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Focus on the Family Strengthening Marriage Podcast

God Was Working Before You Got Married

Focus on the Family Strengthening Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How was God working in your heart before you met your spouse? Jim Daly talks to Rebecca St. James and her husband Cubbie Fink on lessons God taught them and ways they stayed active before they walked down the aisle. Plus, John asks Greg how God can redeem your story, even if you don't like how your marriage is going.

 

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0:00.0

Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours?

0:07.3

That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called

0:12.1

Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges

0:17.7

that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally.

0:22.8

So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.7

Well, sometimes it's really good to take a trip down memory lane and see how the Lord was working in your life before you met your spouse.

0:45.2

I'm John Fuller with Greg and Aaron Smalley from the Focus on the Family Marriage Department.

0:49.5

And we're going to turn now to a conversation, come back to a conversation that focus president

0:55.5

Jim Daly had with Christian singer Rebecca St. James.

0:59.4

She was joined in the studio by her husband, Cubby Fink, and they talked very openly about ways

1:04.2

God was working in their lives even before they met and married.

1:09.0

In your book, Lasting Ever, you talk about God seeing us and that desire for us to know

1:16.2

and be known.

1:17.7

And in that context, you point to Psalm 139.

1:21.5

What's the connection with Psalm 139?

1:23.9

It's one of my favorite Psalms,, probably my favorite psalm actually.

1:28.7

Even when I sign autographs, I sign Psalm 139 a lot.

1:32.3

Because it just, it says to every single one of us that belongs to Jesus.

1:38.3

And every single one of his children, he searches us, he knows us, he sees every move.

1:43.7

He is so for us and with us, he knows us, he sees every move.

1:48.8

He is so for us and with us and has seen us before we were born.

1:57.5

And I just love that sense of like, God sees these parts of my heart that no one else sees and he loves me anyway.

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