How God Wants to Use Your Imperfect Marriage
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Marriage has a way of revealing some of our deepest fears. But no matter what you're afraid of today, God can help you overcome it. Greg, Erin and John open up about some of their struggles, and explain how God uses friends to help you defeat discouragement 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. We shared recently on this podcast about expectations as you're getting |
| 0:47.2 | ready to get married and the truth is there are a lot of unknowns about our |
| 0:50.6 | future together. I mean health issues, stresses, all sorts of things come up |
| 0:55.4 | that you never anticipated. And it's okay. I'm John Fuller along with my |
| 1:00.8 | friends and focus colleagues Greg and Aaron Smiley and Greg we heard from you |
| 1:06.0 | and Aaron about expectations in marriage and you admitted you were perfect. So |
| 1:10.0 | that was easy. What were the fears though that you had if any about walking down |
| 1:15.5 | the aisle and saying this is it. This is the relationship. Well since I was the |
| 1:20.1 | son of a guy named Gary Smiley who was kind of one of the original marriage |
| 1:23.8 | experts and spoke everywhere around the world had like 60 books on marriage. |
| 1:28.9 | Honestly, my greatest fear was that I would never measure up to him as a husband |
| 1:35.1 | in the example that I saw. And my parents weren't perfect. And I knew that. And there |
| 1:41.1 | were things about their marriage that quite frankly I didn't want to be a part of ours. |
| 1:45.8 | But I was really really worried going now and never be like that. And it was almost like I |
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