The Vow, Part 1: The Vow of Priority

    70% men & 60% women have an affairLess than 50% of marriages survive 15 yearsEvery 10-12 seconds another couple divorces in the USAThis week’s title is:  The Vow of Priority1.    God wants to be our #1 (Matthew 22:37-39) “…"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.” Most of us who follow Jesus SAY it but do we SHOW it?(Matthew 6:19) "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.(Matthew 6:21) “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Galatians 5:22-23) “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”(Matthew 12:33)  "Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.” (Matthew 12:35) “The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.”(Colossians 3:7-10) “You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.” (Colossians 3:12-14) “Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” 2.    Messed up priorities equal messed up marriagesSay NO to the good so we can say YES to the best. (Ephesians 5:22-25) “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” Challenge & Assignment:1.  Challenge:  I Vow that God will be my #1 Priority.2.  Assignment: Pray Together for 7 days: