Hey friends, welcome back to the naked marriage podcast. We are David Ashley Willis and on this podcast we address the truth about sex intimacy and lifelong love and today we have a bit of a more serious

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Hey, thanks for listening today. Today's episode is going to be one that's on the heavier side, but it's also one where I believe that for those of you who are in a really difficult place listening to this, it could be one that gives you a lot of hope.

Whether it is hoped to keep fighting for a marriage that has not ended yet and to believe God for a miracle, or if it's hoped to move forward because you've done everything you can do in your spouses, chosen to walk away and a hope of knowing that God is with you and he is for you.

So I'm going to start off by just reading scripture because scripture is always a good place to start. You know, I had a pastor mentor of mine when I was first starting out and he said, now, Dave listen whenever you're preaching, use lots of scripture.

That way you'll know at least something you said is actually true. And I loved that. And I think it's good advice for life. So I want to start out this podcast with this really delicate, but important topic just with scripture so that we can start out knowing that.

The way we're starting the conversation is definitely true because it's straight from God's word. And this is from first Corinthians chapter seven.

This is the appall, the apostle Paul writing and I'm going to begin reading this in verse 10, beginning in verse 10, he says, but for those who are married, I have a command that comes not from me, but from the Lord.

A wife must not leave her husband, but if she does leave him, let her remain single or else be reconciled to him and the husband must not leave his wife. Now I will speak to the rest of you, though I do not have a direct command from the Lord.

If a fellow believer has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her.

And if a believing woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him for the believing wife brings holiness to her marriage and the believing husband brings holiness to his marriage.

Otherwise, your children would not be holy, but now they're holy. But the husband or wife who isn't a believer insists on leaving, let them go.

In such cases, the believing husband or wife is no longer bound to the other for God has called you to live in peace.

Wow. It's a lot in there, but it comes down to this. If you're doing everything you can, if you've done everything you can for your marriage and you feel like you're fighting for this, you're praying for this, you're believing, and you have a spouse who chooses to leave.

You can live at peace still. This is biblical. This is straight from God's word. We're called to live in peace. You don't have to feel like that your life is over because you've done everything that you can and your spouse is chosen to leave that somehow your whole destiny is ruined. God is with you and he wants to carry you through this in peace.

But what we want to talk about in this episode is how to do everything you can in your how to do everything in your power to create room for God to do that miracle.

And then if it gets to the point where you've done all that and your spouse walks away, how to know, okay, it's time for me to move forward with my life in peace because I've done all I can and they've chosen to walk away.

That's right. So it is heavy because, you know, as you know, from listening to this podcast, we believe that God is bigger than any problem we have in our marriages.

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So the truth is it's two people in the marriage and it's a really hard dynamic when one spouse is fighting and doing everything they can. They're saying all the prayers, they're reading all the books, they're going to counseling, they're going to even conferences by themselves, like I can't tell you how many times that we've been at one of our exo conferences and there is a spouse there by themselves and like my heart goes out to them because they are doing the hard work, they are praying and they are believing.

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