Planning - How to Strengthen Your Hope

Let’s face it - marriage is a lot of hard work! Sometimes the daily grind, responsibilities, challenges, finances, and conflicting values, conspire to make you want to give up. Where do you find hope to keep going and stay faithful to your commitment? In this message, Chip brings a simple, very doable plan to help you find hope. This is a practical, how-to explanation of how to have a marriage that works - for both of you! Don’t miss it!

Biblical practices great marriages have in common:

• Love
• Hope

Jesus gives hope to His bride, the Church:

• John 14:1-21
• Hope is a picture of the future that says, what we are doing today is going to produce a better tomorrow.

Principles:

1. Long-term planning provides HOPE and PERSPECTIVE to overcome short-term pain and challenges.
2. Great plans provide a specific PATH and create HOPE for tomorrow and forever.
3. Hope rises and falls with how we keep our PROMISES.

Practical implications:

1. If you fail to PLAN, you plan to FAIL.
2. If you don’t have a plan, you don’t have HOPE.

Tools for transformation:

1. Clarity

• You are a trophy of God’s grace – you share hope when you share your brokenness.
• Assignment: Add 10 years – see the goal, plan to get there.

2. Structure – work together on:

• Finances
• Calendars

3. If necessary, get outside help

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Additional Resource Mentions

• I Choose Love Book

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