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Our marriages are not private matters.
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Our children, gain emotional security and a myriad of benefits from our
marriage, our love and union. Our marriages matter to our extended
family. They matter to our employers. They matter to society. They are
the fabric that holds families together.
So, do something for your marriage in Marriage Week, come to think of it why wait – do it now!
Welcome
from my family my Name is Rev Brian Richards, my people call me Rev as I
don’t mind, so the last month I decided I would not promote the sales
of my books I would just give a free download and let people know how to
get a hard copy if they want one.
http://trafficbuilder2.com is the website for all the hard copy books to be sent to your door step of any address around the world.
We
have been recording our video’s each week and put them on youtube and
facebook and with the free downloads people can follow the teaching or
recording that we do each week. “Are You In Christ” is the book we have
been reading on line. So if there be any questions or any prayer
requests then you can send to this email address to get my attention put your name and Revbrian together in subject line and this I know is important.
We remember and celebrate our marriages this 2nd Sunday of September through to 2nd Sunday of October.
In
the spring of 2007, Dennis believes that he was given a vision for the
ministry of 'Marriage Week' was 'visioned' in 2007 and then clarity on
the dates after a season of prayer came in early August 2009. Through
this period of prayer I was made conscious by the Lord of "My festivals"
and the figure "9" and then taken back to the "Vision/Strategy"
statement that I recorded the previous year and that was very clear
showing the month of September. Interestingly the Lords Festival of
Trumpets etc (Lev. 23) in the month of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar,
this equates to September/October in our calendar.
We were
"distracted" from the original vision and come back to that and set
Marriage Week to start on the second Sunday of September each year.
Quickly,
we were surrounded by a coalition of Christian broadcasters and other
ministries/organisations that held the same biblical values for
marriage. All working to forge a network of Christian churches and other
Christian individuals and organisations across Australia who will work
together to offer positive resources during Marriage Week and through
the year that will help couples re-affirm the value of and commitment to
their marriage.
We welcome and support all who have the same underlying values see
https://marriageweek.org.au"The
importance of Christian marriage as a symbol of God's covenantal
faithfulness to his people-and a witness to the future union of Christ
and his bride-will only grow in significance as the wider Western
culture diminishes both the meaning and actual practice of marriage.
Marriage itself will become a witness to the gospel..." [Mark Regnerus,
Ph.D., is the author of Forbidden Fruit]
Our
marriages are not private matters. Our children, gain emotional
security and a myriad of benefits from our marriage, our love and union.
Our marriages matter to our extended family. They matter to our
employers. They matter to society. They are the fabric that holds
families together. On average married people live longer and have good
relationships with their children; families enjoy better physical
health, married men earn more money.
Marriage Week is a great time to
reassess and invest in our own marriages and to encourage others. A
time to see that it is more than a piece of paper, a word, or a
contract. Marriage is a relational institution, between a man and a
woman, that makes them one entity - a great team with God as the team
leader.
"Then God said, “Let us
make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the
livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
And
God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and
fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that
moves on the earth.” And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant
yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with
seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of
the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps
on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given
every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that
he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and
there was morning, the sixth day." Genesis 1:26-31 [ESV]
http://trafficbuilder2.com "And
the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman
and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of
my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she
was taken out of Man.”
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his
mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And
the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed." Genesis
2:22-24 [ESV]
"He (Jesus)
answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning
made them male and female, and said, Therefore a man shall leave his
father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall
become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What
therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matthew 19:4-6
[ESV]
"All Scripture is breathed
out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and
for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete,
equipped for every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17 [ESV]
