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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

What God Says About Love

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

As time rolls on in your marriage, the feelings of love will come and go. Whether you feel in love with your spouse today or not, you've come to the right place. Greg, Erin and John explain how relying on God's love can help you overcome feelings of apathy in your marriage.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.2

today. Thank you for downloading the focus on the family marriage podcast. You

0:35.6

can find more relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash

0:40.4

marriage podcast. I remember sitting across the table over breakfast with a

0:45.9

colleague who said I'm just not in love anymore. It's just not working. But

0:50.7

honestly seasons come and seasons go and there might be a moment when you

0:54.5

don't feel like you're in love. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't stay in the

0:58.8

marriage. I'm John Fuller joined in the studio by Greg and Aaron Smalley. They

1:03.1

head up our marriage team here at the Ministry in Aaron. You do a lot of

1:06.4

counseling with couples. How often do you hear that I want out of this marriage

1:11.8

because I just don't feel like it's working anymore. I hear it all the time and

1:16.5

I love when I hear it because it's so easy to diffuse that and to say you know

1:21.7

it okay so you're not feeling in level that just tells me your heart's closed.

1:25.5

And people look at me like you're crazy. But really the truth is we don't create

1:32.2

love. God creates love. So if our heart's closed we're not going to feel love.

1:37.0

And so I keep my little Rolly Pulley puppet next to my chair in my office and I

1:43.1

pull it out and I say it's kind of like this. You know this little Rolly Pulley

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