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Bill and Pam Farrel, authors of the bestselling Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti (more than 280,000 copies sold), bring their keen insights into relationships to these devotions that celebrate marriage, encourage open communication, and provide meaningful ways for husbands and wives to draw closer together.Our busy world often pulls couples apart, but it doesn't have to be that way. Spending time together each day in devotion and prayer will strengthen and bring joy to a relationship as couples learn to connect their love with God's wisdom.A Couple's Journey with God will expose readers to practical ideas for staying in love, personal tips for great interactions, and passionate prompts for adding that extra spark to their relationship. It's the perfect book for all couples at any stage of life and relationship.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 octobre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736945431
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Verses marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( www.Lockman.org )
Verses marked MSG are taken from The Message. Copyright by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
Cover by Left Coast Design, Portland, Oregon Cover photo Petr Malyshev / Shutterstock
Bill and Pam Farrel are represented by the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Ste 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920.
Lyrics from I Will Be Your Mirror 2004 by Boomer and Lisa Reiff. Used by permission.
A COUPLE S JOURNEY WITH GOD
Copyright 2012 by Bill and Pam Farrel
Published by Harvest House Publishers Eugene, Oregon 97402 www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-4542-4 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-7369-4543-1 (eBook)
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
To Brock Hannah and Zach Caleigh,
Your love stories have already inspired others to love more like God. We trust you will continue to add to the legacy of love we have layered into your lives, and we are grateful to God for bringing such amazing daughters-in-law into our family. As couples, keep loving each other with God s power and God will give you an epic love story. Enjoy your journey of love!
For the L ORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations
(Psalm 100:5) .
We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the L ORD , his power, and the wonders he has done
(Psalm 78:4) .
And to our Harvest House publishing family, and our editor, Kathleen Kerr .
Bless you for building love into couples on their journeys. May God bless each of you on your journey of love .
Contents
Day 1: Sentimental Journey
Day 2: A Life Well Lived
Day 3: Baby, I Want You!
Day 4: Better Than Vitamins
Day 5: Bicycle Built for Two
Day 6: Can You Hear Me Now?
Day 7: Coffee?
Day 8: Shared Confidence
Day 9: Deep Roots
Day 10: Different from Me
Day 11: Country Common Sense
Day 12: Figuring Out Father
Day 13: Home Is an Attitude
Day 14: Honoring Mom
Day 15: Hot Stuff!
Day 16: Humble Choices
Day 17: I Am Going to Out-Love You!
Day 18: I Can t Believe I Said That
Day 19: In the Pressure Cooker
Day 20: Instrument or Ornament?
Day 21: Irritating Strengths
Day 22: Kuleana
Day 23: Lost in Translation
Day 24: Where Love and Peace Meet
Day 25: Good Morning
Day 26: Motivated to Live
Day 27: Our Provider
Day 28: Patient Promises
Day 29: Perspective on the Journey
Day 30: Relentless
Day 31: Spiritually Intimate
Day 32: Marriage Strong
Day 33: The Answer Is in Your Cell Phone
Day 34: The Garden
Day 35: The High Road
Day 36: The Highlight Reel
Day 37: The Right People
Day 38: When You Love What Must Be Done
Day 39: You Need Each Other
Day 40: Take T.I.M.E. for Love
Day 41: Decisive Influence
Day 42: Treasure the Unexpected
Day 43: Walk Away Together
Day 44: Yes! Tonight I Have a Headache
Day 45: You Are Not Going to Like It
Day 46: You Gotta Have Friends
Day 47: Your Love Is a Light
Day 48: Battle Weary
Day 49: Fun to the Core
Day 50: Go Get Em, God!
Day 51: I Do!
Day 52: Poked with a Sword
Day 53: Why Are We Arguing?
Day 54: Choose the Opposite
Day 55: Unusually Kind
Day 56: Willing Partner
Day 57: What Love!
Day 58: The Game
Endnotes
Day 1
Sentimental Journey
Please grant success to the journey on which I have come .
G ENESIS 24:42
We know something about the journeys couples take together. We have been happily married for over 32 years, and we both have over a million frequent flyer miles on our favorite airline. We have crisscrossed the globe speaking and teaching on marriage for over 20 of those years.
Travel is an excellent tutor to help you hone your marriage skills. The irritations commonplace to travel-the jet lag, the unpredictability of your next meal, the delays and cancellations, the constant transitions while carrying loads of baggage-are a good reflection of the average couple s marriage but compressed and accelerated to jet speed.
Just like you might need help from a seasoned flight attendant to get that overstuffed bag into an overhead luggage compartment, we re here to lend you some of the wisdom we ve gathered over the miles:
A great marriage is like a bullet train . The speed rail options between large metro cities like New York and Boston offer nonstop service, letting you get on and go straight through to your destination. When you said, Till death do us part, you were committing to a traveling companion for the duration. The person you start marriage with is supposed to be the same person you usher into heaven. That is God s ideal. The journey of love is easier and richer if you make it all the way together.
A great marriage is like a cruise . We have been guest speakers on a few cruises, and we love the opportunity to stop at every port to go sightseeing. No one is in a hurry-a cruise ship is not a jet ski! A great marriage builds in time for romance, time to slow down, and time to enjoy the company of your mate. If you and your spouse factor in time to cruise together, love will remain strong because you will have time to remember why you first fell in love!
A great marriage is like an overseas flight . When traveling great distances it s likely that you will have to make several connections, transferring planes or airlines. Many times the unexpected happens-canceled flights, rerouting, and lost luggage are commonplace hassles. To be a successful traveler you have to be flexible and adaptable. You have to have the ability to keep a positive attitude when you are tired, starving, and displaced. Marriage is like that. There are so many unknowns on life s route. Every couple deals with typical transitions like becoming parents or midlife aging, but there may be surprises along the way like illness, financial worry, or prodigal kids. These surprises might make you feel like you re stranded in unknown territory. But if you re able to adapt on the go, you ll get to travel to exciting places and make great marriage memories!
A great marriage is like a backpacking hike . Sometimes marriage feels like it s all an uphill climb-carrying an enormous backpack! Each year along the journey of marriage and parenting will bring with it more and more responsibilities. However, if you are prepared and remember to pack the essentials for survival, you will see some amazing sights!
Let us pray over your journey together through this couple s devotional. Here is a common traveler s blessing you can use to begin your trek toward a more intimate love. Pray the words over your spouse or pray it together.

The L ORD bless you and keep you; the L ORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the L ORD turn his face toward you and give you peace
(Numbers 6:24-26).
Day 2
A Life Well Lived
This is to my Father s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples .
J OHN 15:8
We live near the mountain town of Julian, California, which is known for its apple farms, apple festivals, and apple pies! A whole economy is built from good fruit. Have you ever picked fruit? I (Pam) grew up on a farm and we had some apple trees on that property. Each fall it was the job of the children to harvest those apples, so I was an apple picker and inspector. Some of the trees produced fruit that was luscious, sweet, and bountiful, filling our bushel baskets up to the brim with tasty treats. Some of the other trees, however, gave a smaller harvest, or fruit that was malformed and misshapen. Some trees didn t bear any apples at all!
A ministry colleague said to us recently, When I look at your lives, all the wise decisions and the fruit they bore in your marriage, family, and community, I think, That is a life well lived. Wow! That is one of the nicest compliments we could ever receive. It was especially encouraging because one of our daily prayers as a couple is, Help us be so tied into You, Jesus, that we bear lasting fruit. When we look at our children and our ministry, we can tell that our prayer is being answered!
Jesus talks about the kinds of fruit one can elect to produce:
No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of (Luke 6:43-45).
So what is the difference between a tree that produces good fruit and one that produces bad? And how can you develop a relationship that produces good fruit?
The roots: A tree that produces good fruit is rooted in the person of God. God created the two of you, so He knows how to make your relationship work best. Begin by giving control over to Jesus. Let Christ sit in the driver s seat of your life and love.
The trunk: A fruit-producing tree has a wide, strong base developed by long years of growing next to the streams of living water referred to in Psalm 1:3: That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does