Building Your Marriage on God's Love
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
God's love for you is a covenant that cannot be broken. When you and your spouse submit your relationship to the Lord, His strength can carry you through any challenge. John, Erin and Greg discuss the difference that a covenant perspective makes in marriage, and things they won't say to each other. Receive the book Fierce Marriage with your gift of any amount!
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| 0:00.0 | When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective. |
| 0:09.0 | He said, the first thing you need to realize if kids are a blessing, or all of the |
| 0:14.1 | blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value |
| 0:18.7 | relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children. |
| 0:27.0 | We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know, |
| 0:38.0 | just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Jim Daly and we love kids. |
| 0:48.2 | Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's. |
| 0:51.8 | When you donate today, your gift will be doubled at |
| 0:54.4 | Focus on the Family.com slash gift. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 1:06.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | In the New Testament Book of Hebrews, God gave a beautiful promise. |
| 1:16.7 | He said, I will never leave you nor forsake you. |
| 1:20.3 | You know, when his love changes your heart, it has an amazing impact on the way you live and on the way you treat your spouse |
| 1:27.6 | I'm John Fuller joined by Greg and Aaron Smalley they run our focus on the family marriage department and Greg you've interacted with scriptures like that I love how you weave scripture into your approach to marriage. |
| 1:41.0 | What are some significant scriptures for you personally well I love that one the whole I will never leave you nor forsake you that I will never leave you means that I'm always there to to help I'm always present in in |
| 1:58.8 | marriage that's what I want to errand experience that that I'm present that I'm there for you. |
| 2:04.3 | I'm not sure how that's going to look day to day but you can count on me. |
| 2:09.1 | The forsaking part means that I will never quit on you. So not only do I want to be present |
| 2:15.1 | and available when you need me like God is for us, I'm never going to quit on you. |
| 2:20.6 | I'm with you to the end. And I think that's exactly what we need within our |
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