Real Challenges, Real Love Beloved Series: Session 6 Insights
Session 6 of the Beloved Series delves into the essence of selfless love in marriage, emphasizing the total gift of self to a spouse. The video outlines the surprises, challenges, and conflicts one may encounter in marriage, highlighting the need for mutual growth, facing hardships with unity, and seeking help when needed. It underscores the significance of addressing past wounds and dysfunctional patterns to build a strong marital foundation based on love and understanding.
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Real Challenges, Real Love Beloved Series : Session 6
OPENING PRAYER POP CORN PRAYER Everyone is welcomed to say a spontaneous prayer
Recap Session 5 Talked about the bond of marriage that God forges on your wedding day. We emphasized that God s grace is at the center of your marriage and how you can find some ways in which to better draw upon that grace in your marriage.
Video - 30 mins Beloved Series : Session 6 In this session, we re going to wrap up our study by touching on some of the key elements of the covenant for life that is the Sacrament of Marriage.
Beloved Series : Session 6 In this session, we re going to talk about giving the total gift of self to our spouse. And we ll start by watching a video that talks about the highest form of self-giving love. PLEASE SHARE 1 AREA THAT TOUCHED YOU
Outline of Video Surprises A. Marriage demonstrates that you are lovable. B. Marriage will give you an extra set of eyes on you. C. God uses the crosses and challenges of marriage to stretch you. D. Marriage gives you the security to work through conflict without worrying about your beloved leaving.
Outline of Video Our Past A. Wounds from your past and dysfunctional patterns of behavior will not disappear when you get married. And they will affect your marriage. B. Some issues are best dealt with through counseling. C. You may not even be aware of your baggage until certain stressors kick in. D. None of us has had perfect parental role models; we all repeat imperfect patterns of behavior. E. Your wedding vows are something you will live out every day. F. You cannot simply say, This is who I am and who I will always be ; God can help you become so much more.
Outline of Video Hardships A. Having a helpmate who has been specially created for you allows you to face hardships with confidence. B. Couples must acknowledge that they are better for God together than they are as individuals. C. Mentors can play a key role in helping you work through hardships.
Outline of Video Conflict A. A quick prayer can defuse an overly confrontational attitude. B. Advance warning of an impending conflict gives your beloved time to prepare. C. Saying the words I am sorry and I forgive you is crucial. D. Ultimately, it doesn t matter who s right; what matters is that you demonstrate love. E. Sleeping on a conflict can give you a better perspective and a better attitude toward solving it. F. Winning an argument cannot be your goal; your aim is to build a relationship, not score points at your beloved s expense.
Outline of Video Sexual Intimacy A. There are seasons of marriage and seasons of sexual intimacy. B. The physical experience of love is only as strong as the union of hearts. C. Ensuring that you connect with your spouse outside of the bedroom helps build overall intimacy. D. Enjoying sexual intimacy can physiologically change your outlook in your marriage. E. Planning an intimate encounter ahead of time will allow both of you to prepare for it.
Outline of Video The Blessing of Children A. Learning how to show love to your children in a way they can receive it will be a challenge. B. The love your children give will be the most authentic you will ever experience. C. Your children won t always obey you, but they will often imitate you. D. One of the greatest ways to grow in generosity and love is being open to life in your marriage and giving yourself to your children. E. God set the parenting example by loving you when you went astray
COUPLE DISCUSSION AND GROUP SHARING It is important for married couples to recognize and emphasize that divorce is never an option, that neither one of them is going anywhere 1. God said, It doesn t matter who s right or wrong. Love your spouse. If you took those words to heart every day, what impact would it have on your marriage? Discuss and share on an area or issue that needs most tender loving care within your marriage 2. What have you learnt about God's love from parenting your children?
CLOSING PRAYER Praying Husbands Lord, show me how to really cover my wife in prayer. Enable me to dwell with her with understanding and give honor to her so that my prayers will not be hindered. Renew our love for one another. Heal any wounds that have caused a rift betwen us. Gie me patience, understanding, and compassion. Help me to be loving, tenderhearted, and courteous to her just as You ask me in Your Word (1 Peter 3:8). Enable me to love her the way that You do. Amen
CLOSING PRAYER Praying Wife Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realise that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness, long suffering and the willingness to bear all things. Take my old emotional habits, mindset, automatic reactions, rude assumptions, and self protectivenss, and make me patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self controlled. Take the hardness of my heart and break down the walls with Your battering ram of revelation. Give me a new heart and work in me Your love, peace and joy. If I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment, only You can transform me. Amen
CLOSING PRAYER Solemn Blessing from the Rite of Marriage. May the Lord Jesus, who graced the marriage at Cana by his presence, bless you and your loved ones. Response: Amen. May he, who loved the Church to the end, unceasingly pour his love into your hearts. Response: Amen. May the Lord grant that, bearing witness to faith in his Resurrection, you may await with joy the blessed hope to come. Response: Amen.
