Recapping chapters 8 - 13

Day 8 - Love is Not Jealous
Love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire. – Song of Solomon 8:6 NIV
Recap – Be your spouse’s biggest fan, don’t be jealous of their accomplishments. Have a jealous love for your mate as God has a jealous love over his children. The Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God” (Deuteronomy 4:24).


Day 9 -Love Makes Good Impressions
Greet one another with a kiss of love. – 1 Peter 5:14
Recap – Greet your spouse with a smile, enthusiasm, and warmth. Be excited to see them and affectionate. Change your daily greeting so they see and feel your love for them.


Day 10 - Love is Unconditional
God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ dies for us. – Romans 5:8
Recap – Agape love – the truest of love; phileo – friendship; eros – sexual love. If a man says I have fallen out of love with my wife, he was never really in unconditional “agape” love to begin with. Agape love is the greatest of love, completely unconditional, unselfish and forgiving the type of love that God has for us.



Day 11 - Love Cherishes
Husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. – Ephesians 5:28
Recap – Loving, caring and cherishing your mate as you would yourself. Don’t allow the culture of this world determine how you treat your mate “don’t treat them as an object than can be discarded or replaced” Choose to love and stay with your mate regardless of imperfections.


Day 12 -Love Lets the Other Win
Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests others. – Philippians 2:4
Recap -The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield” James 3:17 stop treating your mate like an enemy, treat them like your best friend. As long as you do not comprise the values of God, bend in a disagreement, tell them you are placing their preference first.


Day 13 - Love Fights Fair
If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. – Mark 3:25
Recap – In the thick of conflict is where marriages can break, leading spouses into infidelity, lust, irrational anger and judgmental words. Remember, Love (Agape, Unconditional) can step in, allow love to remind you that the fight is not as important as your spouse. Learn to fight clean, and talk openly about boundaries. This chapter discusses “We” boundaries and “Me” boundaries, so when a disagreement heats up neither takes low blows.