How to Be Happily Married
Bob Mullen
June 10, 2012
How to be Happily Married…
It’s
harder to do than to
say.
Five ways to help do this
better.
1) Live in Love Each Day

NIV Genesis 29:16 Now Laban had two
daughters; the name of the older was
Leah, and the name of the younger was
Rachel. 17 Leah had weak eyes, but
Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful.
18 Jacob was in love with Rachel and said,
"I'll work for you seven years in return for
your younger daughter Rachel.”
 19
Laban said, "It's better that I give her
to you than to some other man. Stay
here with me." 20 So Jacob served
seven years to get Rachel, but they
seemed like only a few days to him
because of his love for her. 21 Then
Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife.
My time is completed, and I want to lie
with her."
Live in Love

NIV John 13:34 "A
new command I
give you: Love one another. As I have
loved you, so you must love one
another. 35 By this all men will know
that you are my disciples, if you love
one another."
Live in Love

NIV Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love
your wives, just as Christ loved the
church and gave himself up for her.
 NIV Ephesians 5:28 In this same way,
husbands ought to love their wives
as their own bodies. He who loves
his wife loves himself.
2) Make Marriage Monogamous

NIV Hebrews 13:4 Marriage
should be
honored by all, and the marriage
bed kept pure, for God will judge the
adulterer and all the sexually
immoral.
Monogamous

NIV Matthew 5:27 "You
have heard
that it was said, 'Do not commit
adultery.' 28 But I tell you that
anyone who looks at a woman
lustfully has already committed
adultery with her in his heart.
Monogamous

NIV Proverbs 5:16 Should your springs
overflow in the streets, your streams of
water in the public squares? 17 Let them
be yours alone, never to be shared with
strangers. 18 May your fountain be
blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife
of your youth. 19 A loving doe, a graceful
deer-- may her breasts satisfy you
always, may you ever be captivated by
her love.
3) Be Parenting Partners

NIV Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my
son, to
your father's instruction and do not
forsake your mother's teaching. 9
They will be a garland to grace your
head and a chain to adorn your
neck.
Parenting Partners

NIV 2 Corinthians 12:14 Now
I am
ready to visit you for the third time,
and I will not be a burden to you,
because what I want is not your
possessions but you. After all,
children should not have to save up
for their parents, but parents for
their children.
4) Manage Money

NIV Hebrews 13:5 Keep
your lives free
from the love of money and be
content with what you have,
because God has said, "Never will I
leave you; never will I forsake you."
Manage Money

NIV 1 Timothy 6:10 For
the love of
money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some people, eager for money, have
wandered from the faith and
pierced themselves with many
griefs.
Manage Money

NIV Proverbs 30:25 Ants
are creatures
of little strength, yet they store up
their food in the summer;
5) Figure Out Forgiveness

NIV 1 Corinthians 6:7 The
very fact
that you have lawsuits among you
means you have been completely
defeated already.Why not rather be
wronged? Why not rather be
cheated?
Forgiveness

NIV Colossians 3:13 Bear
with each
other and forgive whatever
grievances you may have against
one another. Forgive as the Lord
forgave you.
Forgiveness

NIV Romans 12:18 If
it is possible, as
far as it depends on you, live at
peace with everyone.
How to Be Happily Married
 Live
in Love Each Day
 Make Marriage Monogamous
 Be Parenting Partners
 Manage Money
 Figure Out Forgiveness