James talks about how we should be quick to listen and slow to speak and slow to become angry.

If we had practiced that in our marriage, it would have just saved us from so many stupid arguments and conflicts and misunderstandings.

My next guest, Brad and Heidi Mitchell, are the co-founders of Build Your Marriage, a ministry that's

created to encourage and equip couples to grow closer to each other and to Christ.

Together, they've written several books, and the one that we're going to be talking about today

is Build Your Marriage with Prayer.

Thank you guys so much for coming on Takeaway.

Oh, it's our joy.

Thank you, Kurt. Did you tell me earlier that you on Takeaways. Oh, it's our joy. Thank you. Thank you,

did you tell me earlier that you watched takeaways? We do. We love the show. It's awesome.

The guests you have on here, we've learned so much in watching. I have learned so much,

and I'm so excited that we're going to be learning together with the both of you about how important

prayer is in marriage. What inspired you

to invest your lives in helping other couples strengthen their marriages? Well, you know,

we've always been interested in helping couples. After decades of ministry, we've been interested

in that. But the passion to help couples really came out of brokenness in our own marriage.

We went through just a season that was probably the darkest that a couple can go through.

Many, many years ago, I was unfaithful to Heidi, committed adultery.

We went through all the counseling, all of the accountability, all the conversations

that are necessary and trust rebuilding and restoration

reconciliation.

Coming out of that, we really had a burden to say, we want other couples to be strong so

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