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Rejoice In Her · Men's Morning Devotional

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  Speaker 1: Gentlemen, every day is a battle.
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  Speaker 1: A battle for your faith, your family, and your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The men who stand strong don't prepare when the battle arrives.
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  Speaker 1: They prepare before it begins.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the men's morning devotional.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into God's word.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to man up.
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  Christian Calatayud: Good morning, gentlemen.
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  Christian Calatayud: Christian Calatayud back with you for another man up moment.
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  Christian Calatayud: Today we're continuing Proverbs chapter 5, and the devotional is called Rejoice in Her.
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  Christian Calatayud: Proverbs 5, 18 says, May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.
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  Christian Calatayud: You see, this verse, it's a blessing.
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  Christian Calatayud: It's not a rule.
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  Christian Calatayud: We see that Solomon has been spending 17 verses warning his son, and now he stops and he blesses him.
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  Christian Calatayud: May your fountain be blessed.
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  Christian Calatayud: May you rejoice.
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  Christian Calatayud: And I want us to notice that word today.
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  Christian Calatayud: Rejoice.
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  Christian Calatayud: Not tolerate, not endure, not stay faithful through gritted teeth, but men, rejoice.
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  Christian Calatayud: You see, a lot of us, we treat faithfulness like a fence.
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  Christian Calatayud: Something that keeps us in, something that keeps us hemmed up, something that keeps us limited.
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  Christian Calatayud: But Solomon treats it like a fountain.
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  Christian Calatayud: Something that's meant to overflow with joy if we would actually delight in what God gave us.
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  Christian Calatayud: And the wife of your youth is a phrase that it's worth sitting with and it's worth camping out on for a little bit.
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  Christian Calatayud: Because time, it changes a marriage.
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  Christian Calatayud: You see, the woman you might have married isn't frozen on the wedding day, and neither are you.
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  Christian Calatayud: But King Solomon, he isn't blessing a memory.
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  Christian Calatayud: He's blessing an ongoing choice to keep on rejoicing in that same covenant.
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  Christian Calatayud: Decade after decade, year after year, month after month, season after season.
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  Christian Calatayud: You see, the men before us, they understood that marriage was something to be highly honored, not a lesser calling for those who couldn't live another way.
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  Christian Calatayud: No, it was a covenant.
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  Christian Calatayud: A covenant worth defending.
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  Christian Calatayud: Because it was worth celebrating.
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  Christian Calatayud: You see, biblical wisdom, it's aimed at a good life.
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  Christian Calatayud: Not a shallow life, not an easy life, but a genuinely good one.
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  Christian Calatayud: And there is no wisdom teaching in Proverbs about love that isn't aimed at a deep, lasting joy inside the covenant that God has designed.
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  Christian Calatayud: You see, a man who only defends his marriage, but never delights in it, is still missing what Solomon is after here.
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  Christian Calatayud: So here's our man up challenge.
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  Christian Calatayud: Today, don't just avoid something for your marriage.
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  Christian Calatayud: Celebrate something in it.
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  Christian Calatayud: Do one thing that says, I rejoice in you.
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  Christian Calatayud: Not just I'm faithful to you.
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  Christian Calatayud: Gentlemen, whether it's a note, a date, a real conversation, an honest compliment, whatever it is, let's go out of our way to do it today.
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  Christian Calatayud: And if you're single, I would say ask God to grow in you a heart that rejoices rather than merely endures.
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  Christian Calatayud: And in that single season, what if you asked God, Lord, let me rejoice in the season where all I have is you?
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  Christian Calatayud: Because soon it will be you and a wife.
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  Christian Calatayud: What if you rejoiced in your singleness instead of just merely enduring it?
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  Christian Calatayud: Let's pray.
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  Christian Calatayud: Father, thank you for the gift of a covenant love.
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  Christian Calatayud: Lord Jesus, would you forgive us for the times we might have treated marriage like a fence instead of a fountain?
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  Christian Calatayud: And Lord, whether we're married or single, teach us to rejoice.
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  Christian Calatayud: Not just to remain faithful, not just to endure, but to delight in the life that you have given us.
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  Christian Calatayud: Lord, bless our fountain.
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  Christian Calatayud: Lord bless our fountain all of our days.
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  Christian Calatayud: We love you, we praise you, and we thank you.
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  Christian Calatayud: In your name and in your blood we pray.
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  Christian Calatayud: Amen and amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen, you've heard God's word.
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  Speaker 1: Now go live it.
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  Speaker 1: Lead well, stand strong, honor God in everything you do.
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  Speaker 1: Share this devotional with another brother.
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  Speaker 1: Remember, every day is another opportunity to man up.