{"id":13915,"date":"2016-08-18T00:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/13-keep-passion-alive\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:48","slug":"13-keep-passion-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/13-keep-passion-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"13 KEEP PASSION ALIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>\u201cI<\/b> am so tired of doing everything the same old way,\u201d moaned the distressed spouse. Insanity is doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results. God uses passion to produce breakthroughs in your marriage.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>What is passion? It\u2019s an intense love and desire to grow together as one in Christ. At times love loses its initial fire, not because romance has left the marriage, but because we give too many other things the priority of our attention and focus.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>While courting and preparing for marriage, a couple\u2019s primary focus is one another. That singular focus produces passion. But after the honeymoon, distractions begin to grow in the marriage like weeds. Such distractions cool down passion like removing logs from a fire.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Try this: Some practical steps you can take to keep the passion alive are:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Daily spend one-on-one time together.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Get away together regularly.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Identify distractions and minimize them. For example, turn off the phone during times you want to be together. Turn off the TV and spend time talking with one another.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Fill your weeks with unexpected surprises. Give gifts, make calls, have dates and have fun with one another.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>For your love is better than wine.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>Song 1:2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am so tired of doing everything the same old way,\u201d moaned the distressed spouse. Insanity is doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results. God uses passion to produce breakthroughs in your marriage. What is passion? It\u2019s an intense love and desire to grow together as one in Christ. At times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/13-keep-passion-alive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;13 KEEP PASSION ALIVE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}