Crafted: Marriage God's Way, Part 3
Leading The Way Radio Podcast
Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef
4.9 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In our society today, many are attempting to redefine marriage to accommodate their own lifestyles. But marriage is not merely a human idea—it was God’s invention. And if it was His idea, He must also have something to say about how to live our married lives. In his three-part series Crafted: Marriage God’s Way, Dr. Michael Youssef reveals the three foundations that can make or break a marriage. Learn what they are and discover the path to a fulfilled, vibrant relationship with your spouse.
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| 0:00.0 | Through the years, I have really come to comprehend and understand the truth of the statement that opposites attract. |
| 0:10.2 | And perhaps it is now a greater manifestation of this truth between married couples than in the area of communication. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm going to explain this in a minute. But through the years, |
| 0:23.0 | I have found, as I used to test young couples before marriage, in the majority of marriages, |
| 0:29.9 | when one spouse is a spinthrift, the other is frugal. When one is cold at 80 degree temperature, the other feels hot at 50 degree temperature. |
| 0:44.5 | When one is verbal, the other is not. And when it comes to communication, you're going to find that |
| 0:51.7 | when the verbal spouse wants to express thoughts in words, because I'm going to tell you in a minute, it's not always expressed in words, but when they won't express them in words, the other person clamps up. And perhaps this is the one trait that causes a whole lot of heartburn. |
| 1:13.3 | Psychologists call this a total breakdown in communication in marriage, and it's the cause of |
| 1:20.2 | many of breakups in marriage, and yet it should not be. |
| 1:26.0 | And that is why I kept this to the last. It's the third on these three |
| 1:30.7 | foundational stones in the series of messages we're calling it crafted, marriage, God's way. |
| 1:39.1 | And we saw the very first foundation stone is selflessness. |
| 1:47.2 | The second foundational stone we saw forgiveness. |
| 1:51.9 | And I looked with you in the last message about the anatomy of forgiveness. |
| 1:58.3 | And today we'll come to what I call conversation or conversing in marriage. |
| 2:02.6 | Let me tell you why I don't like the word communication. This is a personal quirkiness on my part. |
| 2:05.6 | I don't like to use the word communication simply because it's overused. |
| 2:10.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 2:12.6 | It's catch-all phrase now, because it's the very word itself sometimes denotes, I am imparting |
| 2:19.9 | information to the other person who's receiving it. And that is why I prefer the word conversation |
| 2:25.4 | or conversing. If you look closely at any blessed marriage, you're going to find that both husband and wife are able to converse |
| 2:37.6 | with each other even at times without words. |
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