Pachuca, Mexico Marriage Conference
We began the Zero to Hero conference in Pachuca, Mexico on Friday night with almost 600 people in attendance.
We shared about the 4 heroic deeds of marriage and how to resolve issues using the 10 questions of a Courageous Conversation. Couples learned how to encourage themselves in the Lord by remembering Whose they are and then who they are in Christ Jesus as they discovered their Noble Identity.
Husbands learned how to rescue their wives in the ocean of emotion by calling them into the conversation and listening with an understanding heart. Wives learned how to become women of good understanding and of a beautiful countenance as they learned how to bless their husbands and draw them into safe conversations with a defined issue and a set of standard operating procedures for resolving issues or for strategic decision-making.
Couples learned how to overtake the enemy’s lies with mercy and truth. As each spouse learned how to listen with mercy, the truth was able to come out and overtake the lies both had come to believe during the times of silence or shallow conversations.
On Saturday about 120 new people attended the conference and by 2:00 they were ready to attempt their own Courageous Conversations.
We gave the couples a four hour break after preparing them with tools and a wonderful demonstration of a couple who volunteered to be coached through the 10 courageous questions. We followed Jesus’ instructions in Matthew 18:15-19. They were to attempt to do a conversation in private and to hear one another, if that failed they could ask another couple to witness their conversation and help them establish an understanding of each word if necessary so they could truly hear one another. I told them the next step would be to come back to the church and we would coach them personally in front of the whole crowd. I was kidding but they took me serious. I greeted the couples as they came back and was surprised to see so many smiles. One lady was holding a cold drink to her head and I asked her if she was okay. She said, “I am tired but I have much peace now.” We had an hour of testimonies from couples who had made significant breakthroughs.
I shared a final session on navigating the nine levels of understanding and then we finished with a wonderful and entertaining question and answer period. The people of Mexico have such a hunger and thirst for God’s righteousness and for practical tools to create meaningful relationships.
In the end, many of the couples were able to recover all God had intended for them during that weekend. They were able to go from Zero to Hero by rescuing one another from the enemies lies, half truths, and accusations.
When people resolve issues they regain the energy that comes from experiencing the joy of the Lord. When we are connected to God, to one another, and to the vision God has for our lives we experience the one accord power of God.
Posted by Chris Hogan on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 00:00 AM
