Identifying Harmful Patterns to Heal Your Marriage (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Pastors Justin & Trisha Davis share their incredible marriage journey — recovering from Justin’s infidelity and the generational sins of their parents. The Davises describe “cycles of sin” like shame, blame, hiddenness, and unforgiveness, and how we need to get to the root of these issues before God can heal our lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Daly. In summertime, giving to focus on the family slows down, but families in crisis |
| 0:05.8 | still need your support. As we face a bit of a shortfall right now, we need your help to save marriages |
| 0:11.6 | through hope, offer dignity, comfort, and hope to children in foster care through wait no more, |
| 0:17.7 | and provide biblical resources for families. Your gift by August 31st will make a |
| 0:22.8 | real difference and offer lasting hope. Visit focus on the family.com slash support families. |
| 0:34.4 | Justin and Tricia Davis are back with us on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. |
| 0:38.8 | And last time, Justin stated how he really wanted to break some bad habits that developed in their marriage over the years. |
| 0:47.7 | I didn't want just God to fix our issues and I didn't want a 2.0 version of our marriage. |
| 0:55.8 | I wanted a brand new relationship. |
| 1:01.9 | And in order for that to happen, God promises resurrection and he promises new beginnings, |
| 1:04.4 | but the problem with resurrection is something has to die. |
| 1:09.3 | This is Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:11.9 | John, you're right. We spoke to this great couple yesterday, and if you missed it last time, go to the website or get the smartphone app and do what you |
| 1:18.7 | need to do because there was so much good content in there, which may be describing in some way |
| 1:24.0 | the marriage that you're in. And that's why we do this, is to help you recognize where |
| 1:29.6 | you're at and if you need help, to be able to get that help and to have a marriage that really |
| 1:34.7 | is thriving in Christ. That's our whole goal. And from time to time, Gene and I struggle too. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm sure you and Dina do. We have. So, I mean, it's just part of life. And, uh, you know, |
| 1:45.5 | being able to see those things and then work toward a better outcome is what we want to talk about |
| 1:49.5 | today. Our guest, Justin and Tricia, last time talked about coming to the end of their |
| 1:55.6 | senses in their marriage. And Justin had had an affair. He was a pastor of a church. Both of them were |
| 2:02.4 | pastoring this church. And it was over. It looked like it was over. But God began to talk to |
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