{"id":13938,"date":"2016-08-18T00:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/36-release-your-mate-to-be-all-god-created-her-to-be\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:56","slug":"36-release-your-mate-to-be-all-god-created-her-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/36-release-your-mate-to-be-all-god-created-her-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"36 RELEASE YOUR MATE TO BE ALL GOD CREATED HER TO BE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>W<\/b>hatever we try to control or dominate in marriage, we will ultimately destroy. One of the deadly cancers that eats away at marital harmony is control.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Are you a controlling and dominating spouse? Do you find yourself correcting almost everything your mate says? Do you have to know everywhere your mate is going and everything your mate is doing all of the time?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Every new creation in Christ has infinite potential. Your mate is filled with gifts, talents and untapped potential that will bless both you and your family.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Remember, marriage is not about you \u2026 it\u2019s about you mate, your seed and your seed\u2019s seed. The tighter you try to smother who your mate is and what your mate does, the farther you will push your spouse away from you.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Affirm your mate\u2019s gifts. See your mate the way God\u2019s sees him\u2014overflowing with possibilities and abundant purpose in life. Remember that your mate doesn\u2019t belong to you. He belongs to Christ.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Try this: Read 1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12 with your spouse. Ask each other to identity some of the gifts you each possess. Pray this prayer over your spouse, \u201cI release God\u2019s full potential and giftings in your life to be used for His glory. Amen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>There are many ways in which God works in our lives, but it is the same God who does the work in and through all of us who are His.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>1 Cor. 12:6\u20137<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever we try to control or dominate in marriage, we will ultimately destroy. One of the deadly cancers that eats away at marital harmony is control. Are you a controlling and dominating spouse? Do you find yourself correcting almost everything your mate says? Do you have to know everywhere your mate is going and everything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/36-release-your-mate-to-be-all-god-created-her-to-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;36 RELEASE YOUR MATE TO BE ALL GOD CREATED HER TO BE&#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-13938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938","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=13938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}