Moms in Prayer Podcast · Moms in Prayer Int'l and Christian Parenting

3 Ways to Support Your Marriage | Dannah Gresh

·36 min
The show opens with a welcome and a reminder about free resources on the website. Listeners are pointed to prayers for prodigal children and children with special needs, plus language resources, videos, training tools, and help starting teachers in prayer groups. The conversation then turns to marriage hurt shaped by pornography and betrayal trauma. She describes the uncertainty that can make a wife feel like the ground never stays still. She says that stress can show up in the body as headaches, confusion, and trouble fighting off illness. She also connects it to PTSD-like symptoms without treating that as a final diagnosis. The point is to name real damage. Once the wound is named, the path toward help becomes clearer. She says every story is different, so the care each person needs has to be different too. The episode acknowledges that recovery tools can help. It refuses to let recovery be the whole story. The language stays rooted in God's word, prayer, the Holy Spirit, and the people of God. She draws a sharp contrast between a patch job and redemption. Repair is treated as temporary. Redemption is framed as Christ making things new and better than before. The closing prayer asks for cleansing, revival, and freedom in the church. The episode ends by calling the church to be a place where people find healing instead of hiding. The show also points listeners to the book and the links in the show notes. Community stays part of the answer through prayer groups and the 40th anniversary celebration.

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A sober, prayerful look at betrayal, healing, and the longer road from repair to redemption.

This episode looks at betrayal trauma in marriage, especially the damage pornography can leave behind, and keeps circling back to prayer, Scripture, and the slow work of getting real help.

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When marital hurt is tangled up with pornography, this episode points you toward prayer, truth, and practical care.

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