3 Effective Ways to Fight For Your Marriage | Josh and Katie Walters

Josh and Katie Walters share their story of failure, restoration, and healing in their marriage to help you fight for your spouse not with your spouse. In this message you'll learn 3 effective ways to fight for your marriage.
Josh and Katie Walters are authors of the book "New Marriage, Same Couple." Order your copy here: www.amazon.com/New-Marriage-S....
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0:00: Introduction to the Battlegrounds series.
0:39: Recognizing that satan wants to destroy your relationships.
4:00: Why self-sacrifice and dying to yourself is essential for healthy relationships, and why the analogy of death is used.
7:01: Relationships require willingness to die to self and sacrifice for others.
8:25: The power of confession as a weapon to overcome pride and heal a broken marriage.
8:48: Katie Walters shares a pivotal moment of confession to an affair.
12:59: Confession builds intimacy and trust in relationships.
16:56: Confession as a weapon to strip the enemy of power
17:22: Forgiveness is another weapon to fight for your marriage.
20:58: Confession and empathy as key in overcoming pain and woundedness.
21:19: Forgiveness is a weapon against self-righteousness and a reminder of being forgiven.
23:08: Vision is the antidote to complacency in relationships, providing a clear mental picture of a preferred future.
31:59: Jesus' sacrifice and forgiveness is a model for marriage
33:37: Challenges in relationships and faith can lead to new beginnings.

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12:59: How do you approach confession in your relationships, and do you find it challenging to be vulnerable with others?

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23:08: How do you create a shared vision and fight complacency in your marriage?

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8:25 Have you ever had to confess something difficult? How did you feel afterward?

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21:16: Self righteousness basically means that you think you are right in your own eyes. What does self-righteousness look like in your life, and how can you let go of it in order to forgive others?

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Self-righteousness compares ourselves to others and maintains a standard of righteousness and morality that we perceive as greater than others.

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Leviticus 19:28 Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.