Satan can show up real quick and he likes to start on the honeymoon.

Dr. Tony Evans says the problems with your marriage may go deeper than you think.

If you don't deal with the spiritual, you're dealing with the fruit and not the roots.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Marriage is a divine tool God uses to fulfill some of our deepest needs, but Dr. Evan says

there's more to it than that, and he'll explain as he talks today about how fasting can strengthen

your connection with God and with your spouse.

Let's join him.

It's hard to build a strong marriage.

It doesn't take much to tear it down.

We're living in a day when marriages are on the rocks.

Most marriages, at least half of them end in divorce.

Most of them are not particularly happy.

They are tolerated.

And it seems to be happening with people younger and younger and younger.

Fundamentally, the issue is that people do not understand what is happening underneath the obvious.

Yes, it's obvious.

We have personality differences.

It's obvious that she stays up late and I go to bed early or vice versa.

It's obvious that we're moving in two different directions.

All of that is obvious.

And so we spend time on the obvious and never get to that which is not quite so obvious. And so what I want to talk to you about

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