Here is a sampling from a Bridal Shower Talk that appears in full in my Bridal Shower Talk Resource eBook.
A Happy Home Recipe:
Pass around recipe cards and pencils.
Introduction: (At this point you can give a short introduction of what you are about to do.)
We start with the ingredients:
The first ingredient is
4 Cups of LOVE.
1 Corinthians 13:4 tell us how love behaves. "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; Suffers long speaks to me of patience.
When your husband does things that irritate and upset you, love holds back its temper and is kind. When your husband proudly tells his co-workers how he remembers when your anniversary is and he then he tells them the wrong date, love nods her head and smiles like he got it right and then later in private kindly tells him what the right date is. When you are tired and having to fix the meal while your husband sits on the couch, love doesn't seeth with envy because he is doing what you'd rather be doing. When you have disagreed with your husband about something and it turned out you were right, love doesn't say, "See! I told you so!"
The second ingredient is
2 Cups of LOYALTY
2 Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him
1 Kings8:61 "Let your heart therefore be loyal to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day."
A wife needs to be loyal to the Lord. If she is loyal to the Lord, then it will naturally follow that she will be loyal or faithful to her husband.
The third ingredient is
3 Cups of FORGIVENESS
Matthew 18:21 Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"
22 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
When you live under the same roof with someone, there are bound to be times when someone gets offended. He may not squeeze the toothpaste the same way you do. He might invite someone home to dinner without checking with you first. He might steal the covers at night. He might complain about what you cooked for dinner. He might leave his socks on the floor for you to pick up. How many times are you supposed to forgive him? Up to seventy times seven. Sometimes that is no easy task. You need God's grace to do it!
This is just part of one of three complete Bridal Shower Devotional Talks I have in my Bridal Shower Devotional Resource E-book. The complete bridal shower talk is in the above mentioned ebook. You can download the pdf file version at the link above.
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