Sam and Erica's Marriage podcast
Seasons in Your Marriage Part 2 of 4: Seasons - When Your Marriage is in Spring
Episode 010
March 4, 2019
Introduction
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- Part 1 of our 4 part series on Seasons In Your Marriage “When Your Marriage is in Spring”
Discussion
What is spring in a marriage?
- How do seasons relate to marriage?
- What spring is?
- What spring is not?
- So what do we do now that we know?
- Seasons are natural laws that further reveal truths about God and His creation
- He demonstrates His sovereignty
- We can’t make a season change. Only God can!
- Spring always follows winter
- How do seasons apply to marriage
- There are different things that we should be doing in each season
- Seasons are temporary.
- Our experiences happen in and out of season not the other way around.
- A person might describe 3 tough years in their marriage as one long season when in fact during those 3 years that person actually had a tough time that spanned 12 full seasons.
Gen 8:22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
- What spring is
- A time when things begin to grow
- A time when there’s new energy and vitality
- A time for prime time for planting
- Starting something new
Gal 6:7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
- Spring is the season when we’re most optimistic and hopeful.
- Spring is the time when we begin acting on those things we planned in winter.
- What spring is not
- A time for reaping
- We tend to have unreasonable expectations for spring
- The season to chill (that winter)
- Spring is about working
- There is no better time to plant seeds than spring
Pro 31:21 NIV When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
- What then should we do in spring
- Plant those things that want to harvest in future seasons
- When you’re in a bad season you have to remember to plant good seed
- Celebrate surviving the winter
- Get and stay active
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RESOURCES
Recreational Enjoyment Inventory from His Needs, Her Needs
Recreational Enjoyment Inventory
His Needs, Her Needs by Willard F. Harley, Jr.
His Needs, Her Needs on Amazon
Love and Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
Love & Respect on Amazon
A Celebration of Sex by Dr. Douglas E. Rosenau
A Celebration of Sex on Amazon
NEXT EPISODE
Next we dig a little deeper into the different “seasons” of marriage.