July 7, 2023 
Hi all! Each time our wedding anniversary comes round, i can’t believe how much our marriage has grown more and more fruitful. Our love keeps blossoming through every season…And i always thank God for my lovely wife Sarah!! ❤️ Oh and i just had to show you the wedding cake…Unfortunately i didn’t have one made again for this anniversary, lol! 🤣
Our Wedding Cake…Mmmmm! 😋
Striving to be a Godly husband…
I strive daily to love Sarah biblically and extravagantly, but to love her biblically i always first ask “What is God’s love for us like?”
God’s Word…📖
Husbands, you must love your wives so deeply, purely, and sacrificially that we can understand it only when we compare it to the love that Jesus Christ has for His bride, the church..
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails…” —1 Corinthians 13:4–8
Our Prayer…🙏
Father God, Thank You for the gift and design of marriage. Nothing has brought greater joy to me than the spouse You created for me. Because You designed my marriage and are the author, perfector, and the foundation of marriage, I bring us before You today to bless this bond. In a world that has twisted what marriage is intended to reflect, in a world that tries to tear at the very fabric of our union, we ask that You continue to keep our eyes wide open to the enemy’s tactics, strategies, and distractions. May we always fight for our marriage and each other. Today, we come before and ask that You bless our marriage…Amen.
A Godly Marriage Post…
The post (below) on marriage is beautiful and is writen far better than anything i can come up with, lol…So i hope you enjoy it as much as me! 🙏
A little nook in the very heart of God
(J.R. Miller, “The Marriage Altar” 1898)
God’s plan for every marriage is happiness.
Marriage is meant to be a miniature of Heaven–a fragment of the celestial blessedness, let down into this world.
Marriage is meant to be a little sanctuary, into which husband and wife may flee from earth’s storms and dangers, where in love’s shelter, their hearts fed with affection’s daily bread–they may dwell in quiet peace.
Marriage is meant to be a shelter in which, covered from the frosts of the world and shielded from its cold and tempests–two lives may grow together into richest beauty, realizing their sweetest dreams of happiness, blending in whatever things are true, whatever things are pure, and attaining the finest possibilities of godly character.
Marriage is meant to be a holy ark, floating on the wild floods of human life–like Noah’s ark on the deluge, bearing to Heaven’s gates, to the harbor of glory–the lives which God has shut within its doors.
A godly marriage is a little nook in the very heart of God, where faithful souls are held close to the Father’s heart, and carried safely, amid dangers and sorrows, to the home above!
iChristian 
You and Sarah reflect what marriage should be like. It’s a work in progress but one you’ve willingly accepted. That takes courage, tenderness, and love, my friend. And I’ll wait for when you have this cake again!
Reblogged this on Faithful Steward Ministries and FSM Women's Outreach.
Happy Anniversary, wishing you and Sarah many blessings.
Awww thank you so much!! And thanks for all of your ‘Reblogs’ too, it’s such a blessing for me and i hope it blesses all of you too?! 🙏 😀
I wish you a happy wedding anniversary, praying for more love, peace and joy in your home.
Amen! Thank you so much. God bless you. 🙏 😀
Ditto on what Dayle said, I’m in total agreement with everything she said. I believe that most people believe what J R said and is why there is so much expectation and disappointment with and in marriage.
Yay, i always love it when you come on over here and leave your comments! 😀
Yes i grew up in a broken home where marriage was something you put on and put off…And then seeing all around the unloving marriages etc, it was heartbreaking. I’m so blessed and thank God everyday for my marriage to Sarah! 🙏 😀
Thank you. Your post and comments are always great.
Happiest of anniversaries to you and Sarah, my friend. And thank you so much, not just for the post on marriage, but your prayer for your marriage is so beautiful and reflective of your heart of awareness for how challenging marriage can be in a broken world. And the cake was awesome!
Wow…I have no idea how to respond to your loving and edifying comment like this! 😀
I know and always say that ‘i’ve married up’, and my prayer is mainly to stop Sarah seeing the real me, lol! 🤣 But seriously we only need to look around (even our churches unfortunately) to have empirical evidence for the state of marriages. I pray all the time for God to nail me and keep blessing our marriage as i know i don’t deserve a beautiful wife like Sarah, never mind to be blessed for 16 years of marriage that is just growing and growing! 🙏 😀 Oh wait there, i said i didn’t have a response, lol!! 🤣
Awww Dayle i wished that you could’ve tried some of that cake, it was amazing! 😋 Maybe we’ll have a 20th anniversary party and have one made again, then we’ll bring you some over! 😀