27 Marriage Devotional: 5 Ways to Abide in Christ Together
Marriage After God
Aaron & Jennifer Smith
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith continue their 30-week marriage devotional series by exploring what it means to truly abide in Christ. After discussing hiding from God in the previous episode, this conversation shifts toward the beauty of intimacy with God—remaining close to Him, drawing strength from Him, and allowing His Spirit to transform our lives and marriages.
Key Takeaways
- Abiding in Christ means remaining close to Him and drawing life from Him.
- God’s Word nourishes, strengthens, and transforms our hearts and marriages.
- Prayer cultivates intimacy and communion with God.
- The Holy Spirit empowers believers to walk in obedience and love.
- Loving others is evidence of abiding in Christ.
- Healthy marriages overflow from healthy relationships with God.
- Parents are called to faithfully teach their children God’s Word and ways.
- Sanctification involves surrender, repentance, and trusting God’s pruning process.
Scripture references discussed
- John 15:1–12
- Psalm 119:1–8
- Matthew 6:19–21
- Luke 6:43–45
- Proverbs 22:6
- Matthew 7:7–8
- Hebrews 11:6
- Hebrews 12:1–2
- Acts 1:8
- Galatians 5:16–18
- 2 Peter 1:3
- Romans 8:10–17
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Aaron. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Jennifer. |
| 0:02.3 | And we're the host of the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Our desire is to help you cultivate a marriage that chases boldly after God's will for your life together. |
| 0:08.5 | We want to invite you to subscribe to our show wherever you watch or listen. |
| 0:12.2 | We are so glad you're here, and we pray that our discussion truly blesses you and your marriage. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank you. Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. Hey everyone, welcome back to the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | We are on week 27 of our 30-week marriage devotional series that we've been going through. |
| 0:35.7 | Welcome back. |
| 0:37.0 | This series is based on our 30-day devotionals, husbandband After God and Wife After God. So if you haven't got those yet, if you've got, I'm going to show you a picture of it actually real quick. This is the Husband After God Devotional. You can get them at shop.marriageaftergod.com or you can go to Amazon.com and just search husband after god search wife every god you'll find |
| 0:54.5 | them there but before we get started into today's topic we just want to invite you hit that like |
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| 1:15.8 | they're honest and positive. But you can be honest, however you want to go. But yeah, so please |
| 1:21.7 | take a moment to do that today. So last episode, we talked about hiding from God and how sin can lead to feelings of shame and guilt and really make us want to run and hide like Adam did. |
| 1:35.4 | Adam and Eve. |
| 1:37.6 | But today's episode, we're going to reel it back in. |
| 1:41.4 | It's kind of like the opposite. |
| 1:42.1 | Yeah, we're going to talk about, yeah, what the opposite of that looks like. |
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