You Shouldn't Feel Defeated in Your Marriage | Marriage Wisdom Series
Established Family Podcast
Derek Palizay
5.0 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Brought to you by The Marriage Academyhttps://university.establishedfamily.com/marriage/ Exhaustion in marriage can be righteous.Defeat is not.In this teaching, I make the case from Scripture that defeat is not a condition designed for sons and daughters of God. It is the eternal position of the enemy. And when we align our mind, will, emotions, and conduct with the defeated one, we begin to inherit his verdict inside our marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Marriages do not fall apart overnight. They slowly drift into confusion, misalignment, and repeated cycles that never actually get resolved. |
| 0:09.1 | That's why today's episode of marriage wisdom is brought to you by established family counseling. |
| 0:14.8 | Our personal counseling practice exists to bring biblical order, spiritual clarity, and mature counsel to marriages that are tired of |
| 0:22.5 | talking in circles and ready for real direction. |
| 0:25.6 | Through our four-week and eight-week counseling programs, couples and individuals are guided |
| 0:30.2 | through a structured process that confronts disorder, exposes root issues, and restores alignment |
| 0:36.0 | with God's design for their marriage. |
| 0:38.5 | Those who are seeking direct counsel with my wife and I can exclusively be served through the |
| 0:43.2 | eight-week program with deeper care, accountability, and leadership. |
| 0:47.5 | Our counselors, however, are not outsourced voices or surface-level advisors. |
| 0:52.0 | They are personally trained and disciples by my wife and I and spiritually |
| 0:55.7 | aligned to walk with you through the stages of marriage toward truth, repentance, restoration, |
| 1:01.9 | and ultimately rebuilding your marriage with Christ as the foundation. So if your marriage needs |
| 1:07.2 | direction and not just another opinion, visit Establishfamily.com |
| 1:11.5 | slash program to begin. |
| 1:13.5 | The Bible says in 1st Corinthians 1556 through 58 that the sting of death is sin, |
| 1:19.8 | and the power of sin by which it brings death is the law. |
| 1:22.9 | But thanks be to God who gives us the victory as conquerors through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved |
| 1:29.4 | brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, always doing |
| 1:35.7 | your best and doing more than is needed, being continually aware that your labor, even to the point |
| 1:41.7 | of exhaustion in the Lord is not futile nor wasted. It is never without purpose. |
| 1:47.7 | I am going to make the case today that you should be exhausted because of your marriage. |
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