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He picked a flower for me all by himself😭🌸 H He picked a flower for me all by himself😭🌸 He’s learning young the way to a girl’s heart… His daddy used to bring me gifts every time he saw me when we were dating, so I’m not surprised. 😂 On our first date he opened up his trunk and had 10 different pairs of rainbows sandals for me to choose from for my birthday🙈
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It’s so crazy that in just 15 short weeks (105 d It’s so crazy that in just 15 short weeks (105 days. But who’s counting..🙋🏻‍♀️) we’ll be a family of four! 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Praying every day that God will give me strength to handle THREE boys. I need a girl dog or something 😂
Being a mom is hard. Trying to be a Christian mom Being a mom is hard. Trying to be a Christian mom is even harder. My challenge to you today is to read through 1st Samuel 1 & 2 and write down the ways you see Hannah (Samuel’s mother) is a good example of a mother. Share what you find in the comments below!! 
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What would your family look like if you spent as much time in prayer as you do the laundry or cooking meals? 
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Remember why God chose you to a wife and a mother. Your job isn’t just laundry and cleaning and driving kids here and there. Your job is to train up your children in the way of the Lord and to be a faithful loving helpmate to your husband 💕
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Let’s start today in prayer for our precious families!
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“For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.” 1 Samuel 1:27
Date Night with my sweet husband tonight 💕 We h Date Night with my sweet husband tonight 💕 We heard the best sermon on marriage at church today. I just wanted to share part of it with you all! 
Marriage has a posture of work. God put Adam in the Garden to work it. The only way you’ll enjoy paradise is if you work at it. Your marriage isn’t a vacation, it is a gift & a job.
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Marriage is a promotion to leave, meaning keep people out of your marriage. (Your family, friends, etc)
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Marriage has a process to cleave. You lay down yourself for the other person every day. 
Marriage has a peril from the enemy.
Marriage is God’s #1 option of forecasting his love to the world,so it’s Satan’s #1 object to attack. Satan attacked the first marriage who had Jesus himself as their officiant. Don’t think it can’t happen to you. If the plan of God for marriage is one-ness, the trick of the enemy is two-ness. 
If you made it this far, thanks for reading! I hope you learned something. Marriage is so special and we have to be so careful with it. 💙
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Christmas is right around the corner. Let’s not forget the reason our precious Savior was born ♥️ To fill us with hope and joy and peace through the Holy Sprit and to give us the gift of eternity with Him!
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Relationships · February 18, 2022

5 Reasons We Saved Kissing and Sex For Marriage

Let me start out by saying that nowhere in the Bible does it say that you can’t kiss before you are married. However, I want to explain to you why Tommy and I decided that kissing while we were dating and engaged was not good for us. You might be wondering, what’s the point of no kissing? Here are the 5 reasons we saved kissing and sex for marriage.

If you haven’t heard our love story yet, read it here first.

5 reasons we saved kissing and sex for marriage

5 Reasons We Saved Kissing and Sex for Marriage: 

We didn’t want to tempt each other
We wanted our relationship to grow spiritually
We wanted God to be glorified through our relationship
We had crossed lines in the past and wanted this relationship to be different
We didn’t want to be blinded by lust in our relationship

Our Story

Tommy started our relationship saying that he wouldn’t kiss me until I was his girlfriend, and he wouldn’t ask me to be his girlfriend until he was sure that he was going to marry me. I thought it was a sweet and respectful sentiment, but at the time I just really wanted to kiss him!

Tommy and I had both been in previous relationships where we gave all of ourselves to people who weren’t right for us. There is a reason why God says to not “awaken love until its’ time” (Song of Solomon 3:8). We both struggled with physical boundaries. We knew that about each other, so we had a choice to make.

Were we going to go down that road of struggle and failure again or were we going to hold this relationship to a higher standard?

We did not see any point in dating if our relationship was going to bring us both farther from the life that God had for us. We knew that sexual immorality, which is any sort of lust outside of marriage, would only cause us to push God away. Tommy and I had already tried living life that way and we knew that it would not fulfill us. We wanted to pursue our relationship with God at the center and to glorify Him through our relationship.

When it came down to where to draw the line, I really did NOT want to give up kissing. However, the decision was pretty simple and straightforward for us. It was either keep kissing and tempting our flesh or give up kissing and save our relationship with each other and God.

Kissing Isn’t Bad, So Why Should I Have To Give It Up?

Kissing itself is not bad. Who doesn’t love kissing? The problem with kissing is that it is like the “gateway drug” to all things sex. Kissing leads to making out. Making out leads to clothes coming off. Clothes coming off leads to…. You get the idea. It’s not long before you have crossed a line that you didn’t want to cross.

You might say, “I can kiss for hours and not be tempted to cross the line.” Well, if that’s you, then another reason that you have to consider is the person you are dating. You might be fine, but they might be struggling. The Bible tells us, “do not become a stumbling block to the weak.” (1 Corinthians 8:9) If you are constantly pushing the line, it can be really tormenting to the person you are dating if their resolve is not as strong as yours.

How Did Not Kissing Help Your Relationship?

I’ll be honest with you guys. Tommy and I got into a HUGE fight the night before our wedding. We settled things enough to get through our rehearsal dinner peacefully, but the fight continued after dinner. By the time we made it back to my parents house, I was ready to call off the wedding! Crazy, right?

My parents were going between the two of us trying to understand what on earth had happened. They did not want to push us into making a mistake by either going through with it or calling it off. It was a fine line they had to walk. Ultimately, what got through to me was something that my dad asked me. He said, “If you don’t marry Tommy tomorrow, can you envision yourself ever marrying anyone else?” At that moment I broke down. I knew Tommy was the one for me. He had proven his selfless love for me over and over again by abstaining from crossing any physical boundaries. I knew he loved God and he loved me. There were absolutely NO red flags with him.

Honestly, if Tommy and I had been crossing lines during our dating life, our marriage likely would not have happened. We had so much hurt and insecurity to overcome from previous relationships that we needed a clean slate. We wanted to prove to each other that this relationship was special and different, and we didn’t want to screw up God’s perfect plan for us. So that is how not kissing really helped our relationship. It allowed us the time and space to heal from previous mistakes, and it helped us grow together as a couple. It took a lot of strength to refrain from kissing and it only made us stronger as a couple.

Should I Try Not Kissing While Dating?

I will say that I have absolutely ZERO regrets about not kissing Tommy before our wedding day. It was the best thing that we ever did. It was extremely difficult, but it was SO worth it. When our wedding day came, we knew that we ran the race the best we could. We had no misgivings about the way we went about our relationship and into our marriage. If you want to try it, I say go for it! Pray about it and talk about it with your significant other. Don’t let them talk you out of it if you are convicted by the Holy Spirit. It’s normal for them to push back and not want to do it (that was me!), but Tommy and I both prayed and God made it obvious to us that He wanted us to not kiss.

I am so grateful that God has given me this platform to share mine and Tommy’s story and the reasons we saved kissing and sex for marriage I hope and pray that God speaks to you through it and that He uses our story to inspire you and to strengthen your resolve to save sex for marriage. If you have any questions please comment below or send me a message through our contact page!

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#christianblog #christianquotes #quoteoftheweek #godislove #bysamanthajordan #reallove
I‘ve been on the hunt for the perfect Christmas I‘ve been on the hunt for the perfect Christmas tree and I finally found it on display at Target yesterday but they were all sold out 😭 My sweet husband called every Target in the valley looking for this tree. The Palm Springs Target said they had three in stock, so we drove all the way there only to find they were all sold out too 😭 BUT the nicest worker there asked the manager if we could have the display and they said YES 🙌🏼 So we got our perfect tree 🎄 Christmas is saved. 😂
He picked a flower for me all by himself😭🌸 H He picked a flower for me all by himself😭🌸 He’s learning young the way to a girl’s heart… His daddy used to bring me gifts every time he saw me when we were dating, so I’m not surprised. 😂 On our first date he opened up his trunk and had 10 different pairs of rainbows sandals for me to choose from for my birthday🙈
•
•
I guess sweet husbands make sweet babies. Remember that ladies😉💍
It’s so crazy that in just 15 short weeks (105 d It’s so crazy that in just 15 short weeks (105 days. But who’s counting..🙋🏻‍♀️) we’ll be a family of four! 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Praying every day that God will give me strength to handle THREE boys. I need a girl dog or something 😂
Being a mom is hard. Trying to be a Christian mom Being a mom is hard. Trying to be a Christian mom is even harder. My challenge to you today is to read through 1st Samuel 1 & 2 and write down the ways you see Hannah (Samuel’s mother) is a good example of a mother. Share what you find in the comments below!! 
.
.
.
.
#biblicalmother #motherhood #mamalife #parentingtips #parentlife #christianmotherhood
Do you pray for your kids? . . Do you pray for you Do you pray for your kids?
.
.
Do you pray for your husband? 
.
.
What would your family look like if you spent as much time in prayer as you do the laundry or cooking meals? 
.
.
Remember why God chose you to a wife and a mother. Your job isn’t just laundry and cleaning and driving kids here and there. Your job is to train up your children in the way of the Lord and to be a faithful loving helpmate to your husband 💕
.
.
Let’s start today in prayer for our precious families!
Today I’m just feeling so grateful to be this sw Today I’m just feeling so grateful to be this sweet little boy’s mama. How did I get so lucky?
.
.
“For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.” 1 Samuel 1:27
Date Night with my sweet husband tonight 💕 We h Date Night with my sweet husband tonight 💕 We heard the best sermon on marriage at church today. I just wanted to share part of it with you all! 
Marriage has a posture of work. God put Adam in the Garden to work it. The only way you’ll enjoy paradise is if you work at it. Your marriage isn’t a vacation, it is a gift & a job.
•
Marriage is a promotion to leave, meaning keep people out of your marriage. (Your family, friends, etc)
•
Marriage has a process to cleave. You lay down yourself for the other person every day. 
Marriage has a peril from the enemy.
Marriage is God’s #1 option of forecasting his love to the world,so it’s Satan’s #1 object to attack. Satan attacked the first marriage who had Jesus himself as their officiant. Don’t think it can’t happen to you. If the plan of God for marriage is one-ness, the trick of the enemy is two-ness. 
If you made it this far, thanks for reading! I hope you learned something. Marriage is so special and we have to be so careful with it. 💙
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and p “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
.
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Christmas is right around the corner. Let’s not forget the reason our precious Savior was born ♥️ To fill us with hope and joy and peace through the Holy Sprit and to give us the gift of eternity with Him!
Let’s get to know each other! This is my little Let’s get to know each other! This is my little family. My husband Tommy and I have been married for 2.5 years. We have one little boy named Thomas who is 15 months old. We also have another baby on the way, due in February 2020 💙 We live in the Coachella Valley in Southern California. Anything else you guys would like know just drop in the comments below!

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