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What's Better Than New? God's Best You've made a commitment to see your marriage healed, so now what? Whether your relationship is recovering from an affair, pornography addiction, or just years of coasting, Cindy Beall shares from her redeemed-marriage journey to help youtrust completely in God's ability and graceheal deeply by restoring faith in a futurebuild wisely from the foundation uplive fully by embracing your renewed relationshipinvest generously in your marriage and in other people Insightful questions, biblical teachings to counter lies, and stories of rebuilt marriages lead you to God's healing and the hope of helping others from the place you once had deep pain.Cindy Beall provides undeniable proof that God is a Redeemer regardless of how messy, difficult, or painful our current relationships are.Lisa Harper, bestselling author and Bible teacherI'm a massive Cindy Beall fan. If your relationship needs a tune-up or a complete overhaul, read this book with an open heart and I believe God will do a new work in you.Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of Life.Church

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	26 juillet 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736967129
Langue	English

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What people are saying about Cindy Beall and Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New
To be honest, I m a massive Cindy Beall fan. I had the privilege of watching God restore her broken marriage and truly make it better than new. That s why I believe every married couple should read Cindy s powerful new book, Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New . If your relationship needs a tune-up or a complete overhaul, read this book with an open heart and I believe God will do a new work in you.
Craig Groeschel
senior pastor of Life.Church, Edmond, Oklahoma
author of #Struggles
God doesn t promise improved; He promises brand new. In her book Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New , Cindy takes us beyond the ever after and helps us find victory and hope even after. With wisdom and encouragement born out of her own marriage story, she guides us on a path to discover God s best for our marriage. This is a must read book for all couples!
Justin and Trisha Davis
authors of Beyond Ordinary: When a Good Marriage Just Isn t Good Enough
Cindy Beall is basically a hope bomb just looking for a place to detonate! Her story provides undeniable proof that our God is a Redeemer and we have access to living HOPE in Jesus regardless of how messy, difficult, or painful our current relationships are. She s so genuine that reading her books is like having a conversation with a dear friend. My advice is to buy at least two copies because whomever you loan Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New to is probably going to keep it!
Lisa Harper
author and Bible teacher
What we love about Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New is that its author, Cindy Beall, isn t just giving helpful information, but she has personally lived out this message of hope for the most devastated of marriages! Cindy and Chris Beall have a beautiful testimony of partnering with God to not only see their marriage renovated but totally rebuilt and better than ever! We believe that God is going to use this book to transform families!
Joe and Lori Champion
founders of Celebration Church, Austin, TX
Cindy Beall brings to life the true meaning of hope and grace, engaging you in a practical guide to rebuild the love and relationship in your marriage that you ve always dreamed of. Not only do I know this book will help you, but I know this couple and they re the real deal!
Bil Cornelius
lead pastor of Church Unlimited
author of Today Is the Day
The messy business of the restoration of a marriage is a worthy pursuit. However, it is a minefield of lies, fear, and pain. Breaking through to the broken heart with truth will be the only saving grace. Cindy s candid book has given leaders fighting for restoration a powerful tool. She combines her personal journey of healing along with biblical narratives and clear biblical principles to help you navigate this minefield with truth.
I recommend Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New to pastors and leaders who will be a part of the fight for marriage and restoration. But mostly, it is a must read for those couples who have been devastated by infidelity. Cindy will help you walk through the journey and do more than survive; you will actually thrive.
Dr. Tim Scott
lead pastor of Grace Church, San Diego
Cindy Beall has produced a much-needed guide on how to use the tragedy of infidelity as a catalyst for creating a new and improved marriage.
Rick Reynolds
founder and president of Affair Recovery, Austin, TX
HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version , NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Cover by Lucas Art and Design, Jenison, Michigan
REBUILDING A MARRIAGE BETTER THAN NEW
Copyright 2016 Cindy Beall
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-6711-2 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-6712-9 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Beall, Cindy, 1970-
Title: Rebuilding a marriage better than new / Cindy Beall.
Description: Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015039509 | ISBN 9780736967112 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Marriage-Religious aspects-Christianity.
Classification: LCC BV835 .B3575 2016 | DDC 248.8/44-dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015039509
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Dedication
To my husband, Chris.
You are the best representation of a strong, confident man who simultaneously walks in humility and brokenness.
Thank you for allowing me to share your darkest hour with the world.
I look forward to growing old with you.
CONTENTS
Endorsements
Dedication
God Makes All Things New
Heal Deeply
1. Rebuilding from the Ground Up
2. The Truth about the Truth
3. It Comes with the Territory
Build Wisely
4. Restoring Trust
5. Expectation Management
6. Living as a Victor or Victim
Live Fully
7. A New You
8. Do the Hard Things
9. Find Your Porch
Invest Generously
10. Refined in God s Timing
11. God Wastes Nothing
12. Even If He Does Not
Where Are They Now?: The Beauty of Rebuilt Marriages
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
How to Believe in Restoration
About the Publisher
God Makes All Things New
He who was seated on the throne said, I am making everything new! Then he said, Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.
Revelation 21:5
If God showed us a timeline of all the occurrences that would happen in our lives, we would most assuredly start hyperventilating and bargaining with Him to reroute the path ahead of us. In no way, shape, or form would we ever think we could survive such difficult circumstances. Death of a loved one, infidelity by a spouse, the loss of every material possession we own. It s more than our finite minds can even begin to fathom. And because of that, He doesn t show us. Instead, He gives us the grace we need to get through things as they come.
When you do a Google search using my name, a good amount of the results will have something to do with betrayal, infidelity, and sexual sin. Why, you ask? Because that is in my history. It s on my marriage r sum . My first book, Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken , is about just that.
In the early part of 2002, my husband, Chris, and I had the opportunity to move to Edmond, Oklahoma, so that my husband could join the staff of Life.Church. It was truly a dream come true. He was a worship leader, and I led alongside him and had been doing so for nearly ten years. But one devastating February morning brought about a crushed heart, a wrecked marriage, and a demolished ministry for us because of my husband s infidelity and pornography addiction. My husband had been on the team for barely six weeks and could no longer live the lie he had been living for the previous few years. Within a minute, my heart went from joyful to devastated as I became keenly aware that the life I had lived with my husband was a lie. A big, fat lie. Or at least it felt that way then.
I share this part of my life with you so that you will understand where I ve been. I have walked through the valley of the shadow of death and lived to talk about it more than once. I have begged God to prevent painful situations from entering my path instead of asking Him to help me endure them more than once. I have experienced seasons in my life where death would have been welcomed had I possessed the gumption to try more than once. But alas, I am still on this earth because as promised in Romans 8:28, God doesn t waste one single bit of our pain. Indeed, He doesn t, friend. Indeed, He doesn t.
When something bad happens, you have three choices: you can let it define you, let it destroy you, or let it strengthen you. I don t know who first authored that statement, but I can assure you, that person has been through the wringer. You don t write that after living a life of comfort. You write it after you ve walked through some dark days, years even, and lived to not only talk about it but also to encourage others because of it. On this marital hike Chris and I have been on for 14 years, there were times where our past could have destroyed us. While some may use our story to define us, we do not. We use our testimony and the power of God s renovation in our marriage to strengthen us. We don t have all the answers for marriage restoration, but we do have some tried-and-true principles and advice to offer you on your own pilgrimage.
Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken was a book about healing. Many have referred to it as an emergency-room type of book. One you read to stop the bleeding and get hope and encouragement from. Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New is about living. But in order to begin truly living in victory with betrayal in your marital past, you do have to walk through the appropriate valleys first.
My goal as a Christ-follower is to have my life testify to the greatness of my God. I want Him to use anything and everything to impact a lost and dying world. So that is why I tell my story and propose that you do the same. In order to help you get to that place, I ve laid this book out in four sec