Connecting - How to Multiply Your Joy, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What sustains a marriage? What brings energy and health? Life and joy? Maybe those words are in your distant past and your marriage hasn’t known them for years. Maybe your marriage is strong and you’d really like to keep it that way. In this program, Chip explains that “connection” is the key. How do you get - or stay - connected in a way that’ll last? Don’t miss this one.
Introduction:
- Biblical practice #1: Serve your mate -John 13
- Biblical practice #2: Plan together -John 14
- Biblical practice #3: Connect with each other -John 15
How do we stay connected?
- Jesus is the true vine and we are the branches. He is the source of life.
- Fruitfulness – an extraordinary life with extraordinary impact.
- Love results in heartfelt obedience.
- The result of abiding is intimacy and it results in supernatural joy.
Principles:
- You can’t impart what you do not possess. You must ABIDE in Him to have His love to give to your mate.
- Connection is built on COMMUNICATION – quality and quantity of time spent with one another.
- JOY is the fruit or the overflow of connection with Christ and with one another. It will SUSTAIN you.
Practical implications:
- Your personal walk with God is critical to a great marriage.
- The key to a joyful marriage is communication skill and practice.
- The connection is of the mind, the body, the emotions, and the spirit.
Tools for transformation:
- “The conference”
- Pray and ask God to speak to him/her -Proverbs 21:1
- The CARE list – “I feel most loved when you…”
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.4 | If it's true that hope is oxygen for the soul, joy is the spark of emotional connection. |
| 0:22.6 | Today, I want to help you learn how not just to add, but to multiply joy in your marriage. It's what sustains you. That's what we're |
| 0:28.1 | going to talk about today. Stay with me. Welcome to Living on the Edge. I'm Dave Drewie. And |
| 0:34.8 | today, Chip Ingram tackles one of marriage's most common yet unspoken struggles |
| 0:39.0 | disconnection. Not anger, not conflict, just distance. In this message, Chip takes us to John |
| 0:45.9 | 15, where Jesus uses the metaphor of a vine and branches to teach his disciples how to stay |
| 0:51.8 | connected when he's physically absent. The same principle applies to marriage. |
| 0:56.4 | You'll learn why you can't give what you don't possess |
| 0:58.9 | and how abiding in Christ becomes the source of love that transforms your relationship. |
| 1:04.5 | Well, now here's Chip with today's message, connecting how to multiply your joy. |
| 1:10.1 | Let me give you two quick pictures. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm driving in the car with my wife. |
| 1:15.2 | I've been, in my case, I travel quite a bit. |
| 1:17.9 | So this last year, I think in about 14 months, I was in China three times, and in the Middle |
| 1:22.4 | East, and then some domestic travel. |
| 1:25.4 | And you all probably understand this more than others. And I come home and she's had |
| 1:29.6 | a busy life and I've had a busy life and I've really missed her and she's missed me. And then I come |
| 1:34.7 | home and it's weird. Okay? I don't know how to say it. It's just weird. I love her. She loves me. |
| 1:41.8 | We told each other for like two weeks, how much we missed each other, |
| 1:44.9 | and then I come home, and then it's like, so how did it go? And how do you tell someone, you know, |
| 1:51.9 | what happened over the last two weeks and where you were? And then, you know, you're trying to catch up. |
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