Marriage After God: Chasing Boldly After God’s Purpose for Your Life Together by Aaron Smith

What if God has purposed your marriage for something so much more than "happily ever after?" Since the very beginning, God's design for marriage has been for husbands and wives to be ambassadors of holy love to a hurting world. Still, too many couples stop short at happy and wonder why they feel unsatisfied. Rather than "you and me against the world," God calls each couple to the rich and meaningful mission of "you and me for the world." In Marriage After God, Aaron and Jennifer Smith, popular marriage bloggers at HusbandRevolution.com and UnveiledWife.com, transparently share their own journey of turning a marriage in crisis into a marriage built on Christ's redemptive love. With fresh biblical insight and intimate stories of their own struggles and victories, this book will guide you toward a God-centered, ministry-minded, and thriving marriage. Throughout Marriage After God, you'll learn to: Discover the signature marks of a marriage after God Find principles for building an unshakable marriage foundation Let God's story take the lead in your love story Read more

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From the Publisher A Unique Marriage Book To Help You Chase Boldly After God's Will For Your Marriage — Together In this marriage book, you will discover that God has so much more for your marriage than just happily ever after. Did you know that God has so much more in his will for your marriage than happiness? In Marriage After God, we help you see that God desires to take you and your spouse on a journey of discovering why he brought you both together. We encourage you to dive into this marriage book and see for yourself that your marriage is meant for deep and meaningful ministry in this world, and that the closer you both grow to God and each other, the more you will see His will for your marriage. —Aaron and Jennifer Smith How This Marriage Book Will Help You Marriage After God is designed to help you: Find out why God brought you together. This unique marriage book empowers you and your spouse to discern God’s will and plan for your marriage. Identify your giftedness. Discover your unique God-given gifts, help foster communication, and improve intimacy in your marriage. Reflect on how the content applies to your marriage. Use the devotional-style questions at the end of each chapter for your personal devotional time or couple/group discussion. Use It as a Couples Devotional Dive into this as you would a couples devotional and begin to chase boldly after God's purpose for your life together. Each chapter has quotes to consider, and there are even devotional questions and discussion questions at the end of each chapter for reflection in your devotional journal or with your spouse. Our hope and prayer is that Marriage After God, when used as a couples devotional, will draw you closer to God and your spouse and ultimately help you see your marriage begin to flourish and grow like never before. Give It as a Meaningful Engagement or Wedding Gift Here is an engagement gift that will become an item of particularly special meaning and importance to your friends and their marriage. As a wedding gift, it’s designed to be used as a lifelong encouragement for them to continue to fight for each other when times are hard and thrive when times are good. Marriage After God is the engagement or wedding gift that will help prepare the couple for their future marriage with biblical principles and encouragement that will get them even more excited about their marriage. Our Prayer for the Readers of This Marriage Book Dear Lord, May Your Holy Spirit use this marriage book to inspire the hearts of those who read it to boldly chase after You and say yes to the extraordinary invitations You have prepared for them. We pray each couple will grow in their understanding of the power and purpose of their marriage. Reveal to them the specific plans You have for them. We pray You would use their marriage to do incredible work to build Your kingdom. In this dark world, may You protect these couples from the attacks of the enemy. May You cleanse them from sin and continue to shape them into the husbands and wives You created them to be. May they realize they bear Your image and that they are a light in this world and a beacon of hope to the lost and lonely. We ask You to guide each couple and unite them as a team to carry out the unique purposes You have for them! —Aaron and Jennifer Smith WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING Gary Thomas, bestselling author of Sacred Marriage. "Marriage After God is not your typical marriage book. Rather than focus on the common symptoms of marriage dysfunction and lack of intimacy, it dives into and focuses on the root causes: the need for faith, biblical truth, fellowship, ministry, and God-ordained vision. The Smiths take the wise path of urging us to grow a better marriage by focusing first on growing closer to God." Jeremy & Audrey Roloff, bestselling authors of A Love Letter Life. "In these pages Aaron and Jen have fantastically conveyed the purpose of the mission and meaning of marriage. A powerful marriage book that left us both inspired and awed ... no doubt this will become a must read for decades to come!" Jefferson Bethke, bestselling author of Jesus > Religion. "Marriage After God is an incredible resource for anyone trying to grow or step into a healthier and more life-giving marriage. Aaron and Jen pull no punches and are honest, raw, and authentic and show that a marriage in pursuit of Jesus can change the world."