Hey everyone it's Leslie Moody host of the Set-A-Part-Gull Encouragement for Women of All Ages.

In our last episode, we talked about the best way to prepare for marriage.

And today I'd like to share with you two more very important principles that you can

cultivate in your life to either help prepare you for a great marriage or

strengthen the one that you already have. In our modern world we are so focused on getting what we want that we often fail to cultivate the kind of godly character that will lead to a successful relationship.

There's internet matchmaking, dating apps, books that give you tips on how to flirt.

All of these things really at their root cater to satisfying our selfish desires, not

making us marriage ready. So here are two key ways to prepare for marriage in God's pattern.

The first one is

learning how to cultivate tensile strength.

Now if you've never heard that term before tensile strength. If you've never heard that term before,

tensile strength refers to the maximum stress that a material can take under tension.

So for example, a rope's tensile strength is measured by tying weights to the rope and then

dropping the rope to see how much weight it can endure without breaking.

The greater the ability of the rope to endure weight and combative force the stronger the tensile rating.

The strength of our souls can be measured in a similar way.

If we've never built up our tensile strength, then even the smallest weights and stresses will cause us to snap.

But if we train like an olympian to build our tensile strength,

then our soul will be able to endure stresses and weight without falling apart. So if you think about the

heroic Christians throughout history who gave up their lives for Christ, they

trained their souls to handle the greatest pressures and stresses that life could

throw their way and they emerged from those situations or even if they lost

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