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So we might not be intentionally saying okay okay, bow your head, we're going to pray.

But as we're talking about ways we can grow in love, we can grow in support, we can reflect

this covenant of love that God loved us first and we're only loving because he loved us.

I think he can receive that as a prayer and I think God can work in our marriages.

That's Jody Burnt with more insights about the powerful impact prayer can have on husbands and wives.

Last time on Focus on the Family, we shared a Best of 2023 program with you

featuring Jody and we're coming back to part two of that

conversation today. Your host is focused president and author Jim Daly and I'm

John Fuller. John I think Jody made the case that

she gave us about how couples who pray together and I would add

read the word regularly, not every day but regularly, there is a less than 1% chance of divorce

in that couple's future.

That says it all.

We also learned how to navigate those inevitable personality differences where a husband or wife may

be less comfortable with prayer and how to push through that discomfort to experience greater

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