Living Our Vows: Mr. & Mrs. Lewis

For today's Living Our Vows series....i am excited to introduce Desiray, a very Spirit filled wife who will share with us in an honest and candid way how she and her husband lives their vows.  

You will be surprised to find out some of the things they pray about in their marriage.

Desiray is also the author of The Devotion Cafe, an award-winning book,
so sit back, sip on something soothing and enjoy today's Living Our Vows with Desiray!

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My name is Mrs. Desiray Lewis and I have been married for two years, and one of the things I want to

share with you is that before me and my husband got engaged we talked allot about many different

things, we talked about finances, careers, health, family and our ministry. 

We both have been saved for many years if I had to give a total 

I would have to say 60 years combined together. 

We know how important marriage is and we know 

the blessing of it when two people come together that the Lord has

put together, I say this because not all marriages are God appointed. 

What I mean is some people don't wait on the Lord to bring them their spouse, 

as for me and my husband we both waited upon the Lord.

One of the things we really talked about is bringing honor to God in our marriage in everyday,

 divorce is not an option in our marriage and we live by that. 

During our dating we kept everything pure we did

not engage in any sexual relations until we got married 

we both wanted to be able to stand in the sight

of God knowing that we kept ourselves clean until marriage. 

I know many people today don't do this 

and many think well you are not a young woman you could of done it, 

but we wanted to be pure before the Lord.

 But we learn to discipline ourselves and submit our flesh to the Lord 

so that we can do what was in our hearts to do before God.

One of the bible verses we used in our wedding is found in 1 Corinthians 13, the Love chapter, 

and this one was hard because I knew I loved my husband so much 

but I didn't know how to love him like God

loves him, so the day we stood in front of the pastor, 

and the family we both asked the Lord to show us

how to love one another.

Maybe you are reading this and you think this is fairy tale who can actually do this? 

Well see it's God who does this not nothing I do.

 During the course of our two years in marriage we have faced some

struggles especially with learning how to love one another, 

but one thing those challenges has done for

us is drawn us closer to God and strengthen our marriage. 

Marriage will pull things from you that you never knew you had,

I can remember several times when I would say I am not going to do a certain

thing and the Lord will speak to me so quickly and say “do it anyway, and talk about my flesh not

wanting to do it, some times I would do it other times I would be disobedient to God, but God only

allow me to go but so far before I began to feel His correction.

And still to this day and though it has only been two years, we still live those vows 

we said in 1 Corinthians 13, yes we still live them.

As a matter of fact I will share something which is very personal and I

believe every married couple who has Jesus the center of their marriage should pray this. 

One of the things my husband do when we have our devotion time together and prayer time is he will pray about our love making, yep you heard me, the first time I heard him pray this I was shocked because I have never heard any woman mention this or any husband who says that they pray about their love making.

And so when I heard him pray that I asked him why? And he said, because baby God honors it He

created it for married men and woman to share and so when I make love to you I want God to be

glorified. WOW! That blew me away and I realized at that moment just how much this man truly want

to bring God in every area of our marriage.

And I gotta say this, it has been the best I have ever experienced in all my life it's something I can't

explain only but to say “BUT GOD.” I love my husband very much and I look forward to growing with

him, we support each other in ministry we pray together go to church together and we look out for each

other spiritual well being as well. Each day I thank God for this man because only God knew what I

needed, and God created him just for me

I leave you with this being married is a blessing from God and if you did not wait for the Lord for your

spouse I say to you today, give your marriage over to the Lord now, let God be the center of your

marriage because so many marriages these days are breaking up and families are being split. Life is not

always fair to us many things we do in the course of our day brings frustration and stress our way. But

if you have a loving spouse who loves and cares about you, it makes it all worth it.

It's never to late to bring the Lord into your marriage let Him guide you both because neither partners

are perfect we have our own views and ways, but when God is the center of your marriage you stop

looking at getting your own needs met and you stop being selfish and began to look for ways which

honors the Lord and in return God blesses you for honoring Him in your marriage.

I want to thank Mrs. Pancakes for allowing me to post on her site about our wedding vows, 

and may we all continue to pray for marriages across this globe..AMEN

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Thank you Desiray! 

What an awesome and great way to begin the Living Our Vows series in the new year!

And the fact you and the hubby pray about everything including about intimacy 

is such a teachable moment for all of us.

Question of the Day

Since you've been married, what has marriage pulled from you?

Do you and your spouse/family have daily devotions?