How To Confess Your Sin To Your Spouse

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Christianity, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Confessing your sin to your spouse will never be an easy thing to do but it is important ot maintain a healthy relationship with your spouse as well as growing in your walk with christ. Although confession is so important it is something that does not happen very often in our marriages. In this episode we discuss the reasons why confessing your sin to your spouse is so important and we also give some practicle and biblical advice on how to go about confessing. We also talk a little bit about how to recieve a confession from our spouse. Please leave us your questions and comments. -- GET THE "Ephesians 5:25" SHIRT HERE: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/collections/apparel/products/ephesians-5-25-shirt -- SHOW NOTES: 1 John 1:5-10 Romans 8:12-14 James 5:16 Matthew 3:8 Luke 17:3-4 Tips For Confession 1. (22:28) Recognize what Christ has done for us. There is nothing your spouse can do that is worse than what we have done to God. 2. Honesty Is Key 3. Don't Minimize 4. Repentance & Confession Are Two Different Things. 5. Give Eachother Room To Confess 6. Choose A Good Time 7. Don't Wait For Perfect Time 8. How To recieve A Confession 9. Forgive Eachother 10. The Goal Is Reconciliation 11. Don't Rush The Other Person To Forgive You But Trust God With Your Spouses Heart. 13. Have Slef-Control In Your Reposnse Towards You Spouse -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.unveiledwife.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution

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0:00.0	Hey, we're Anogen from Smith with Marriage After God helping you call today an extra name
0:04.0	marriage.
0:05.0	And today we're going to talk about something that's pretty sticky, pretty hard, but it's
0:08.8	how to confess to your spouse.
0:20.3	Okay, so this episode is going to be rough because confessing to your spouse, your sin,
0:27.7	is not an easy thing.
0:28.7	And to be honest, I have a feeling that a lot of couples don't do it.
0:33.2	And if they do, it's probably rare.
0:35.1	But it's something that Jennifer and I have attempted to grow in and mature in and become
0:41.5	better at and consistent in.
0:46.0	And there's a bunch of reasons why.
0:48.0	And not only do I want to explain to you guys today the reasons why we think confessing
0:52.7	to your spouse is so powerful and so good for your marriage.
0:55.5	But we're also going to give you some understandings and ideas on how to deal with confession and
1:01.2	how to appropriately do it and how to confess correctly, which if we get say that way.
1:06.4	Because there's a lot of ways we might want to confess, but we hope to help you guys in
1:11.5	this area of your marriage to find more freedom, more healing and more oneness and a reality
1:18.0	more power in your marriage through confession.
1:21.1	So I think that we should just start off with some scripture and just jump right into it
1:24.6	and see what God has to say about confession.
1:27.2	So we're going to go to first John 1, starting in verse 5.
1:31.2	And we just want to encourage you guys to pull your bibles out.
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