Amongst all the excitement of planning your wedding and your honeymoon, do not forget to plan for your marriage. The wedding and the honeymoon is what a lot of us old married folk call the “breeze.” It’s much more easy and fun in the beginning because you are so caught up in how much in love you are that you don’t see all of life’s stresses coming around the corner.

This is why we recommend you to take our premarital course, Preparing for the Covenant of Marriage. God made marriage a blood covenant, not just a contract. A blood covenant is a promise between God and man sealed with blood. It is the highest form of agreement, and it is not to be broken! This is why God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16)! We at NAME do not want divorce to be an option for you.

You need to divorce proof your marriage from the beginning. If you do that, then the devil will have no room to plant divorce as an option when all those stresses arise in your marriage, and realistically, they will arise at times. That is why our course covers all kinds of things that you need to realize or come to agreement on before marriage. The following are some of the different focal areas: sexually satisfying your spouse, finances and budgeting, faith and your relationship with God, family: in-laws, kids, and crisis prevention, fears and failures, and so on.

As we like to say here at NAME, try to put a guardrail at the top of the cliff rather than send an ambulance to the bottom! Prepare for your marriage ahead of time and see God do great things through your marriage!