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Seasons in Your Marriage Part 4 of 4: Seasons - When Your Marriage is in Fall

Episode 012

May 27, 2019

Introduction
  1. Welcome
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  • Part 4 of our 4 part series on Seasons In Your Marriage “When Your Marriage is in Fall”
    • What is fall in a marriage?
    1. Seasons teach us about God and can teach us things about marriage?
  • What fall is?
  • What fall is not?
  • So what do we do now that we know?

    • Psalm 74:17 It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter.

    1. Seasons are natural laws that further reveal truths about God and His creation

     

      1. He shows us things that apply to all of creation
  • Natural laws
    1. You reap what you sow
  • You always reap more than you sow
    1. We can add
  • God Multiplies
  • You always reap in like kind
    1. Harvest of plenty
  • Harvest of lack
  • We don’t reap in the same season that we sow
    1. Patience
  • You can’t change this year’s harvest
    1. You can learn from it though
  • Insanity
  • How do seasons apply to marriage
    1. There are different things that we should be doing in each season‭‭
  • Seasons are connected
    1. Happens in this season impact a future season
  • Seasons are temporary

    • Gen 8:22 "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

    1. What fall is
    1. The season to harvest
      1. Finally, you get to reap all that you’ve sown

    Galatians 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

    1. A busy season
      1. labor intensive
  • Season of preparation Proverbs‬ ‭31:21‬ ‭NIV‬‬
    • “When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.”

  • A season of beauty
  • Season of calmness

    • Ecclesiastes 3:4 “a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,”

    ‭‭1. Fall is a time to work and a time celebrate

    1. Our next season or two are often tied to the success of the harvest
      1. Cultivating in summer helps a builds a healthy harvest
  • It’s the season in your marriage when your plans have matured (become full grown)
  • Fall is the first season to enjoy, things you’ve planted in a previous season
    1. What fall is not
    1. The time to rest
      1. We have work to do
  • The season for planning or changing your plans

  • scripture ?***James‬ ‭5:7‬ ‭? “Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.”

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    1. What then should we do in Fall

    Mark‬ ‭12:30-31‬ ‭NIV‬‬“ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.””

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    1. Enjoy the fruit
  • Maximize time together
    1. Dating
  • Mini-getaways
  • Finish strong!

    • Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

    1. Celebrate the increase God has blessed you with!
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