Letting God Work on Your Spouse
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When your spouse has an annoying habit, it's easy to snap at him or her. How can you show love and patience to your mate when he or she is getting on your last nerve? John, Greg and Erin give some ideas on how to deal with annoying habits in your marriage, and discuss the importance of allowing God to work on your spouse. Featuring Joshua & Raquel Rogers.
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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 focus on the family dot com slash |
| 0:40.4 | marriage podcast. You know there are times when you wish you could change your |
| 0:46.2 | spouse and it might be that they would quit doing something that annoys you but |
| 0:51.3 | we must remember that sometimes love requires us to be patient and I'm |
| 0:57.1 | speaking and I think aspirational tones here because this is hard stuff. I'm |
| 1:02.0 | John Fuller along with my friends and focus colleagues Greg and Aaron Smolley |
| 1:06.0 | and Greg for the couple who just is always getting on each other's nerves. Why |
| 1:11.7 | is it important to not pretend not sweep it under the rug but actually to voice |
| 1:17.6 | some of this? Yeah my favorite video that I've seen on YouTube is like this from |
| 1:22.5 | the 70s or the 80s to where this this huge well kind of died and and was on |
| 1:30.4 | the some beach and so bizarre sense of interest. They didn't know what to do with this |
| 1:36.8 | huge well carcass and so someone came up with the brilliant idea. Why don't we |
| 1:41.4 | load it with dynamite? I have seen it. You know I'm telling you watch it if you |
| 1:45.6 | haven't just just Google well dynamite and exploding well but it's actually |
| 1:53.4 | that's what happens when we sweep these little annoyances and things under the |
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