Beauty in Battle

We have discovered in our relationship that beauty results when we choose to no longer fight against each other in a personal battle but alongside one another in a spiritual war.The problem in marriage is that we often fight the wrong battle. We wage war against each other rather than the real enemy - Satan. Many of us are not even aware of his desire to take us down. So we end up as adversaries rather than allies. Somehow, we buy the lie that we are enemies-while the real enemy wreaks...
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We have discovered in our relationship that beauty results when we choose to no longer fight against each other in a personal battle but alongside one another in a spiritual war.The problem in marriage is that we often fight the wrong battle. We wage war against each other rather than the real enemy - Satan. Many of us are not even aware of his desire to take us down. So we end up as adversaries rather than allies. Somehow, we buy the lie that we are enemies-while the real enemy wreaks havoc on our relationship.We know what this feels like. In our first year of marriage we discovered that the things we once liked about each other didn't seem so likeable anymore. And in the years that followed it was more of the same. Arguments and fights became commonplace. Little did we know that that was the plan of the enemy all along: to get us fighting face-to-face against each other rather than shoulder-to-shoulder against him. This relational pivot kept us in the same rut over and over.But then God woke us up! He put us on a path to discover how to use our struggles to increase the strength of our marriage-how to turn the fight into something that drew us together rather than something that tore us apart. We learned that we didn't need to stop fighting; we needed to start fighting ...the right way. It isn't a physical fight, but a spiritual one. Waging war together in the spiritual has drawn us together in the natural. Like us, many couples need to wake up to the real battle. The only way to discover the beauty in your marriage is to first be willing to enter the battle for your marriage. Maybe you and your spouse have not yet learned how you can experience power and unity by waging war this way. But as you walk through these pages with us, we'll show you how we did it. We'll give you the practical steps we took to turn conflict and quarrels into passion and purpose.