Better Than Sex

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Love Lessons from Ruth & Boaz (Season 2) Prayer is a big part of the story of Ruth. There’s a prayer in each of the four chapters of Ruth. Praying together as a married couple creates a deeper emotional bond than even sex. If you’re married do both but to a wife praying together is the safest place in the world. How can everything go from death to life like in the story of Ruth? What holds a marriage together? How do we hear from God? Prayer. To the husband just start, it’s okay if you don’t know how. Start by saying, what are some things I can pray for you about today? Create a habit of prayer with each other. Put it in the plan. Ask each other, who or what can I be praying for you about? Get a free eBook Study Guide by Mark & Grace, Ruth: A Big Little Love Story and follow along with us this season. Just text "RealMarriage" to 31996 and we'll send it to you for free! Get 10% off your first month as a listener of the Real Marriage podcast of Faithful Counseling an online personal counseling solution. Go to getfaithful.com/realmarriage and join the over 500,000 people taking charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Find more from Mark and Grace at xomarriage.com/realmarriage Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And if the wife feels like she always has to be fixed, she just always feels broken.
0:05.9	Oh, man. That's super convicting. I'm sorry. That probably explains 50% of her marriage.
0:12.6	Sorry.
0:13.1	There's people listening.
0:16.5	That's totally true. But I think also for a wife, it's like, my husband will go talk to the Lord and then listen
0:23.6	to the Lord and purr is both.
0:25.0	Prayer is talking to the Lord and it's listening to the Lord's conversational.
0:28.1	How scary is it for a wife to follow the leadership of a man who doesn't talk or listen to the Lord?
0:33.2	Terrifying.
0:34.4	It puts the wife in a very vulnerable place because she's needing to submit to his leadership,
0:40.3	but if his leadership isn't under the Lord's leadership, she could get harmed in all kinds of different ways.
0:47.3	When we know that our husband's connected to the Lord in the word, praying, seeking wise counsel,
0:53.3	then we feel secure to do what we need to do as a helper.
1:00.3	Hey, welcome back to the Real Marriage podcast with Mark and Grace Driscoll.
1:05.0	We are going to talk about prayer.
1:07.4	And does prayer matter in marriage?
1:09.1	Does it make a difference?
1:10.4	Is it helpful or not? What does it even
1:13.4	mean to pray in marriage? What does that look like? When we got married, how different was our
1:18.8	prayer life and our view of prayer? Pretty different. I mean, neither of us were great at prayer,
1:26.5	but it was...
1:27.7	One of us was less great.
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