"Lord, Please Fix My Spouse."
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
When you're annoyed at your spouse, it's easy to pray, "God, please change my mate!" Yet, a more mature approach is learning to recognize your own flaws first. John chats with Greg and Erin about more effective ways to pray for your spouse. Featuring Mr. Ryan and Mrs. Selena Frederick.
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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 |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.7 | It can be easy to spot flaws in your spouse. I'm really that's a spiritual gift of |
| 0:40.6 | mine. I can find the flaws in Dina. But that's a bad attitude of course. And |
| 0:45.8 | then if I start to pray for her, oh my goodness, things change. What if real |
| 0:50.8 | change happens because I'm not praying for her, but I'm praying for me. I'm |
| 0:55.3 | John Fuller joined by my focus colleagues Aaron and Greg Smalley and Aaron. I |
| 0:59.7 | was being a little bit humorous there, but I'm sure you've seen couples where |
| 1:04.2 | they come in and the fingers pointing at the other person when actually we need |
| 1:08.4 | a mirror in this situation, right? Yes. And when you say, you know, is there a |
| 1:13.3 | couple? Well, let's just say it happens all the time. I don't know that there is a |
| 1:18.4 | couple that comes in not focused on the other person and what they're doing |
| 1:23.0 | or they're not doing. And what I love so so much is the principle that is taught |
| 1:28.7 | in our intensive program, Hope Restored. And that's you are responsible for you. |
| 1:34.2 | And when we're pointing the finger, we're really giving them our power. And so |
| 1:39.6 | it's pulling the power back and controlling what you have control of. And that is |
| 1:43.8 | you. And so it's becoming aware of how am I showing up? What am I doing? That's |
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