The Marriage Mirror Challenge

By: Shawnee Eskridge , Faith Based Clinical Therapist Bible Tools: Don't Look Back , In Security , and Soul Detox Additional Resources: Soul Ties by Del Lawrence I don't know if it's that we don't realize it or that we don't like to to talk about it, but sometimes there is a very present third wheel during marital disagreements. The third wheel is Satan. His agenda to steal, kill and destroy is very real. Number one on his list is your marriage to your spouse. Second on his list is your marriage to God. If he can get you to destroy the former, getting you to doubt the latter is a child's play to him. The key is to not give him that opportunity. Help Satan destroy my marriage . . . who would willing do that, Shawnee? You, me, anyone when we're so caught up in our feelings. We forget to forgive or pray for God's guidance through a difficult time. Even forgetting to ask God for his guidance to continue good habits in marriage can be costly. Com...

By: Shawnee Eskridge , Faith Based Clinical Therapist Bible Tool: The Unglued Challenge Terry and I have been married a little over eight years now. However, if I am honest, the best part of our marriage started only two years ago. When we started out the honeymoon phase fizzled out by year three. Neither of us were prepared for what came next - a lot of disagreeing. More to the point the intensity of the disagreeing. Everything felt like "the end". I grew tried of all the fighting in what I would like to consider as rather quickly. However, what really happened is that it took two years and me throwing around the "D" threat a lot for me to begin questioning myself. I got fed up with me; with my contributions to the conflict. I got to a point where something had to change. It was either me, the marriage, or both. I learned a while ago (over 10 years), when praying for your marriage to change, to learn to expect God to work on you first. (Thanks, Stormie Omart...