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Because I'm so all about making prayer doable and I think sometimes when you just take one verse like first Thessalonians 312 says,

may your love increase and overflow for each other. You know, if you're feeling a little tension in your marriage, maybe you just spit that one out.

God help our love increase and overflow for each other. And you've prayed.

Well, Jody Burnt joins us today to share how you can pray more effectively, more often in your marriage.

And this is Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.

John, it's said that praying in your marriage is one of the most important things you can do. And yeah, I've tried it both ways.

You know, Jean and I, we got busy and you know, we'd go through long stretches where we weren't praying together.

And I think that is kind of disastrous. And then when you do pray together, consistently, it's amazing how that just, I don't know,

rub some of the edges off in terms of those hot buttons that you can push, right?

And so today we want to talk about that. One of the great statistics in Jody's book says that married couples who prayed daily have less than a 1% divorce, right?

So how about that for a silver bullet when it comes to keeping your marriage together and moving forward in a healthy way?

Let me add to a young woman said to me the other day, whenever I hear in Christian communication, someone talk about marriage, they talk about how hard it is to work at your marriage.

Let me kind of debunk that a little bit. The reason we talk about this, because you want to have a marriage that's really good, right?

So it takes a little work. You know, if you want to be in shape, you got to go to the gym, that kind of thing.

So it's not a burden. These are things that we want to equip you with so that your marriage could be the best it can be.

So if you're hearing, oh, it's hard work to be married, it's awesome to be married. And it does require some work, but that's a good thing.

Yeah, it really is a wonderful gift to be married. And we're going to talk with Jody. She's been here a number of times.

She's a public speaker, a Bible teacher, author of the best selling praying the scripture series. And this is an extension of that series.

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