Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Karen. When you invite God into a

circumstance you're not going to fight about it and when God comes true and does a

miracle it's going to be a bonding experience in your marriage.

I think that's the key because when you see answers to prayer it really does build your confidence

and it's not so much about how or whatever, you know, to pray is how you develop a relationship with a ward. What? We're going to use an acronym here. It's invest. We're all through. We're going to talk about the four areas of intimacy and we're going to use an acronym invest. Intimacy necessitates, value,

energy, sacrifice and trust. That's the word invest. If we're going to be intimate,

it means we must have value, energy, sacrifice, and trust.

Let's begin with spiritual intimacy,

creating spiritual intimacy.

A sense of unity and mutual commitment to God's purpose for our lives and marriage

and respect for the special dreams of each other's hearts.

It's really the closest, the greatest depth of

intimacy we experience in marriage. V. value. I value God's purpose for your life

and the dreams of your heart. Now, marriage, a godly marriage is a win-win

proposition. We both get there. As a man, I am called by God to nourish and cherish you as a wood-mount body. Those are agricultural

words. The word nourish means to feed to maturity and the word cherish means to keep warm

like a plant. A husband's role in the marriage is to be

God's partner to bring his wife to her full potential of what God created her

and her mother is willing to become. Chauvinism is just simply the belief that men are more special, men are more important,

you're here for me, you take care of me and my life means something, that's not the godly marriage.

A godly marriage is two people

created in God's image with calls on their lives getting together and we're a

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