Believing God for a Spouse Resources

Enjoy the resources below, to help build your faith and understandings on your journey of 'believing God for a spouse!'

*Please note the opinions and thoughts in the resources below, don't necessarily represent the views of Breakthrough Church, but are a collection of tools for you to use to encourage your faith.

Framework for believing for spouse

God's plan is....

Marriage is between one man and one woman
1. Matthew 19:4-6 "He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”"
2. Genesis 1:28 "And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
3. 1 Corinthians 7:2 "But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband."
4. Article: Is polygamy wrong?
5. Bible Project Video: The Man and Woman as one
Be equally yoked
1. 2 Corinthians 6:14 "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?"
2. Video by KCM: What It Means To Be “Unequally Yoked”
Date with the purpose of marriage
1. Video: Relationship advice for a happy marriage
There is no trial period
1. Hebrews 13:4 "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous"
2. 1 Corinthians 7 (excerpts) "Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. "
3. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 "Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."
4. Article: Do I have to wait for marriage to have sex?
5. Steven Furtick Video "How to date God's way"
6. Terri Savelle Foy Video "Intimacy and Soul Ties"
Marriage is until death do us part
1. Matthew 19:6 "So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
2. Romans 7:2 "For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage."
3. Matthew 19:9 "And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
4. Breakthrough teaching on covenants
The most important of all...GOD CAN REDEEM ANY STORY! He is a Master of restoration!
1. Hebrews 4:16 "Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."
2. 2 Corinthians 12:9 "But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
3. Romans 6:14 "For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace."
4. Ephesians 1:7 "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace"
5. Article by Terri Savelle Foy "Recreate your life story"
6. Videos by Terri Savelle Foy "Healing and Restoration Growth Tracks"

"Our Story" - 5 couples

Whether they met as kids or later in life, or dated for 5 years or 2 months before marriage, or had been engaged or married before this relationship, or new the other was "the one" immediately or over time....be encouraged with these five stories!
Each completely different, but the same God.

Believing God for a Spouse - 5 stories
five completely different stories...but one God!
5 Couples - 1 God

Chris & Jasmine
met online, when they were in school
Chris & Jasmine's Story

Graeme and Judith
married for 60 years, met at a dance
Graeme and Judith's Story

Mark and Kirstie
had a previous enagement, married within 3 months of meeting
Mark and Kirstie's story

Chris and Pri
met online, dated for 5+ years before marriage, became a Christian while dating
Chris and Pri's story

David and Jocelyn
married at 33 and 41, Jocelyn had been engaged twice and David married once
David and Jocelyn's story