reason being that she was taken out of man.  There was no confusion of identity, it was clear to him from the onset who the woman is.  They became one flesh, naked and not ashamed.

      The Book of Genesis expresses the purpose of God in making man, as well as the purpose of marriage. Let us explore what God’s intention with this first marriage was.

      The purposes of God in marriage.

      Mirror God’s image. After God created the earth and the animals, He said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." The account continues, God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis 1:26-27).

      God’s first purpose for creating man and woman and joining them in marriage, was so that they would mirror His image on earth. Centre your attention on those words, mirror His image. To mirror God’s image means to reflect God, to magnify, exalt, and glorify Him.

      That means our marriages should reflect God’s image to a world that desperately needs to see who He is. Since we’re created in the image of God, people who do not know what God is like, should be able to look at a male and a female in a godly marriage and get a glimpse of who and what God is like. Together the male and female are the complete image of God.

      Complete each other and experience companionship. 

      Scripture clearly outlines a second purpose for marriage, namely, that the husband and wife are intended to mutually complete each other in fulfilling God’s plans and purposes within His world. That’s why God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him (Genesis 2:18). Adam felt isolated in the garden, and so God created woman to eliminate his aloneness. Writing to the first-century church in Corinth, Paul echoed the teachings in Genesis 2 when he asserted,

      1 Corinthians 11:11 However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

      That means within a marriage the two of you should function like a computer hardware and software. Standing alone, the hardware and software are impressive, but combined as a team, they can accomplish so much more! That is exactly what God had in mind when He performed the first marriage with the original groom and bride, named Adam and Eve.

      As a couple you need each other. You may be failing to recognize that now, perhaps due to your circumstances but as you build your marriage according to God’s blueprints, and the years go by, you will ultimately appreciate the genius of how God has custom-made your mate for you.

      Multiply a godly legacy. 

      God’s third purpose is to use marriage as a means to raise a line of godly descendants, to populate the earth with God bearers. The children born in a godly marriage will carry a reflection of God’s character to the next generation. Your plans to have children may still be in the future, but if by His grace He does give you children, be rest assured that you will be in for an amazing adventure.

      God’s original plan called for the home to be a sort of moral greenhouse, a nurturing place where children grow up to learn character, values, and integrity. Too many couples today seem to be raising their children without a sense of mission and direction. They aren’t imparting into their children the importance of leaving a spiritual legacy of godly lives. Your marriage is far more important than you may have ever imagined because it affects God’s reputation on this planet. That’s why it’s essential for you to acknowledge Jesus Christ as the Builder of your home and that you commit to fulfil all His purposes for your marriage.

      Since our journey through life involves God, ourselves, our spouses, our prosperity as well as future generations, let’s walk together through this book, one step at a time, as we see how we may live out our marriages with Jesus Christ as the chief builder. It is critical to know the purpose and the intention of God in marriage, but also important to know the roles God has assigned each partner. The Bible gives amazing light on this, and we do well to explore the roles of husbands and wives right at the onset of our study.

      The Husband’s Role and Attitudes in a Christian Marriage

      Leadership

      The bible

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