Cleaving To One Another in Financial Turmoil

Once you become married to one another it is important that you realize that you marry into each others financial lives as well. Debt that you carried becomes your spouses debt and vice versa. Everything becomes "ours" whether it is good or bad. You must work through this together as one.

Make it a priority to come together in agreement on how the debt will be handled and paid off as one. You will have to sacrafice which leads to obedience to God. Proverbs 22:7 says, " The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." Therefore, it is imperative that you strive to pay off all debt. You should be a servant to God not a creditor.

Have a meeting where you can come up with a systematic plan of getting rid of the debt so that you do not have to be a servant. Learn how to pay for things with cash rather than credit. I know that there are some things such as your house that you most likely can not pay with cash, but the general rule should be to use cash only.

The Bible says in Matthew 6:33,"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you." This can not and will not happen unless you seek God first. So be sure to pray over you financial situation and invite the Holy Spirit to lead you over your finances.

God can not "add unto you" until he first knows that you are a good steward over what he has already given to you.

The Power of Oneness

When you become married, the first thing that you must realize is that it was created by God and that the only instruction manual that you are to follow once you become married is the word of God. The Bible has the answer for every problem, situation, circumstance, occurence, or what ever else you can think of.

Ephesians 5:21, "Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ." means that as husband and wife you are commanded by God to submit to each other as you submit to Christ Jesus. In Ephesians 5: 31, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This is another commandment from God for the husband and wife to become one.

This means that married couples are to become one, mine and yours must be replaced with ours. When you keep mine and yours in the picture it continuously opens the door for division and separation within the marriage. Matthew 19:6, Wherefore what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." Don't let family, friends, mass media or any one else interfere within your marriage.

Let God be the deciding factor. When difficulties and differences arise, go to the word of God to settle them. Let God tell you spiritually what you should do in the natural to resolve the situation, emotion, etc.

Become one with your spouse and God will continue to show his favor and his blessing. Seek God in all that you do and say at all times.