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Marriage Prayer Journaling: How Writing Your Prayers Will Change Your Life

Many couples want a deeper prayer life but struggle to stay focused, honest, or consistent. Thoughts wander. Emotions feel hard to express. Words come out rushed or repetitive. Over time, prayer can begin to feel disconnected — even when the desire for closeness with God and each other is still there.

In this episode of The Praying Couple® Podcast, Mike and Carlie explore the often-overlooked spiritual discipline of prayer journaling and why writing your prayers can be a powerful way God brings clarity, healing, and transformation to both individual hearts and marriages.

This is not about being poetic, organized, or good at journaling (although those are amazing by-products). It’s about slowing down long enough to be honest before God, remember His faithfulness, and invite Him into the places that are easy to suffer silently.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why Scripture places such a strong emphasis on remembering and writing
• How prayer journaling helps quiet scattered thoughts and deepen focus
• Why writing your prayers can reveal what’s really happening in your heart
• How journaling shapes humility, trust, and spiritual awareness over time
• Ways couples can use prayer journaling individually and together
• What to write when you don’t know how to pray or what to say
• How written prayers become testimonies of God’s faithfulness

If prayer has felt rushed, repetitive, or hard to articulate, this episode offers a gentle invitation to slow down and meet God in a quieter, more reflective way. Writing your prayers doesn’t make them more spiritual — it makes them more honest. And honesty is where transformation begins.

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If you’re longing for a prayer life that feels grounded, consistent, and spiritually nourishing, we invite you to explore The Marriage Prayer Club. This is a global, Scripture-centered community that encourages sustainable prayer rhythms for reflection, renewed faith, and a stronger marriage. This club is for couples in every season of marriage.

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To learn more about our heart for strengthening marriages and explore additional Christ-centered resources, visit: 🔗 https://theprayingcouple.com

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Mike & Carlie Kercheval
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How to Pray Together Without Fighting About It

For many couples, prayer sounds like a beautiful idea — until they actually try to do it together. What begins with good intentions can quickly turn into awkward silence, emotional tension, or even conflict. Over time, some couples stop praying together altogether, not because they don’t love God, but because prayer has become another place where misunderstandings surface.

In this episode of The Praying Couple® Podcast, Mike and Carlie speak honestly and compassionately about why prayer can become a battleground in marriage — and how Scripture offers a gentler, safer way forward.

This is not an episode about techniques or scripts. It’s about understanding what prayer was meant to carry in marriage — and what it was never meant to hold. Through biblical wisdom and pastoral insight, this conversation helps couples reframe prayer as a place of unity, agreement, and shared dependence on God rather than correction or emotional processing.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why prayer often exposes existing tension rather than creating it
• What prayer is not meant to do in marriage
• How agreement, not eloquence, brings power to shared prayer
• Why praying “short and safe” can build long-term unity
• Biblical boundaries that protect prayer from becoming conflict
• What to do when praying together feels too tender or difficult
• How to rebuild prayer as a place of safety, not pressure

If you’ve ever thought, “We want to pray together… but it always feels tense,” this episode offers hope. Prayer was always meant to draw you closer — to God and to each other.

👉 Take the Next Step

If you desire prayer to become a place of peace and connection in your marriage — but need structure, guidance, and grace along the way — we invite you to explore The Marriage Prayer Club. It’s a Scripture-centered community designed to help couples pray together consistently and safely, without pressure or perfection.

🔗 Join The Marriage Prayer Club: https://marriageprayerclub.com

To learn more about our heart for strengthening marriages and explore additional Christ-centered resources, visit: 🔗 https://theprayingcouple.com

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Mike & Carlie Kercheval
The Praying Couple®

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🎙️ Episode 018 - 3 Daily Prayer Practices That Changed Our Marriage (And Can Change Yours)

Many couples want change in their marriage, but lasting transformation rarely comes from big emotional moments or one-time breakthroughs. According to Scripture, real change is formed through faithful daily practices that invite God into the ordinary rhythms of life.

In this episode of The Praying Couple® Podcast, Mike and Carlie share three simple, Scripture-anchored prayer practices that truly changed their marriage. These aren’t formulas or guarantees — they are gentle, sustainable rhythms that created space for God to soften hearts, restore unity, and strengthen spiritual intimacy over time.

This episode is deeply practical while remaining rooted in biblical formation, reminding couples that prayer doesn’t have to be complicated to be powerful.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why daily prayer practices shape marriages more than occasional emotional moments
• How starting the day with prayer changes the spiritual tone of your marriage
• What it means to pray with your spouse instead of at them
• Why agreement matters more than eloquence in prayer
• How ending the day by releasing, not rehearsing, protects peace and unity
• Why consistency matters more than perfection when building a prayer life
• How small, faithful rhythms can lead to long-term marital transformation

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the idea of praying together, or discouraged by inconsistency, this episode offers a hopeful, doable path forward. God works powerfully through simple obedience, repeated daily.

👉 Take the Next Step

If you desire consistency, structure, and encouragement as you build daily prayer rhythms in your marriage, we invite you to explore The Marriage Prayer Club — a Scripture-centered community created to help couples pray with confidence, grace, and sustainability in every season.

🔗 Join The Marriage Prayer Club:
https://marriageprayerclub.com

To learn more about our heart for strengthening marriages and explore additional Christ-centered resources, visit: 🔗 https://theprayingcouple.com

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For His Glory,
Mike & Carlie Kercheval
The Praying Couple®

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