Can't Shake The Mission & Purpose For Your Marriage!

Sandy and I truly believe that God gives couples one mission. Yes, you can have multiple passions, and that is fine, but the mission God creates for your marriage is one, in most cases.

It goes beyond raising kids. It’s deeper than that. Look at many pastors: usually, their wives are also on mission within the church.

I’m not saying that the process of the mission is the exact same. You see, both of you have a role, but the mission is still the same.

When a pastor is head of a church and his wife is working the women’s ministry, the process may be different, but the mission is still the same. They have one goal: to help people grow in Christ! Plain and simple.

I don’t know what God has planned for your marriage; that’s on you and your spouse to figure out.

As for Sandy and me, we have believed for years that Inspired Marriage is our mission and purpose. When people hear parts of our story, they always say how we should be writing books and speaking.

God has shown himself through the years on this, but we kept pushing it away.

We would start the process of Inspired Marriage, and within a few months, we would be back to our normal routine.

I had a chance to speak on five stages in 2018, and I thought that was our breakout year for speaking on our story and everything. I was wrong because I backed away when it got tough.

You can’t back away from God’s purpose without feeling empty, no matter what you accomplish outside of that.

For example, a year ago, I launched a custom car media company called The Customized Ride, and it’s grown to 120,000 followers with over 50 million video views within the socials of the brand. It was a lot of hard work, but there is still a part of me that is empty!

I can’t shake that part. I believe The Customized Ride does play a role into our future, but I still have this sense of emptiness within me because I know our ultimate calling was to help marriages!

That’s where Inspired Marriage comes in!

I am back to writing again and should finally have the first book ready to be released mid-2024! I am excited about that.

As I look back, something I have learned too is, if Sandy and I would have been all in many years ago, we would not have the story we have now. Many people would have just gagged on most of it because although God healed me from addictions almost 16 years ago, that was all the story we had.

We have been through the ringer, so to speak, with two kids now, an 11-year-old and a 4-year-old. All of our parents are now gone to be with the Lord. We lost my dad and her mom less than three months apart in 2022. That was tough on the family!

I think we had 5-10K words written in the Inspired Marriage book back years ago. Although that will need to be tweaked now, we can also add so much more to it on lessons and everything.

When God healed me of 19 years of addictions on December 26th, 2007, he whispered to me that one day we would help marriages. I had no idea at that time how that would be the case, especially because at that time, I was destroying my marriage with the addictions.

Then in 2012, we had the idea for a site called 90 Day Marriage Challenge, which ultimately became Inspired Marriage at the end of 2012 as he gave us that name.

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Chris Benton

I am co-founder of Inspired Marriage. I went through 19 years of addictions until God healed me Dec 26th, 2007. The first 5 years of our marriage was hell because of my addictions. With Sandy's patience, I was able to allow God to work in me and we have been growing spiritually together ever since! Oct 5th, 2023 was 21 years of marriage and it's been an inspired one!