2 Are Better Than 1: Uncover Your Marriage PurposeSample

How Does God Confirm His Purpose?

A Timeless Truth

God reveals His purpose for your marriage through His Word, confirms His plans through your circumstances, and affirms ongoing direction through people.

No couple reaches their destiny in a single leap. Instead, they fulfill God’s purpose for their marriage by putting one foot in front of the other, moving as God directs, and by constantly evaluating, “What has God called us to? What has He promised? And where is He leading?” Pretty simple, huh? Yet how often do we meander through life never asking those questions? Or, when we do ask, wonder if we possess the ability to discern God’s purpose. Thankfully, God reinforces His directions clearly, confidently, and concisely.

He will reveal His purpose for your marriage through His Word, confirm His plan through your circumstances, and affirm ongoing direction through people.

God’s Word provides direction, purpose, and the measuring stick to discern whether what we’re thinking is His idea, our idea, or something else entirely. God will never instruct us to do something contrary to the Bible. All Scripture is God-breathed and was given to instruct and lead us (2 Timothy 3:16). His Word promises that God will lead the steps of the righteous (Psalm 23:3; Isaiah 40:29), and will use all things—the things perceived as good and the things perceived as bad—for our good (Romans 8:28).

All throughout Scripture, God demonstrates that He uses circumstances and people to confirm His purpose. He offered Mary comfort when John the Baptist leaped within Elizabeth’s womb (Luke 1:41). He reassured Joseph through dreams (Matthew 1:20; 2:12−13, 19, 22). At Gideon’s request, He confirmed His purpose by saturating a fleece and surrounding it with dry ground. And then, at a second request, God saturated the dry ground but kept the fleece dry (Judges 6:36−40). For Moses, He turned a rod into a snake to reassure him that He was with him (Exodus 4:3−4).

Sometimes we want God to fill in all the sketchy details with a “go do this and go do that” kind of list. Instead, God typically calls each one of us to walk our journey in faith, and, as we faithfully follow, He confirms His purpose through His Word and affirms His purpose though our circumstances.

Consider how God is speaking to you through His Word, confirming through your circumstances and affirming through others.