Praying Through Marital Struggles
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Prayer is a powerful tool to help you and your spouse get closer. John speaks with Greg and Erin about the ways they've seen prayer make a difference in a marriage, and how to be honest in your prayers. Featuring Mr. Ryan and Mrs. Selena Frederick.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.6 | There's this marriage podcast I listen to and every now and then they talk about |
| 0:39.5 | hey, how can I pray for you today and just taking a moment to pray for your |
| 0:43.2 | spouse? So I've decided to try that and I've got to say it has helped me pray |
| 0:49.0 | with my wife Dina and I'm so glad we get to talk a little bit more about |
| 0:52.6 | praying for your spouse, especially during stressful seasons with Greg and |
| 0:57.0 | Aaron Smolley. My colleagues here at Focus who offered that wisdom. It was |
| 1:01.0 | here in the studio that I remembered the first time you said that and you've |
| 1:04.2 | gone back to that to say, are the connections through the day begin in the |
| 1:09.5 | morning optimally when I say what's one thing I can pray about with you today? |
| 1:13.0 | And all I have to do is look at Dina, put my arm around her, say a very short |
| 1:18.4 | prayer and she feels connected. It's wonderful and you all know we're going |
| 1:23.9 | through kind of a stressful time right now. It's really important to do |
| 1:27.0 | that on a regular basis for me. Now you've seen couples who have found the same |
| 1:33.0 | thing that prayer really tends to connect the hearts. What's an example? Just one |
| 1:37.9 | or two couples? I think of so many couples that will come in from one week to |
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