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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

When Your Spouse Repents

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

There's a temptation to think you can change your spouse's bad habits. However, no matter how hard you try, true repentance is only possible with God's help. John talks with Erin and Greg about how to move on when your spouse repents from a bad habit. Featuring Chuck and Ann Bentley.

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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

0:28.3

today.

0:36.0

When you're frustrated with your spouse, you might be thinking I can change

0:39.3

them, but that's not going to work. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Aaron

0:44.1

Smolley and our husband, Dr. Greg Smolley. And we're in here now a conversation

0:48.7

with Chuck and Ann Bentley. In a previous episode, they described a time when

0:53.6

Ann prayed for many years actually for Chuck to repent of bad financial

0:59.2

decisions. And here they are now discussing with Jim Daley how God answered

1:04.2

that prayer and Chuck repented. Chuck, I want to pick up on that because that's a

1:08.0

profound moment. And we need to understand that. I'm sure there are men and

1:12.5

women that are listening who maybe they came to that precipice, but they

1:16.8

didn't spiritually cross over. You know, they didn't feel that conviction

1:23.0

quite the same way. How did you find that humility in that moment to say kind

1:28.5

of like King David, I am that man. I am that man. You know, Jim, I've never met

1:33.3

anybody else that I've known in my life and all these years of doing what I do

1:37.7

that have repented of idolatry of money. It was something unique to me and

1:42.3

something I didn't know was happening. And Ann didn't know how to describe it,

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