Experiencing a Fulfilled Marriage (Part 2 of 2)

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Patricia Ashley explained that her marriage was over, I mean that I love my income how Patricia's marriage was not only saved but how began to thrive. Your hostess focus. President Jim Daly thanks for joining us I'm John Fuller, John. The last time we heard that Patricia's marriage really was at that point of complete apathy and you know I'm sad to say, I'm sure a lot of people feel that way in their marriages right now so if you miss part one.

I'd encourage you to ask for the CD or go get the download though both have extra content that we just couldn't fit into the time here on there yet. We've got details for you@focusonthefamily.com/broadcast or call 800 K in the word family. To recap, part 5:01 difficult years of marriage.

Patricia and her husband became Christians.

But that didn't miraculously heal their relationship they were still avoiding each other, even to the point of reading their Bibles in separate parts of the house. But then an emergency in a friend's life led Patricia and Vernon to pray together and when they said amen they found that God had quickened their dead marriage and they felt a spark.

They were drawn together again, that's amazing, but they still had issues to work on and that's what Patricia is going to detail today and she shares very honestly. Along the way as you heard in the open clipper messages based on what the Bible has to say about marriage and their principles that Patricia began to apply in her relationship with Vernon here now is Patricia Ashley sharing from her heart speaking to a women's conference in Indian Wells, California on today's episode of focus of the following to me all the all things now write me to get on with things ED couldn't do show me negative. No complement complement and when you thing about you call work on the clock and deal with my point is the main you got you going to the kind of life that you get the feeling he something sexual on things above, you may take this is something wrong with you from and we can just see what we doing we are going but we were to look at some of our relationships from their world, their emotions, then we would see that they need.

We do, and it's a mutual experience fulfillment is to to God. I don't expect to be sent to me you expect love me unconditionally.

You love me unconditionally. But God, my dictation you you mean to do it to me right on all all you get. And you get in the face of talking talk and come on now, which is whether or not you can know you must know the God of you may have to make the fulfillment.leaving Cleveland keep that marriage is a son, and then we got to know what God's purpose marriage God's purpose for marriage is that we have companionship with God's word in Amos 33 said can't walk except Cory to agree.

Spiritually house we should agree emotionally and we should be able to agree on the most part we want to go into agreement. We attracted only with pretty teeth like more than that, now she knows kind of thing we that God would have us to connect. We would agree spirits. Is this not spiritual agreement in taking so you got the spiritual agreement. God knows what it takes to bring if we're going to experience to fulfill marriage as it relates to companionship must dwell with us according to knowledge. In first Peter 37 and got a marriage in order that it would be full feel to accomplish in joint.

We should be able to experience gratification and in Army but one of the reasons we don't always experience is because of preparation that everything that God said was ma'am provided. Now from my understanding of what I read in the Bible God gave physical as a wedding website. Now I don't know about some of you but you try to give the best you can find how many of you following me in the mind of God that he that he could get to a couple was physical intimacy and you get the gift of children is a gift to keep on.

You get the gift of children at a physical intimacy. Now if in some preferred. First of all we perverted by opening the gift before you open a Christmas present thing you explosion of and so sometimes we can't enjoy the key become opened it before times what we have to do.

Go back and say, make this in me purifying me first give me filing my relationship to take and to sanctify that which you have defined. By lowering your moral being promiscuous and fornicating for you got me got to go that claims he sanctify me make me home and then God began work last and that's why we don't enjoy the, now hold in our relationship because we won't respond sometimes intimately to week last week because we won't respond to the sometimes we struggle trying to change these meaning create and mold him and make them and manipulate them. But God made in God and he's enjoy the marriage as much as he wants to. Some of you just need to be more open understanding of the key place your expectations and and now that he's for the success of you know, know that God wants us to be from God would have us to multiply shield ladies if you don't do anything to give you his heart about having children. The spirit of murder in this country that hates baby if you had an abortion is for you. He will heal you of the motion of the spiritual, psychological trauma, he will forgive you.

He would take away the guilt and shame not to be dead, but we need to be committed to life. We need to start honoring when that are pregnant, we must take the responsibility. We as women of God assessment.

Some of the older women Bible.com to check all the women, younger women, younger women when you know they're pregnant and you must think blessed you got a good thing that you can trust you, when I get to talk to the baby and you and plan for you. Great expectation level commitment to encourage women to be not encouraging women when they're pregnant and overlooking the marriage would accomplish that the management be protected.

Do you know when he saved you to protect you if the truth were told by each one. If you can think of something, think that you have warned you relationships that you has been disapproved of a girlfriend and that relationship to them. You found that they were thinking that was Danny you ended up her train you to protect you by saying you know there's something wrong with out abilities but I don't feel good thing that Christian women have told me. I told him that it couldn't be closer to the gospel to the guidance of the rich took place mostly for the marriage to illustrate an example of Christ church Christ joined to the church. He thought I said to the church. I would never know the office. Thank you in some time.

Marriage is like a screen knows what to an opportunity to do what some of these hotels located but it was okay to devotional the call. He was found in adultery you deal with the guilt, but there is no way around the guilt and guilt is an indicator just like you scoring you something hot is an indication that there's something wrong is an indication to deal with. Thank you. Married couples whose now remarried God damn relationship, but every last one of that is living in the real blessings of God.

You know why because they say that they came to a point where they set me that to make the second marriage successful. I'm telling you the thing running from in that first name they in the second marriage to overcome in the first conference to overcome overcome those but not for those of you that have experience that you can't guess what the secret you should not invest into the marriages of other people become men and women committed to the success of other people because you know hot divorce validity and you God has restored you and you are recovering in a second marriage to have a response to encourage young couple and people whose marriages that you know are in trouble and you know when you see with the marriages and you know what they look as you know which you limited when they're going through now I'm telling you what God do you get God's don't take my word and with those wise words, we come to the end of a two-part presentation from Patricia Ashley who assured honestly how God restored her marriage when it fell completely dead and the biblical principles that she employed what a testimony. John as we've said Patricia and Vernon were able to celebrate over 45 years of a thriving marriage until his death in 2018. And that's our goal to help your marriage. Not just survive but to thrive in Christ and like we said last time.

If you're in an abusive relationship. It's important that you get to a place of safety for yourself and your children but keep praying for your spouse and for their healing and if that's your situation, please call us to talk to counselor. It's completely free. Thanks to our donors and the number is 880 family 800-232-6459 call us and request that one of her counselors give you call back. You know the last time we are this program. John we heard from a listener who said when I heard your podcast. My marriage was at an all-time low. The speaker Patricia said her marriage was dead and I thought, finally someone who understands me. I learned so much about what God says about marriage and in living my days with a better outlook trying to apply these principles. I think God for you Focus on the Family. Well that is not just one of hundreds of calls and emails we received in response to this show. That's right, and our research shows that over the past year we've helped over 100,000 couples throughout North America navigate and survive a major marital crisis and almost 600,000 couples have built a stronger and more satisfying marriage and we expect those numbers to go up thanks to our four day intensive experience called hope restored were couples who were on the brink of divorce can find healing and it has a success rate of over 80%.

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Two years later, that's amazing.

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