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How To Restore Intimacy - Go To God First
 
By Gary Chapman

May 19, 2011                                                                                                Issue 652    

 

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I would totally agree with this article from Gary Chapman from my own experience. If I'm having issues in a relationship with anyone, not only my spouse, making a connection with God and His love is always a way to bring a solution.

Jim   

 

How To Restore Intimacy - Go To God First

 

 

By Dr. Gary Chapman

 

We thought that we would be intimate forever, but now we find ourselves feeling alone, shut out, and isolated.

 

How do we regain the intimacy of the early days of marriage? It requires the hard work of dealing with our failures. When Adam and Eve sinned, they were cut off not only from each other, but from God. It was restoring the relationship with God that brought the two of them back together.

 

Many estranged couples have found that when they returned to God, they were able to return to each other.

 

A man said to me recently, "When my marriage fell apart, I had no place to go but to God. When I went to God, He changed my heart, and then my wife was willing to give me another chance." It is a "changed heart" that makes a second chance viable. Without a changed heart, we will repeat the same selfish acts of the past.

 

Selfishness destroys intimacy and drives couples apart. It is love that brings people together, and true love comes only from God.

 

The place to start is not in seeking a second chance with your mate, but in seeking the forgiveness and love of God. When your heart is changed, then the stage is set for restoring marital intimacy.

 

 

Article taken directly from the book, Now You're Speaking My Language by Gary Chapman.

 

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God bless your marriage and your family. 

 

Jim

 

 

 


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