Brandon and Brook Wedding

Brandon and Brook

October 10, 2020

Who gives this woman to be married?

In the beginning, God saw that it was not good for a man to be alone, so He took part of the man and created a helpmate to be at his side to love, encourage and strengthen in every test and circumstance in life. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. (Gen 2:21-24)

Marriage is a COMMITMENT—commitment to:

-Endure-not contingent on circumstances. Regardless of obstacles, difficulties, challenges, sickness,finances.

-Forgive-marital intimacy is vulnerability. When you are deeply intimate, you can be deeply hurt. Forgiveness is not a denial of emotions, but to speak the truth in love, forgiving as you have been forgiven.

-Grow—in this marriage, you can make a decision to plateau or commit to a process of growth and development with one another. Your growth can be in expressions of affection and romance; grow in expressions of support for one another, showing affirmation and appreciation.

-Love—1 Cor 13:4-7

4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Join Hands

Brandon, Your role is that of a prophet, a priest, provider and as the initiator of love in this human relationship. God holds you responsible for this home. By His enablement, your strength must be Brook’s protection, and you must so live that she will find in you the love for which the heart of a woman truly longs.

Brook, it is God’s purpose that you be a loving wife, that you respond to Brandon’s love in tenderness with a deep sense of understanding and faith.

Brandon, this woman whom you hold by the hand is to be your wife.

--Do you commit yourself before God, to be her faithful loving husband , seeking to love her as Christ loves the church? I DO

--Do you Brandon make the vow to Brook that you will be true and loyal, patient in sickness, comforting in sorrow, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto her as long as you both shall live? I DO!

Brook, this man whom you hold by the right hand is to be your husband.

--Do you commit yourself before God to be his faithful loving wife, seeking to cherish your relationship in Christ? I DO!

--Do you Brook make the vow to Brandon that you will be true and loyal, patient in sickness, comforting in sorrow, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only unto him as long as you both shall live? I DO!

REPEAT AFTER ME

I Brandon take you Brook to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

I Brook take you Brandon to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

-Ring Vow—

“With this ring, I thee wed, all my love and my life I pledge to you in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.

PRAYER

UNITY SAND

Marriage is a COVENANT which means it is the death of two wills and the birth of one. The covenant that both of you have made today will be for the good of the other, just as Christ’s covenant for us in salvation.

From this point forward, you are a unified whole. God himself said, “These two shall become one flesh”

-the Hebrew word is “betweeness”-a formal agreement between to parties assuming some obligation.

-A covenant is imposed by a greater power upon a lesser one—God upon you.

-A covenant is an agreement by which two parties commit themselves to the rights and responsibilities demanded by their relationship and their agreed course of action.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (kjv)

9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Pronounce Husband and Wife—MR AND MRS Brandon Holeman