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title: "Our heart for marriage and family"
author: Garrett Winder
date: 2024-11-10
source: Church notes
weight: personal
url: https://garrettwinder.com/churchnotes/our-heart-for-marriage-and-family/
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# Our heart for marriage and family

> Personal. Never use it to judge professional fit. Written November 2024, Church notes. For what’s current, see https://garrettwinder.com/agents.md.

- Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean you don’t give it 110%.
- At the end of the day we can desire something for our kids, but if they don’t, it won’t become a priority.
- Today we are talking about family and what God desires for our family.
- How bad do you want your children, your grandchildren, etc. to have health in the family.
- The problem with our society is the breakdown of the family.

## Why should we fight for our family to be Godly?

- God ordains the family.
- Aka our family has been set it apart to serve Him
- Family, Church, Government is ordained
- **By providing a space for a human being to feel love, support, and guidance**
- Love isn’t just shown with actions, it’s said.
- Millennials are too soft because we don’t want our kids to hate us.
- God's design isn’t just love and support, it’s guidelines.
- **Our job as a parent is to prepare our children to survive in this crazy broken world or it’s going to eat them alive**.
- Prepare them for life
- “Did you see that? We love them but we don’t act like that because we love Jesus.”
- Collisions 3:18-21
- 30 thousand foot view of Gods design for the family
- Any attack against our family is an attack against God
- Our family is under attack and has been since the beginning. Adam and Eve in the garden was an attack between the family and their creator.
- February 2 marriage groups sign up
- Maybe your marriage is good but you want to take it to the next level.
- Marriage conference Feb 8
- Song ‘The Blessing’ from exodus chapter 6
- May The Lord bless you and may he keep you and may The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious
- What we need more than anything is God’s presence
- May he turn his face toward you and bring you peace.
- ’Amen’ means ‘let it be’