Building Strong Marriages: The Role of Christian Community

6 Callings God Has For Your Marriage: This week we highlight 6 callings God has for every marriage. We share personal stories and struggles we have experienced in our own marriage, as well as the importance of these callings and how they impact the marriage relationship and beyond. READ: - We're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God. - Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage. - Today we're going to be talking about God's calling for your marriage. Lots of people think they have a calling or don't know what their calling might be, but we believe that there's six callings that every Christian marriage has and we're here to share 'em with you. - So Aaron, before we get started, can you just explain a little bit about what does it mean to have a calling, what does it mean when you hear the word I have a calling on my marriage? So that people understand what we're saying. - So just growing up in the church, we've all heard this idea of our calling and a lot of tim by Marriage After God

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Why A Healthy Lifestyle Is Important For A Healthy Marriage: This episode of Marriage After God shares 3 important areas of life that are positively impacted when we choose to live a healthy lifestyle and how it affects marriage. by Marriage After God

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How To Have A Strong Marriage After Having Kids: Take Our 31-day Marriage Prayer Challenge: https://shop.unveiledwife.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle Many of the questions that have come in from listeners and viewers are about having a healthy biblical marriage after children, so we thought it would be beneficial for us to answer some of them. So we have taken a handful of question from our viewers and we answer them in this episode. We answer from our own life experience of learning to walk with each other while having our 3 children with another on the way and we bring in scripture to help us navigate how we should look at our marriage with children in the mix. Please leave us any questions, comments or you own advice that other could glean from. -- Take Our 31-day Marriage Prayer Challenge: https://shop.unveiledwife.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCE by Marriage After God

33 min listen

How To Work as a Team During Postpartum: The Postpartum season and any other time of trial or hardship can really rock a marriage. In this episode, we discuss our past experiences of postpartum and why this fourth time around was so different. We specifically address a decision we both made before the baby was born and how it impacted the wellness of the whole family during postpartum. Postpartum is a trying time as a husband and wife get disrupted with a new baby, crying, sleepless nights, pain, and a jolt in the day to day routines. However, we realized that being a team and working together is critical during this season. We talk about how selfishness and fairness cause bitterness and frustration, we talk about expectations, walking in the Spirit, and we talk about preparedness and how much that can really help the marriage during postpartum. Postpartum eCourse https://unveiledwife.com/a-christian-postpartum-course-that-every-expecting-mom-needs-review/ -- Take our 31-day marri by Marriage After God

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9 Fun & Creative Date Ideas For Marriage: In this episode, we wanted to share some fun and creative date ideas for your next date night. Jennifer and I have learned over the years just how important it is to prioritize and protect a date night with each other. Our heart is not only to give you some fun date night ideas but also encourage you to be Intentional in connecting each week in your marriage. - FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.unveiledwife.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution by Marriage After God

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7 Traits of a Spiritual Leader: Spiritual leadership or spiritual headship in the home comes from the idea that God has designed marriage to operate in a certain order. His design when walked in actually comes with blessing and security. In this episode, we discuss what some of the traits of a spiritual leader are and what it can look like when they are walked in. -- Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge today and join the 1000's of couples who have done it. https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle -- FOR MORE MARRIAGE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.marriageaftergod.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution by Marriage After God

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Our Need for Romance In Marriage (Physical & Emotional): Romance is the feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love. Romance is breaking up the mundane of the day to remind each other that you desire them and are thinking of them. Every marriage needs romance. We discuss the importance of both physical and emotional romance in marriage. Physical romance includes touch, affection, sex, kissing, holding hands, and all of the different ways a husband and wife connect physically to show their love for each other. Emotional romance is connectedness through communication, becoming known, spending quality time together, listening to each other, laughing and playing together, cultivating a strong bond of unity. We must not see a husband or wife only need one form of romance over another, both are important for a marriage to thrive. A marriage after God pursues physical and emotional romance continuously. -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagr by Marriage After God

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3 Games You Should Never Play With Your Spouse: In this episode of Marriage After God we have a little fun at the beginning talking about our favorite family games we enjoy together but only as a segway into the real topic at hand. We discuss 3 very dangerous emotional and manipulative games that are all too common in marriage. by Marriage After God

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3 Honest Fears Of A Growing Family And How To Combat Them Biblically Private: In this episode, we talk about 3 honest fears that have come up recently in light of our 4th pregnancy and how we combat them biblically. TRANSCRIPT - Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God. - Helping you cultivate and extraordinary marriage. - And to day we're gonna be talking about fears of a growing family and how to combat them biblically. - Before we get started today, because this topic is kind of surrounded around growing family and having kids, I wanted to share that we do have resources for parents called 31 Prayers For My Son and For My Daughter, and these are great resources for you to pray over your children. They're 31 prayers in each book talking about different topics in the child's life and there's also journal pages that after each prayer you can just make it more personal and we've had some positive feedback about these resources. Parents are really loving them, so m by Marriage After God

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My Husband Is An Extrovert and I'm an Introvert How We Navigate It Biblically: It is common in marriage for one spouse to be an extrovert and the other to be an introvert. There are times that both spouses have the same dominant personality traits. No matter what it can be a challenge in marriage to navigate how to get each other's needs fulfilled and communicate these needs in marriage, so we thought we would share a little from our experience of being an extrovert and introvert in marriage. by Marriage After God

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Stop Escaping the Hard Things In Your Marriage: Why you should stop trying to escape the hard things in your marriage. Marriage is hard. We all go through trials and tribulations. In fact, the Bible promises us that we will encounter hard things in life. Jennifer and I were notoriously great at escaping the issues in our marriage in the beginning. We managed to find every excuse to avoid dealing with our sexual issues and our hearts towards God and each other. God finally got a hold of our stubborn hearts and showed us the beauty and healing that can come from facing our trials head-on. In This episode of Marriage After God we discuss how we managed to escape our problems and how we changed and found healing. -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.unveiledwife.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook. by Marriage After God

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Our Marriage Story: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: In this episode of Marriage After God, we share how we met, getting married, those first few hard years, how God walked us through healing from painful sex and pornography, and where we are today. by Marriage After God

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How We Deal With Entertainment And Media In Our Marriage and Home: We live in an entertainment world and with all of the media that is available to us at any given moment, we think it is important to discuss how to know what we should or should not consume. Movies, Music, TV. How do we know what kinds of things we should be watching as married Christians? What do I do if my spouse won't stops watching that show that I don't think he should watching? She says it doesn't affect her the same way it affects me, now what do I do? In this episode, we discuss how we navigate entertainment in our home and life. We also give some Biblical ways of thinking about this issue. -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.unveiledwife.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution by Marriage After God

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Christian Community Is Necessary For Your Marriage: Christian Community is one of those things that people desire and want, but can be afraid of or not know how to get. In this episode we share our journey of finding Christian Community, how it has impacted our marriage, why it is necessary, and practical ways of how to find it. — FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.unveiledwife.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution by Marriage After God

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Your Marriage is Your First Ministry: One of the reasons we started this channel is to help and encourage Christian marriages around the world to know that our marriages are our ministry and the first place that we practice the things the Bible teaches us and commands is in our marriage toward our spouse and our children. Our heart for this is to recognize how when our marriage ministry is thriving then it will make our ministry outside the home more effective. Do you recognize your role in the marriage as a ministry? Being a husband, being a wife. In the episode, we hope you are encouraged to thrive in the ministry God has given you, which is your marriage. We as Christians walk in this way treating our marriages as the ministries that they actually are then the world we see what God intended them to see, good fruit. -- 31-Day Marriage Prayer Challenge: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle The Husband And Wife 30-Day Devotional: https://shop.unvei by Marriage After God

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Are you a liar in your marriage?: Lying is one of those things that can easily get overlooked, although it affects marriage in big ways. In this episode of Marriage After God we discuss the impact of lying, what scripture says about it, we share personal examples of small lies in our marriage, and we challenge husbands and wives to evaluate whether they are liars or walking in integrity. Lying, both big lies and little lies, causes disunity and distrust in marriage. A marriage after God, a husband and wife after God, are people of light and integrity, pursuing and cultivating truth in everything they do. -- 31-Day Marriage Prayer Challenge: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle The Unveiled Wife Book: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/collections/devotionals/products/the-unveiled-wife-embracing-intimacy-with-god-and-your-husband-by-jennifer-smith I Love My Wife Shirt: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/collections/apparel/products/i-love-my-wife -- F by Marriage After God

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7 Tips For How to Get Out of Debt Quickly: Our heart for you is that you would be debt free in your marriage because we know that this freedom will make you freer to minister for God and for what he has called you to do. Most of the country is in debt. We have all embraced the idea that debt is normal and expected. But as believers, we are called to be different. As Christians, we can choose to live a life of freedom from debt and we can allow God to change the way we think about money. So here are 7 simple tips to help you get out of debt fast and stay debt free. -- 31-Day Marriage Prayer Challenge: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle The Husband And Wife 30-Day Devotional: https://shop.unveiledwife.com/products/husband-and-wife-after-god-devotional-bundle I Love My Wife Shirt: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/collections/apparel/products/i-love-my-wife -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageafterg by Marriage After God

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How To Have A Healthy Biblical Relationship With Your In-laws: When we say "I do" we are saying yes to the person we have fallen in love with. However, that person comes from a family and part of marriage is navigating how to respect both sets of family. Marriage is about two people who have different backgrounds and upbringings becoming one, making their own unique family. In-laws and extended families are one of those areas of marriage that can be a source of contention for couples. We get asked quite a bit of questions for advice on how to respect these relationships while still trying to work together in marriage to build the family God desires. In this episode, we chat about marriage and in-laws. We take a look at some scripture that helps us understand the significance of being one in marriage. We also talk about boundaries. -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.unveiledwife.com FOR by Marriage After God

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How To Study The Bible As A Family: One of the main roles, if not the most important role, of the Christian parent, is to teach and disciple their children in the Word of God. We have been given the greatest task of all time, to raise our children to know God and his Word. We are not only supposed to read it to them but also to teach it and live it out, especially the live it out part. The Bible gives us very real and specific instructions on this. The word of God is to be taught in every part of our lives. Not just on Sundays. Not just at church but in every facet of our every day lives. But this task could be daunting. The idea of being responsible for their Biblical knowledge and understanding can invoke many fears and inadequacies in us. You may feel unprepared or incapable. You may think that you don't know enough about the Bible or are unqualified to teach it to your children. Well, we are here to encourage you that you can and must. That God has called you to be the main place by Marriage After God

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Goal Setting: Why It's Good For Your Marriage: Setting goals with your spouse is one of the best ways to cultivate hopefulness and togetherness. Knowing your purpose and what you are working on as a team builds unity in marriage. In this episode, we discuss the importance of goal setting and how it is good for your marriage. FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.unveiledwife.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution by Marriage After God

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10 Fun and random Questions we asked each other: We heard each of our questions for the first time when filming so that our responses would be genuine and off-the-cuff. Here are the questions so that you can use them on your next date night. 1. What is your favorite fast food and why? 2. What is your favorite type of dessert? 3. If you had 3 hours to do whatever you wanted and money didn't matter, what would you do? 4. What is the hardest thing about doing a podcast with me? (you''ll have to adjust this one for your life ;) 5. What has been the hardest lesson you have learned as a wife? 6. How do you envision our life and family in 10 years? 7. If you could go back in time and tell your 18-year-old self one thing, what would it be? 8. What was your experience like singing in a metal band? 9. What is your favorite part about being a mother? 10. What's one piece of advice would you give to husbands to help them lead their wife better? -- Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge to by Marriage After God

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How To Confess Your Sin To Your Spouse: Confessing your sin to your spouse will never be an easy thing to do but it is important ot maintain a healthy relationship with your spouse as well as growing in your walk with christ. Although confession is so important it is something that does not happen very often in our marriages. In this episode we discuss the reasons why confessing your sin to your spouse is so important and we also give some practicle and biblical advice on how to go about confessing. We also talk a little bit about how to recieve a confession from our spouse. Please leave us your questions and comments. -- GET THE "Ephesians 5:25" SHIRT HERE: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/collections/apparel/products/ephesians-5-25-shirt -- SHOW NOTES: 1 John 1:5-10 Romans 8:12-14 James 5:16 Matthew 3:8 Luke 17:3-4 Tips For Confession 1. (22:28) Recognize what Christ has done for us. There is nothing your spouse can do that is worse than what we have done to God. 2. Honest by Marriage After God

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Why A Heart Of Thanksgiving Is Important For A Marriage After God: Thankfulness in marriage is necessary and unthankfulness is destructive. In the season of thanksgiving, the meaning of thankfulness can easily be lost. In this episode, we give some tips on how to have a biblical mind on thankfulness and how to walk in it every day. We all need to be reminded often to fill our hearts with thankfulness. -- Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge today and join the 1000's of couples who have done it. https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle -- FOR MORE MARRIAGE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.marriageaftergod.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution READ: Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God. Helping you cultivate an extraordinary m by Marriage After God

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10 Verses You Can Pray Over Your Spouse: Take Our 31-day Marriage Prayer Challenge: https://shop.unveiledwife.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle In this episode, Jennifer and I share 5 verses each of us like to pray for each other. Prayer is so important for a thriving Christian marriage and we know that God desires us to pray to him for everything which is why it is our hope to encourage you and your spouse in your prayer life. We want to inspire you to pray with and for each other every day. Here are 10 verses you can pray over your spouse. -- Take Our 31-day Marriage Prayer Challenge: https://shop.unveiledwife.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle Aaron's Peacemaker shirt: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/collections/apparel/products/peacemaker -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.marriageaftergod.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR H by Marriage After God

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10 Tips for Traveling as a Family: Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge today and join the 1000's of couples who have done it. https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle We share our experience of traveling with young kids and we give our best 10 Tips on what makes that experience the best it can be! Traveling with young kids is a very different experience than traveling just with your spouse, but it can be done! We want to encourage you to not fear traveling with your family. Being prepared is one of the greatest ways you can make a family travel trip extraordinary! 1. Pack Light 2. Pack Healthy Snacks 3. Pack A Bag With Extra Clothes 4. Have Children Pack Their Own Bag 5. Essentials Are Essential Link to spot treatment: https://amzn.to/2AZcXWq Link to Bronners: https://amzn.to/2M0rXbT 6. Bring A Pack And Play Link to Guava Pack: https://amzn.to/2vtuhO7 7. Don't Push Your Limits 8. Get Your Perspective Right 9. Remember Kids Are Kids 10. by Marriage After God

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The Power Of Confession In Your Marriage & How To Do It.: The Bible tells us in James 5 to "confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." Confession is one of the most powerful gifts God has given us. It is by confession that we are saved. (Romans 10:10) It is by confession that we are healed. When we confess our sin we are saying that God is right and we are not. It is humbling our selves. It is the killing of our flesh just as Jesus tells us to take up our cross and follow him. But confession can be hard especially because it is exactly the opposite of what our flesh wants. Confess exposes our nakedness and our natural instinct is to protect that nakedness and to cover it up. But when we hide we allow our sins and wrong ways of thinking to live on instead of being cut away. In this episode, we talk all about the power of confession and how it can be done well in our marriages. by Marriage After God

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How To Make The Most Out Of Your Summer Family Outings: Summertime can be such a fun time for your marriage and for your family. It can also be a hard and frustrating time if we aren't careful with how we approach all of those fun family outings and trips. Whether you are going to the pool or to the beach, to the mountains or to the lake it is important for us to be prepared in our hearts so that we do not let our selves get in the way of the peace and joy our families will experience. Also, we must remember that our lives are meant for more than we realize and while we are enjoying our family outings God just might also have a mission for us and our families. SHOW NOTES: Peacemaker shirt: https://shop.unveiledwife.com/collections/apparel/products/peacemaker 31-Day Marriage Prayer Challenge: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle The Unveiled Wife Book: https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/collections/devotionals/products/the-unveiled-wife-embracing- by Marriage After God

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Our Personal Struggles with Intimacy In Our Marriage: Grab a copy of our new book Marriage After God and join the marriage movement. https://marriageaftergod.com In this episode, we share our personal struggle with physical intimacy in the first 4 years of our marriage. We thought we had done everything right by saving our selves for marriage and believed God owned us a good healthy physical intimacy. But that was not how our marriage story began. In fact, we couldn't have intercourse for over 4 years. Listen and see how God used this trial to draw us closer to Himself and to each other. This part of our marriage story is also where our marriage ministry was born. -- FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT https://marriageaftergod.com https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES https://shop.marriageaftergod.com FOR WIVES https://unveiledwife.com https://facebook.com/unveiledwife FOR HUSBANDS https://husbandrevolution.com https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution READ TRANSCRIPT - by Marriage After God

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How to Live with an Unbelieving Spouse: Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge today and join the 1000's of couples who have done it. https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle -- Being unequally yoked in marriage means that one spouse is walking in obedience to God and the other is not. This can become a source of contention that amplifies other marriage issues that can arise even in relationships when both spouses are both walking with God. This can be a painful situation to experience, but for anyone in this position there is hope and it starts with the spouse who knows God. The most important thing in a marriage with a spouse who doesn’t know God or isn’t obeying Him, is Salvation! The desire to see that spouse come to know and love God is more important than happily ever after! In this week’s episode of Marriage After God we discuss some important details about being unequally yoked in marriage. We specifically give 4 Biblical tips for those who a by Marriage After God

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Let's Talk About Social Media And Marriage: We haven't figured out how to perfectly navigate social media in our marriage and family which is why we wanted to talk about this subject today. We talk about a few strategies to build healthy habits with social media in our home and we will talk about areas that we struggle with social media. We think it is time to start evaluating how social media is affecting our families and daily lives. There is a lot of good that can come from social media but there is a lot of unhealthy things as well. Aaron gets personal and shares his own addiction to social media we share stories of things our kids have told us because of us being on our phones in front of them and we both share how we can be better at how we engage with it on a daily basis. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything." 1 Corinthians 6:12 -- Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge toda by Marriage After God

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