Welcome to the Marriage Day podcast. I'm Jimmy Evans, and I'm thrilled to have you with me today.

In this episode, we're exploring the theme of lasting passion in marriage and drawing parallels between our relationships and our relationship with Jesus.

I'll share personal experiences and biblical insights on the importance of passion, the consequences of losing it, and the steps to restore it.

I'll also talk about how prioritizing marriage and family over other responsibilities save my marriage

and why loving from the will, not just the emotions, is crucial.

Let's dive into this transformative conversation

together. When you're getting married, there are two big words in marriage that people want.

It's passion and intimacy. Those are the two big prizes of marriage. And this is talking about the secret of lasting passion in marriage.

And the word passion, this is Webster's Dictionary when just defining it.

It means strong and barely controllable emotion.

That's one of the definitions.

A state or outburst of strong emotion, intense sexual love, an intense desire or enthusiasm

for something.

And that's the main one I want to point out there, is passion marriage means you just have an

intense desire and enthusiasm for your spouse and marriage.

The other definition is a thing arousing enthusiasm.

And so when we think about marriage, this is what we want, but what happens is the cycle

many times in marriage is we're very passionate when we meet each other, sometimes very passionate

when we marry for the first, you know, we call the honeymoon phase of marriage, then the passion

fades.

And sometimes, you know, when that happens, you know, it makes us wonder, you know,

can we get it back?

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