A Guide to Adding Decor to Your Fixer Upper Marriage
FixerUpperMarriage.org/decorFull Assurance: A Simple Tool for Gaining Real Assurance of Salvation is on sale now. It is available on Amazon. If you buy the paperback version between August 12th-16th(2019), you can get the Kindle (ebook) version for free, with an app you can save the book on your phone or tablet. For more information visit
FixerUpperMarriage.org/FullAssurance. Just click on the paperback version and it should give you the ebook as you check out. Assurance is something I personally struggled with for a few years. So this is a book from someone who has been there. Our website now has a bookstore that I will be adding to overtime. Send any questions to Jason@fixeruppermarriage.org.When fixing up a house, the decorations are what really make it special. All the choices you get to make, come together to make your house unique. You pick the paint colors, the pictures on the wall, the style of the drapes, and even the little decor in your kitchen. In our living room, we have shadow boxes with baby items from all our children. There are also pictures that we have bought and that family members have given to us. Our kitchen cabinets are all topped with decorative baskets that my wife has collected over the years. We have red storage containers and appliances. This is the way we want it. The decorations in our home are the results of all the little decisions that we have made about what we want. Marriage is a lot like your house. The little things that you want, that you add to your marriage make it unique and desirable to you. All the little choices that you make add up to making your marriage the way that you want it. You chose to have those picture frames in the hallway. You chose the style of that quilt in your bedroom. You have made choices that make your marriage what is, and those choices reflect what you want. This is 3 Ways to Have the Marriage You’ve Always Wanted. This is your guide for interior decorating in your marriage.This brings us to short Bible verse I discovered this week hidden within the writings of the minor prophets. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.Zephaniah 3:17This model from God is the key to decorating your marriage and getting what YOU want out of it.3 Ways to have the marriage you’ve always wanted:1. Learn to Change YouThis is like the secret ingredient to a happy marriage. Decorate your marriage with change. Not just any change, but your own changes. Like many of the minor prophet books of the Bible, (They are minor because of their length, not the value of their content) Zephaniah is filled with warnings of destruction for Israel because of them forsaking God. However, in this section of the book, things have changed, and the Bible says that God will save. This a huge change for those willing to turn from their sins.Stop Trying to Change Your Spouse I don’t know why we do it, but we all do. You wish for your spouse to be better, or even worse you try to make your spouse better. This never ends well for your marriage. Looking and waiting for a change in your spouse is like waiting to win the Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes- it’s not gonna happen! It like the odds are stacked against you.The husband wishes his wife were different and instead of sitting down to discuss it, he becomes disconnected. Then it becomes like a cycle when the wife notices the disconnection and tries to fix the husband. So, instead of becoming more as he wants, she becomes less of it in trying to change him. This can get so bad,
