Faith Filled Family Magazine October 2016 | Page 87

sue instead of holding onto resentment, anger or frustration.
Peace will set the atmosphere
for God to speak so each one
must keep peace as the goal to
any disagreement. Use your authority over strife and refuse to
let it live in your home.
2. Close the Door to Financial
Frustration- Finances are one
of the main causes of divorce.
It’s not the lack of finances but
how each one handles finances.
Learning to agree on how finances will be managed is important.
When their is a need it’s great
when both can do their best in
the natural and believe God together for the impossible. If not,
we tend to blame the other for
the problem. If one is the spender and one is the saver then both
still need to come to an agreement how they will manage and
where the boundaries lie. This
kind of agreement will allow you
to pray together and stand on
God’s Word to believe that He
will meet all of your needs according to His Riches! When

both are taking responsibility
then standing on His promises
together will allow you to walk
in authority to declare His favor
and provision over your home.

all called to love and serve and
marriage is the perfect place to
begin. 1 Joh 4:18 “Perfect love
casts out fear”. When you know
you are truly loved and adored
by God, your Creator, you will
3. Close the Door to Fear in Re- then begin to receive and give
lationships-Take authority over love freely. You can now walk
your fears in relationships. Your in authority over the thoughts of
spouse can never make you feeling neglected and unloved.
feel beautiful, strong, valuable This disarms the enemy and
or confident unless you already keeps others from entering in
believe that about yourself. You and destroying the marriage.
need the reinforcement from
your spouse but you cannot put HOW DO I USE MY SPIRITUAL
the sole responsibility on your AUTHORITY AT WORK?
spouse to determine your value.
You must first know that you are 1. God is your Source- Your job
valued by God which makes you is truly a tool to take care of your
priceless. It can be daunting to family and also to further the
the spouse always trying to con- Kingdom of God. Just as the
vince you of your worth. Also, brook dried up for Elijah so somemarriage is not a competition. times our source of income can
You are on the same team and change. When we believe and
should be working towards the understand that God is our true
same goal. Love freely regard- Source then we will be a better
less of what you get in return. employee. We understand that if
Don’t love with strings attached something is taken that God will
and with ultimatums because replace and with even more. In
then it becomes manipulation the world we live in things are uninstead of genuine love. We are stable but with the God we serve