Connecting - How to Multiply Your Joy
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The honeymoon’s over, the glow is gone, and married life can seem pretty harsh after a while. Is there a way to connect with your mate in a way that rekindles the flame? Is there a way to change the way you communicate that helps you actually look forward to talking and spending time together? Join Chip as he shares a communication technique that helped save his marriage and has kept it strong ever since.
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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| 0:00.9 | This is the Chip Ingram Sermon podcast, brought to you by Living on the Edge. |
| 0:06.8 | In this podcast, you'll hear Chip's teaching unedited and from beginning to end. |
| 0:12.9 | Well, now here's Chip with today's message, connecting how to multiply your joy. |
| 0:17.7 | Let me give you two quick pictures. I'm driving in the car with my wife. I've been, |
| 0:23.8 | in my case, I travel quite a bit. So this last year, I think in about 14 months, I was in China three |
| 0:28.9 | times, and in the Middle East, and then some domestic travel. And you all probably understand |
| 0:34.7 | this more than others. And I come home, and she's had a busy life, and had a busy life and I've really missed her and she's missed me. And then I come home and it's weird. Okay? I don't know how to say it. It's just weird. I love her. She loves me. We told each other for like two weeks, how much we miss each other. And then I come home. And then it's like, |
| 0:55.2 | so how did it go? And how do you tell someone, you know, what happened over the last two weeks |
| 1:02.5 | and where you were? And then, you know, you're trying to catch up. And, you know, she starts telling |
| 1:08.2 | me about, you know, which grandkids came over and what they did |
| 1:11.0 | and something. And, you know, you sort of try, but it's just, the word I use is you just don't |
| 1:16.4 | connect. Anybody get that? And you're not mad at each other, but you so want to be connected, |
| 1:25.0 | but you're not. And so you try to have a conversation, and me, I'm going to go like deep, fast, let's get connected now. |
| 1:35.9 | And this will be a shock, but it doesn't work. |
| 1:39.9 | And so we've had to learn different ways to sort of ease into when one of us has been away |
| 1:45.4 | and reconnect. |
| 1:48.6 | Another little moment is I've had times where really, really small. |
| 1:53.7 | She's not done anything wrong, but a little something irritated me that I didn't say anything about |
| 1:57.2 | where I did to her. |
| 1:58.7 | And then there was another little something. |
| 2:00.3 | And then it wasn't big enough to bring up. And there's been times where I have to her. And then there was another little something. And then it wasn't |
| 2:01.2 | big enough to bring up. And there's been times where I have been driving in the car and she's been |
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