Quitting on Your Marriage Is Not an Option

By Ernest J. Murat and Jeanne Murat

As Christians, what do we know about marriage? We know that marriage is Gods appointed, loving union between a man and a woman, and that this divine union is something God ordained for his children since the very beginning. But marriage is certainly about more. We should know that marriage takes a lot of sacrifice and compromisemarriage can be hard work! And marriage is also about faith, hope, trust, love, and patience.

In Quitting on Your Marriage Is Not an Option, authors Ernest and Jeanne Murat share personal testimonies that speak to their twenty-five year journey as husband and wifea journey that can inspire and help newlyweds, married couples, and even those just thinking about marriage. With hope and inspiration from the Holy Spirit, Ernest and Jeanne explain just what it takes to have a successful, loving marriage that honors God and helps each spouse be the very best partner he or she can be.

Making marriage work is a learning process, and it takes patience and willingness, but making Jesus the center of your relationship will help you and your spouse enjoy your marriage the most. He is alive and can revive or renew your marriage lifeyou need only to have faith and believe, and then be willing to know that nothing is impossible for those who believe in a true God. With his guidance and with faith, you will feel like you want to fall in love with your spouse all over again.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781532023972

Ernest J. Murat

Ernest J. Murat is an internationally known speaker, pastor and a missionary. Ernest and Jeanne Murat his wife have been in the ministry for over twenty-five years. They have no biological children however many spiritual children and too many to count in the mission field. The Murat’s have been serving in the mission field for more than twenty years. They served extensively in the Caribbean and South America. They served in places like Haiti, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. Ernest Murat is a yearly conference speaker of Fraternity churches in Dominican Republic since 2000. God use the Murat’s in a unique way by sounding of the shofar-Prophetic gift with shofar by sounding the shofar. It’s higher calling for the body of Christ. This fraternity of Churches consists of about 70 to 180 churches. Both of the Murat’s has a master degree in Christian Counselor. Ernest Murat has earned a doctorate degree in Divinity from Jacksonville Theological Seminary. Mr. Murat also worked for U. S. Government in the U.S. Coast Guard for over 20 years. He is the founder and pastor of Worldwide Agape Ministries since January of 2006, aka (W.A.M.). Mr. Murat has the authored three (3) books and addition to this last one. 1. “How to hear the voice of God”. 2. “Enjoying , the Presence of the Lord Every Day” 3. “Quitting is not an Option in Marriage” 4. “The benefit of serving God”

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Your Confession You Made By Faith Will Come To Pass

Chapter 2 Choose Your Words Wisely; You Are Choosing Words Of Life

Chapter 3 Communication Is A Must

Chapter 4 It’s Going To Take The Three (Cs) For It To Work

Chapter 5 What Is The Plan To Keep It Going?

Chapter 6 Seven Things Bring Hindrance To A Good Marriage

Chapter 7 Do You Remember When, Where, And How?

Chapter 8 What Have You Been Confessing Over Your Marriage?

Chapter 9 How To Motivate And Love One Another In Our Union

Chapter 10 The Agape Is God’s Way Of Loving

Chapter 11 Transforming Your Thoughts, God’s Way

Chapter 12 All Things Are Possible Through Him

Chapter 13 Do It, Only God’s Way

Chapter 14 Be A Submissive Unto The Lord

In Conclusion

Prayer For Salvation And Baptism In The Holy Spirit

About The Authors

INTRODUCTION

Jeanne and I had wanted to write this book for a long time; however, we felt the time was not yet appropriate until now. We were encouraged by so many people in the past who had read our previous books and would often make statements to us like, You should consider writing a book on marriage or When is your next book coming out on marriage? Well, here it is now!

It was always a question of interest about marriage. They saw something authentic about our marriage. It was—and still is—the real deal. It was not phony. People would often see something in someone else’s life, and they want to have it or imitate it without knowing the sacrifice and what it takes to have a sound marriage. It takes a lot of sacrifice and a lot of compromising.

We really do enjoy each other’s company. We truly are each other’s best friend. We do enjoy having fun and not taking life too seriously; however, having said that, there are things we do take very seriously. What are they? We will be discussing them a little more in detail as we get into this book.

Once we sought the Lord about writing the book, He said, Okay. Now it’s time to do it. It is time to go to work. We went full force ahead once we got permission from Daddy (my heavenly Father) to do it. We had to put our thoughts together. This is a project we undertook together.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV) it tells us, To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 (MSG) says, There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth.

He may put a thought in your heart. Just because God might have put a thought or an idea in your heart to do for Him, it does not necessarily mean you have to do it right now. I highly encourage you to pray it through. Always ask God how He wants you to pursue this task. The time frame is as critically important as to when to start it. He does everything He wants to do in His own timing and His own season.

It’s important for us to seek Him and know when that time is for us to do what He wants us to do. Equally important is how to do it. He does everything according to His season and His timing. He’ll let you know when, where, and how to do whatever He wants you to do. We have to be led by the Holy Spirit, who is also the Master Creator, whom we call Elohim. He is the Master Creator of the universe. He is the Great I Am. He will lead us.

We truly believe that now is our time and season to shine, and it is our season now for this dream to come to pass. Nothing happens without being inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit led this particular dream and vision of marriage.

We must put a demand for this dream to come to pass. Now we desire to encourage you to participate in this encounter as we share what the Lord has put in our heart to share with you. It’s not by accident you are reading this manuscript. It will strengthen your faith and bring you hope.

What is hope? Hope is a beautiful word. According to Strong’s dictionary, it means to anticipate, usually with pleasure; to expect. It is the expectation for something good to happen. Are you expecting something good to happen today? If you are, it will. If you are not, it won’t.

In the present-day application of this word, it has become weakened, a hope so or maybe so word. When you ask a couple going through rough times with their marriage whether they believe God can heal their marriage, many times the answer is, I hope so.

What that person is communicating with you is, I don’t really believe, but I hope so anyway. No, we must believe that God can heal and will restore that marriage, providing both parties want the same thing. God is a healer and a restorer. He is a loving God. He will restore your marriage, if you so desire.

Not everything you read in this manuscript will you agree with 100 percent, but that’s fine with us. It is simply someone else’s encounter with the Lord regarding marriage.

When we talk about marriage, we base it on a traditional marriage between a man and a woman, just like God intended to be in the garden of Eden. This manuscript is not just about marriage. It is about a whole lot more.

What is it exactly about? It’s about faith, hope, trust, love, and patience. It will help you to know what your Creator is capable of doing. It will help you to know that nothing is impossible to those who believe in a true God. He is neither dead nor asleep. But He is alive.

He is alive to help revive or renew