Starting with Prayer
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How do you and your spouse pray together? Greg and Erin Smalley open up about what Bible verses they pray over each other. Plus, Jim Daly speaks with Ryan and Selena Frederick on how The Lord's Prayer from the New Testament can be a good prayer outline for you and your spouse.
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| 0:34.7 | You know, as we pray, the Psalms become a platform for me to pray because I know that those are words that please God's heart. |
| 0:42.8 | There are liturgies, and my wife gave me a wonderful gift, a liturgy over the coffee machine. |
| 0:48.5 | So as I make coffee in the morning, I'm praying about it, and I'm inviting God into that moment. |
| 0:56.2 | I don't know about you, but prayer is an important thing and kind of reestablishing our prayer lives or establishing one together as a couple |
| 1:02.2 | is vital. I'm John Fuller, joined by my focus colleagues, Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife, Aaron, |
| 1:08.7 | and I wonder if either of you two have kind of a classic |
| 1:12.5 | approach to prayers or if it's spur of the moment, kind of spontaneous, how do you operate as a |
| 1:19.2 | couple? Yeah, I think there's some amazing scripture verses that we'd love to just remind each other |
| 1:26.4 | about those. |
| 1:31.8 | For some reason, Aaron often gives me the Jesus wept one. |
| 1:32.9 | I don't know why. |
| 1:34.2 | I don't know what that means. |
| 1:36.2 | It's a reflection of her heart. |
| 1:36.7 | Exactly. |
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