Whenever something comes up that can bring, that distracts us from oneness, the enemy has a plan to continue to divide through it.

And the Lord has a plan to unite through it and to bring us more into one flesh.

And so we constantly have decisions in marriage.

Are we going to go the way of division that the enemy wants?

Are we going to allow this hardship, trial, struggle to make us one?

All right, Mark and Grace Strickleer.

Welcome back to the Real Marriage podcast.

And, honey, I just want to say thank you.

This is not what you would choose to do with your life. No, this is how I'm loving you. This is not what you would choose to do with your life.

No, this is how I'm loving you.

And, yeah, and so we don't have all the answers, but we try to be helpful and honest.

And, I mean, we're kind of still figuring our stuff out too.

I mean, we've been together a long time.

It'll be 30 years faithfully married this year.

We've got the five kids, two of whom are married.

And this question for our little Valentine series here is one that I think you've got to be asking all the time.

That's good.

And that is how to be one flesh in marriage.

That's the question.

And it comes out of Genesis.

I'm preaching through Genesis right now.

And it says that the man will leave his mother and father, that he will cleave or pursue his, hold fast to his wife,

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