When conflict is in the church, we are sometimes part of it. A witness to it, a hearer of it, or have been unwillingly entangled into it. Either way, it affects us terribly as a congregant but mostly as a Christian.   We are identified as brothers and sisters.  We are told in Galatians 6:10 to do good to others but especially to those who are in the household of faith.  The bible, preacher teachings, sermons, doctrine readings, all instill in us to have reverence for those that we serve with. As we obtain that information and build faith in it,  we tend to develop a horrif ..read more

The most read posts on this blog are focused on Encouraging your Spouse and/or Marriage. Encouraging your spouse is a need and desire we can all agree that is needed. 67 Encouraging things to say to your Husband  15 Encouraging Scriptures to text your Husband 40 Date ideas for Married Couples to try Marriage can be hard and when a struggle comes in, it feels like an unpredictable storm. Just like we would crave shelter and comfort in a storm, we crave encouragement, safety, and unity in our messy marriages. Because just like what we know what a storm can do to a home physically, we recog ..read more

  Is your Blogging Site running slow?  Does your Blog need to speed up and stop losing you readers? It takes so much time to load your home page that even you want to close out of your own site when you visit! This had happened to me for a short time. I thought… if I don’t want to wait for it then who else would want to?!  My blog bounce rate gave me a clue that visitors were probably leaving pretty quickly too.  A bounce rate is basically how quickly a visitor on your website is leaving. The lower it is, the better for search engines to recommend your blog site. The bounc ..read more

Most still dream of the traditional wedding but how can we modernize it to make it our own without leaving tradition out of it? According to recent wedding planning statistics, only about 25% of millennial weddings include their religious traditions.  And 48.5% of married couples regret some of their wedding expenses.  That is a pretty high number for married couples to regret some of their expenses. But to be honest wedding expenses do easily climb high if you do not have a focused vision of what really matters for your upcoming wedding. And personally, I think that is where we ten ..read more

    One of the most read posts on Married by His Grace has been How to Spiritually Clean your Home.  A post about spiritually and physically cleaning your home while in prayer.   I had written the post after sharing details with friends of how I deep clean my home monthly. How it usually consists of the kids out of the home with my husband for the day. I get down on my knees scrubbing the floors and praying for my home, marriage, and kids at the same time. I clean windows then place my hand covered with anointing oil to war in prayer on every windowsill, every doorway, and ..read more

14 Days to Fighting for your Marriage14 Days of Fighting for your Marriage Is it just me or can marriage just mysteriously enter a difficult season without any warning?!   One day, the flirting on is level ten, romance is going through the air, then boom…  We wake up to a new reality.  Maybe it’s because of a new repetitive week. or  Chaos from kids is the alarm clock to begin the week. Work overwhelming us. Finances draining us. School days make the kids come home with every emotion in the book and it challenges our parenting.   Tension in marriage is not always expla ..read more

15 Things to do to pre plan for the Holidays.   The Holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years) come up so fast every single year. I personally love the thrill of it all. The rush of constant planning for the season sparks something in me. But even for someone like me that yearns for a once a year season of excitement. I too become overwhelmed.   But for me, instead of slowing down each year (which many have recommended to do), I continue to add to the season as our family has grown. I have instead learned to pre plan for the holidays during the calm before the festivities. &n ..read more

30 Days of Family Christmas Movies Christmas is a pretty big deal in our home. The tree is usually up the day before Thanksgiving day and Christmas movies are usually playing throughout the house starting the first day in November.   I desire so much for my kids to love the season with all the Christmas décor, music, and movies they can get. True story, I forced my kids to watch Home alone with me even though they begged not to because “it looked too old” (rolling mom eyes) and now it is their favorite Christmas movie. They even played it everyday during the month of December till mid Ja ..read more

How to stop using Divorce threats in Marriage.   Divorce is a ugly word. Especially when you or your spouse is using it as a threat to your marriage.   When you have not experienced divorce first hand, it is hard to comprehend how gut wrenching it can be. Divorce brings in all sorts of emotions we would never want to experience and tears more hearts that we can count. This is why we should start now to not allow divorce threats in marriages. You can read a little about the divorce I experienced in a previous marriage here.   Though Christian Marriages have a lower divorce rate ..read more

Prayers for Revival Many of us desire to be part of big change in the world. We often wonder how we could partake in a movement that could witness our compassion and drive to unite many out there?    How can we ignite a revival in our city? Or in our Nation? How can we touch lives in miraculous ways that could bring hope? Or even just encouragement to a new perceptive to situations?   As Christians, our hearts desire to feel a void where we sometimes feel like we are not doing enough. Whether it is as a wife, mother, a minister, a participant of the women’s ministry, or as a fr ..read more