The Power Of Confession In Your Marriage & How To Do It.

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Bible tells us in James 5 to "confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." Confession is one of the most powerful gifts God has given us. It is by confession that we are saved. (Romans 10:10) It is by confession that we are healed. When we confess our sin we are saying that God is right and we are not. It is humbling our selves. It is the killing of our flesh just as Jesus tells us to take up our cross and follow him. But confession can be hard especially because it is exactly the opposite of what our flesh wants. Confess exposes our nakedness and our natural instinct is to protect that nakedness and to cover it up. But when we hide we allow our sins and wrong ways of thinking to live on instead of being cut away. In this episode, we talk all about the power of confession and how it can be done well in our marriages.

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0:00.0	Hey, Maradjephthigod family. Aaron here, your host with Maradjephthigod podcast.
0:04.2	Welcome back to another episode. It's Wednesday. We launched episodes on Wednesdays.
0:08.4	And this month, for all of July, every Monday, we've been posting episodes from other podcasts
0:15.9	that Jennifer and I have had the privilege of being interviewed on. And that's been a lot of fun.
0:20.8	A lot of you have been finding out about new podcasts, new personalities to subscribe to.
0:26.9	And we just thought that'd be a fun thing to do this month. And we might even continue doing
0:30.9	that next month. We have a ton more interviews that we can still re-air. And we've gotten permission
0:35.7	from a lot of them to share those with you. But we've also been, you know, we launched our book,
0:41.4	Maradjephthigod last month in June. And we've been taking July to kind of have a little break from
0:47.6	posting new episodes. And so every Wednesday, we've been posting old, old episodes, you know, 70 episodes
0:54.2	ago. Episodes that you probably haven't even heard. And we've been, I've been recording new
0:59.2	intros for them and reposting them for for you guys. And today is going to be the same. We have an
1:03.9	episode from, it's episode 11, actually. So we're going to be re-earing that today. And it's about
1:11.3	confession, confessing sins to our spouse. It was a, it's a super powerful episode. We don't
1:18.0	realize how powerful confession is. And, and what a gift confession is that God's given us. And
1:22.8	James, chapter five, the Bible tells us to confess our sins to one another so that we, we will be healed.
1:30.0	And I've, you know, walking through addictions in my life and actual unrepentance in my life,
1:37.4	I've found that the Bible's true, that what it says is true when I confess, when I bring the things
1:43.8	that are in the darkness into the light that I find healing from those things, that I find freedom
1:48.8	from those things that the freedom that Christ actually gave me on the cross, I can actually walk in.
1:54.5	And so we wanted to share with you all what it looks like to confess what true confession looks like,
2:00.0	how to confess, what it sounds like. We give examples from our own life. So in a few minutes, we'll
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