Faith
Encourage Your Spouse with the strength of your faith in God.Check In With Each Other- How Are You Doing?
Check in with your spouse - especially if you're going to pray for her - for him. It's a good idea. And we have a suggestion for you, even if your spouse isn't very chatty about how they're feeling, or what they're concerned about. Why check in? We know you want to...
5 Ways to Improve the Depth of Your Marriage
Embracing depth as a differentiating value can help to significantly strengthen a marriage. Here are five ways to improve the depth in your marriage – and faith life.
Cover Your Love with a Generous Barrier of Encouragement
Just like steel needs to be coated with zinc to beat rust, so your spouse can be protected with encouragement to Keep away the corrosive effects of life.
Your Spouse Needs You
Your spouse needs you for much more than the obvious, day-after-day chores in life. He/she needs your encouragement: hope, faith, love, prayer & support. How will you do that?
5 Autumn Dates to Stay Connected
The busy fall season is here – how are you going to stay connected with your spouse? Be deliberate and plan some dates. Here are 5 ideas to help you plan.
16 Reasons a Date Night is the Best Choice
Date night is the best choice to encourage your spouse. Here are 16 reasons why your marriage needs a regular date night – it’s the best choice!
How to Know the Good Reasons for Marriage
Because our God is so creatively amazing, we have different reasons for marriage. Ask to know the unique way He is using your marriage for His glory.
Gentleness – It’s the Strong Value Your Marriage Needs
Gentleness is made up of three aspects – and every healthy marriage needs these three. Couples, regardless of history or personality can enjoy gentleness. It’s not what you might expect…
Expand Hope for a Strong Future in Your Marriage
Expand your hope for a good future with the Big Picture theory and by using the Practical tips. Your spouse will be inspired by how you look at the future.
Encouragement in Grief and Loss
Encouraging your spouse when life is difficult - during grief or loss - takes perseverance. If we look carefully, life is also filled with God's love. Maybe, we can even be an example of God's love... I was listening to a minister talk about the person whose faith he...
All the Possibilities Need a Plan
All the possibilities in life... need a plan ---> or they won't happen. (yeah. sorry.) It's easy to let "real life" meander - or dash - or fast forward, and find your dreams sinking into the muck of "wish I coulda" because time has passed too fast, and too far....
Faith is an Every Day Decision
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1 Faith is a decision we make every day. It's not a one, and done... A solid faith in God - in Christ's love - needs to be nurtured. What actions are you and your spouse...
Everything You Do
Above all else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) Guard Your Heart We are in that season - the one where we want to focus on Christ, on advent, the waiting and preparing for His birth. Yes, we want to seek Him. And yet. The...
Be Together
My beloved is mine and I am his. Song of Solomon 2:16 Connection. Being close - in heart and in body. Choosing each other - over anyone else. Making your spouse the priority in this busy holiday time may not be easy - or simple... but it can be done. Be deliberate. Be...
Always Have Hope – Scripture Saturday
As for me I will always have hope... Psalm 71:14 (NIV) What are you hoping for? Do you talk with your spouse about your hopes? Spend some time talking, sharing, dreaming, imagining what the future could hold... And then give thanks for all the blessings you have -...
Love Deeply
Above all things, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1Peter 4:8 NIV Your spouse isn't perfect. Neither are you. Instead of chafing over those things which could be irritating, let's cover each other with love. Lots of love. Big,...
7 Ways to Build Strength Into Your Marriage
Hello! I thought you'd like to hear about encouragement from a man's perspective, so I've invited Robert, my husband, to be my co-contributor here at Encourage Your Spouse. (Learn more at our "About Us" page.) Robert is passionate about values - and how they can make...
Scripture to Strengthen
Last week I read a devotional from Lead Like Jesus... Where do you turn when you need help? Your answer is important. Who, or what, we turn to reflects something about our values and what drives our lives. It indicates who or what we worship, and where we find our...
Encouraging Your Spouse in a Time of Disappointment
Things don't always work out the way we'd like. Life is not fair. We might not like it, but it's a fact. Life is not fair. (And who said it was supposed to be fair, anyway? That's just a new-age myth. Give it up.) God writes our story, and sometimes we'd like to...
Saying I Love You – What does your spouse need to do?
Does saying I Love You show - Unconditional love? What does your spouse need to do, before you say, "I love you"? Prerequisite to saying I Love You... Does your spouse need to say those words first as? Before you say, "I love you." Does your spouse need to clean up?...
Stop for 60 Seconds – Memories are Made in the Moments
You're busy right now. I get it. There's lots to get done and the clock is ticking. There are only so many hours in a day. I'm not trying add to your "to-do" list. Truly. But. Stop! Just for a moment. You can. Really. Stop for 60 seconds. And look around. See. Notice...