Welcome to this week's bonus interview on the Prayers of Rest podcast. I'm Kendra Stanton, your co-host,

and this week Asherita is joined by her guests, Ben and Lindley Mandrell, to talk about

praying through struggles in marriage. Ben and Lindley Mandrell believe ministry is a team sport.

Married 20 years, they have served churches together in Tennessee and Colorado while raising

their four kids, Ava, Max, Miles, and Jack. In 2019, God called the Mandrells to Nashville,

where Ben serves as the 10th president of Lifeway Christian Resources. In 2019, God called the Mandrells to Nashville, where Ben serves as the 10th president of Lifeway Christian resources.

In 2021, Ben and Lindley launched The Glass House, a podcast hosted by Lifeway, where they have conversations with leaders who have experienced the stress of ministry.

In this week's interview, Ben and Linley share how they process to the struggles they've

experienced in their marriage and recognized God's goodness even in the midst of their

rock bottom moments.

Are you ready to listen in to this conversation?

Here we go.

Well, Ben and Linley, thank you so much for joining me on the prayers of rest podcast today.

Great to be with you. Thanks for having us on.

Yeah. So this season, we have been praying through tricky relationships, and it's run the gamut.

We have had all different kinds of family, friendships, relationships with unbelievers, relationships with people who see things

differently than us or who have experienced things that we have not experienced.

And trying to figure out how do we pray, how do we show love, how do we stand alongside people

in those challenging, tricky relationships?

And one relationship that we haven't tackled yet this season is that of marriage.

When marriage is not the happily ever after that we all wish it would have been

when there are challenging seasons or difficulties in our marriages.

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