5-Step Guide To Writing Your Marriage Vision

If you have been procrastinating about writing your marriage vision, help is here. In this blog, I will share with you why your marriage vision is important and how to get started in 5 easy steps.

Let’s start with what is a vision or a marriage vision and why it is important? The dictionary defines vision as the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom. A marriage vision is the ability to plan the future of your marriage with imagination or wisdom.

To answer the question of, “Why vision is important?” we can gleam great insights for Proverbs 29:18- (KJV) which states, “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” The (NIV) versions brings clarity to this great insight, “Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.” The revelation is simply this. Where there is no marriage vision, your marriage will perish.

With this new revelation, we can conclude that vision is important because it allows a husband and wife to see beyond their present situations. Vision allows a couple to discipline themselves as they seek out and heed to wisdom’s instructions on how they can achieve set goals. Vision is so important that Hab 2:2-3 states, “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.”

Now that I have shared with you the revelation and importance of the marriage vision, here are the 5 steps to creating your unique marriage vision. Please follow all steps for greatest results.

Step 1- Pray for guidance and direction then set up a meeting time with your spouse.

Step 2- Before the meeting, both husband and wife need to visualize themselves in the marriage, 1 year, 5 years and 10 years into the future. At the meeting, the husbands present his vision first, and then invites his wife for her input and additions from her vision. You must talk about where you would like to be and what you would like your marriage to look like. You must agree on a few things before moving to next step. This is called the shared vision or the marriage vision.

Step 3- After both the husband and wife have agreed on the marriage vision, discuss and make a plan on how both of you will get there. Ask yourself this very important question, “What do we need to do personally, and what do we need to go together as a couple, to get to the goal?

Step 4- List any obstacles you might encounter as you try to implement this plan.

Step 5- Think of ways that you might overcome each obstacle.

The idea behind the marriage vision is to bring about a sense of being excited and proud about your marriage. Following these 5 steps can bring you out a place of procrastination and into a place to action.

If you have found these 5 steps helpful, please share with others. To get full access to the training, “The Marriage Vision is Set for the Appointed Time,” consider becoming a part of the growing Hope Conquers Marriage Enrichment Institute. For more relationship tools, tips and resources, visit www.hopeconquersd.com

By Dr. Delroy Fredericks