Saving Your Marriage from Divorce, Part 2
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Your marriage might be in trouble, but God can restore it, no matter how dark it seems. John and Greg explain how keeping your heart open to God helps to restore your marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective. |
| 0:09.0 | He said, the first thing you need to realize that kids are a blessing or all of the |
| 0:14.1 | blessings that their gifts from God and the second thing you said was kid value |
| 0:18.7 | relationships not stuff. I'm Jim Daly let's give more families hope. Any gift you send will be doubled at |
| 0:25.6 | Focus on the Family.com slash gift. |
| 0:29.2 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.4 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage |
| 0:41.1 | podcast. I wonder if there was ever a time in your marriage when you knew something |
| 0:45.9 | wasn't working. It might be actually right now you're keenly aware it's not |
| 0:50.8 | working. Well this is John Fuller along with Greg Smalley. He runs our |
| 0:55.5 | marriage department here and focus on the family and Greg a lot of marriage |
| 0:59.8 | problems are connected to something else and I'm thinking about our spiritual state. |
| 1:06.0 | Is that kind of where you can trace most of the problems that you deal with as a marriage counselor? |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 1:13.5 | I think it could show up this way |
| 1:15.4 | that if we're not connected to God, |
| 1:17.6 | maybe we're trying to give out of a place of emptiness. |
| 1:21.8 | And when we're serving relational leftovers that can create conflict in a marriage. |
| 1:26.4 | It could be that you're not pursuing a relationship with Christ and so maybe we're not |
| 1:31.7 | producing fruit like sacrifice or patience kindness |
| 1:35.3 | gratitude those kinds of things and if we're not producing that kind of fruit |
| 1:38.8 | that's going to create conflict in our marriage. |
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