Inviing God Into Your Dating Relationship (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Debra Fileta discusses finding your identity before you make it your relationship, having emotional boundaries, and focusing on Christ as the true healing and fulfillment in your life. Her practical advice and fun stories are something you don’t want to miss! (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | You are responsible for protecting your heart. That includes physical interactions, |
| 0:08.0 | that includes emotional interactions and spiritual interactions. And I think we do |
| 0:13.0 | ourselves a disservice when we start becoming prematurely one before the wedding day. |
| 0:20.0 | That's Deborah Fileta, sharing about having healthier dating relationships. And she joins us |
| 0:25.0 | again for Focus on Family. Thank you for being with us today. Your host is Focus |
| 0:30.0 | President and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:33.0 | John, I'm excited about the content today. You know, once in a while we come to the |
| 0:36.0 | dating side of this. That might be the 20-something, the 30-something. And people are |
| 0:41.0 | forming their families later in life. And I think it's really important that we have |
| 0:45.0 | some discussion about what God's calling you to in the way of relationship. |
| 0:49.0 | What does it mean to be committed to the Lord? Your identity in Christ, we covered |
| 0:54.0 | some of that yesterday. And we also discussed being the person with the qualities |
| 0:59.0 | you want to see in your partner. I thought that was interesting. Deborah Fileta, our |
| 1:02.0 | guest, mentioned that. You know, the more you deepen your relationship with the Lord, |
| 1:06.0 | the deeper those people that you hang out with probably will be. And I think that |
| 1:11.0 | was true. It's true of my journey with Gene. I mean, that's when I was getting |
| 1:15.0 | committed to the Lord in a deeper way. And boom, I found Gene, or the Lord found |
| 1:20.0 | me in forming. And she was equally yoked with me in that. She was really developing |
| 1:25.0 | her relationship with the Lord. And almost what I would say, the exact same way. |
| 1:29.0 | And it was such a wonderful and reinforcing experience for me that the Lord had |
| 1:34.0 | introduced us. And we're kind of right at the same place spiritually, emotionally, |
| 1:38.0 | et cetera. So I'm looking forward to today as well. Me too, Jim. And Deborah Fileta |
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