Therapy For Your Marriage 6

Proverbs 15 verse 22(KJV): Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

Dearly Beloved, I believe you have been enjoying this series of lessons on Therapy for Your Marriage. I also hope you find the insights and wisdom that’s being shared on this platform useful and applicable to your life. Don’t hesitate to let us know if this devotional has been of help to you. I have shared twenty signs and indicators of how you can know that your marriage needs one form of therapy or the other. My focus in this lesson is to dwell on how you can use the therapy that you receive in making your marriage stronger. But before we look at this, I want you to know that if you have one or more of any of the signs or indicators that I shared with you in your marriage, it simply means that you need counseling or help urgently. So be humble enough to get help and counsel. Let go of your pride or ego. Pro15v12. Therapy or counseling won’t diminish you; rather, it will strengthen and edify you. So what should you do after you have received counseling?

HOW TO BENEFIT FROM YOUR COUNSELLING

1. Be honest with yourself.

There is no point in deceiving yourself. You need to be brutally frank with yourself, you can deceive others, but you can’t deceive yourself or God. So, be honest enough about what you will get out of your counselling experience. This is how you can profit out of the therapy. Lam3v40

2. Apologize to your spouse.

It’s important you do this once you have been confronted with the truth to make for peace. And one of the ways you can do this is by apologizing to your spouse. This is one major thing that will set into motion reconciliation and restoration. So do it now and don’t postpone. Jam5v16

3. Commit yourself to the process of change.

Change is never easy, but it’s doable if you commit yourself to the process. I admit that there will be tough and difficult times, but your commitment to the entire process will see you through. Never say never my dear friend. Jb14v14. I am confident that his Grace will see you through in Jesus name, amen.

4. Be accountable.

Be accountable to God and to your spouse. When you do so, you will be giving your marriage a greater chance of succeeding. Rom14v12

My dear brothers and sisters, counseling is one of the powerful Therapies that your marriage needs and this kind of counseling is medicinal and therapeutic to your marriage. The reason it’s so is that this kind of counselling will bring healing, restoration and wholeness to your marriage. So make sure you embrace it, and as you do so, a stronger and better marriage will emerge. I pray that this would be your experience in Jesus name, amen. Pro11v14

Other Scriptural references: Pro9v9; 24v6: Eccle4v9: Gen2v18: Philip2v13: Eph4v15: 1thess5v25

Prayer for Today: Heavenly Father, I commit myself to the whole process of getting better in my marriage in Jesus name, amen.

CONFESSION: My heart is open to the truths I have received in this series of teachings. I choose to be a doer and not a hearer alone. I choose to apply the lessons I have learnt. My marriage cannot remain the same. I am getting better and stronger. My marriage is experiencing God’s touch and help. Things are changing for the better. This is my story and song in Jesus name, amen.