COMMON COUNSELING TOPICS
The greatest institution on earth besides the Congregation of YAHUWAH, is Marriage Institution. And finding the right mate is equivalent to finding a hidden treasure. Only YAH could lead one to a suitable mate.

▪︎ Courtship & Premarital issues

Understanding what you are getting into. Looking for someone who shares your beliefs and values. "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?" *1 Corinth 6:14-18

▪︎ Marriage Ordinance

Marriage is a beautiful Institution if one yields to its scriptural instructions, summed up in: "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to YAHUWAH. For the husband is the
head of the wife even as Messiah is the head of the Congregation. Now as the Congregation submits to Messiah, so also wives should submit to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah loved the Congregation and gave Himself up for her, that He might purify her through the Word of Elohim" *Eph 5:22-26.

▪︎ Role of Husband towards his Wife

The general role of a husband is to provide, protect and lead his family in the way of righteousness. However, his role towards his wife is summed up in this Scripture:  "Husband, love your wife, as Messiah loved the Congregation and gave Himself up for her, that He might purify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that He might present the Congregation to Himself in splendor,  without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be set-apart and without blemish. In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Messiah does the Congregation."

▪︎ Role of Wife towards her Husband

The general role of a wife is to nurture the children and maintain the home. However, her role towards her husband is summarized in this Scriptural verse: "Likewise, wives, be submissive to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the Word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in the Almighty's sight is very precious. For this is how the set-apart women who hoped in Elohim used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands." 

▪︎ Marriage Intimacy
"The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise, the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control" *1 Corinth 7:3-8

▪︎ Divorce
"But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the grounds of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery" *Matt 5:31-32

Marriage Counseling

& Courtship

What is Love?

Love means to obey the commandments of YHWH, which instructs us to treat others the way we want to be treated—with respect, honesty, affection, and consideration.

Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away (*1 Corinth 13:4-8). All of these are characteristics of love.

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With YAH in our midst we could climb mountains

. Importance of Communication

. Enjoying each other's company

. Welcoming children

. Parenting Counseling

. Financial issues

. Problem solving

. Affection and Intimacy

Marriage Covenant

Wedding Custom