Marriage …
…… is for life a covenant relationship made between a man and a woman before God. Include Him, the designer of marriage, in your marriage each day by praying together and for each other. Continue to daily invest in your marriage through prayer, time together and speaking out words of life –
you will see great returns.
Increase The Investment In Your Marriage
Join the Marriage Investment Bank (MIB) today to receive:
- A monthly email which may contain
- Discussion ideas or points to start meaningful conversations with your spouse
- A suggested date night for you to plan with your spouse
- A challenge for you and your spouse
- A prayer for you both to pray over your marriage/family
- through Marriage Week the second week in September each year you will receive a daily investment letter
There are no costs involved (you will not find anywhere on our website a request for funds) – just the commitment of you and your spouse to take your marriage and family to the next level. Your privacy is not invaded; we do not share/sell any personal data, and we maintain our own mailing system and its data on our own secure, dedicated server.
MIB was founded in 2011. Since that time 100’s of couples, both in Australia and overseas, have joined as investors. They are investing in part of the critical infrastructure of their nation, their church, their community – their own marriage and family!
Join us all in celebrating the beauty of covenant marriage as designed by God.
Marriage is Important
The Importance of Marriage – primarily from the perspective of Scripture.
God’s Creation
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27 NKJV)
Right from the start God made men and women equal, in “the image of God” but with complementary differences as men and women.
On the creation of man God placed him in the garden and gave him His vision for life in the world that He, God had created. God then saw that something was incomplete and said “Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.” (Genesis 2:18 NLT). God had seen that it was not good for the first man, and for most of us, to be left by himself.
God then created/crafted woman out of the rib of that first man ( Genesis 2:21-22). Then, God presented and entrusted this remarkable gift to the man.
What we know as marriage had been instituted by God. A man and a woman becoming one new entity and, as we are told later being “one flesh”. That entity of one man and one woman being the fundamental human relationship in God’s created world. This human relationship being the basis for family — a relationship that is there ahead of the parent-child relationship.
Genesis 2:24 tells us
Prayer for marriage ~ June
This month the prayers are for marriages where either the husband, wife are working or involved in the area of religion or philosophy.
Religion is composed of a set of morals and rules. Religions generally have a set of dogmatic beliefs and practices that are designed to help a person achieve a spiritual goal. A religion is about believing and doing the right thing in order to be ‘right’ with the spiritual universe. However, Christianity is a relationship with Jesus Christ, a faith in Almighty God. The Son of God commanded Christians to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Love your neighbour as yourself.” (Mat 22:37-40)
Philosophy is a critic of belief and belief systems devoted to wisdom, which acts as a guiding principle for behaviour. Philosophy is man’s explanations for our existence.
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Equipping Marriages For Sustainability
Much is written these days about sustainability, usually in terms of the environment. For us, this should be a natural part of good stewardship and the dominion which we were given (Gen. 1:26-28), which, although lost through Adam’s sin, was restored to us through Christ.
Marriage between a man and a woman, as designed by God, should be the image of sustainability. Marriage is a covenant relationship for life, no matter what lies before us – God is always with us (Psa 23; Heb 13:5-8).
There are two foundational ways in which we can equip those who are married and also those who will be married in the future:
- Speaking out the Word (2 Tim 3:16), whether through a sermon message or other meetings. The Word that speaks of the design and purpose of marriage, the roles of husband/wife and father/mother. The Word on how we should forgive, communicate, etc., is all-important
