Tension is inevitable when you’re
pulling in different directions!

Mark 3:25 NIV

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

3 things you must do for your spouse:

James 4:1-3 NIV

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

• Identify my desire

• Seek God’s help

• Check my motivation

3 things you must do with your spouse:

Confess our wrongs

Matthew 7:3 NIV

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

Consider each other’s perspective

Philippians 2:4 NIV

Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Concentrate On Reconciliation, Not Resolution

James 3:17 NLT

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows no partiality and is always sincere.