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I know for Ruthie and I\u2014we\u2019ve had to regularly kind of give a check and say: \u201cAre we really keeping one another the top priority?\u201d or \u201cHave we let our children\u2019s schedule become the top priority?\u201d or \u201cHave we let work become the top priority?\u201d What we\u2019re doing in this prayer is\u2014we\u2019re asking God to help us, in our hearts, to see clearly the priority that our spouse should be, above all these other demands and considera-tions that seem to come at us from all directions in our lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, September 8<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ll talk today about how praying together, as a couple, can help us make sure our priorities are what they ought to be. Stay with us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition. Today is Day 8 in the FamilyLife 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge. Today, we are encouraging husbands and wives to pray together. In fact, many of you should have already received your prayer prompt that comes via email or text message to you each day and gives you some guidance on how you can be praying together today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur focus today is on how we guard, and preserve, and strengthen our marriage relationship. We\u2019re encouraging husbands to take the initiative in praying with your wife\u2014that you can be sensitive to her needs and available to her. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re asking wives to pray the same thing with their husbands\u2014to be sensitive to your husband\u2019s needs and available to him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, if you\u2019re not signed up to be part of the 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge\u2014and you\u2019d like to have some prayer prompts sent your way over the next several weeks so you can be praying together, as a couple\u2014isn\u2019t that a good idea? You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d Then look for the information about the 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge. Sign up, and we\u2019ll send you these prayer prompts each day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s ever been any research done on this or not, Dennis; but I would imagine, if we could find out how many husbands are praying for their wives regularly and how many wives are praying for their husbands regularly, I would guess that the women probably have the lead on that one. Don\u2019t you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: Yes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Do you think it is 2:1?\u20143:1?\u00a0 What would you guess?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know about that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I do know we actually did a survey, one time, of how couples pray for their kids. And it was like 70 percent of us pray for our kids. About 35 percent of us pray <em>with<\/em> our kids\u2014which is different than praying <em>for<\/em> them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Right; yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Then less than 10 percent of all couples prayed together daily. In fact, it was down in the 1-2 percent of all families. By the way, we were doing the research in the church. So we are talking about a need that is, in my opinion, a base-level need\u2014to have a revival of couples, who pray <em>for <\/em>one another and <em>with <\/em>one another. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previously Recorded Interview]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo help us do that, we have an author, David Delk, who joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. David, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Thanks so much. It\u2019s great to be here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>David works in the Man in the Mirror ministry. He co-authored a book with Patrick Morley\u2014it\u2019s called, <em>The Marriage Prayer: 68 words that could change the direction of your marriage<\/em>. David lives on Orlando. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe and his wife have three children. I want you to get right to the prayer again, and I want us to kind of dissect the prayer. This time, why don\u2019t you read the wife\u2019s prayer?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Again, what we\u2019re talking about here is a husband and a wife who just take\u2014what does it take to pray this prayer?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David:<\/strong> No more than two minutes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> So we\u2019re not talking about a long season of prayer like you may have heard at church, where someone gets up and prays their way from one end of the Milky Way Galaxy to the other.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And these 68 words really are a pattern for what couples need to be praying for one another. Read through the prayer for a wife to pray for her husband. And then let\u2019s go back and just look at what\u2019s behind each of the lines in this prayer; okay?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Fantastic!\u00a0 \u201cFather, I said \u2018til death do us part,\u2019\u2014I want to mean it. Help me love You more than him and him more than anyone or anything else. Help me bring him into Your presence today. Make us one like You are three-in-one. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want to hear him, support him, and serve him so he would love You more and we can bring You glory. Amen.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay, I\u2019ve got a question, here on this first line. I understand why you started out with a reminder of \u201c\u2019til death do us part,\u2019\u201d\u2014but why the phrase, \u201cI want to mean it\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Well, you know, there\u2019s just so much uncertainty in relationships today. Our culture has accepted divorce as a standard practice\u2014certainly, from those who don\u2019t have a relationship with God. Even in the church, there\u2019s this idea that \u201cWell, <em>if<\/em> it happens,\u201d\u2014there\u2019s this idea that it may not be the worst thing in the world if we needed to settle our relationship, or get out of this marriage, or whatever the case may be. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYet, the Scriptures clearly indicate that marriage is \u201cuntil death do us part,\u201d\u2014what God has joined together, let no man put asunder [Matthew 19:6]. We\u2019re trying to start off, saying: \u201cWe need to get back to this idea of faithfulness in our marriage. This is something that cannot be violated. It needs to be lived out every day\u2014that I want to live out \u2018til death do us part,\u2019 <em>today<\/em>, in the way that I treat my spouse.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay, I got that; but why wouldn\u2019t you say, \u201c\u2019til death do us part,\u2019\u2014help me to make good on that promise,\u201d rather than \u201cI want to mean it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>That\u2019s called authorial license \/ [Laughter] poetic license. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>But the attitude here is that you really want two people to make good on their promises.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Absolutely. That\u2019s the idea\u2014I want to live up to what I said I was going to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014but not just grit my teeth and get to the finish line\u2014kind of <em>enduring<\/em>. The \u201cI want to mean it,\u201d means \u201cTil death do us part,\u201d\u2014I mean, when I said \u2018til death do us part,\u2019\u2014I was looking at it, going, \u201cThis is the greatest thing\u2014that we\u2019re going to be together, all the way to the finish line\u2014just the two of us.\u201d\u00a0 It is a few years, later in marriage, when you go, \u201cI don\u2019t know that I still have that perspective I had at the altar.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s what you\u2019re trying to bring people back to; aren\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes, exactly\u2014\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014just a reminder that: \u201cListen, this is about the commitment that you made before God and to your spouse,\u201d and \u201cThat commitment is lived out every day.\u201d\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s not going to be some kind of grudging thing; but the Scriptures clearly indicate that, when we sacrificially love our spouse, that there\u2019s blessing, and joy, and hope, that comes through that because of the gospel and what Christ does in our lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>This promise creates something for a marriage relationship that can only be established by two people making a covenant.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You mean the \u201cdeath do us part\u201d promise?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right. Explain what it delivers because I think, in this culture of divorce, we\u2019ve forgotten what happens when we do threaten our spouse with a divorce. We scream at them and say: \u201cWell, if we just don\u2019t work this through, we can just get a divorce. We\u2019ll just split the assets. We don\u2019t have any children,\u201d \u2014or maybe we do\u2014\u201cWe\u2019ll just go our own separate ways.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes\u2014or \u201cI\u2019m leaving,\u201d or \u201cYou know, if you keep acting like that, I\u2019m going to go ahead and leave.\u201d All those kinds of threats\u2014what they do is break the security that God would want us to have in our marriage relationship because that marriage relationship is supposed to be one flesh. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is a bedrock where \/ it should be a bedrock where: \u201cEven though all these other things in my life may not be going the way I want,\u201d or if \u201cThings may be breaking apart at the seams, I <em>know<\/em> that this is the person that God has united me with\u2014\u2018til death do us part.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, you\u2019ve already talked, this week, about how marriage is designed by God to be a picture of His relationship with us. Christ is the Bridegroom \/ we\u2019re the bride. It\u2019s a picture of unity among different members of the Trinity or different members of a marriage relationship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe know that there is this promise we have from God that He will never leave us nor forsake us [Deuteronomy 31:6]. Now, think about what that promise means to us, as believers, as we go through our lives\u2014to know that God will never leave us or forsake us gives us such a sense of security in that relationship. To know that about one another does the same thing in a marriage relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Absolutely. It frees us, then, to go beyond that because, if we don\u2019t have that security, we\u2019re going to want that constantly and consistently from our spouse. We\u2019re not able to think about the areas that we need to grow or new steps or new opportunities that we have, as a man or woman, to glorify God and to be the person that He wants us to be. We\u2019re going to be trying to get the security we don\u2019t feel like we have from our spouse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay. Let\u2019s take this next phrase in the prayer, \u201cHelp me love You more,\u201d\u2014 speaking to God\u2014\u201cthan him and him more than anyone or anything else.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes. This is where we get to the idea of priority because it\u2019s so easy, in our culture today\u2014with the emphasis on activity, and busyness, and schedules, and children and all the demands that they bring\u2014it\u2019s easy to forget that, after God but before all others, our spouse should be our top priority. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, what we\u2019re doing in this prayer is\u2014we\u2019re asking God to help us, in our hearts, to see clearly the priority that our spouse should be above all these other demands and considerations that seem to come at us from all directions in our lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How has this worked out in your marriage?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Well, you know, it\u2019s interesting\u2014three children\u2014busy musicians \/ athletes, school\u2014all those things\u2014traveling for my work\u2014Ruthie\u2019s engaged in lots of things at our church\u2014all the general pressures that everybody listening to this radio show have. It\u2019s funny because what\u2019ll happen is\u2014you might go for a week or two\u2014you might have a special project or you might have a particularly busy season in your life\u2014but then it might become two months, and then it might become six months. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know, for Ruthie and I\u2014we\u2019ve had to regularly kind of give a check and say, \u201cAre we really keeping one another the top priority?\u201d or \u201cHave we let our children\u2019s schedule become the top priority?\u201d or \u201cHave we let work become the top priority?\u201d or even \u201c\u2026church involvement become the top priority?\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s something that we definitely have to stay on top of because there are so many opportunities out there for each one of us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I\u2019ve got to be honest here. I think a lot of us know that our husband and wife, as the top priority, is the right answer and\u2014at least, for me\u2014because I know it\u2019s the right answer, I think, \u201cIf I know the right answer, then I\u2019m doing it right.\u201d\u00a0 You know what I mean?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Oh, absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s kind of like if somebody came up to you and said, \u201cLet\u2019s talk about priorities.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019d go: \u201cAlright, God needs to be my first priority. Then my wife is my second priority, my kids; and then, you know, work or church, and then it all comes in behind that.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ll feel good about myself because I know the right answer. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, am I living it?\u00a0 That\u2019s a whole different deal. So, we do have to pull back. The good thing about this prayer is\u2014it provides a little regular conviction for your soul. You can\u2019t pray this very long without going: \u201cOkay, is that real?\u00a0 Or have I just said it in vain for the 14<sup>th<\/sup> day in a row?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Right. One of the things we encourage couples to do is: \u201cAsk your spouse,\u201d \u2014say to them, \u201cLook, if you had to grade me in the last two weeks, where would you think you fell on my priority list?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have a story in the book about a man who proudly was going to do that with his wife. He asked her and said, \u201cHoney do you agree that, after God, you\u2019re my top priority?\u201d She looked at him and she said: \u201cI\u2019m not your top priority. Work is your top priority.\u201d He said: \u201cNo, Honey, it\u2019s not work. What are you talking about? It\u2019s <em>you<\/em>.\u201d And she looked at him and she said, \u201cWork is your top priority, and the only person you\u2019re fooling is yourself.\u201d Now, that is a wake-up call. He took it as a wake-up call, and he began to make some changes in his marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It\u2019s difficult for men\u2014and for that matter, working wives as well\u2014it\u2019s easy to get caught up in climbing the ladder \/ allowing the pursuit of accomplishment\u2014especially in this economy, where you\u2019ve got to work harder and you\u2019ve got to put in long hours. Work can be a tough taskmaster, and it can bring a great toll on a marriage relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think a lot of times people will feel guilty. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey\u2019ll go, \u201cHow can my marriage ever be top priority because work takes 40-50 hours a week?\u201d\u2014you know, depending on what kind of job you\u2019re in\u2014it\u2019s taking a bunch of time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And \u201cLet\u2019s see\u2014sleep takes some time. Work takes this time. I don\u2019t have enough hours left over to make marriage my top priority, in terms of hours devoted to it.\u201d\u00a0 But you\u2019re not just talking about hours devoted to it; are you?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>No, absolutely not. What we\u2019re talking about really is your attention and your focus. If you think about a business person running a business, he may not make all the sales calls or do whatever; but he sure is making sure the stuff is getting sold.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the same way, in a marriage relationship, we may not be obviously spending as much time with our spouses as we spend at the office; but we need to take time \/ emotional energy\u2014we need to take attention and focus to make sure that our spouse is learning, and growing, and feeling loved, and that our relationship is on the right track. However much time that takes, we need to preserve the energy to be able to demonstrate that priority to our spouse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay, this next phrase in the prayer: \u201cHelp me bring him into Your presence today.\u201d Tell me how Ruthie has done that, practically.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Well, that\u2019s a great question. You know, in our relationship, Ruthie is a very capable person. She\u2019s a wonderful church member\u2014she works in the church \/ she does all kinds of leadership roles. One of the things she\u2019s done for me is\u2014she\u2019s really helped me grow in my relationship with Christ. The last few years, we\u2019ve been learning more about the gospel, we\u2019ve been learning about grace, we\u2019ve been learning about the idols that sometimes invade our hearts. And she\u2019s sharing with me things that she\u2019s read \/ she\u2019s sharing with me things that she\u2019s learned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe\u2019s helping me see Christ more clearly in the way that we\u2019re interacting, but not only that, she also\u2014sometimes gently and sometimes not so gently\u2014helps me see where I\u2019m not maybe living that out\u2014whether it might be in relationships outside the home, or perhaps even with our children, or with her in a very gracious way\u2014but she\u2019s willing to go ahead and help me understand that I need a clearer picture of Christ so that I might be able to then live the way that I would want to live.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I know, for me, it\u2019s just simply a matter of the kinds of conversations Mary Ann and I wind up having, if we\u2019d been reading something or if we\u2019d been listening to a particular message, and to have that dialogue. I think we sometimes look at a phrase like, \u201cHelp me bring her into Your presence\u201d and we think, \u201cWell okay, that sounds kind of ethereal and mystical.\u201d But we\u2019re really talking about getting our minds aligned together on God, and His ways, and His purposes and growing in our mutual understanding of who He is and how we relate to Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think one way we\u2019ve done it\u2014and it\u2019s been awhile\u2014but when our kids were little, we\u2019d go on long trips together. We\u2019d be in the car, and when the kids would start to fuss\u2014I\u2019m talking car-seat fussy\u2014they\u2019d cry \/ they\u2019d want out\u2014Mary Ann and I would just start to sing hymns together. We would do it, oftentimes, to sing very loudly to try to out-sing their squawking in the back. It would take them by surprise, and they would sometimes quiet and listen, and oftentimes fall asleep.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEven after they fell asleep, we\u2019d just keep singing hymns together. And those were sweet times where\u2014the motive may not have been to bring one another before the presence of God\u2014but by the time it was all over, our hearts and minds were meditating on: \u201cMy chains fell off; my heart was free. I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. Amazing love, how can it be that Thou my God shouldst die for me?\u201d\u2014you know? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And there\u2019s other ways we can do it as well. If you like books and you find great stories, read a story to your spouse. That\u2019s a way of bringing your spouse\u2014your wife or your husband\u2014into the presence of God. The last couple of nights, Barbara has been doing this with me. Last night, she read me the story of William Borden, the heir to the family that had the empire around milk, I believe out of Chicago. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe was a mega-millionaire as an 18 year old because of the family he\u2019d been born into. She read the story about how he gave his life for the gospel and died at the age of 25. It was just a great reminder, as we went to sleep last night, that there have been a lot of people go before us who have paid enormous sacrifices and demonstrated great faith. It\u2019s a reminder, to us, just to keep on keeping on. Of course, what they found in William Borden\u2019s Bible were six words: \u201cNo reserve. No retreat. No regrets.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, who doesn\u2019t want to live a life like that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Absolutely. That\u2019s great. And the reality is that the world is throwing so many lies at us. You think about it\u2014and I use that terminology\u2014but you\u2019re being lied to all day long. You\u2019re being lied to by billboards. You\u2019re being lied to by commercials. You\u2019re being lied to by advertisers \/ by logos on clothes. The world is out there, throwing all of this information at us. \u201cWhere\u2019s the truth?\u201d\u00a0 Well, the truth comes when we see God for who He really is. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s kind of like with Ruthie\u2014she\u2019s legally blind. When she takes her contacts out at night, if she doesn\u2019t have her glasses at hand, then she stumbles through our bedroom, like a zombie, you know: \u201cAre they on our end table? Where are they?\u201d Invariably, I\u2019ve got to get out of bed; and I get her those glasses. When I find those glasses and give them to her, she puts them on. All of a sudden, she can see perfectly. That\u2019s what coming into the presence of God does for us. It cuts through all that clutter. It helps us see, not only our marriage the way we should see it, but also the world the way we should see it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Again, we can do that through prayer; we can do that through time together in God\u2019s Word; we can do it through singing together. There are lots of ways to enter--I think again of the Psalms [paraphrase of Psalm 100]: \u201cCome into His presence with thanksgiving. Enter His gates with rejoicing \/ with song.\u201d So, there are ways, together, we can\u2014as a couple\u2014bring one another into the presence of God. And just remind one another, in the middle of a very difficult, hard\u2014what you used to call the \u201cno good, very bad...\u201d\u2014what was it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cNo good, very bad, terrible, horrible things; and I am going to move to Australia.\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Right. In the middle of one of those days, you just remind one another: \u201cLook, this is what\u2019s true. This is what we banked our life on, and let\u2019s go before the throne together.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>The big idea is\u2014if you\u2019re married, your spouse<em> is<\/em> going to incite you toward evil or toward good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You\u2019re extremely powerful in your husband\u2019s life, ladies. And men, I promise you\u2014your wife is like a sponge, wanting you to pray over her \/ pray with her. Bring her into the presence of God\u2014help her pursue Him. Encourage her in life because life is discouraging\u2014life is tough \/ it\u2019s hard. We all need someone, alongside us, who doesn\u2019t give up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think\u2014as I look at my wife, Barbara\u2019s life, and we\u2019ve been married since 1972\u2014I think the thing I\u2019ve just gone to the bank on, over and over, is\u2014when I come home \/ when she\u2019s there, it\u2019s the same\u2014I mean, she\u2019s predictable. I know she\u2019s committed to Jesus Christ and to doing what\u2019s right. I don\u2019t have to wonder about that. What\u2019s that worth? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s an incredible gift to my life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think, when you\u2019re praying on a daily basis, \u201cHelp me bring her into Your presence today,\u201d that does put you in a position where you\u2019ve got to pull back and say, \u201cOkay, now, how am I going to do that?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Especially if I just yelled at her. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I think it could cause you to maybe watch your words, a little bit, in the heat of the moment.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It could be a corrective measure; or it can just be a proactive way of stopping and saying, \u201cOkay, what\u2019s one thing I could do today that would take my wife before the throne?\u201d\u2014maybe it\u2019s praying with her \/ maybe it\u2019s reading the Scriptures together. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve talked about different ways it could happen. If you\u2019re daily praying, \u201cHelp me bring her into Your presence today,\u201d then you\u2019ve got to stop and go, \u201cOkay, now, how do I do that?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Now, some of our listeners have been writing fiercely, trying to grab all these words\u2014the wife\u2019s prayer and the husband\u2019s prayer. We\u2019re going to put these on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com. They can just pull them down and make a copy of them, and then maybe also take a look at the book that we feature there as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Of course, we have copies of David\u2019s book in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center\u2014it\u2019s called <em>The Marriage Prayer<\/em>. It will help you with this discipline of praying together and with what the focus of your praying together ought to look like. You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com and click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d You\u2019ll find information about the book, <em>The Marriage Prayer<\/em>, there. You can order if from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr you can call 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd of course, in addition to having the prayer that we\u2019ve talked about today\u2014as a framework for your praying together, as a couple\u2014we\u2019re in the middle of our 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge. We\u2019re sending out prayer prompts each day. If listeners would like to sign up to receive those prayer prompts, they can sign up at FamilyLifeToday.com. We\u2019ll send you the prayer prompts each day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me also mention, while we\u2019re talking about marriage, this is the last week we\u2019re making available this special offer for those who would like to attend an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae <\/sup>marriage getaway. We\u2019re going to be hosting about 30 of these events this fall in cities all across the country. If you would go ahead and sign up now, you can pay the regular registration rate for yourself; and your spouse comes at no additional cost. So it\u2019s a great way to save money on attending an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER,\u201d and look for information about the <em>Weekend To Remember<\/em> marriage getaway, about our 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge, and about David Delk\u2019s book, <em>The Marriage Prayer<\/em>. If you have any questions, call us. Our toll-free number is 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinally, thanks to those of you who made today\u2019s program possible\u2014that would be those of you who help support this ministry with your contributions \/ your financial support for what we\u2019re doing, here at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. We appreciate you. We always look forward to hearing from you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, right now, if you\u2019re able to help with a donation, we\u2019d like to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d by sending you the FamilyLife 2016 calendar. This is a calendar that has prayer as its focus. So, throughout the year in 2016, we\u2019ll be offering you help and encouragement to be praying together, as a family, throughout the year. You can receive the prayer calendar as our thank-you gift when you make a donation, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tClick the link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cI Care,\u201d to make an online donation; or call 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to talk about how prayer can help us deal with our biggest problem. And our biggest problem is us\u2014it\u2019s our pride \/ our self-focus. We\u2019ll talk about how prayer helps to drain that tomorrow. 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I know for Ruthie and I\u2014we\u2019ve had to regularly kind of give a check and say: \u201cAre we really keeping one another the top priority?\u201d or \u201cHave we let our children\u2019s schedule become the top priority?\u201d or \u201cHave we let work become the top priority?\u201d What we\u2019re doing in this prayer is\u2014we\u2019re asking God to help us, in our hearts, to see clearly the priority that our spouse should be, above all these other demands and considera-tions that seem to come at us from all directions in our lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, September 8<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ll talk today about how praying together, as a couple, can help us make sure our priorities are what they ought to be. Stay with us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition. Today is Day 8 in the FamilyLife 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge. Today, we are encouraging husbands and wives to pray together. In fact, many of you should have already received your prayer prompt that comes via email or text message to you each day and gives you some guidance on how you can be praying together today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur focus today is on how we guard, and preserve, and strengthen our marriage relationship. We\u2019re encouraging husbands to take the initiative in praying with your wife\u2014that you can be sensitive to her needs and available to her. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019re asking wives to pray the same thing with their husbands\u2014to be sensitive to your husband\u2019s needs and available to him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, if you\u2019re not signed up to be part of the 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge\u2014and you\u2019d like to have some prayer prompts sent your way over the next several weeks so you can be praying together, as a couple\u2014isn\u2019t that a good idea? You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d Then look for the information about the 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge. Sign up, and we\u2019ll send you these prayer prompts each day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s ever been any research done on this or not, Dennis; but I would imagine, if we could find out how many husbands are praying for their wives regularly and how many wives are praying for their husbands regularly, I would guess that the women probably have the lead on that one. Don\u2019t you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis<\/strong>: Yes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Do you think it is 2:1?\u20143:1?\u00a0 What would you guess?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know about that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I do know we actually did a survey, one time, of how couples pray for their kids. And it was like 70 percent of us pray for our kids. About 35 percent of us pray <em>with<\/em> our kids\u2014which is different than praying <em>for<\/em> them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Right; yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Then less than 10 percent of all couples prayed together daily. In fact, it was down in the 1-2 percent of all families. By the way, we were doing the research in the church. So we are talking about a need that is, in my opinion, a base-level need\u2014to have a revival of couples, who pray <em>for <\/em>one another and <em>with <\/em>one another. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previously Recorded Interview]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo help us do that, we have an author, David Delk, who joins us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. David, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Thanks so much. It\u2019s great to be here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>David works in the Man in the Mirror ministry. He co-authored a book with Patrick Morley\u2014it\u2019s called, <em>The Marriage Prayer: 68 words that could change the direction of your marriage<\/em>. David lives on Orlando. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe and his wife have three children. I want you to get right to the prayer again, and I want us to kind of dissect the prayer. This time, why don\u2019t you read the wife\u2019s prayer?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Again, what we\u2019re talking about here is a husband and a wife who just take\u2014what does it take to pray this prayer?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David:<\/strong> No more than two minutes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> So we\u2019re not talking about a long season of prayer like you may have heard at church, where someone gets up and prays their way from one end of the Milky Way Galaxy to the other.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And these 68 words really are a pattern for what couples need to be praying for one another. Read through the prayer for a wife to pray for her husband. And then let\u2019s go back and just look at what\u2019s behind each of the lines in this prayer; okay?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Fantastic!\u00a0 \u201cFather, I said \u2018til death do us part,\u2019\u2014I want to mean it. Help me love You more than him and him more than anyone or anything else. Help me bring him into Your presence today. Make us one like You are three-in-one. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI want to hear him, support him, and serve him so he would love You more and we can bring You glory. Amen.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay, I\u2019ve got a question, here on this first line. I understand why you started out with a reminder of \u201c\u2019til death do us part,\u2019\u201d\u2014but why the phrase, \u201cI want to mean it\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Well, you know, there\u2019s just so much uncertainty in relationships today. Our culture has accepted divorce as a standard practice\u2014certainly, from those who don\u2019t have a relationship with God. Even in the church, there\u2019s this idea that \u201cWell, <em>if<\/em> it happens,\u201d\u2014there\u2019s this idea that it may not be the worst thing in the world if we needed to settle our relationship, or get out of this marriage, or whatever the case may be. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYet, the Scriptures clearly indicate that marriage is \u201cuntil death do us part,\u201d\u2014what God has joined together, let no man put asunder [Matthew 19:6]. We\u2019re trying to start off, saying: \u201cWe need to get back to this idea of faithfulness in our marriage. This is something that cannot be violated. It needs to be lived out every day\u2014that I want to live out \u2018til death do us part,\u2019 <em>today<\/em>, in the way that I treat my spouse.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay, I got that; but why wouldn\u2019t you say, \u201c\u2019til death do us part,\u2019\u2014help me to make good on that promise,\u201d rather than \u201cI want to mean it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>That\u2019s called authorial license \/ [Laughter] poetic license. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>But the attitude here is that you really want two people to make good on their promises.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Absolutely. That\u2019s the idea\u2014I want to live up to what I said I was going to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014but not just grit my teeth and get to the finish line\u2014kind of <em>enduring<\/em>. The \u201cI want to mean it,\u201d means \u201cTil death do us part,\u201d\u2014I mean, when I said \u2018til death do us part,\u2019\u2014I was looking at it, going, \u201cThis is the greatest thing\u2014that we\u2019re going to be together, all the way to the finish line\u2014just the two of us.\u201d\u00a0 It is a few years, later in marriage, when you go, \u201cI don\u2019t know that I still have that perspective I had at the altar.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s what you\u2019re trying to bring people back to; aren\u2019t you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes, exactly\u2014\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u2014just a reminder that: \u201cListen, this is about the commitment that you made before God and to your spouse,\u201d and \u201cThat commitment is lived out every day.\u201d\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s not going to be some kind of grudging thing; but the Scriptures clearly indicate that, when we sacrificially love our spouse, that there\u2019s blessing, and joy, and hope, that comes through that because of the gospel and what Christ does in our lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>This promise creates something for a marriage relationship that can only be established by two people making a covenant.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You mean the \u201cdeath do us part\u201d promise?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right. Explain what it delivers because I think, in this culture of divorce, we\u2019ve forgotten what happens when we do threaten our spouse with a divorce. We scream at them and say: \u201cWell, if we just don\u2019t work this through, we can just get a divorce. We\u2019ll just split the assets. We don\u2019t have any children,\u201d \u2014or maybe we do\u2014\u201cWe\u2019ll just go our own separate ways.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes\u2014or \u201cI\u2019m leaving,\u201d or \u201cYou know, if you keep acting like that, I\u2019m going to go ahead and leave.\u201d All those kinds of threats\u2014what they do is break the security that God would want us to have in our marriage relationship because that marriage relationship is supposed to be one flesh. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is a bedrock where \/ it should be a bedrock where: \u201cEven though all these other things in my life may not be going the way I want,\u201d or if \u201cThings may be breaking apart at the seams, I <em>know<\/em> that this is the person that God has united me with\u2014\u2018til death do us part.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Well, you\u2019ve already talked, this week, about how marriage is designed by God to be a picture of His relationship with us. Christ is the Bridegroom \/ we\u2019re the bride. It\u2019s a picture of unity among different members of the Trinity or different members of a marriage relationship. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe know that there is this promise we have from God that He will never leave us nor forsake us [Deuteronomy 31:6]. Now, think about what that promise means to us, as believers, as we go through our lives\u2014to know that God will never leave us or forsake us gives us such a sense of security in that relationship. To know that about one another does the same thing in a marriage relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Absolutely. It frees us, then, to go beyond that because, if we don\u2019t have that security, we\u2019re going to want that constantly and consistently from our spouse. We\u2019re not able to think about the areas that we need to grow or new steps or new opportunities that we have, as a man or woman, to glorify God and to be the person that He wants us to be. We\u2019re going to be trying to get the security we don\u2019t feel like we have from our spouse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay. Let\u2019s take this next phrase in the prayer, \u201cHelp me love You more,\u201d\u2014 speaking to God\u2014\u201cthan him and him more than anyone or anything else.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes. This is where we get to the idea of priority because it\u2019s so easy, in our culture today\u2014with the emphasis on activity, and busyness, and schedules, and children and all the demands that they bring\u2014it\u2019s easy to forget that, after God but before all others, our spouse should be our top priority. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, what we\u2019re doing in this prayer is\u2014we\u2019re asking God to help us, in our hearts, to see clearly the priority that our spouse should be above all these other demands and considerations that seem to come at us from all directions in our lives.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>How has this worked out in your marriage?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Well, you know, it\u2019s interesting\u2014three children\u2014busy musicians \/ athletes, school\u2014all those things\u2014traveling for my work\u2014Ruthie\u2019s engaged in lots of things at our church\u2014all the general pressures that everybody listening to this radio show have. It\u2019s funny because what\u2019ll happen is\u2014you might go for a week or two\u2014you might have a special project or you might have a particularly busy season in your life\u2014but then it might become two months, and then it might become six months. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know, for Ruthie and I\u2014we\u2019ve had to regularly kind of give a check and say, \u201cAre we really keeping one another the top priority?\u201d or \u201cHave we let our children\u2019s schedule become the top priority?\u201d or \u201cHave we let work become the top priority?\u201d or even \u201c\u2026church involvement become the top priority?\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s something that we definitely have to stay on top of because there are so many opportunities out there for each one of us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I\u2019ve got to be honest here. I think a lot of us know that our husband and wife, as the top priority, is the right answer and\u2014at least, for me\u2014because I know it\u2019s the right answer, I think, \u201cIf I know the right answer, then I\u2019m doing it right.\u201d\u00a0 You know what I mean?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Oh, absolutely.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It\u2019s kind of like if somebody came up to you and said, \u201cLet\u2019s talk about priorities.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019d go: \u201cAlright, God needs to be my first priority. Then my wife is my second priority, my kids; and then, you know, work or church, and then it all comes in behind that.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ll feel good about myself because I know the right answer. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, am I living it?\u00a0 That\u2019s a whole different deal. So, we do have to pull back. The good thing about this prayer is\u2014it provides a little regular conviction for your soul. You can\u2019t pray this very long without going: \u201cOkay, is that real?\u00a0 Or have I just said it in vain for the 14<sup>th<\/sup> day in a row?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Right. One of the things we encourage couples to do is: \u201cAsk your spouse,\u201d \u2014say to them, \u201cLook, if you had to grade me in the last two weeks, where would you think you fell on my priority list?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe have a story in the book about a man who proudly was going to do that with his wife. He asked her and said, \u201cHoney do you agree that, after God, you\u2019re my top priority?\u201d She looked at him and she said: \u201cI\u2019m not your top priority. Work is your top priority.\u201d He said: \u201cNo, Honey, it\u2019s not work. What are you talking about? It\u2019s <em>you<\/em>.\u201d And she looked at him and she said, \u201cWork is your top priority, and the only person you\u2019re fooling is yourself.\u201d Now, that is a wake-up call. He took it as a wake-up call, and he began to make some changes in his marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> It\u2019s difficult for men\u2014and for that matter, working wives as well\u2014it\u2019s easy to get caught up in climbing the ladder \/ allowing the pursuit of accomplishment\u2014especially in this economy, where you\u2019ve got to work harder and you\u2019ve got to put in long hours. Work can be a tough taskmaster, and it can bring a great toll on a marriage relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think a lot of times people will feel guilty. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey\u2019ll go, \u201cHow can my marriage ever be top priority because work takes 40-50 hours a week?\u201d\u2014you know, depending on what kind of job you\u2019re in\u2014it\u2019s taking a bunch of time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And \u201cLet\u2019s see\u2014sleep takes some time. Work takes this time. I don\u2019t have enough hours left over to make marriage my top priority, in terms of hours devoted to it.\u201d\u00a0 But you\u2019re not just talking about hours devoted to it; are you?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>No, absolutely not. What we\u2019re talking about really is your attention and your focus. If you think about a business person running a business, he may not make all the sales calls or do whatever; but he sure is making sure the stuff is getting sold.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the same way, in a marriage relationship, we may not be obviously spending as much time with our spouses as we spend at the office; but we need to take time \/ emotional energy\u2014we need to take attention and focus to make sure that our spouse is learning, and growing, and feeling loved, and that our relationship is on the right track. However much time that takes, we need to preserve the energy to be able to demonstrate that priority to our spouse.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Okay, this next phrase in the prayer: \u201cHelp me bring him into Your presence today.\u201d Tell me how Ruthie has done that, practically.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Well, that\u2019s a great question. You know, in our relationship, Ruthie is a very capable person. She\u2019s a wonderful church member\u2014she works in the church \/ she does all kinds of leadership roles. One of the things she\u2019s done for me is\u2014she\u2019s really helped me grow in my relationship with Christ. The last few years, we\u2019ve been learning more about the gospel, we\u2019ve been learning about grace, we\u2019ve been learning about the idols that sometimes invade our hearts. And she\u2019s sharing with me things that she\u2019s read \/ she\u2019s sharing with me things that she\u2019s learned. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe\u2019s helping me see Christ more clearly in the way that we\u2019re interacting, but not only that, she also\u2014sometimes gently and sometimes not so gently\u2014helps me see where I\u2019m not maybe living that out\u2014whether it might be in relationships outside the home, or perhaps even with our children, or with her in a very gracious way\u2014but she\u2019s willing to go ahead and help me understand that I need a clearer picture of Christ so that I might be able to then live the way that I would want to live.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I know, for me, it\u2019s just simply a matter of the kinds of conversations Mary Ann and I wind up having, if we\u2019d been reading something or if we\u2019d been listening to a particular message, and to have that dialogue. I think we sometimes look at a phrase like, \u201cHelp me bring her into Your presence\u201d and we think, \u201cWell okay, that sounds kind of ethereal and mystical.\u201d But we\u2019re really talking about getting our minds aligned together on God, and His ways, and His purposes and growing in our mutual understanding of who He is and how we relate to Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think one way we\u2019ve done it\u2014and it\u2019s been awhile\u2014but when our kids were little, we\u2019d go on long trips together. We\u2019d be in the car, and when the kids would start to fuss\u2014I\u2019m talking car-seat fussy\u2014they\u2019d cry \/ they\u2019d want out\u2014Mary Ann and I would just start to sing hymns together. We would do it, oftentimes, to sing very loudly to try to out-sing their squawking in the back. It would take them by surprise, and they would sometimes quiet and listen, and oftentimes fall asleep.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEven after they fell asleep, we\u2019d just keep singing hymns together. And those were sweet times where\u2014the motive may not have been to bring one another before the presence of God\u2014but by the time it was all over, our hearts and minds were meditating on: \u201cMy chains fell off; my heart was free. I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. Amazing love, how can it be that Thou my God shouldst die for me?\u201d\u2014you know? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And there\u2019s other ways we can do it as well. If you like books and you find great stories, read a story to your spouse. That\u2019s a way of bringing your spouse\u2014your wife or your husband\u2014into the presence of God. The last couple of nights, Barbara has been doing this with me. Last night, she read me the story of William Borden, the heir to the family that had the empire around milk, I believe out of Chicago. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe was a mega-millionaire as an 18 year old because of the family he\u2019d been born into. She read the story about how he gave his life for the gospel and died at the age of 25. It was just a great reminder, as we went to sleep last night, that there have been a lot of people go before us who have paid enormous sacrifices and demonstrated great faith. It\u2019s a reminder, to us, just to keep on keeping on. Of course, what they found in William Borden\u2019s Bible were six words: \u201cNo reserve. No retreat. No regrets.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Well, who doesn\u2019t want to live a life like that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Absolutely. That\u2019s great. And the reality is that the world is throwing so many lies at us. You think about it\u2014and I use that terminology\u2014but you\u2019re being lied to all day long. You\u2019re being lied to by billboards. You\u2019re being lied to by commercials. You\u2019re being lied to by advertisers \/ by logos on clothes. The world is out there, throwing all of this information at us. \u201cWhere\u2019s the truth?\u201d\u00a0 Well, the truth comes when we see God for who He really is. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s kind of like with Ruthie\u2014she\u2019s legally blind. When she takes her contacts out at night, if she doesn\u2019t have her glasses at hand, then she stumbles through our bedroom, like a zombie, you know: \u201cAre they on our end table? Where are they?\u201d Invariably, I\u2019ve got to get out of bed; and I get her those glasses. When I find those glasses and give them to her, she puts them on. All of a sudden, she can see perfectly. That\u2019s what coming into the presence of God does for us. It cuts through all that clutter. It helps us see, not only our marriage the way we should see it, but also the world the way we should see it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Again, we can do that through prayer; we can do that through time together in God\u2019s Word; we can do it through singing together. There are lots of ways to enter--I think again of the Psalms [paraphrase of Psalm 100]: \u201cCome into His presence with thanksgiving. Enter His gates with rejoicing \/ with song.\u201d So, there are ways, together, we can\u2014as a couple\u2014bring one another into the presence of God. And just remind one another, in the middle of a very difficult, hard\u2014what you used to call the \u201cno good, very bad...\u201d\u2014what was it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u201cNo good, very bad, terrible, horrible things; and I am going to move to Australia.\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Right. In the middle of one of those days, you just remind one another: \u201cLook, this is what\u2019s true. This is what we banked our life on, and let\u2019s go before the throne together.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>The big idea is\u2014if you\u2019re married, your spouse<em> is<\/em> going to incite you toward evil or toward good.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>You\u2019re extremely powerful in your husband\u2019s life, ladies. And men, I promise you\u2014your wife is like a sponge, wanting you to pray over her \/ pray with her. Bring her into the presence of God\u2014help her pursue Him. Encourage her in life because life is discouraging\u2014life is tough \/ it\u2019s hard. We all need someone, alongside us, who doesn\u2019t give up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think\u2014as I look at my wife, Barbara\u2019s life, and we\u2019ve been married since 1972\u2014I think the thing I\u2019ve just gone to the bank on, over and over, is\u2014when I come home \/ when she\u2019s there, it\u2019s the same\u2014I mean, she\u2019s predictable. I know she\u2019s committed to Jesus Christ and to doing what\u2019s right. I don\u2019t have to wonder about that. What\u2019s that worth? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>David: <\/strong>Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That\u2019s an incredible gift to my life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think, when you\u2019re praying on a daily basis, \u201cHelp me bring her into Your presence today,\u201d that does put you in a position where you\u2019ve got to pull back and say, \u201cOkay, now, how am I going to do that?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Especially if I just yelled at her. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That\u2019s right. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I think it could cause you to maybe watch your words, a little bit, in the heat of the moment.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It could be a corrective measure; or it can just be a proactive way of stopping and saying, \u201cOkay, what\u2019s one thing I could do today that would take my wife before the throne?\u201d\u2014maybe it\u2019s praying with her \/ maybe it\u2019s reading the Scriptures together. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve talked about different ways it could happen. If you\u2019re daily praying, \u201cHelp me bring her into Your presence today,\u201d then you\u2019ve got to stop and go, \u201cOkay, now, how do I do that?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Now, some of our listeners have been writing fiercely, trying to grab all these words\u2014the wife\u2019s prayer and the husband\u2019s prayer. We\u2019re going to put these on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com. They can just pull them down and make a copy of them, and then maybe also take a look at the book that we feature there as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Of course, we have copies of David\u2019s book in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center\u2014it\u2019s called <em>The Marriage Prayer<\/em>. It will help you with this discipline of praying together and with what the focus of your praying together ought to look like. You can go to FamilyLifeToday.com and click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d You\u2019ll find information about the book, <em>The Marriage Prayer<\/em>, there. You can order if from us, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr you can call 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd of course, in addition to having the prayer that we\u2019ve talked about today\u2014as a framework for your praying together, as a couple\u2014we\u2019re in the middle of our 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge. We\u2019re sending out prayer prompts each day. If listeners would like to sign up to receive those prayer prompts, they can sign up at FamilyLifeToday.com. We\u2019ll send you the prayer prompts each day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me also mention, while we\u2019re talking about marriage, this is the last week we\u2019re making available this special offer for those who would like to attend an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae <\/sup>marriage getaway. We\u2019re going to be hosting about 30 of these events this fall in cities all across the country. If you would go ahead and sign up now, you can pay the regular registration rate for yourself; and your spouse comes at no additional cost. So it\u2019s a great way to save money on attending an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGo to FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper left-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER,\u201d and look for information about the <em>Weekend To Remember<\/em> marriage getaway, about our 30-Day Oneness Prayer Challenge, and about David Delk\u2019s book, <em>The Marriage Prayer<\/em>. If you have any questions, call us. Our toll-free number is 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinally, thanks to those of you who made today\u2019s program possible\u2014that would be those of you who help support this ministry with your contributions \/ your financial support for what we\u2019re doing, here at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. We appreciate you. We always look forward to hearing from you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn fact, right now, if you\u2019re able to help with a donation, we\u2019d like to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d by sending you the FamilyLife 2016 calendar. This is a calendar that has prayer as its focus. So, throughout the year in 2016, we\u2019ll be offering you help and encouragement to be praying together, as a family, throughout the year. You can receive the prayer calendar as our thank-you gift when you make a donation, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tClick the link in the upper right-hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cI Care,\u201d to make an online donation; or call 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to talk about how prayer can help us deal with our biggest problem. And our biggest problem is us\u2014it\u2019s our pride \/ our self-focus. We\u2019ll talk about how prayer helps to drain that tomorrow. Hope you can tune in for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of Cru<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. Help for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCopyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2015 FamilyLife. 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