21 Marriage Devotional: Praying for Your Spouse: Deepening Intimacy and Unity in Marriage
Marriage After God
Aaron & Jennifer Smith
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, we discuss the impact of praying for your spouse, highlighting how deliberate prayer fosters intimacy, unity, and spiritual growth within marriage. We share practical tips for starting and deepening a joint prayer life, anchored in biblical principles and personal experiences.
What we cover in this episode-
- Praying for your spouse benefits both individuals and the marriage as a whole.
- Initiating prayer with your spouse can be simple and impactful, such as asking, “How can I pray for you?”
- Praying together fosters vulnerability, trust, and emotional intimacy.
- Biblical scriptures emphasize the spiritual unity and oneness in marriage.
- Prayer is a spiritual discipline that realigns hearts and strengthens bonds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Aaron. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Jennifer. |
| 0:02.3 | And we're the host of the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Our desire is to help you cultivate a marriage that chases boldly after God's will for your life together. |
| 0:08.5 | We want to invite you to subscribe to our show wherever you watch or listen. |
| 0:12.2 | We are so glad you're here, and we pray that our discussion truly blesses you and your marriage. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank you. Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | We're so excited. |
| 0:31.4 | We are in week 21 of our 30-week marriage devotional series based off of our devotional's |
| 0:36.2 | husband after God and wife after |
| 0:38.3 | god again we're going to remind you every single episode if you haven't got a copy yet we just want to |
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| 0:56.0 | Amazon, both of them. And so we're on week 21. Last week we talked about praying for ourselves. |
| 1:02.9 | And this week, what are we talking about? Well, it's just as important, really. It's about |
| 1:07.0 | praying for your spouse. And so we're going to go into why it's so significant to be praying for your spouse |
| 1:13.2 | and, you know, cultivating intimacy with God through a daily habit of prayer. |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.9 | And ultimately it cultivates an intimate relationship with your spouse as well. |
| 1:23.4 | So I think we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:25.0 | But so we last episode we talked about praying for yourself. |
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