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MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

The Power of Vision for Your Marriage

MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

XO Marriage

Relationships, Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Jimmy Evans discusses how to have a vision retreat with your spouse. A vision retreat will help you resolve issues and find agreement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi this is Jimmy Evans with marriage today. This podcast is dedicated to equipping

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families with the teaching and tools they need to succeed. We hope you enjoy this

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episode and subscribe for more marriage building content.

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When you're together in a relationship and you don't have a vision where there is no vision,

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the people are like this, they can't be restrained. Can two walk together Amos? Can two people

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walk together unless they're in agreement? No, They can't. If there's no vision, you can't keep people restrained.

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That's what it's saying.

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Well, I knew that related to anything else, but I didn't know that related to marriage. The Genesis principle in the Bible is

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God began in Genesis one creating everything and the first thing that God said is

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let there be liked. When God begins to work he turns on the light,

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when the devil begins to work he turns off the light. Because the God is the

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God of all lights and the devil is the Prince of Darkness.

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So whatever the devil is going to do in your marriage, he's got to deceive you and put you in darkness before he can do it.

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But whatever God is going to do in and put you in darkness before he can do it.

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But whatever God is going to do in your marriage,

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he's going to flip the light on first.

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Let there be light.

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And that means vision.

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God wants us to see before anything else happens and when God was creating the first thing that happened is he said there's going to be liked and everything I do is going to be in the presence of life.

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So vision is liked. Vision is letting God tell you what his purpose

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for your marriage is. God, why did you put us together? God, what are we here for? And God comes and gives you light. And here are the five virtues of vision. Why is vision so important?

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Let me just tell you five reasons. And let me tell you the alternative if these things aren't happening in your marriage.

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