Marriage and Prayer

One of my wife and my marriage goals every year is to read a book together. We have found it a great way to be intentional about working on our marriage. We believe that our marriage will only work, if we work on our marriage. In the book were reading, Sacred Marriage, today’s chapter emphasized the importance of prayer in marriage.

Here are a couple thoughts from the book that stuck out from today’s chapter:

You can’t be a Christian unless you are a prayer! “Prayer is how we make sense of our lives in light of eternity.” The Christians who fails to pray will fail to grow as he/she should and will be trapped in a perpetual spiritual adolescence. Husbands are to respect their wives so that nothing will hinder their prayers. The apostle Peter said men must be considerate of their wives and treat them with respect so that nothing will hinder there prayers. Peter directly connected a husband’s attitude towards his wives with the fundamental Christian discipline of prayer. In essence, Peter said if you want to improve your prayer life improve your marriage. Instead of prayer being the tool that would refine my marriage, Peter tells us that marriage is the tool that will refine my prayers. Jesus even modeled this when he would leave the crowd to minister to the individual, while today we rationalize leaving the individual, particularly our spouses, to gain favor with the crowd.