Marriage ceremony - Sunita 

Date - June 28, 2025

# Marriage
THE FIVE Steps of MARRIAGE
1 - PLAN
2 - PROMISE
3 - PRACTICE
4 - PARTNERSHIP
5 - PROCESS
Watch what GOD does, and then you do it – like children who learn from their parents.
Mostly what GOD does is love you. Keep company with Him and learn a life of love.
Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant.
He didn’t love in order to get something from us
but to give everything of Himself to us. Love like that.
Ephesians 5:1 -2
“यसकारण तिमीहरू प्रिय बालकहरूझैँ परमेश्‍वरको देखासिकी गर्नेहरू होओ।”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭1‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“तिमीहरू प्रेममा चल, जसरी ख्रीष्‍टले पनि हामीहरूसँग प्रेम गर्नुभयो, र परमेश्‍वरको निम्‍ति सुगन्‍धित भेटी र बलिदान भएर आफैलाई हाम्रा निम्‍ति अर्पण गर्नुभयो।”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭2‬ ‭NNRV‬‬

The Marriage Relationship is perhaps the most unique that there is amongst human beings,
and it is special in a variety of ways:
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FIRST: We must acknowledge that
Marriage is a part of GOD’s PLAN .
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In the Book of Genesis, the Second chapter, after He created Adam,
“GOD said, “It’s not good for the Man to be alone;
I’ll make him a helper, a companion.” (Genesis 2:18)
“फेरि परमप्रभु परमेश्‍वरले भन्‍नुभयो, “मानिस एकलो रहन असल छैन। म त्‍यसको निम्‍ति त्‍यसलाई सुहाउने एक जना सहयोगी बनाउनेछु।””
‭‭उत्‍पत्ति‬ ‭2‬:‭18‬ ‭NNRV‬‬

A few verses later after GOD created Eve from the rib of Adam, Scripture states:
Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and
embraces his wife. They become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24)
“यसैकारण मानिसले आफ्‍ना आमा-बुबालाई छोड्‌छ र आफ्‍नी पत्‍नीसँग मिलिरहन्‍छ, र तिनीहरू एउटै शरीर हुन्‍छन्‌।”
‭‭उत्‍पत्ति‬ ‭2‬:‭24‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
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SECOND: Marriage is a PROMISE that a husband and wife make to one another.
But each one of you must love his wife as he loves himself.
And a wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33
“जे भए पनि तिमीहरू हरेकले आफ्‍नी पत्‍नीलाई आफैलाई झैँ प्रेम गर, र पत्‍नीले पनि आफ्‍ना पतिको आदर गरोस्‌।”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭33‬ ‭NNRV‬‬

Tim Challies states: “Every marriage is meant to display the truth about the covenant-keeping love
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THIRD: Marriage is a PLACE to learn and practice love.
Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church –

Ephesians 5:25 -28
“पति हो, आफ्‍ना पत्‍नीहरूलाई प्रेम गर, जसरी ख्रीष्‍टले पनि मण्‍डलीलाई प्रेम गर्नुभयो, र त्‍यसको निम्‍ति आफूलाई अर्पण गर्नुभयो,”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭25‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“यस हेतुले कि उहाँले त्‍यसलाई पानीले धोएर वचनद्वारा पवित्र पार्न सकून,”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭26‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“र उहाँले दाग वा चाउरी नभएको, अथवा यस्‍ता कुनै कुरा नभएको तेजस्‍वी मण्‍डली आफैकहाँ प्रस्‍तुत गर्न सकून्, र त्‍योचाहिँ पवित्र र निष्‍खोट होस्‌।”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭27‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“त्‍यसरी नै पतिहरूले पनि आ-आफ्‍ना पत्‍नीलाई आफ्‍नै शरीरलाई झैँ प्रेम गर्नुपर्छ। आफ्‍नी पत्‍नीलाई प्रेम गर्नेले आफैलाई प्रेम गर्छ।”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭28‬ ‭NNRV‬‬

The marriage relationship provides an environment to learn love for the purpose of giving
to each other, not for getting one’s own way or having what one wants.
In marriage, a husband and wife have daily opportunity to take turns serving and sacrificing
for one another – to put the other person first.
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FOURTH: Marriage is a PARTNERSHIP – not a 50–50 partnership, but 100-100.

Ephesians 5:22 -24
“पत्‍नी हो, प्रभुको अधीनमा रहेजस्‍तै आ-आफ्‍ना पतिको अधीनमा बस।”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭22‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“किनकि पति पत्‍नीको शिर हो, जसरी ख्रीष्‍ट मण्‍डलीको शिर हुनुहुन्‍छ, जुन मण्‍डली उहाँको शरीर हो, र उहाँ स्‍वयम्‌ त्‍यसको मुक्तिदाता हुनुहुन्‍छ।”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭23‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“जसरी मण्‍डली ख्रीष्‍टको अधीनमा छ, त्‍यसरी नै पत्‍नीहरू पनि हरेक कुरामा पतिहरूका अधीनमा रहून्‌।”
‭‭एफिसी‬ ‭5‬:‭24‬ ‭NNRV‬‬

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FIFTH: Marriage is a PROCESS .
Romans 12:9-12 says:
“प्रेम निष्‍कपट होस्‌। जुन कुरा खराब छ, त्‍यसलाई घृणा गर। जुन कुरा असल छ, त्‍यसमा लागिरहो।”
‭‭रोमी‬ ‭12‬:‭9‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“भातृ-प्रेमसँग एकअर्कालाई प्रेम गर। आफूलाई भन्‍दा बढ़ी अरूलाई आदर गर।”
‭‭रोमी‬ ‭12‬:‭10‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“जोशमा पछि नहट। पवित्र आत्‍मामा प्रज्‍वलित होओ, प्रभुको सेवा गर्दैरहो।”
‭‭रोमी‬ ‭12‬:‭11‬ ‭NNRV‬‬
“आफ्‍नो आशामा आनन्‍द गर, सङ्कष्‍टमा धैर्य धारण गर, प्रार्थनामा निरन्‍तर लागिरहो।”
‭‭रोमी‬ ‭12‬:‭12‬ ‭NNRV‬‬

Gary Thomas wrote this in his book
Marriage is not a matter of finding the right person,
but rather, marriage is a matter of being the right person.