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Marriage After God

Want More Purpose, Unity & Blessing in Marriage? Then do this!

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Christianity, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this special Thanksgiving episode, we are sharing about the immense value of serving others together in marriage. While the holiday may look different for all of us this year, we want to encourage you with the blessings, unity and purpose that come from adopting a lifestyle of service as a couple. We start by reflecting on our own journey of serving in various capacities over the years - from youth ministry, to nonprofits, to family and friends. Making service a shared activity has built life-giving memories and given us a shared mission. But for a season when we struggled relationally, our eyes turned inward and serving dried up. Serving is a powerful antidote to many marriage issues. It builds unity as you work as a team. It provides perspective when you pour into others’ lives. It gives opportunity to utilize your unique gifts and talents together. And most importantly, it allows you to follow Jesus’ example and model servant leadership in the way He perfectly lived it out. In Mark 10 and other passages, Christ makes it clear that His entire mission on earth was to serve and “give his life as a ransom for many.” Washing His disciples feet, He told them to follow His model of humble service to one another. When we serve others from a place of humility and sacrifice like Jesus, amazing things happen in our own hearts. Some benefits of consistently serving together include: deepening intimacy and friendship, creating life-long memories, teaching important values to your kids, gaining inspiration for your relationship, blessing your community, and discovering purpose. As you reflect this Thanksgiving, we encourage you to prayerfully consider what adopting a lifestyle of service might look like for your marriage. Who can you bless? What brokenness can you help heal? You have gifts and talents waiting to be unleashed for Kingdom impact! Instagram | @marriageaftergod Instagram | @unveiledwife Instagram | @husbandrevolution Check out our marriage resources! Sponsors: Grab our NEW book The Marriage Gift - filled with 365 prayers and devotions for your marriage! This is a production of Smith Family Resources, Inc & Marriage After God © 2023 Some of the links above may be affiliate links, which means we earn a small commission if you purchase the item(s) using these links. Thank you for supporting us!

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate,

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to have it make some difference that you have lived and

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lived well.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Hey, we're in Jennifer Smith, your host of the Meri Eppregog podcast.

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And today's episode is brought to you by our faithful patron team who've chosen help financially support this show monthly

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So we just want to thank all of you who have supported and signed up and we just appreciate all the support it helps get this podcast and our prayer emails into thousands

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and tens of thousands of married couples homes.

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And so if you've signed up and joined the patron team, we just want to thank you.

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If you have not yet, we want to invite you to become a faithful patron partner.

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And your financial support helps us keep our podcast, keep our emails going.

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And so we really appreciate that.

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And so if you want to join the patron team, just visit Marriage After God.com forward slash patron

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and fill out the form and join the team.

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Well it kind of feels weird being back to a little bit of normal because we just

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finished an eight-part series and so I got in like this rhythm of what the series was going to be.

1:16.4

But I did like doing this, that a-part series.

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I did like it.

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And if you listening, if you liked the series, would you just jump on Instagram if you have it and go to

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marriage after God and direct message us, DM us?

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And let us know.

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And let us know if we should continue with series because if we're podcasting next year we can

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