Staying Consistent with Prayer in Marriage
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Praying for your mate is one of the best practices you can develop with your spouse. But what do you do when prayer feels awkward? John and the Smalley's share things husbands and wives can specifically pray for, and overcoming awkwardness in praying together. Featuring Mr. Ryan and Mrs. Selena Frederick.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, here's the latest episode of my podcast, ReFocus with Jim Daily, featuring |
| 0:04.6 | former NFL player, Benjamin Watson. He shares about protecting the lives of every human being, |
| 0:10.4 | pursuing justice for all. Visit ReFocus with JimDaily.com. |
| 0:20.8 | Praying with your spouse is one of the best ways to keep God at the center of your relationship, |
| 0:25.6 | but what do you do when prayer starts to feel rote or awkward? Many of us have been there before. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm John Fuller joined by Greg Smolley and his wife, Aaron. They lead the focus marriage team, |
| 0:36.2 | and I'm sure that for the two of you, prayer has never been awkward. Actually, it seems like it |
| 0:41.1 | started with an awkward prayer. That's true. We first met by Aaron. I didn't know where she was |
| 0:48.4 | a stranger to me, and she convinced me after I fell asleep in an Old Testament theology class |
| 0:53.6 | in college that the professor had called on me to pray. She'd goaded me into standing up. |
| 1:00.7 | It wasn't my fault your friends put me up to it. Either way. I started with a prayer. |
| 1:04.8 | It started with a prayer. But an awkward one. Yeah, so that was traumatic. I think there's times |
| 1:11.4 | when, like if we're at a group setting, maybe a dinner party or just a small group, something |
| 1:18.4 | and Aaron will ask me to pray, and sometimes it'll catch me off guard, and so it feels, |
| 1:25.2 | it always feels a little awkward to me, especially because Aaron, I love to listen to her pray. |
| 1:32.9 | You have such just the words you use. I just, I love listening to you pray. So I always feel like, |
| 1:39.8 | no, you pray. You're better and much rather here, you than me. I'll stomp on you then. |
| 1:45.5 | Well, we're going to hear from Ryan and Selena Frederick about prayer. They've written some |
| 1:50.4 | books about praying with and four-year spouse, specifically, and here's the conclusion of a conversation |
| 1:56.0 | Jim Daly and I had with them. You move through various circles. You've known a lot of people. |
| 2:00.8 | Is it pretty common? Jim's on to something here. I think there are oftentimes different prayer |
| 2:05.6 | approaches that we bring to a marriage. How often do you see that with a period? Yeah, |
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