I Do

By Mary Ingram

This book is dedicated as words of wisdom to all married couples. This is to encourage you to keep on keeping on. Things do get better. Marriage does not always feel like a honeymoon, but if you just stay with it, it will be a beautiful, fulfilling experience and you will have a lifelong spiritual union.

There were many ups and downs in my marriage, even with both of us being saved. Sometimes I wanted to walk out, give up, throw in the towel, but first and foremost, I love God and God’s answer is always, You Can Do This. It’s Going to get Better. So because of God, I can now write to encourage others. If you really want your marriage to work, you must work at it. Both of you must put your very best feet forward.



Now, after 44 years, my marriage is easier. My husband is my best friend. I can’t imagine life without him. God has truly made my marriage a beautiful union and other couples can look at us as an example to know that people can stay together, and couples can weather any storm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Oct 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781645312031

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I Do

Mary Ingram

Copyright © 2019 Mary Ingram

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2019

ISBN 978-1-64531-202-4 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64531-203-1 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, Marriage The Next Best Thing

The Perfect Marriage Made in Heaven

She Is Your Gift from God

Then Came Sin

It Takes Two to Tangle

Work Your Marriage

First Things First

Your Good Thing

The Power of Prayer, and the Deep Issues of Marriage

Silent Cry

Dear Heavenly Father

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my wonderful husband, McKinley Gene Ingram, my Knight in Shining Armor, my soul mate, my boyfriend, and friend, my children’s daddy for over 43 years and still counting. Our love just keep on growing. Also and to my Father and Mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hayward and Mary Pearl Beaty Sr., which have gone on before me, for being the death do part example for us, and blessing all ten of us with the same last name, thank you Mom and Dad. I also dedicate this to Bishop N. L. and Lady Lavern Hinton for being the spiritual example, and to my two wonderful daughters, Evang./ Principal Jacqueline Qunette Rivers and the Worshiper/RN Jowonda Evette Bullard. Finally to my church family Greater Deliverance Apostolic Church, thank you and MAY God so richly Bless you!

The purpose of this book is to encourage every married couple, with God’s help you can make it.

And to those who want to be married persons, seek God and let him give you your mate, He knows best.

May God richly bless you on your wonderful journey!

Introduction

Why are you writing this book?

I’m writing this book because everybody has a story. I would like to share this true, wonderful, challenging story with those that are married and those that are looking to be married; if you put God first, it will work, marriage is a beautiful commitment between a husband and wife. The world wants people to think everybody has divorced at least one time in their lives, and there is no such thing as till death do part, but I beg different. My mother and father stayed married until she died, to one man, and so will I. So journey with me in this awesome book and be blessed. When you read this book, if there is anything going in your marriage that shouldn’t be, let God heal you through these words of wisdom. God bless and follow me!

Chapter 1

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, Marriage The Next Best Thing

In the book of Hebrews 13:4, the first part, the writer tells us that marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled.

The word undefiled means free from contamination and free from unlawful sexual activities.

In my own words, undefiled means free from guilt and shame.

The word marriage means to vow before God and man, to love each other to death do part.

It is a commitment between one man and one woman until death do part. In other words, you are saying,

I vow before God and man to love you and only you for the rest of my life; I vow before God and man to be your best friend at all times, through thick and thin; I vow before God and man to love you at all times, in the good and bad times; I vow before God and man, to do everything possible to make you happy for the rest of my life, to death do part.

The word