You can’t MARRY the right person if you’re DATING the wrong one.
The BIBLE is our BLUEPRINT for marriages that are BUILT to LAST!
Being MARRIED is not our PURPOSE in life.
1 Corinthians 7:7-8 (NIV)
I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. 8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.
SINGLENESS is a GIFT.
John 4:10-14 (NIV)
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
1 Corinthians 7:35 (NIV)
I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.
Our purpose in life is to LIVE with undivided DEVOTION to Jesus.
3 Building Blocks to Become the Right Person:
- SECURE in CHRIST.
Insecure people NEED more and SETTLE for less.
Another PERSON or MARRIAGE doesn’t complete you; CHRIST completes you.
Colossians 2:9-10 (BSB)
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form. 10 And you have been made complete in Christ…
Secure people NEED less and EXPECT more.
- STRONG in CHARACTER.
You don’t build a life of RIGHTEOUSNESS on a foundation of SIN.
1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV)
…Set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
Look for character CRACKS.
Everyone needs ENCOURAGEMENT and ACCOUNTABILITY.
- ROOTED in COMMUNITY
To become secure in CHRIST and strong in CHARACTER you need Christian COMMUNITY.
Proverbs 13:20 (NIV)
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
Get IN a GROUP and ON a TEAM!