When You Feel Uncomfortable with Prayer
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
When your schedule is packed, it's easy to put prayer on the backburner. To help you in your marriage, John, Greg and Erin share what reminds them to pray for their mate, and offer hope to those who are struggling to make prayer a regular habit. 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 | In life, there are days when your schedule is packed and you're so busy and making time for things |
| 0:26.3 | like praying with your spouse, well, that's a challenge. We're going to offer some ways that you |
| 0:30.4 | can remind yourself to do this, even when your schedule is overtaken by others. I'm John Fuller, |
| 0:36.8 | joined by my focus on the family colleagues, Aaron and Greg Smolley and Aaron, I wonder, just |
| 0:42.2 | practically, what kind of prompts you have to pray for Greg beyond the obvious things of, oh, |
| 0:49.0 | I see he's struggling or it's a big day or whatever, I've done something really wrong. |
| 0:53.5 | It was so funny to say. The irritated grief. We were sitting at the airport waiting for our |
| 0:58.5 | flight yesterday and we were talking about this as we were, Greg was working on some of the prep |
| 1:04.2 | and we were engaging around it and he said, well, you know, I really, I like to pray for you, |
| 1:09.4 | you know, before we part ways or, you know, before we go to sleep. And I sat there, I was like, you |
| 1:14.0 | know what, I pray for him so spontaneously, just off the top of my head whenever he comes to mind |
| 1:20.6 | or if I know that he is, you know, it has a presentation or a big meeting, I just pray for him |
| 1:28.1 | very spontaneously so I don't know that I have any tips other than I will say, once we have prayed |
| 1:33.8 | together as a couple when we're going to sleep, often it takes me longer to fall asleep than Greg, |
| 1:38.9 | he'll be, he'll be over there. He's already in slumber land and I'm laying there going, okay, |
| 1:44.6 | I need to, but that's when I will often just cover my entire family. I'll start with him and I go |
| 1:51.0 | through every single person in our family, including Greg. Well, there's no magic formula that we're |
| 1:56.5 | here to promote, but we do want to have conversations about prayer and its significance in marriage. |
| 2:02.8 | And along those lines, we're going back now to a conversation that Jim Daly had with Ryan |
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