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Jody Cleveland wrote this course for the spouses of students enrolled in the purity courses at Setting Captives Free.

If your spouse struggles with sexual impurity, this course is designed to help your heart heal and to equip you to respond to your spouse in a gospel-centered way. 

If you would rather go through this course material offline, it is available in a workbook format.

Janet writes, "I found the United Front course through my husband, who was going through the Purity Bootcamp. Impurity had come to light in our marriage as my husband had confessed to a long struggle with sexual impurity spanning our whole 30 years of marriage. I was broken emotionally and spiritually. Through the course, I began to focus on my relationship with the Lord. When I began walking with the Lord daily through this course, my heart really began to change, and my own sin was revealed. I realized I was living a legalistic Christian life. This course really helped me understand the freedom of Christianity and what Jesus did on the cross for me. The change in my heart has been night and day. My anxiety has turned to peace and joy. I no longer stress over perfection, and I relax into the Holy Spirit. I am truly living a Spirit-led life, and I am no longer alone. I have a comforter in Jesus. I look to him to complete me, not my husband. I am thankful for the biblical truths in this course.

My husband and I have surrendered ourselves to Jesus and are walking in the Holy Spirit daily. We have found true forgiveness, and we are on the path to restoration and reconciliation. We have agreed to keep what Jesus has done for us at the forefront of our marriage and live through the leading of the Holy Spirit. This has improved our attitude and communication towards each other. This has allowed for true intimacy in our marriage. We have found so many things that we love doing together instead of being apart. Our marriage has so much joy and peace in it. I am thankful for Setting Captives Free because we are truly free.

I recommend this course. Open your mind and heart to the course, and take time to pray and reflect on what is being taught. Allow the Holy Spirit to show you what Jesus' ministry was truly about. It truly is easy to forgive when you understand what Jesus has truly done for you. We don't have to listen to the world or live like victims when we have Jesus, who came to set us free."

Shante shared this testimony when she completed the A United Front course:

"Before starting the A United Front course, I was paralyzed with fears and anxieties as a spouse whose husband would succumb to sexual impurities. I didn't view my husband through the lens of the Gospel; in my mind, I just wanted the sin to stop, and I often felt my husband was a lost cause. But God, with His mercy and grace, His goodness and kindness shined His face upon me when he prompted my husband to ask me if I would take this course. 

Like many others, I felt my husband alone was the cause of our marriage woes, but I was wrong. I never saw my sin for what it was. This course constantly pointed me to Christ, and His love and compassion for us even when we didn't deserve it. I am so humbled to recognize what Jesus Christ did for my husband and for me too. I needed forgiveness and stop minimizing my sins of ungodly anger, harsh words, and a bitter heart. Jesus came to seek and save the lost, and that includes me. 

It was so humbling to realize how self-righteous I was; the Gospel caused me to repent and ask my husband for his forgiveness for how harsh I treated him in the past. Settings Captives Free taught me that my husband and I are partners, and our perfect bond of unity is held together by the love of Christ. The prayers I received and the life-giving words (Scripture) that I received was truly life-changing. I finally desire my husband, something I have been longing for, for quite some time. I thank the Lord for all those who take the time to help others at their most vulnerable state by pointing them to Christ. May the Lord richly bless this ministry.

I recommend this course and encourage everyone who takes it to look to Christ and know that they are never alone in this war against the enemy, the world, and the flesh. We have a Helper and Comforter always, no matter how good or bad we feel, and we have our spouses who, despite their flaws and imperfections, are still a gift to us. Transforming our minds by the Word enables us to see how much of a blessing it is to live in harmony and unity with our spouses by the grace of God. Unity comes from Christ because we are brothers and sisters in Christ as well as spouses. We have each other in the body of Christ to sharpen each other, encourage each other, and pray for each other. What a blessing it is to be apart of the family of God."

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This is a 30 day course designed to offer gospel centered hope and help to those who have a spouse involved with sexual impurity.

Healing for spouses

A United Front

Introduction

Lesson 1 Gospel Hope

Lesson 4 How to be a Helper

Lesson 6: Forgiven Forgivers

Lesson 8: Gospel Counsel

Lesson 10: Living as New Creations in Christ

Lesson 11: Reconciled Reconcilers

Lesson 16: Compassionate Hearts From the Cross

Lesson 17: Gospel-Centered Kindness

Lesson 18: Cross-focused Humility

Lesson 20: Patience and Forbearance through Jesus

Lesson 19: Learning Meekness from Jesus

Lesson 21: Forgiveness Learned at the Cross

Lesson 22: Living in the love of Jesus

Lesson 28: Rejoicing in the Gospel

Lesson 30: Testimony

Lesson 2 Pathway to Healing

Lesson 3 Healing in Jesus

Lesson 5: Forgiveness: Our Sin Debt has been Paid by Jesus

Lesson 7: Faith in Christ

Lesson 9: An Important Question

Lesson 12: Who is to Blame?

Lesson 13: Why?

Lesson 14: Speaking the Gospel in Words of Life

Lesson 15: Exchanging Old for New at the Cross

Lesson 23: Trust in Jesus

Lesson 24: Taking Thoughts Captive

Lesson 25: Physical Intimacy: a Picture of Christ and the Church

Lesson 26: Physical Intimacy: Joy and Pleasure

Lesson 27: Physical Intimacy: Captivated by Love

Lesson 29: Comforted and Comforting

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Question 6

All believers have divine power to demolish demonic strongholds. This power flows from the Spirit of Christ, who lives in the believer.

Friend, you can knockdown thought-strongholds by taking every thought captive and making it “obedient to Christ.” The way you defeat your enemy is not by not thinking about your problems, but by thinking about Jesus! You examine your thoughts, and if they do not line up with the truth of the gospel, if they do not speak of forgiveness and the breaking of sin’s power, you take it to Jesus and leave it with Him.

Practically speaking, as we are seeking restoration and healing in our marriages, we might have thoughts that begin to take shape in our minds. Evil thoughts. Discouraging thoughts. Even satanic thoughts. We learn to take those thoughts, each one of them, captive to Christ. We do not allow our thoughts to take us captive, rather we take them captive.

For example, if I were to have sudden thoughts of harming my spouse or myself, I would run to the cross with them and see Jesus’ blood He shed for me, and I would leave them at the throne of grace. I would remind myself that God’s Word teaches me to bless those who curse me (Luke 6:28; Romans 12:14). 

If I were to have thoughts of overeating, overspending or turning to alcohol for comfort, I would take those thoughts captive to Christ, seeing the cross as that which not only forgives my sin but also crucifies my wrong desires (Galatians 6:14). I would remind myself that Jesus calls me to receive my comfort from Him and His people (1 Peter 5:7; 2 Corinthians 1: 3-4).

 If we would be skillful at combating thought strongholds, we must continually remind ourselves of the truth of what Christ has done on our behalf through His death and resurrection and seeking to grow in our understanding of how to apply the gospel to our lives. Daily time in the Bible and prayer is as necessary for our spiritual life as breathing is to our physical one.

Lesson 24: Taking Thoughts Captive

Questions 5 and 6

Question 5. Why is it important to take our thoughts captive to Christ and see the power of the cross crucify those thoughts?

Question 6. Are you spending time in Bible study and prayer daily?