Being married cost you everything.

Tears, nights of sleep, incredible vulnerability and sacrifice.

It causes you to take a deeper look inside your heart and soul, your desires, and your personality. your The devil hates marriage. He hates the beautiful picture of Jesus and his bride that it represents.

He hates love and life and beauty in all its forms.

The world hates marriage. It hates unity and faithfulness and monogamy.

Our flesh is not our ally here either. It rebels when we put others before ourselves.

Our flesh hates dying. But God loves marriage.

The Holy Trinity is for it. God is with you. He is for you. He command you to love and he says it with him and in him all things are

possible, not easy but possible. Marriage is going to ask everything of you and

that is why you must have a vision for it. I'm Alan Arnold

and you're listening to the Ransom Hart podcast. I was just reading an

excerpt from John and Stacy's book Love and War.

For the next six weeks, we invite you to come with us on a journey of what the marriage you've

dreamed of could look like. We'll be going through the book Love and War.

Now, if you're not married, this may not seem like a message for you, but I promise you

there's value in it and that you'll be glad you stayed with us if you're single and never been married boy do you need to know what the cost and what the joy of marriage really looks like if you're married and your marriage is not in a

good state right now or perhaps you're separated or divorced, this offers a

message of hope of what could be restoration, and of God's original plan for marriage.

So this is part one of our six-part series.

This will be from chapter one and 2 of the book Love and War.

Now here's John and Stacey.

1.

...