Our Marriage Feels Like Hell

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Marriage can feel like Heaven or like Hell. Mark and Grace talk about how you can literally pull Hell up into your marriage but you can also invite Heaven down. In Season One, we're talking about spiritual warfare in marriage from Mark and Grace's book, Win Your War. A practical marriage, parenting, and relationship book that is grounded in the Word of God and focused on recognizing Satan’s role in your life. Mark and Grace Driscoll help you understand the power Jesus gives you to overcome the enemy’s attacks. Faithful Counseling is a solution for people seeking traditional mental health counseling who would prefer hearing from the perspective of a Christian. It’s not a crisis line, it’s not self-help, it is professional counseling done securely online. You can schedule weekly video or phone sessions so it works around your already busy schedule. Plus, it’s more affordable than traditional offline counseling and financial aid is available. Get 10% off your first month as a listener of the Real Marriage podcast. Go to getfaithful.com/realmarriage and join the over 500,000 people taking charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. You’re already in a war. It’s time to fight. In this Season, Win Your Marriage War as Mark and Grace equip you with tools to fight the real enemy. TEXT MOREGRACE to 31996 to go deeper into every episode this season and the book with Grace's Win Your War Study Guide. Take what you’ve heard and start putting it to practical use with questions for personal reflection and discussions for you and your spouse. Find more from Mark and Grace at xomarriage.com/realmarriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We didn't understand what healthy relationship meant, both with the Lord at times and with each other.
0:07.4	And if our relationship with the Lord isn't healthy and priority, we're not going to have healthy
0:12.2	relationships outside of that, whether we're married or not. It's all connected to God.
0:16.7	So if we need love, we go get it from God and give it to our spouse. If we need forgiveness,
0:22.6	we go get it from God and give it to our spouse. So everything we need to have a healthy marriage is in our relationship with God.
0:26.6	And part of the spiritual warfare is thinking that the spouse is to be the source of those things, not the recipient of those things.
0:34.6	Hi friends, this is the Real Marriage Podcast with Mark and Grace Driscoll.
0:39.9	Our story is not perfect, our marriage is not perfect, but thankfully our God is perfect.
0:44.7	Today it's all about inviting heaven down into your marriage and ultimately this is why
0:50.2	we started the podcast.
0:51.7	We want to bring more of God's word and plan straight into marriage,
0:55.9	especially for those friends who listen. So thanks for tuning in, and here we go.
1:01.0	Well, howdy Mark and Grace here with a real marriage podcast. And today's big idea is marriage is
1:07.0	either lived heaven down or hell up. And sometimes in marriage you say, man, this just feels like hell.
1:12.6	Well, you may have done some things to pull hell up,
1:14.9	and you can do some other things to invite heaven down.
1:17.2	So I wanted to interview you at the beginning, Grace,
1:20.0	without getting into too many specific details,
1:22.5	when you think of a hell-up marriage,
1:24.6	where we're literally going down to the culture of hell,
1:28.5	and we're pulling Satan, the demonic, we're bringing death up into the marriage and family. What are some things
1:34.2	that come to mind without too many details, but people we know, people you love, women that
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