The One Year Book of Devotions for Couples （祈祷一年书的夫妇）.pdf

Visit Tyndale’s exciting Web site at The One Year Book of Devotions for Couples Copyright © 2001 by Intimate Life Ministries. All rights reserved. First printed as Never Alone Devotions for Couples. ISBN 0-8423-5386-0. Cover photograph copyright © by Photodisc Green/Getty Images. All rights reserved. Designed by Ron Kaufmann and Dean H. Renninger Edited by Lynn Vanderzalm Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NASB are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked KJV are taken from the Holy Bible, King James Version. ISBN 0-4143-0170-7 Printed in the United States of America 08 07 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 How to Get the Most Out of This Book We believe that marriage is one of the most exhilarating relationships God has created. But sometimes marriage can be exhausting because it takes work to keep a marriage alive and flourishing. However, we can tell you—from personal experience and from our observations of others— that it’s well worth the effort it takes to deepen the intimacy of marriage. In our recent marriage book, Never Alone, we discussed the fact that God has uniquely called a husband and wife to meet each other’s “aloneness” needs. We noted that when God created Adam, He said th