When You Struggle to Pray for Your Spouse
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
You and your spouse want a marriage that honors God. Yet, how can you make time for things like praying together when your schedule is full? John, Greg and Erin provide some ideas for making time for prayer, even when life is busy. 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 | Well, you want a godly marriage and you're spouse to us too and you work hard to |
| 0:40.1 | to pursue that and to provide for your kids. But when it comes to praying |
| 0:45.7 | together, that isn't so easy. Maybe because of your schedule or you grew up |
| 0:50.8 | differently with prayer, we're going to unpack that topic today. I'm John Fuller |
| 0:55.6 | joined by my focus colleagues, Aaron and Greg Smalley and Aaron, there are |
| 0:59.1 | couples who struggle with this. This is a fairly typical kind of challenge for |
| 1:04.5 | couples. Christian couples in particular who think, I want to pray, but what's |
| 1:09.3 | the deal there? It's staggering because I just found the statistic that only |
| 1:15.4 | 11% of couples pray together daily. And I'm not surprised by that because I |
| 1:21.4 | hear a lot about that. You think about prayer, prayer is vulnerable and when |
| 1:25.4 | things in the relationship maybe haven't felt safe, there's been unresolved |
| 1:29.0 | conflict and mismanaged conflict or you know pain and disappointment or you |
| 1:36.1 | know how likely are we to enter into this very vulnerable thing. But it's |
| 1:41.7 | recognizing that there's so much power in it. And how could we do this in a way |
| 1:47.6 | that feels safe? Yeah. Well, that's the topic today. And Jim Daley spoke with |
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