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Marriage After God

3 of 8 - Empty Phrases and Many words: How To Prayer For Your Spouse

Marriage After God

Aaron & Jennifer Smith

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. - John Calvin When it comes to prayer, we often worry about the right words to say or wonder if we are praying “enough.” But Jesus teaches us in Matthew 6 that God values sincere, heartfelt prayer over eloquent, lengthy prayer. In the busyness of life, it’s easy to mutter quick, repetitive prayers without much thought. But God sees the heart and wants us to come to him earnestly. The number of words we use doesn’t matter; what matters is the motivation behind those words. The key is simply coming to God earnestly, trusting Him fully, whether your words are few or many. He knows what we need before we even ask. As our relationship with Him deepens, our prayers will become a lifeline, keeping us connected to the One who loves us most. Get your copy of TheMarriageGift.com Check out all our resources shop.marriageaftergod.com follow us on Instagram.com/marriageaftergod

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Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need

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as a burden we must lay upon God but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men

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that we feel their need acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful

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and practical way in which we can express our love for them. John Calvin. Hey, we're

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Smith, your host of Marriage Africa podcast. Before we get started, I just wanted to share a review we

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got recently on our show. This is by K9509. The title is Love the Challenges. Examation points.

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Give five stars and they said, so glad the podcast is back. You both are gifted in a natural way of

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sharing the gospel and relationship to our day or everyday life. I'm so appreciative of the

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encouragement and scriptures you share to help us navigate the many seasons of marriage. You guys

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are a blessing. Additional review. I simply love listening to you guys. Every episode is

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refreshing and filled with practical applications to implement in my life. Thank you, Aaron and Jen.

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Also, Jen is hilarious and makes me laugh throughout the show. Yes, God, if you haven't left us,

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if you have left us a star rating and review, we wanted to say thank you so much. They really

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bless us. Also, I want to encourage you, if you haven't left a star rating or review to take two

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seconds today and just simply tap on that star rating and if you feel inclined to also leave us a

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written review, we'd love that. We love reading them and they really bless us as I said before.

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And we may even read your review out loud on the show. So take a second today, leave us a star

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rating review. All right, we're back this week. This is part three of our eight part series that we've

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been working through on talking about prayer and specifically how Jesus teaches us how to pray

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in Matthew 6. Just a quick note, I've been getting more messages lately, private messages on

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different things based off of this series we've been doing. Nice. Yeah, so I thought that was really

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cool. It's just for some reason it's striking a quarter of people. Well, we love it and we're

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