Our Guest John & Lisa Bevere
LISA: John and I have been used in one another’s life as a catalyst to be actually create us more in the image of Jesus Christ. When you get married you know as we were talking about it makes you more of a child of God. You become less selfish. You become more focused on other people. And I just think it also just we need to focus on what we’re thankful for. You know when John and I were first married we didn’t understand how to be thankful and now you just focus on what you’re thankful for you create a good atmosphere for your marriage.
JOHN: And you know Sid, the other thing, the other thing that Hollywood portrays is happily ever after. Now we do want happily ever after but Hollywood never tells us how to get there. I find that you know couples they focus in on the marriage day. They’ll spend 400 hours maybe planning that wedding. Maybe the girl’s going to spend 40 hours just looking for a dress. That’s the first day! What about the middle and what about the end? We never heard of a business plan being successful without or a business be successful without a business plan or a house built without a blueprint. You know one thing that Lisa and I did when we were first married is there’s a little Chinese restaurant down the road from us and we would go and we would write down on that little napkin after ordering one order to split because we didn’t have the money and we would talk about how we wanted to raise our kids, how we wanted to travel and teach, how we wanted to do life and marriage. And so I think what happens is when people get married and just expect it all to fall into place instead of sitting down and planning, how are they going to do the middle and the end? And if we do that what happens is when we run into great adversity it’s seen as a speed bump, not a brick wall. And so Lisa and I, I mean when people hear of the intense, intense fights that we had, the intense conflicts that we had they’re like how did you guys get through that? Well I will tell you that two things. Number One: Seeing my mom and dad be together for so long was I think a real help for both of us and also seeing that that’s what God wanted in His word and there was people that could do that. But Number Two: and this is the one we are talking about right now is we had talked in that restaurant about how we were going to raise our kids and do life and ministry and we had planned. And I’m not going to throw all those things out the window because we can’t get along. I’m going to work through those things so that we can achieve that plan. And so I think that’s something that you know God always starts with the end in mind. He goes through the whole thing and writes it all out and then He says we’re going to start here. Jesus was the Lamb crucified from the foundations of the world. God had already planned out an answer for our problem of rebellion to Him long before He ever created us. And so that’s what we need to do with our marriages. And I will say this. I want to tell my Number One and Number Two goal. I have two really high up goals. Number One goal is I want Lisa when she leaves this earth to be more in love me with me than the day I walked down the aisle or she walked, excuse me she walked down the aisle and we said I do. My second goal is that when I leave this earth I want to be in more in love with Lisa than the day we were married. That’s a real strong goal and I’m working towards that.
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