If you want to unlock the potential of your marriage start praying together every day. I know. I just risked turning people off with the very first line of our first issue of Great Marriage by offering the classic preacher line, “just pray about it”. Yet, we’re launching this carefully and prayerfully planned effort to help you build a great marriage with a simple appeal to trust us - not because it’s the go-to default answer when shallow or inexperienced preachers have no idea how to respond to your situation, but because generation after generation of faithful couples have experienced God’s love and guidance through seemingly insurmountable obstacles as they sought Him together in prayer.
Between the two of us, we have over 60 years of ministry experience and observations. No, we’re not that old, but we do have over 30 years each. We’ve been serving couples nearly every weekday for years in couple-to-couple counseling. We have a vast tool box from which to offer you ways to unlock the potential of your marriage. Yet, why do we start with prayer? We’ve listened to countless stories, walked the darkest paths, and asked endless questions. We’ve listened for the common threads, those variables that are consistently present, and those consistently absent. Only one variable has proven perfect in the stories we’ve heard. By perfect, I mean absolutely no exceptions among our clients.
We have never served a couple who was praying together daily AND seeking help for self-inflicted relational injuries incurred after they were praying together. Let me explain.
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