32: Marriage Weekend: Are You Quick To Forgive or Do You Hold Grudges?

FAITHFUL LIFE

Matt and Lisa Jacobson

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Kids & Family, Christianity

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The irony of forgiveness is that the wounded person has to do the forgiving. And yet, it is through forgiveness that God does His best work in our hearts. To have a genuinely close marriage, forgiveness is imperative. Do you know how to forgive? Are You a good forgiver?

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. We're Matt and Lisa Jacobson.
0:09.5	And this is Faithful Life podcast, Marriage Weekend Edition,
0:12.7	where every Friday we take just a few minutes to talk about one simple way for you to enjoy a better weekend together.
0:25.2	Thank you. enjoy a better weekend together. Hey, the weekend is here again.
0:27.0	I can't believe it's here already.
0:28.0	Oh my goodness.
0:28.7	But I'm excited.
0:29.5	Yeah, absolutely.
0:30.6	But doesn't the time fly?
0:32.0	I'm just telling you, turn around and it's Friday again.
0:34.9	But here we are, and we're excited about Marriage Weekend Edition.
0:38.6	We're going to be talking about another little building block.
0:41.1	Frankly, this is kind of a big building block for marriage.
0:44.4	And if you want that peace, wholeness, one oneness, and that unity and joy and just
0:51.3	we're loving life together, this is an element that you've absolutely got to have
0:57.5	dialed in. And a lot of people never learn this. And what is it? The forgiving heart.
1:03.0	Having a forgiving heart. And man, is that important if you're married to somebody like Lisa?
1:07.6	Exactly. All right. You know, the irony of forgiveness is that it's always the wounded party that has
1:14.3	to do the forgiving right that doesn't seem right does it i mean just the way we think no that person
1:19.0	needs to pay that person needs to be punished but the irony of forgiveness in relationships and
1:25.2	certainly in marriage is that it is the wounded party
1:28.7	that has to do the forgiving. That part always bothered me because it just doesn't feel, it almost
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