Submission, Control, and Manipulation in Marriage [PART 1]

Established Family Podcast

Derek Palizay

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5.0 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Most Christian marriages aren’t stuck because of communication issues, intimacy struggles, or personality differences.
They’re stuck because of disorder — rebellion against God’s design for marriage, leadership, submission, and covenant.

In this episode, we confront the uncomfortable reality:
You can’t pray for restoration while resisting the order God established for it.

➔ If you’re still clinging to control, you’re fighting God.
➔ If you’re manipulating outcomes, you’re delaying healing.
➔ If you refuse submission to God’s design, you’re forfeiting the very breakthrough you’re asking for.

We walk through how control and manipulation take root in marriages,
how submission has been distorted by culture and religion,
and why true biblical order is the key to deliverance, restoration, and generational blessing.

You’ll learn:

Why biblical submission isn’t about domination or silence
How rebellion subtly hardens your heart (even when you think you’re "protecting" yourself)
How disorder in your home invites chaos, strife, and spiritual strongholds
What it really means to walk in the power, strength, and covering of God’s order

If you’re tired of surface-level advice…
If you’re desperate to see real change in your marriage…
If you’re ready to confront the spiritual roots that are holding you back—

This episode is for you.

🎙️ Listen now — and let the Holy Spirit open your eyes to the order that unlocks restoration.

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is going on, everybody?
0:01.4	Derek Palazet and Jordan Palazet here back for the next episode of the established family
0:07.4	podcast.
0:08.5	Thank you guys so much for your grace and for your patience over the past month, month and
0:13.6	a half.
0:14.3	I know we have not dropped a new podcast.
0:17.2	And it was a little bit of a different cadence bringing Jordan into the fold.
0:21.6	And then we hit intensive season with the organization as we're getting into the warmer months where people are traveling again.
0:28.0	So not only do we do travel and do intensives local to people that this organization reaches.
0:34.8	But we have people fly in to Tennessee because it's beautiful here.
0:38.3	We have a lot of really cute areas that are also restful and secluded.
0:42.6	And we get to do one, two, and three day intensives with couples here in Tennessee as well.
0:49.4	And that's always a beautiful time where it's a little bit different than coaching and
0:53.0	counsel in the organization where it's usually one hour different than coaching and counsel in the organization
0:54.2	where it's usually one hour at a time. We get to sit there for, you know, six to eight
0:58.8	hours in a day. And by a certain hour, you can't hide anymore, right? It's exposure by light.
1:05.2	The Holy Spirit is always present. We're constantly renouncing things and filling vacancies
1:09.5	with the power of the Holy Spirit.
1:11.6	And it also informs and encourages our spirit to remain in that place of grace as a chosen
1:18.2	instrument to continue to warfare on behalf of marriages.
1:21.8	So thank you guys for your patience and your understanding.
1:24.6	As much as we would love to constantly have podcast dropping, we do have to
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