10 SECRETS for a

HAPPY CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE

maintaining a strong relationship with your spouse is to have regular prayer

together. As you pray for yourself, each other and your concerns, you will have

God's help in healing and protecting your marriage.

Taking this a step further would include having prayer with your family.

Imagine the impact it will have on fortifying your family when you unite as a

family and pray for the individual needs and concerns of each family member.

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should be treated as such. It is not just a contract,

convenience, or a promise to live together as long as it's easy

and fun.

It is a covenant to love and care for each other forever,

through the good and the bad. If more marriages were

treated as a covenant, greater joy and trust would be

experienced in the marriage relationship and marriages

would be better able to make it through the difficult times.

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from Adams' rib, to be at his side, his equal and his companion. So when the

scriptures teach that a wife should submit to her husband, it does not mean that

she is inferior in any way.

Christ submitted his will to the Father, thus, submission is showing a voluntary

reliance on another person. To best strengthen our marriages, we can follow the

counsel of wives submitting to their husbands, husband to their wives and both

submit their will to Christ. By following the example outlined by the Savior,

husbands and wives should show kindness, considerations and serve one

another.

By creating this Christ-like atmosphere, we open the way for the Lord to magnify

our love for each other and bring additional happiness as individuals and as

families.

Following the Savior’s example, husbands and wives should treat each other

with care and courtesy, come to know each other well, and serve or help one

another. In an atmosphere of consideration, understanding, and service,

husbands and wives open the way for the Lord to magnify their love for one

another and their happiness as individuals and as a family.

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speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." (Matt. 12:36.) This

means that the words we use will either help or haunt our lives.

As we consider the importance of how and what we say to our spouse, let's keep

the warnings of the Savior in the forefront of our mind so that we use words of

loving kindness.

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corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that

which is good." (Eph. 4:29.) He further counseled to be "kind

one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as

God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you." (Eph. 4:32.) As we

follow Paul's counsel, we will treat others as we would like

to be treated and it will be consistent with God's plan for His

children.

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helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us

apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle. They may be tender or they may

be tough, but they must always be tempered.

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spirit of contention, we need to remember that peace can prevail only when that

natural inclination to fight is overcome with a greater desire to be a peacemaker.

(Matthew 5:9, "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children

of God.")

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would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." (Matthew 7:12) This

principle is found in nearly every major religion. Others such as Confucius and

Aristotle have also taught it.

This concept of treating others as one would like to be treated is easy to

understand. And it acknowledges the precious nature of each of God’s sons and

daughters. (Matthew 25:40)

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that the two great commandments were first, to "love the Lord thy God with all

thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," (Matthew 22:37) and the

second, to "love thy neighbor as thyself." (Matthew 22:39) If we put God first in

our lives, and then treat others, specifically our family, as we would want to be

treated, our relationships will flourish and we will be able to resolve even the

most challenging conflicts or trials in the lives of our family.

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permeate our marriages. Marital contention and strife is of the devil and he wins

and rejoices when we argue and fight with each other.

If we would just turn out attention toward fighting Satan’s influence in our lives,

rather than turning on our spouse with criticism, we would be able to overcome

many of the problems we face in our marriages. Satan is the enemy, not your

spouse!