473-Energy and Motivation God's Way

Delight Your Marriage

Belah Rose

Sexuality, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Christianity

4.7 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Getting out of your bed in the morning requires motivation. Doing your work requires motivation. Sacrificing for your spouse the way God asks us to, requires motivation.

You may be motivated by external forces like your boss, achieving certain bank account numbers, or a personal feeling of accomplishment. Those aren't necessarily bad. But if you're having trouble with motivation for the things that are most important in your life: God, marriage, kids... this episode is for you.

There are two encouragements Jesus gives us that can really help with your motivation to do what is most important:

1- The parable of the Three Servants (Matt 25: 14 - 28)

2- Come to me and I will give you rest -- the burden I give you is light (Matt 11: 28 - 30)

The parable talks of three servants entrusted with money while the master went on a long trip. One was entrusted with 5 bags of silver, another with 2 bags of silver and the last with 1 bag of silver. When the master returned, two of the three had "worked" and "invested" which doubled their silver. But the servant with just 1 bag didn't even try. He was in self-pity, covetousness and fear. The master called him wicked and lazy.

May we not fall into the trap of

a - Self-pity: aka pride, because we SHOULD have a better circumstance. God SHOULD have given us better.

b - Covetousness: looking at someone else's perceived lot in life and crave it

c - Fear: Our perspective of God is harsh and unfair so we are paralyzed to try.

Instead, let us look forward to hearing our master's praise. Let us be motivated by the anticipation of seeing God on that day say "well done!" and lavish praise on us for doing what He has asked us to do with what He has entrusted to us.

If this feels like such a heavy weight right now, I want you to be encouraged by the second portion of scripture where Jesus invites us to come to Him with our burdens. And learn from Him. And gain insight on what He ACTUALLY is asking of us. Not to carry the whole world -- but to gain insight into what His burden for us to carry actually is -- which Jesus says "is light".

Come to Him with your burden.

Don't let the enemy tempt you with self-pity, coveting, or fear. Instead, come to Jesus and gain His strength so you can hear "Well done! Good. Faithful. Servant".

In the episode, I give practical outworkings of all of this and I hope it's an episode that will give you a pep in your step and a zing of motivation to do what God is asking of you in your relationship with Him, in your relationship with your spouse and those entrusted to your care.

Love and Blessings,

Belah

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast.
0:05.4	You're joining me, Bella Rose, as I dive deep into the beauty, power, and truths about intimacy.
0:11.6	Learn not only the practicals, but the heart behind what making love is all about.
0:16.9	Delight your marriage.
0:22.7	Hello there, and welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast.
0:27.9	I hope that by the end of this episode, you are just brimming with motivation.
0:33.4	Because the truth of the matter is you can't really do anything without motivation. To even get up
0:39.7	out of bed, you've got to have motivation to do it. And so I want to not just give you a philosophy
0:47.2	and encouragement to be motivated, but also just some tools to help you in that regard. Because
0:53.0	really, even as followers of Christ, in your marriage, you've got to be motivated, and
0:58.3	you've got to be motivated by the right things.
1:01.0	Because certainly people of the world that don't have Jesus, a lot of them are motivated
1:06.8	to kill at life.
1:08.0	And is that the motivation you need or want to have given scriptures and given the
1:13.7	Bible? Let's focus in on that. And before we get into it, if you're new here, my name's Bella Rose.
1:20.7	I have the honor and privilege to work with husbands and wives separately from around the globe
1:26.0	to help them be the husband or wife
1:28.5	that they were meant to be. Most of us didn't have great role models. Most of us didn't have
1:32.6	great training. And so if you are wondering, okay, what's my first step? You know, I kind of like what's
1:38.7	said in this podcast. I like that it's biblical, but I don't even know how healthy my marriage is.
1:43.2	I don't know where to start.
1:45.0	We have a marital health assessment which essentially helps you figure out your starting
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