1. Don't let anyone look down on you

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity." - 1 Timothy 4:12

When you're a young wife, people will tend to say things like, "Wow, you're married!? Why'd you get married so young?" or "Why didn't you wait a little longer?" When you first encounter these comments, you may feel a bit belittled... like, am I not qualified for marriage because of...

I was the queen of dating! Let me tell you... every other week I had another boyfriend. What I thought was "cool" at that moment and the very thing that I thought validated me, is the one thing that reminds me of how broken I really was. You see, I thought my relationship status was the answer to my loneliness... but I found myself even lonelier when I was in those relationships. "How," you say? Because the more and more I created idols out of my boyfriends, the more and more I lost touch...

Soul ties are REAL. I recall having a soul-tie once. That means, my soul was spiritually intertwined with someone. I had a very close relationship with that person for about 5 years and we went through the phases: "friends," "best friends," "dating," and even "engagement." I did not have to have sex to form my soul tie but it came from my overly close and co-dependent relationship with this person.

I idolized that relationship and put it above my relationship with God. My soul tie and my...