Praying as a couple can often feel super awkward.

And I don't know if you struggle with it. I struggle with it. You struggle with it? Well, I think early on in our marriage, we struggled with it a lot more. Yeah. And I think the struggle's changed. I don't know. Sometimes it was like I didn't know what to say. Or you don't want to be like, God, I pray that my husband would finally hear what I'm trying to tell him. Like you like subtexting your spouse in prayers, praying for things you want them to change in their life.

Yeah, prayer is hard.

A, it's a hard thing to understand.

B, I think we can get into a rut like anything else.

And we're like, I'm just saying the same things over and over again.

Does it even matter that I'm saying them?

So in this episode today,

we want to talk about some of those struggles and how we can overcome them through different

methods maybe, but also just what a beautiful gift prayer is. So with that, we'll see you on the other side.

I tend to think that the reason couples struggle with prayer is because we have too small of you of God and too high of you of ourselves.

And here's what I mean by that.

Either we think we're going to pray and God will not work.

We think we're going to pray or God does not want to work. Or we just think that God maybe doesn't actually

care. That's having a small view of God. Or we think we're not praying enough. Maybe like we're

the ones that actually... That's good. So if we just prayed enough, well, I can't pray enough

to make it happen. So I guess I'm not going to pray after all.

That's having a low view of God. Having a high view of ourselves is that if I pray, I'll actualize it, right? Or more subtly, I don't pray because I actually don't think I need God's help. If you've ever struggled with prayer, if you've ever felt awkward praying in your marriage, if you've ever felt like you run out of things to say

or you just, you don't know how to kind of break that ice, then this episode's for you.

Because I will tell you, aside from God's word, aside from the work of the Holy Spirit,

there's nothing more important and more life changing in the life of a marriage and the life

of a couple than then prayer, then praying

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