Speaker: Peter Mockett 

Series: Building Better Marriages (Relationships)

Duration: 46 minutes

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Renewing the Romance

How to Renew the Romance

Revelation 2:4-5
You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen. Repent and do the things you did at first

How Relationships Deteriorate

• Romance
• Reality
• Rut
• Resentment
• Regret
  
• Feelings follow Actions.
• So Act your way to Feelings
  

1. Attention

Philippians 2:2+4
being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose…Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

2. Affirmation

1Thessalonians 5:11
encourage one another and build each other up,

Proverbs 12:1
take delight in honouring each other

3. Affection

Ephesians 5:19, 28
Husbands…be affectionate (Amp)

The love a man gives his wife is the extending of his love for himself to enfold her (Phillips)

Genesis 28:8 (KJV)
Isaac was sporting with Rebecca his wife

4. Adventure

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with your wife whom you love…

1Timothy 6:17
God richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment

5. Accordance

1John 1:7 (LB)
If we are living in the light of God’s presence…then we have wonderful fellowship and joy with each other

Two become One

• Attention – intellectual intimacy
• Affirmation – emotional intimacy
• Affection – physical intimacy
• Adventure – recreational intimacy
• Accordance – spiritual intimacy