Spirit – influence which fills and governs the soul of anyone, a movement of air, breath

     1. lst Thess. 5:23 – spirit, soul, and body

We are one person made up of three individual parts! Each part must be continually fed and maintained.

     2. lst Cor. 12:13 – one Spirit are we all baptized into one body

The Holy Spirit has made us one in the body of Christ.

     3. Ephesians 2:13 – 18 – Access by one Spirit unto the Father

The Holy Spirit gives us the entrance and guides us to the throne room of our heavenly Father. The Father has the answers for all of married life.

     4. Ephesians 4: 4- 6 – One body and one Spirit

There is only one body and one Spirit in the family of the one true God.

     5. lst Cor. 6:17 – he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit ( joined – to glue together, cement, fasten together, cleave to, join one’s self to )

John 4:24 tells us that God is Spirit and we must worship him in spirit and in truth. Through being born again we start the process of joining to the Lord in all areas of our lives and being in one spirit.

     6. Philippians 1:27 – stand fast in one spirit

Paul instructs the Philippians to be active in maintaining the “one spirit.” This is equally true in marriage.

     7. II Cor. 4:3-18 – same spirit of faith

The word faith means belief and he was exhorting them to have the same spirit in their belief system. The word obedience in serving the Lord is paramount in the belief system or faith level for a marriage to be successful.

     8. 2nd Cor. 12:14 – 21 – walked we not in the same spirit?

The Christian walk in marriage is the two becoming one and walking in that same attitude of oneness in spirit as they follow the Lord Jesus Christ.