Developing Spiritual Strength in Your Marriage

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Marriage was created by God to reflect His character to the world. But at the same time, we do have a spiritual enemy, the Devil, who hates God's precious design. When Satan attacks your relationship, how should you respond? John, Greg and Erin give some ideas on how to fight spiritual battles in your marriage.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.2	today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You
0:35.6	can find more relationship insights at focusonthefamily.com slash marriage
0:41.1	podcast. In the Bible in the New Testament book of Matthew Jesus said that when
0:46.9	God joins a couple together that man shouldn't try to separate that marriage. At
0:52.9	the same time there is a reality. There's an enemy of our souls and he wants
0:57.8	to destroy your marriage. I'm John Fuller along with my colleagues here at
1:02.9	Focus Dr. Greg Svolly and his wife Aaron and Greg you've done a lot of
1:06.9	counseling Aaron you too of course. But in that counseling how often do you see
1:12.0	conflict is connected to something actually spiritually related in the
1:17.3	marriage. Yeah I think when a couple is disconnected spiritually they're gonna
1:21.8	experience so much conflict. So many issues will relate back to that for us
1:26.8	early on in our marriage. I didn't really understand what it meant to be a
1:31.2	spiritual leader. And I really shied away from that. I just didn't get it. Aaron
1:38.4	had had expressed some frustrations around that and so kind of my my solution was
1:44.6	well just pull back even more. But I've also seen this in times when Aaron and I
1:49.2	are not praying together on a regular basis when we're not in the word together
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