The Naked Marriage with Dave & Ashley Willis
Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min · 5 segments
When you choose your family over career or personal ambitions in the right season, God often returns what you gave up in a greater form. This episode reminds you that timely sacrifice isn't loss…
This is what I've seen over and over again.
When you make the right sacrifice at the right time, when you hang up...
Jimmy Evans talks about hanging up the golf clubs for a period of time.
When you make the right sacrifice at the right time, God will often bring back the thing you sacrificed-
...
in a more glorious form later.
I had a guy in...
Yeah, I was doing a big coaching for a bunch of executives, and when I said that, this guy was like, "That's my story.
You know, I turned down a job promotion about 10 years ago to be the CEO of this company because my, uh, my kids, they're teenagers."
"And I was like we've only got about seven, eight good years left with them," he said.
"So I turned it down.
Money stayed the same.
I could have really increased our financial, uh, in- income.
The last kid just left the house." He said, "The company came back to me," and he's like, "The company's grown about three times since then." He said, "You wanna be the CEO now?"
So his income's gonna really increase, but the kids are out of the house.
He's like, "God brought it back in a more glorious form, but it's because you made the right sacrifice at the right time."
This is what I've seen over and over again.
When you make the right sacrifice at the right time, when you hang up...
Jimmy Evans talks about hanging up the golf clubs for a period of time.
When you make the right sacrifice at the right time, God will often bring back the thing you sacrificed-
...
in a more glorious form later.
I had a guy in...
Yeah, I was doing a big coaching for a bunch of executives, and when I said that, this guy was like, "That's my story.
You know, I turned down a job promotion about 10 years ago to be the CEO of this company because my, uh, my kids, they're teenagers."
"And I was like we've only got about seven, eight good years left with them," he said.
"So I turned it down.
Money stayed the same.
I could have really increased our financial, uh, in- income.
The last kid just left the house." He said, "The company came back to me," and he's like, "The company's grown about three times since then." He said, "You wanna be the CEO now?"
So his income's gonna really increase, but the kids are out of the house.
He's like, "God brought it back in a more glorious form, but it's because you made the right sacrifice at the right time."
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