Thalia’s Reviews > Relationship Goals Challenge: Thirty Days from Good to Great > Status Update

Real relationships have problems. Everybody is going through something in a relationship that is a hurdle. Enjoy the good times in your relationship, but don’t despair when there are hard times too. Just keep working at it. Share testimonies, listen to others who have similar problems,learn from one another about how God is helping.

When we hope in God, instead of in our circumstances, we won’t be disappointed. we won’t need anything else. God can bring healing to our hearts and spirits. And as he’s doing it, He does some painful but necessary work of shaping us into the people he wants us to be.

When troubles of any kind come your way, change your perspective, consider it an opportunity for your joy to grow, for your character to grow, for fruit to come out of this. It’s going to be OK. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has the chance to get stronger.

Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for a great joy. – James 1:2

Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world. - John 16:33

I am leaving you with a gift- peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give you is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid. - John 14:27

Marriage is a reflection copy of God’s relationship with his people. A godly marriage is something we can all look at and admire. it reveals an image of faithful sacrificial, love, and those who don’t know God can see a healthy marriage and begin to understand what God’s love is. Your marriage is a testimony for others.

God may show you the mountain top and not the road in front of you or he may show you the road and not the mountain top, but either way you’ve got enough to keep moving.

Decision making as a couple: God knows the answer, he sees the decision we are facing, and how it fits his plan for us. Do not try to reason, do not worry, instead trust in the Lord to lead us and work everything for our good. ask God if this is the path you are supposed to take. pray about it and wait for peace. Either way, God can redeem any situation because you have acknowledged him.