Crosswalk Couples Devotional

When hearing of long-term marriages, do you ever assume those couples didn't face many relational difficulties?

When we live lives with a Heaven-minded perspective our marriages reap the benefit of walking together with a God-inspired purpose and joy.

When we practice forgiveness, it allows for peace to reside in our marriage.

Here are 5 marriage builders you don’t want to ignore.

God’s heart is for us to experience a lifetime of commitment in our marriages.

Our circumstances don’t determine our contentment or success. Because when we have Jesus, we have everything.

Knowledge focuses on winning and being right. It focuses ultimately on you. Love, however, builds up the people in your life.

Here is the secret I don't want you to miss: a marriage thrives when both partners cherish Christ above all else, even more than they value each other.

We can’t always prevent unfavorable thoughts from entering our minds, but we can deal with them immediately and replace them with God’s truths.

Marriage is one place where it's easy to forget that it's reallynotabout getting all our own needs met.

When we choose to make prayer our companion instead of worry, God has promised to fill us with a peace that can’t be explained by human understanding. Don’t all marriages need that?

When we remember delightful times or events and take time to notice new similar times and events, we become more apt to steadily recognize the good aspects of our spouse and our marriage.

Since I stopped venting to others about my spouse, I feel closer to him. All because God gently showed me what I was doing was damaging.

The good thing is, these wedges can be prevented or removed once we are aware of them.

When you enter into marriage with any type of “emotional wound” from your childhood, it can add an extra challenge into the relationship.