As a new wife and mother, Shelly was trying to figure out her life and faith.

Then she found the help she needed.

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I just, I loved it. every day I remember hovering around the radio

and listening and learning so much for focus on the family. I'm Jim Daly

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Because I'm so all about making prayer doable and I think sometimes when you just take one verse like First

Thessalonians 3 12 says may your love increase and overflow for each other you know if you're feeling a little tension in your marriage,

maybe you just spit that one out, God, help our love increase and overflow

for each other.

And you've prayed.

Some practical spiritual help from Jody Burnt, who wants to help you grow closer as a couple to

God and to each other.

Welcome to another Best of 2023 focus on the family.

With Focus President and author Jim Jim Daly I'm John Fuller.

John it said that praying in your marriage is one of the most important things you can do and I've tried it both ways you know

Gene and I we got busy and you, we'd go through long stretches where we weren't praying together.

And I think that is kind of disastrous. And then when you do pray together consistently, it's amazing how that just I don't know rub some of the

edges off in terms of those hot buttons that you can push right and so today we want to

talk about that one of the great statistics in Jody's book says that married couples who pray daily have less than a 1% divorce rate.

So how about that for a silver bullet when it comes to keeping your marriage together and

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