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I Promised What!!!!

My Promise to My God and My Spouse

I (MY NAME), take you ,(NAME OF MY SPOUSE) to be my wedded (HUSBAND/WIFE), to have and to hold from this day forward; for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death parts us, therefore, in submission to God’s Holy Will I give you (NAME OF MY SPOUSE) my life.

I GIVE MY LIFE IN SUBMISSION TO GOD’S WILL TO:

·         [BE WEDDED TO] My Spouse Till Death Parts Us.

God’s Holy Will

4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” Matthew 19:4-6

·         [HAVE AND TO HOLD] My Spouse Till Death Parts Us.

13 Another thing you do: You flood the Lord’s altar with tears. You weep and wail because he no longer pays attention to your offerings or accepts them with pleasure from your hands. 14 You ask, “Why?” It is because the Lord is acting as the witness between you and the wife of your youth, because you have broken faith with her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant. .15…16 “I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and I hate a man’s covering himself with violence as well as with his garment,” says the Lord Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith. Malachi 2:13-16

·         [LOVE AND CHERISH] My Spouse Till Death Parts Us.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails…1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

HOW GOD WANTS ME TO GIVE MY LIFE TO MY SPOUSE

HUSBANDS GOD SAYS:

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 …, 27 ... 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. Ephesians 5:25-30

WIVES GOD SAY’S:

22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Eph 5:22-24

ANSWER KEY: Be Wedded To---Have And To Hold---Love And Cherish