“Spiritual conflict in marriage is painful, especially when your spouse doesn’t have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Popular author and pastor Kent Hughes speaks powerfully about how to stay and pray for your unbelieving spouse.” 

The above quote is an explanation for a 3-part half hour radio broadcast which was put together by the ministry of Family Life Today with Dennis Rainey. We HIGHLY recommend that anyone who is involved in a marriage where their partner isn’t a Believer, will either listen to or read the transcripts for these programs. That is why we are providing a link below

To give you a sneak preview, here are a few of the quotes from these 3-part daily programs:

A quote from the 1st day of this 3-part daily program:

Dennis Rainey: “A person who is not a believer, and Kent did a wonderful job of explaining the state of someone who has not been born again spiritually — their eyes are darkened, they can’t see; they’re blind. They are in need of us being fervent. That word ‘fervent in love,’ means stretched out as a runner stretches out to break the tape first. We are to stretch and strain in the Spirit in loving those who aren’t spiritually alive.

And be hospitable. That’s just being kind, making your home a warm place to be. I’m not suggesting easy answers for those who are married to non-Christians. I can’t think of a more challenging situation than day in and day out living the Christian life and loving someone who doesn’t share it with me.”

A quote from the 2nd day of this 3-part radio program:

Kent: I remember the story of George Mueller. Just before he died, he had been praying for two men for 50 years, and they hadn’t come to Christ. As he was dying someone questioned him about that. …His prayers hadn’t been answered. He was noted as a great man of prayer. And Mueller said, “Do you think that God would have had me pray for them for 50 years and not answer my prayer?” And he died. The next two years both those men came to Christ after his death.

I think there’s a sense in which when God lays something on your heart, and He calls you to pray and leads you to prayer, very often it’s because He’s going to have that prayer fulfilled.

So I think that there are a couple of things here. I think that this matter of persistence in prayer and persistence through difficulties and hard times and expectancy. See, it’s fascinating, in Luke, the 18th chapter, the parable of persistent widow. The whole point of that parable is that she goes to this unbelieving, terrible judge, and she bugs him until he answers.

And then it says we ought to persist in prayer, but the reason we ought to persist in prayer is not that God is like this grudging judge, it’s because God’s just the opposite. He is our Father. That’s why we ought to persist in prayer. And so prayer is the first thing.

The second other element after prayer is your example, your live-in testimony, the way believers live with unbelieving spouses is huge on the landscape. I want to say that if you’re married to a nonbeliever or if someone that comes to Christ is married to a nonbeliever, that there is substantial hope because, very often, that spouse comes to believe. Not all the time. I want to be very careful to qualify what I’m saying about that but “very often.”

To read the transcript posted on the web site for Family Life Today
or to listen to the program on the internet (or by Podcasting it)
we will take you to the first day’s program.
From there you can go on to the other 2 days of programs.

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