\u201cForget the former things; do not dwell on the past.\xa0 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV)
\nThe man who finds a wife finds a treasure,\xa0and he receives favor from the\xa0Lord. Proverbs 18:22 (NLT)
\nMessage Title:\xa0 Same Team
\nStop trying to change each other.
\nAs the Scriptures say, \u201cA man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.\u201d This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.\xa0 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:31-33 (NLT)
\nThey aren\u2019t you and that\u2019s great news thing!
\nGo to counseling!
\nMaintenance is always better than repair\u2026
\nWhere\xa0there is\xa0no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors\xa0there is\xa0safety. Proverbs 11:14 (NKJV)
\nBuild your team
\nFind people who you want to be like and do what they do
\nGet all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life. 21\xa0You can make many plans, but the\xa0Lord\u2019s purpose will prevail. Proverbs 19:20-21 (NLT)
\nFight the Crazy Cycle
\nHealthy conflict can only exist with a same team mentality.
\nKeep it Current
\nKeeping it current helps you fights the temptation to sweep issues under the rug and allow bitterness to grow.
\nBe angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and\xa0give no opportunity to the devil. Ephesians 4:26-27 (ESV)
\nHave a playbook!
\nWhere there is no vision, the people perish\u2026\xa0Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
\nLet HIM lead; Let HER counsel
\nAnd further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.\xa0 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.\xa0 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.\xa0 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:21-24 (NLT)
\nFor husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God\u2019s word\u2026 Ephesians 5:25-26 (NLT)
\nSo again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:33 (NLT)
\nLeading the home is a responsibility NOT a right\u2026 responsibility serves; right demands.
\nWhen you are on the same team\u2026 what used to be viewed as CRITICISM is now seen as COUNSEL.
\nParent from the Same Team
\nSupport in front of them\u2026 discuss away from them.
\nDirect your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it. Proverbs 22:6 (NLT)
\nProtect the 1st Team
\nAs the Scriptures say, \u201cA man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.\u201d This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.\xa0 Ephesians 5:31-32 (NLT)
\nBe more concerned with hurting your spouses feeling, than hurting other people\u2019s feelings.\xa0
\nPlay with Passion
\nHave FUN and stop making everything so SERIOUS.
\nThe team who plays together off the field will play better together on the field.
\nFor husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her\u2026 Ephesians 5:25 (NLT)