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Song of Solomon, chapter 8, verses 6 and 7.

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death.

Jealousy is as fierce as the grave.

Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.

Many waters cannot quench love.

Neither can floods drown it.

If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house he

would be utterly despised. I love these two verses that really summarized so much of what we see in Song of Solomon, the power,

and the strength, and the beauty, and the value, the worth of love, of love according to God,

certainly of God's love for us,

and then the way God calls us to love one another, specifically in Song of Solomon in

marriage, the power of love, the beauty and strength of love in marriage is intended to be a picture of Jesus's love for us.

That's what Ephesians 5 makes clear that God has designed marriage to be a display of his love

in the world.

So I want to lead us to pray for marriages.

Our marriages, others marriages that display God's love

for the world that show what it looks like

for Jesus to love his church in the way a husband loves and lays down his life for his wife

and for wives to love their husbands in a way that show what it looks like for the church to love Jesus.

For us to pray for this picture of the gospel in marriages, our marriages, others marriages, and at the same time for us to pray

that we would enjoy God's love for us to the full, that we would treasure his love for us and that we would live in a way that

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