Truly Enjoying Your Spouse (Joy, 2 of 4)
Fierce Marriage
Ryan and Selena Frederick
4.9 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
You love your spouse, but do you *like* them? It was affection that brought you together, but what should you do when affection fades and marriage begins to lack joy? In today's episode we talked about truly enjoying each other by looking at three ingredients necessary for a joy-filled relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | if there's one thing that I think all couples desire, it's to have a joy-filled marriage. Would you agree with that? |
| 0:06.3 | Yes. And that's the entirety of our ministry, right? It's to kind of get couples to think outside of themselves so they can have a deeper, longer-lasting, more steady joy by what? By conforming their marriage and their lives to the Word of God. |
| 0:23.7 | And so this whole series is getting really deep, hopefully, deep into this idea of joy, |
| 0:31.7 | the biblical definition of joy as a fruit of the spirit. |
| 0:35.5 | We talked last episode in how joy is a fruit of the spirit |
| 0:38.7 | that is actually attached to some very tangible outworkings of emotions and a response to what God |
| 0:44.8 | is doing and what he has done. In this episode, we're talking specifically how to enjoy one another, |
| 0:50.5 | how to take joy in your spouse. And as we'll, as we'll discuss, there are three, |
| 0:55.2 | I'll call them ingredients into enjoying one another. And I hope it's helpful to you. And so thanks |
| 1:01.5 | for joining us. We'll see you on the other side. Welcome to the fierce marriage podcast, |
| 1:04.9 | where we believe that marriage takes a fierce tenacity that never gives up and refuses to give in. |
| 1:09.6 | Here we'll share openly and honestly about all things marriage. |
| 1:12.6 | Sex, communication, finances, priorities, purpose, and everything in between. |
| 1:17.4 | Laugh, ponder, and join in on candid, gospel-centered conversations. |
| 1:24.9 | This is Fierce Marriage When you say ingredients. |
| 1:42.2 | When you say ingredients, I'm like, ooh, we're going to make some joy cookies or something. |
| 1:44.1 | You wish. Cookies are on the mind, on the brain. Selina is the ingredient, the salty and sweet cookies. That's one ingredient? I think I'm going to buy that domain, by the way. Somebody wrote in there like, man, you should have bought Selina's Special Sauce. Salty and Sweet, oh, what a treat. You're the selina special sauce.com. |
| 2:02.7 | That's what it's called, right? |
| 2:03.5 | I can't remember what that's exactly what we called. |
| 2:04.7 | I think that's what it's called. |
| 2:06.3 | But yeah, so these three ingredients, and it's really interesting. |
| 2:09.8 | So you think about joy as an outworking of this reality that exists, that God is God, and we are not God. We are creation. He is |
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