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It was the 3rd deliberate action you can take to show encouragement!

LOVE

Foster with Unconditional Love

Loving your spouse may begin as the easiest action in marriage and end up, because of life tensions, the most difficult to sustain. Imagine love as the warp and weft of a fabric - and then enveloping your spouse in that fabric woven following the pattern found in 1Corinthians 13:4-7.

This is the third of 7 deliberate actions to show encouragement.

Validate with Intimate Knowledge

Encouragement can come from knowing your spouse

- inside and out -

by being the person able to finish their sentences

and instinctively understand their motivations.

What if you could identify what your spouse needed - physically, mentally and emotionally? If you use intimate knowledge in a postive way, your ability to encourage will deepen - from a puddle to a bottomless well.

This is the 7th deliberate action to show positive encouragement.

Stimulate with New Insight

Idea sparks - iron sharpens iron. Engergizing new information.

New Insight will stimulate excitement for on-going acitivites, and illuminate new avenues. Share new ideas and use those ideas to keep your life together interesting and future focused. New Insight will create a brilliant firework display designed to vitalize your marriage encouragement.

This is the sixth, of 7 deliberate actions to show positive encouragement.

Support with Joy Filled Zeal

Action uncovers values. Action enhances values.

How can you uncover and develop your shared values to create a marriage blueprint including these values? Have you ever sat down with your spouse and done a value analysis?

There are couples who constructed an immense shared purpose by leveraging their values and built a marriage blueprint using joy-fill Zeal.

You can support your spouse with joy-filled zeal to encourage them.

This is the fifth of 7 deliberate actions to show positive encouragement.

Uplift with Persistent Prayer

Sharing problems, fears and concerns with God can encourage your spouse - they'll feel secure when prayer becomes the first line of defence.

Prayer will provide release - other couples use prayer as a way of encouraging each other. Prayer can raise your marriage encouragement to new heights.

Spouses can use persistent PRAYER to lift up each other - secure in the knowledge they pray for, and with each other, seeking God's will for their life together.

This is the fourth of 7 actions to show positive encouragement.

Fortify with Faith

Encouragement can come from dong everything possible to build a deep, abiding faith in God - then sharing in word and action this faith with your spouse.

Faith is personal - unique to each person. How can you use your unique faith to encourage your spouse - without "preaching"? Be encouraged yourself - faith can be used to enhance your marriage, and we'll explore how.

This is the 2nd of seven ways to show positive encouragement.

Inspire with Hope

Encouragement can come from the belief

there will be something good in the future.

Listlessness,

lack of positive future focus,

and a stagnant, disinterested outlook

have no place in an encouraging marriage.

Spouses can use HOPE to inspire each other

– hope for a bright, interesting future together.

This is the first of seven ways

it’s possible to show positive encouragement.