Praying for (and With) Your Spouse: The Way to Deeper Love

I thought it would be a simple message: Pray together! end of book.It turned out to be a surprisingly practical guide about how to pray with my spouse about everything, even the tough things like decisions, conflict, challenges, sex, NFP, infertility, and miscarriages. God is interested in every area of our lives, the Popcak's remind us to bring it all to God in prayer. The Popcak's share some of their toughest struggles and how prayer helped them through. Both of these things kept the book real.They deal with the spouses who are on the different pages spiritually, and often it is not a problem of differences but of respect.A couple of quotes:"God is not glorified in our denial of reality. He is glorified in our ability to respond to our reality in graceful ways, to face our challenges with confidence, and to bring our best selves to our struggles, so that we can grow through them and, with his grace, overcome them."In the final chapter is powerful statement about nature of our marriages as well as our mission:"Christian marriage is your ministry, both to one another and to the world at large. It is the path of your sanctification. It is itself a prayer. It is one of the most beautiful ways God will use your lives to give the world a tangible witness to the love that everyone longs for but few dare to believe is real in this age. If you will let him, if you give every part of your relationship to him—the good, the bad, the joyful and sorrowful, the celebrations and the struggles—he will use it all to help you fulfill the destiny for which you were created: total, joyful, and eternal union with him."Marriage is essential to the New and Old Evangelizations!

We’re in the process of developing a marriage prep program for engaged couples. One of our hopes is to introduce the couples to praying together. After reading this book, we believe it will also be a great option for the sponsor couples who are mentoring the engaged couples. Thank you for writing this book!

It's a great book to always keep God in you marriage .

Quick and easy read with a variety of different ideas to increase prayer

We are using it a Couples Faith Sharing Group and everyone loves. This is a book, I will review through the years.

Very easy to read and implement.