Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nell Smith.

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Welcome today to this Awesome Marriage Instant Classic podcast. This is a podcast that aired last year and we wanted to highlight it again because

of the great impact it had. In fact, this is one of our most listened to podcasts of all time.

In this podcast, Christina and I discuss how prayer and patience can help heal a marriage in trouble.

We shall share personal examples in real life stories of how these two things have the potential to make all the difference in your marriage.

Please enjoy this awesome marriage. Instant. Classic podcast.

This month of Awesome Marriage, we've been talking about healing a train wreck marriage.

Each week on the podcast, we've been sharing one way to heal an unhealthy marriage.

So today's way to heal a train wreck marriage is prayer and patience. Dr. Kim, how can prayer

heal a marriage that's in trouble? I think there's something that happens when I go to God in prayer.

And I think if we go with an open heart, now, if I go to prayer and Nancy and I are struggling,

and I'm asking God to change her, and I'm asking God to tell me why she's such a jerk and

stuff like that, that's not the kind of prayer we're talking about.

We're talking about coming before God and saying,

God help me to understand.

God give me wisdom in dealing with my spouse.

Help me to be the husband that you want me to be.

How do I look at things from her perspective?

What does this look like through her eyes?

And it's just amazing to me in those situations how God shows up.

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