Ignite The Fire Archives

Dreaming With My Husband Gives Us A Reason To Celebrate

2013-09-16

Ignite The Fire Of Your Marriage – Week 3 We were moving into our second year of being husband and wife. We had already experienced so much as newlyweds adventuring places like California, Washington, Africa, El Salvador, Florida and Canada. We were missionaries, traveling around the world together sharing the love of God. As much as it was exciting, it was incredibly difficult as we encountered hardships that tested our faith and challenged the way we trusted God. One thing that we established early in our relationship that unified us and gave us hope was dreaming together. We were passionate about sharing where we were and where we believed God was taking us. We were living in Canada at the time, just above the New

"Kindness is a gift that puts a smile on someone else's face."

Kindness Is A Beautiful Gift Of True Love

2013-09-09

Ignite The Fire Of Your Marriage – Week 2 The sun was headed towards the horizon, leaving streaks of different colors painted across the sky. I was laboring in the kitchen with a few of my friends, preparing dinner for everyone on the base. We all took turns serving each other – a joy which everyone seemed to do passionately. We were missionaries in rural Africa being the hands and feet of Jesus. While I chopped up tomatoes, carrots, and apples for a delicious salad, my husband came in to ask if I could take a break. At first I denied him, taking my responsibility in the kitchen seriously. When he asked again with a grin on his face, I was too curious to see

Rebuilding A Dwindled Passion For My Husband

2013-09-02

Ignite The Fire Of Your Marriage – Week 1 Passion…such a beautiful word. As a wife, one of my prayers is always to have more passion in my marriage. Why? I guess because I want my relationship with my husband to be mutually invigorating, full of love, a well-spring of intimacy, faithfulness, and security. I want my husband to be my everything and I desire to be my husband’s everything! My heart’s desire is that my husband and I continue to grow closer together, understand each other deeper, experience more intimacy more often, and love each other more extravagantly than any other couple has ever loved. Our marriage to this point in time has encountered moments such as these, but I never want to plateau,

Ignite The Fire Of Your Marriage – New Marriage Series

2013-08-29

Marriage is the core of the family unit. It is vital that husbands and wives remain faithful to one another, invest into their relationship intentionally, and choose to love each other every day. We need to remember to keep our marriage relationship a priority or else it will be vulnerable to ruin. I know how difficult marriage can be. Yet, I also know the power of love and the awesome reward of staying committed during those most challenging seasons. I have been through hard times. Times of contemplating divorce. But I am here to tell you that it is worth it to stay and fight for the gift of marriage. I could only do it because of the strength I found as I drew close