In my previous post "Don't Wait to Fireproof Your Marriage," I wrote to you about the movie Fireproof (based on the book Love Dare). I hadn't started the book at that point and honestly, I was being pretty stubborn not to. Well, I finally started it early December and it's only supposed to take 40 days to do it, but I'm only on Day 16 over a month later! It's not that I haven't been loyal to it, it's that I promised myself I wouldn't go on unless I fully accomplished the daily dare and I'm so glad that I have stuck to my word. The Lord has been working on me really hard so be ready for Him to mold you and break you and don't put it off like I did...you're ready now whether you think your marriage needs it or not. So go buy the book or if funds are too tight right now...I was on the Family Life website today (the same website I recommended in "Treat Yourself to a Retreat") and they email a dare every day and you can do it with them leading up to Valentine's Day. I find it works best for me to review my day in the evening so I will reread my dare and make notes about it if I completed the dare or put the book away and work on it the next day. If I completed it, I will read the next days dare after I make notes and begin preparing my plans for the following day (beginning with prayer). Well, I was blown away yesterday with God's perfect timing because I had a really hard day in marriage-ville, which thankfully doesn't happen very often, but when I reread the dare for me to report on I immediately began to weep. The Lord knew all along that this was the exact Day I needed to be on on January 12 or it never would have affected me like it did...thus once again I am very glad I have taken my time in this book. 1 Peter 3:3-4 is what I needed to remember yesterday.
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