Heirs Together: A Daily Devotional for Married Couples

By Jacqueline James-London

Marriage is a commitment to a person as a result of a covenant made. Most of us know of couples who have been physically separated for a prolonged period because of a job or study or immigration laws, yet remained faithful to each other. We know that there are many married people who live together yet are unfaithful to each other. Whats the difference? Commitment. Commitment is a decision to reach a destination at the start of the journey. You know that you will not allow anything to distract you or cause you to change your mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Oct 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491879863

Jacqueline James-London

Jacqueline was raised in a family where morning devotions were a daily occurrence, having been born just a few months prior to her parents becoming evangelical Christians. She made her own decision to become a committed Christian at the age of fifteen. Her love for reading and study characterized her childhood and teenage years and led to her tertiary education at the University of the West Indies. While there, she was secretary of the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship for two consecutive years and, to this experience, credits her passion for communicating to the world the importance and relevance of personal devotion to the Word of God in daily living. Jacqueline has been married to her husband, Mark, for the past twenty-six years, and together they raised three children in the district of Diego Martin in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago. However, her first son and second offspring, Adhriel, went to be with the Lord on September 4, 2011, at the age of twenty-two. Jacqueline has recently retired as a high school mathematics teacher and currently pursues her passion for writing and preparing Christian education material to be used by Christian educators in schools, community, and church groups, and by families on the whole. She also writes gospel tracts. Heirs Together is her first publication.

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Contents

Introduction

A Note for those in Troubled Marriages

Have a Solid Foundation

Have Patience

Be Appreciative

Love as Brethren

Pass it Over

Leave the Past Alone!

Pray Together

Be Supportive

Include Everything

Be Prepared

Watch Your Responses

Throw Those Moods Away

Give Some Space

Say I Love You

Be Budget Conscious

Be Romantic

Educate Yourself

Season that Speech

Grow Up!

Be Humble

Do Unto Others

Wait for The Promise

Believe God for Healing

Cast It Out!

Be An Example

Relinquishing Rights

Embrace the Cross

Avoid Cover-Ups

Keep it Balanced

Resist that Urge

Rejoice in Your Marriage

MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS

On target and good, very good. It points to some of the real issues that people face. What I like about it is how the Word is used appropriately.

Pastor Josephus Phillips

Neshar House of Redemption

P.O Box 5014

St. James

Trinidad

Extremely relevant and thought provoking.

Pastor Selwyn Clarke,

Covenant Family Worship Centre

#37, Henry Street

Port of Spain

Trinidad

It was soo . . . good, we used it all the time.

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Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey and Joyce Dyer (married 35 years)

Woodbrook Pentecostal Church

Woodbrook

Port of Spain

Trinidad

Introduction

I was in the middle of a meeting on my job, when my phone vibrated. I saw it was my husband. This has to be important, I thought. I left the room to take the call.

Hello, I said, expecting anything from a broken main to some act of terrorism.

I just wanted to tell you, my beloved spouse said excitedly, That Benny Hinn is back with his wife!

I could not believe it. That he would interrupt my meeting to give me that news. Later at home when I asked how could he do such a thing he replied: Well I know you are the ‘wife lady’, you always want to know these things.

I thought he was being absurd, but long afterward when I took up this manuscript and reflected on why did I write this book? I realized he was not too far off target. You see I get genuinely heart broken when I hear of divorces, terribly unhappy marriages, long separation and the like. I often wonder if they could have been avoided. Sometimes I feel pain and hurt for the loss of what could have been.

This book is not so much about marriage as it is about building of relationship. I believe the greatest enemy of a loving relationship is expectation. All of us have expectations of which we are not conscious. Two people with two different backgrounds would always have differing expectations. When expectations are not realized, the next enemy of loving relationships takes control-selfishness. Selfishness occurs when each person focuses on his or her own needs. It is seeking the interest of a part instead of the whole.

I am a firm believer in the fact that the Scriptures have the answers for all situations in life. It is a timeless book. I am