It's impossible to have a healthy prayer life and also have a prideful orientation toward God and a prideful orientation toward one another.

So prayer is very, very humbling when you do it honestly.

The problem is that oftentimes we just crank up the volume in our prayers and we just pray we get through whatever we need to recite.

We forget to let the Lord actually bear his weight on us.

That's Ryan Frederick, and he joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, along with his wife, Selena.

And they're going to encourage you to draw closer to God and to each other.

Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller. John, prayer is an underappreciated

activity in the Christian life. It's not always at the top of our to-do list, but it should be.

I saw a study a while back that showed that less than 1% of couples who pray together every day

end in divorce. I mean, that's amazing, but it shows the power of prayer

in your marriage. And I'm reminded of the German pastor, Dietrich Bonhofer, he said praying

for one another is the heartbeat of the Christian community. And if you're married, this applies to

your relationship with your spouse as well, maybe especially. Gene and I try to pray together

every morning. We read the word together and, you know, some days we miss it because of

schedules and things like that. But more often, we are getting together and doing that, and I'm

really happy for us. We don't want to induce guilt today. We get the schedules and the kids and stage your life,

but we do want to encourage you in this area

and give you the tools you need to enjoy the gift that prayer is.

And as I mentioned, our guests are Ryan and Selena Frederick,

their authors, speakers, and podcast hosts.

Their website is called Fierce Marriage, and they've written a number of books, and one

we're going to be highlighting today is called 40 Prayers for My Wife, and there's an

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