7 Ways To Encourage Your Married Friends

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About This Episode A little encouragement goes a long way. Marriage can be difficult, and the enemy is good at convincing us to shrink back, isolate, and try to get through on our own strength. In this episode, Aaron and Jennifer share seven ways to remind your married friends that their marriage is worth fighting for, that they should be drawing close to God, and that they are being prayed for. As Christian husbands and wives, we are part of the same body, and we should be encouraging one another. Aaron and Jennifer share that they would have divorced without other couples investing in them, and they challenge you to be the kind of friends who are loving, sacrificial, and willing to serve.

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode Preach the gospel to each other — remind friends of who they are in Christ. Share God's Word — point couples back to Scripture. Be friendly — be a light in the lives of the couples around you. Be hospitable — hospitality is sharing what you do have, not what you don't have. Be sacrificial — give your time and energy for another couple's good. Pray for and with them — let friends know they are being prayed for. Serve them — practical help that says their marriage matters. Am I my brother's keeper? — why Christians should know where their friends are spiritually. Loving accountability — asking hard questions like whether a wife is the most cherished woman she knows.

Scripture Referenced 1 Peter 4:8-9 John 13:35 John 15:13 John 17 John 3:16 Proverbs 18:1 Proverbs 18:24 Romans 1:16 Ephesians 5:25

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