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LESSON 49

How Can Yoa Ohana Can Be Happy?—Part 1

How Can Yoa Ohana Can Be Happy?—Part 1

Peopo who jus wen get married wen feel supa happy on dea wedding day. Dey like feel dat way foeva. An dey can. Christians who stay married long time awready, an who wen work hard fo do wat da Bible tell, know dat dass true.

1. Wat da Bible tell husbans is good fo do?

Jehovah wen give husbans da kuleana fo be head of da ohana. (Read um Fo Da Efesus Peopo 5:23.) Jehovah tell he gotta choose fo do da tings dat going be good fo da ohana. Da Bible tell husbans: “Get plenny love an aloha fo yoa wife.” (Fo Da Efesus Peopo 5:25) Wat dat mean? One husban who love his wife make nice kine to her, no matta if dey stay at home, o wit odda peopo. He try fo keep her safe, happy, an give her wat she need. (1 Fo Timoty 5:8) An da mos importan ting, he help her fo stay tight wit Jehovah. (Matthew 4:4) Someting he can do is pray an read da Bible wit his wife. Wen one husban show love an aloha fo his wife an kea fo her, he stay frenz wit Jehovah.—Read um 1 From Peter 3:7.

2. Wat da Bible tell wifes is good fo do?

Da Bible tell dat one wife “gotta show respeck fo her husban.” (Fo Da Efesus Peopo 5:33) How she can do dat? She can tink about da good tings her husban wen do, an how hard he work fo take kea her an dea keiki. She can show respeck by goin along wit wat he choose, an by talking nice kine to him an about him, even if he no worship Jehovah.

3. How one couple can make dea marriage moa strong?

Da Bible tell about couples who stay married: “Da guy an da wahine goin be jalike one body.” (Matthew 19:5) Dey gotta work hard fo make shua dat notting goin hemo dem from each odda. Dey can spend plenny time togedda an talk story, an tell each odda wat dey tink an how dey feel in one nice kine way. Dey no goin let anyting o anybody—odda den Jehovah—fo be moa importan den dea odda half. Dey make shua not fo have dat kine relationship wit anybody else.

DIG MOA DEEP

Try look how wat da Bible tell can make yoa marriage moa strong.

4. Husbans—love an take good kea yoa wife

Da Bible tell “husbans gotta show love an aloha fo dea wife jalike da husbans get love an aloha fo dea body.” (Fo Da Efesus Peopo 5:28, 29) Wat dat mean? Play um da VIDEO, an den talk story about da question afta.

  • How one husban can show he love an kea fo his wife?

Read um Fo Da Colosse Peopo 3:12, an den talk story about dis question:

  • How one husban can do wat dis scripcha tell in his marriage?

5. Wifes—love an respeck yoa husban

Da Bible tell az good fo one wife respeck her husband, no matta if he worship Jehovah o not. Read um 1 From Peter 3:1, 2, an den talk story about dese questions:

  • If yoa husban no worship Jehovah, garans you like him fo do dat. Wat you tink is da bes way fo help him—preach to him nonstop, o be one wife who show respeck, ack nice kine, an be good to him? How come?

Husbans an wifes can choose wat stay good togedda. But sometimes da wife no goin agree wit da husban. Wen dat happen, she can tell him wat she tink wit respeck, an using nice kine words. But she gotta undastan dat Jehovah wen give him da kuleana fo pick wass bes fo da ohana. She gotta do her bes fo make shua wat he wen pick, come out good. Wen she do dat, she help da whole ohana fo be happy. Read um 1 From Peter 3:3-5, an den talk story about dis question:

  • How Jehovah feel wen one wife show respeck fo her husban?

6. You can make um thru wateva pilikia you get in yoa marriage

Get no such ting az one perfeck marriage. So den couples gotta work togedda fo make um thru dea pilikia. Play um da VIDEO, an den talk story about da questions afta.

  • Inside da video, wat wen show dat da husban an wife no was close any moa?

  • Wat dey wen do fo make dea marriage moa strong?

Read um 1 Fo Da Corint Peopo 10:24 an Fo Da Colosse Peopo 3:13. Afta you read each scripcha, talk story about dis question:

  • How doing wat dis scripcha tell can make one marriage moa strong?

Da Bible tell dat we gotta show respeck to each odda an treat da odda person in one nice kine way. Read um Fo Da Rome Peopo 12:10, an den talk story about dese questions:

  • Husbans an wifes gotta wait fo dea odda half fo show dem respeck firs o wat? How come?

WAT SOME PEOPO TELL: “Me an my odda half not close az we was befoa.”

  • Wat you goin tell fo show dat da Bible can help dem?

WAT WE WEN TALK ABOUT

One husban an wife can be happy wen dey love an show respeck fo each odda, an do wat da Bible tell.

Wat You Wen Learn

  • Wat one husban can do fo make one marriage happy?

  • Wat one wife can do fo make one marriage happy?

  • If you stay married, wat is someting from da Bible dat can make yoa marriage moa strong?

Someting Fo Do

LEARN SOME MOA

Try learn some tings dat can help yoa ohana be happy.

Your Family Can Be Happy (brochure)

Check out dis music video dat show da good tings dat happen in yoa marriage wen you do wat God tell.

Truly in Love (4:26)

Try look wat dat mean, fo respeck dat da husban get da kuleana fo be da head of da ohana.

“Women, Why Submit to Headship?” (The Watchtower, May 15, 2010)

Try look how wat da Bible tell can help married couples plenny.

Da Bible Wen Save Oua Marriage (7:12)