How to Pray Together in Marriage (even when it's awkward)

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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As believers, we’re called to cultivate an active prayer life, but what about a marital prayer life? While private prayer is essential, praying together as a couple can strengthen your relationship in profound ways. In this video, we share the benefits we've experienced in our own marriage and practical ways you can incorporate prayer into your relationship. Master marital communication: https://speak.fiercemarriage.comTake the 31-Day Pursuit Challenge: https://31daypursuit.comPray for your spouse with intention: https://40prayers.comTo learn more about becoming a Christian, visit: https://thenewsisgood.comThis ministry is entirely listener-supported. To partner with us, visit https://fiercemarriage.com/partner Good news! You can now find FULL video episodes on our YouTube channel, The Fierce Family. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkyO4yVeRdODrpsyXLhEr7w to subscribe and watch. We hope to see you there!

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0:00.0	Ryan, were we always good at praying together?
0:03.0	Yeah.
0:05.3	Our children good at praying?
0:07.2	Like, I don't know.
0:07.8	It's like you pray and you pray in faith and I think you get more practiced.
0:14.0	Yes.
0:14.6	But are your prayers better?
0:15.9	You know, it depends on a lot of things.
0:18.3	You asked the question.
0:19.2	So here I am.
0:19.9	Well, I think we struggled with it.
0:22.7	As a couple. As a couple, like knowing what it was, the purpose of it, getting over maybe some of the
0:30.0	awkwardness of it, because I think it's easy to pray by yourself. And so why should we pray as a couple?
0:37.5	What's the importance of it?
0:38.9	And so articulating that I think is helpful
0:41.2	in driving our motivation for why we should pray.
0:44.8	I mean, God commands us to pray.
0:46.8	That should be enough, right?
0:48.3	Right, should.
0:50.2	But we always come with caveats.
0:52.5	We have excuses.
0:53.5	And so we're hopefully here today to say, no more excuses.
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