Dos and Don'ts: A One-Week Plan to Help Your MarriageSample

As we begin to walk this out we must make sure that our focus and our foundation is in Christ. He must be your one and only, your sole priority. So let me ask, where is your focus? What fights for your attention or your heart's affection? Is it work? Your marriage? Your children? Your social life? Your failure? Food? Alcohol? Self? What is it?

The bottom line is this. The Lord wants you, and He wants all of you. He wants all of you all of the time. So confess to Him each thing that fights to take His place in your heart. Ask Him to help you by grace to set your mind on Him and the things above. Ask Him to help you turn away from all that you want to control and anything that you treasure or desire above Him and turn towards Him instead. Delight yourself in the Lord. Repent from delighting in anything more than you delight in Him.

Confess your dependence on the comforts and pleasures of this world, the security of wealth, the affections of your spouse, the companionship of your children and friends, and the value of success to bring you peace, joy, and satisfaction. Confess treasuring other things and other people above Christ. Consider it all nothing, absolutely nothing, in light of knowing Christ and His presence and His power and His resurrection.

Then going forward each day, taking one day at a time, look to Christ and Christ alone. Look to Jesus and fix your eyes on Him. Set all of your hope on Him. Put your faith in His power to accomplish His work in your heart and your marriage.

Praise Him for He alone is God with the Father and with the Spirit and He is worthy of all of our worship and all of our praise. He rules and reigns both in heaven and upon earth. Nothing and no one can prevent Him from doing His will. And nothing can separate us from His love.