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 ~ September
The charity and not for profit sector has its own unique issues. These include raising funds, which in turn affects the ability to hire/retain/train staff and deliver services; the employment of volunteer staff and the need to employ suitably qualified staff, yet not always being in a position to offer salary packages equivalent to those on offer in the corporate field. The challenge of working with volunteers. The challenge of communicating in a foreign language, personal safety, dealing with different cultural norms and hygiene issues if working in some countries overseas. These issues and many others have the capacity to impact marriages and family. At this time there is also the very great challenges that have occurred as a result of the impact of government regulations seeking to
1) increase government control of employers’ ability to employ suitable staff &
2) restrict the truths of the Word of God.
The increased
Pornography – porneia, πορνεία
Pornography does not honour God and does not honour marriage. It destroys relationships!
The word pornography historically comes from the Greek words porni (“prostitute”) and graphein (“to write”). Originally the word was used to describe any work of art or literature depicting the life of prostitutes.
In more modern use, pornographie appears in an 1800 French treatise on prostitution, and this French usage is the likely basis for our use of it in English today. Today it has taken on a wider and different use.
During the time of the “Romans,” people practiced pornography, or obscene paintings, with the grossest license. This practice prevailed, especially in Greece, though not at any specific period, and people apparently tolerated it to a considerable extent at all times.
Turning to scripture, we see and know that porneia is a sin. The definition of πορνεία, porneia, in Strong’s Greek 4202 (coming also from other roots) will be
