Setting Boundaries in Your Most Difficult Relationships (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Lysa TerKeurst reflects on the death of her marriage and how she had to place boundaries in her life to protect her own mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. She offers insight, biblical wisdom, and encouragement to those needing to establish boundaries with others. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
| 0:46.2 | families hope. Please call 800 the letter A in the word family or donate at focusonthefamily.com |
| 0:53.0 | slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:03.6 | You know people said, well Jesus said lay down your life for your friends. |
| 1:06.6 | You know Jesus modeled that. He laid down his life for his friends and that's absolutely correct. |
| 1:13.3 | Jesus laid down his life for a high and holy purpose but not to enable bad behavior to continue. |
| 1:20.2 | So we must not confuse the good command to love with the unhelpful and often harmful behavior of enabling. |
| 1:29.2 | Well that's Lisa Turkuristan. She joins us again today on focusonthefamily. |
| 1:34.2 | Your host is focus president and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:38.4 | John I'm excited to have Lisa back. You know there are a handful of people that do such a wonderful job |
| 1:44.2 | communicating their message and Lisa is one of those handful of people that do it so well with great |
| 1:50.5 | wisdom. She really is tapping into the hearts of all of us and the topic we talked about last time |
| 1:55.7 | were those boundaries in our life. Why we should have some A and if we don't, why there will be chaos |
| 2:02.8 | in our lives and that gap and I thought it was an excellent discussion and if people missed it, |
| 2:08.5 | I hope you'll go to the website, get it on your smartphone through the focus app. However you can hear it, |
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