Even before you were formed, I knew you and I set you apart. Then I placed each of you in your mother’s womb, with a plan and purpose, to give you hope and a future. Your hearts have prayed, have sought and have found. And today, you will become one.
One life, one love, one journey Home.
Never underestimate my power through your lives. Your strength comes with unity - alone you were once easily overpowered, now together you will be able to defend yourselves, but a cord of three strands is not easily broken. Keep Me at the center of your marriage and all that you do. I will be your strong shield, your protector. I, myself, will go before you and will be with. I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Keep in mind that just as you are human, so is the one at your side. Today your love for one another is welling up within you, but there will be times when each of you will fall short. When discouragement and disappointment come, when it is hard to find the love that you feel so abundantly today - look to Me. I am the Unchanging One, the One who will not fail you, my mercies never come to an end. I am the Source and Provider of the love that you have. I have instilled it as a gift into your heart when you found one another, I have grown it and made it what it is today. And I have much more for you - a storehouse, an abundance of riches. It is because I first loved you, so much as to give my only Son, that you are able and will continue to be able to love one another with the same sacrificial love.
The love you have found, when rooted in Me is a safe place. You should keep no record of wrongs but always extend forgiveness and grace just as I have lavished it upon you. Freely give as I have freely given to you. If one of you should stray, may the other humbly and gently bring you back into my embrace. In doing so, you will save each other from destruction and cover over a multitude of sins.
When troubles and hard times come, when your stretched thin and when my heart breaks at the sight of most others walking out, may you allow those times to bring you all the more closer - closer to one another and to Me. I will be faithful to light your path. I am the Creator of the wind and the waves, they obey my Voice and at my command I can calm any raging storm that you face. Should I allow you to go through it, I will sustain you, I will comfort you and provide for you so long as you remain in Me. There will also be temptations ahead, I am already there and I promise you that I have already provided a way out of each one.
I want you to understand fully that it does not take a house of gold to build a home. It takes a strong, and firm foundation, one only I can help you build. If you choose to build it any other way, it will blow like a tumbleweed in the wind or come crashing to the ground the moment it faces danger. But build your home and your love upon Me and my teaching, a solid rock, then through the torrents of rain and floodwaters you will stand. When others enter your home, be an extension of my hand toward them. This will allow all who enter to experience My love overflowing from your hospitality into their very own lives. Those who need me and that I send you way, can find Me through you. Keep the doors of your home and your hearts open and I will have an open door ahead of you that no man can close.
Follow the path that leads to my eternal riches, there are inheritantly yours, they have been handed down from the generations before you. From the fathers and mothers, the grandparents, the aunts and uncles, the pastors, the friends and the family that have loved you, have shed tears over you, have sacrificed their own wants for you and have stormed my gates in prayer over your lives and who will continue to do so. May your life together be a life that outlives you both, one that takes on the likeness of Christ and hands the treasures you will find down to the next generation to come.
Remember this day that you are no longer two but now made one, a sacred union that has been bestowed upon you. Do not take this miraculous occurrence for granted. Do not compare this gift to others around you, instead keep your eyes steadily fixed on Me, embracing the unique love that I have so abundantly blessed you with. Every step you take forward together should be a choice to lay yourselves down for the sake of love. To set aside you own wants and desires to walk along the narrow path, leading to life, hand in hand. May your love be one that stays right where it began, at the altar. Never giving up on one another, always keeping your hearts tender toward each other and toward Me.
When you seek Me, you will find Me, when you seek Me will all your heart. I will teach you My ways and keep your hearts undivided - bound together and also bound to Mine. May your love be simple: simply grounded and rooted in My love, simple given and simply shared.
A love that soaks it in, every blessed moment, for better or worse until the day you’re called Home.
Be one another’s best friend. Never give up. Always look for the best.
Trust Me steadily, hope unswervingly and love extravagantly,
God.
Gen 1:27, Psalm 129:13, Jere 29:11, Mark 10:8, Col 3:14, Ecc 4:12, Psalm 18:2, Deut 31:8, Rom 3:23, Psalm 136, Deut 31:8, Rom 3:23, Lam 3:22, John 15:9-16, 1 John 4:10-11, 1 John 4:16, Psalm 46:1 MSG, Col 2:7, Eph 3:17-18, 1 Cor 13:4-8, Eph 1:7-9 ESV, Matt 10:8, James 5:19-20, Psalm 119:105, Matt 8:27, Psalm 18:35, 1 Cor 10:13, Luke 6:42, Psalm 127:1, 1 Th 3:12, Phil 1:9-11, Rev 3:8, Matt 6:20, Eph 1:11, Psalm 100:5, Ex 20:6, Deut 6:6-9, Heb 12:2, John 15:13, Mark 8:34, Matt 7:14, Jere 29:12, Ez 11:19, Psalm 86:11, 1 Cor 13:13 MSG
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