Family Foundation

• Believe in God’s grace to solve your marriage problems.
• Have the highest standards, Bible-based, not the compromises of man.
• Be willing and ready to be deeply changed when God shows you your need.
• Forgive one another from the heart freely frequently.
• Share your challenges with another godly, mature couple and listen to their advice.
• Study the word together and pray about what you find.
• Talk frankly with your partner about your personal struggles.
• Do not let the children more important to you than your spouse.
• Understand that mothers have a tendency to be over-anxious about their children.
• Learn to understand each other’s needs for sexual fulfilment

• Blessed are the husband and wife who continue to be affectionate, considerate and loving after the wedding bells have long ceased ringing. 
• Blessed are the husband and wife who are as polite and courteous to one another as they ate to friends.  
• Blessed are they who have a sense of humour for this attribute will be a handy shock absorber. 
• Blessed are the married couple who abstain from alcoholic beverages.  
• Blessed are they who love their mates more than any other person in the world, and who joyfully fulfil their marriage vow of a lifetime of fidelity and mutual helpfulness to each other. 
• Blessed are they who remember to thank God for their food before they partake of it, and who set aside some time each day for reading of the Bible and prayer. 
• Blessed are they who attain parenthood, for children are a heritage of the Lord.  
• Blessed are those mates who never speak loudly to each other and who make their home a place where seldom is heard a discouraging word.  
• Blessed are the husband and wife who faithfully attend the worship service of the church for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom.  
• Blessed are the husband and wife who can work out their problems of adjustment without interference from relatives. 
• Blessed is the couple who have a complete understanding about financial matters and who have worked out partnership with all the money under the control of both.  
• Blessed are the husband and wife who humbly dedicate their lives and their home to Christ and practice the teachings of Christ in their home by being unselfish, loyal and loving. 

• Sunday: “Same spirit” Oneness of mind between spouses. 
• Monday: “ Ministry together”  For joint ministry to serve the Lord 
• Tuesday: “To build a home “ To build a Christ-centred home, [not a house] that will glorify the Lord 
• Wednesday: “Whole Minds” To grow in the knowledge of the Lord together 
• Thursday: “Total joy” For the physical and spiritual life of marriage and children 
• Friday: “Financial needs” For all the family needs to be met by the Lord 
• Saturday: “Same Family” The relationship with the families of both the spouses.

• If you sleep on it, make it up 
• If you wear it, hang it up. 
• If you eat out of it, put it in the sink. 
• If you step on it, wipe it off. 
• If you open it, close it. 
• If you empty it, fill it up.  
• If it rings, answer it. 
• If it howls, feed it. If it cries, love it.
• -Source unknown.

• Happy are those who…….
• Give love rather than demand it.
• Reach out to others rather than expect to be reached out. 
• Desire to  be a friend rather than to have friends 
• Express appreciation rather than expect it. 
• Relieve suffering rather than think only of their own suffering. 
• Pray “God bless others” more than “God bless me”. 
• Think of the good aspects of others, not their failings. 
• Forget themselves in doing deeds that will be remembered.  

Do you see what is behind each of these sayings? It is a way of thinking that focuses on other people rather than on ourselves.  

• True Understanding 
• We do not understand:  
• Joy until we face sorrow 
• Faith until it is tested 
• Peace until faced with crisis and conflict 
• Trust until we are betrayed. 
• Love until it is lost. 
• Hope until confronted with doubts.  
•    -Source unknown. 

• Choose to love rather than hate. 
• Choose to smile rather than frown. 
• Choose to build rather than destroy. 
• Choose to persevere rather than quit. 
• Choose to praise rather than gossip.  
• Choose to heal rather than wound. 
• Choose to give rather than grasp.  
• Choose to act rather than delay. 
• Choose to forgive rather than curse. 
• Choose to pray rather than despair.  
•    -Source unknown. 
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