Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage

and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimmerling.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years.

His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate relationship.

Well, this month's awesome marriage, we've been talking about habits that lead to divorce

and how to avoid them in your marriage. Today, we're going to be talking about one habit

that leads to divorce,

which is not keeping first things first.

So this might be stating the obvious here a little bit, Dr. Kim,

but what needs to be first in our lives?

Yes, if people have been around awesome marriage, they know what we're going to say,

and that is that God's first.

And he needs to be first. And just like I try to tell people, and that is that God's first. And he needs to be first.

And, you know, just like I try to tell people all the time, when God's first, everything

else falls into place.

It's not magic.

It's like our, I think it's our heart changes.

And then the other things just fall into place.

And so when I can keep him first, my life is so much different than when I let other things crowd him out.

And then then I'm more focused on me than I'm what he wants for me.

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