SERIOUS COUPLES: Preparing for Marriage | Love By Faith with Kyle & Selina Almodovar #065

In this episode, we review "Preparing for Marriage" and recap how this book helped us prepare for the meaning of marriage during a season when it's often overlooked. 

Preparing for marriage requires more than planning a wedding - it demands intentional investment in your relationship's foundation through continuing education, spiritual growth, and honest conversations about expectations.

• Biblical blueprint for marriage including finances, roles, and expectations
• Servant leadership transforms how husbands can lead by serving their wives
• Understanding submission as a willing, loving choice rather than loss of identity
• Importance of tackling premarital counseling early in engagement before wedding planning takes over
• Prayer and Bible study create spiritual intimacy that strengthens marriage
• Parents questionnaire opens communication with both families before marriage
• Fighting fair is a crucial skill that develops over time
• Marriage preparation should include ministry preparation for Christian couples

If you're interested in joining the beta phase of our Love by Faith premarital course, please contact us through this link.

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Paperback: Preparing for Marriage: Discover God's Plan for a Lifetime of Love

Chapters

• 0:00 Introducing the Serious Couples Series
• 4:23 Continuing Education for Marriage
• 12:01 "Preparing for Marriage" Book Overview
• 17:33 Key Takeaways: Servant Leadership and Submission
• 23:22 Practical Ways to Keep God First
• 26:57 Love by Faith Premarital Course Preview
• 30:17 Closing Thoughts and Spring Break Plans

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

This week's book is Preparing for Marriage.

Speaker 2: 0:02

This is a very thorough book to help you get your foundation work in to get you prepared for a marriage.

Speaker 1: 0:08

We did this to avoid getting so wrapped up in the day yes that we miss the meaning of the day.

Speaker 2: 0:14

We're not perfect people.

Speaker 1: 0:15

By any means.

Speaker 2: 0:17

But by trusting in God we learned what it takes to build a friendship.

Speaker 1: 0:21

A relationship.

Speaker 2: 0:22

And marriage that has stood the test of time.

Speaker 1: 0:26

With a Keeping it Real style. We're going to talk to you about everything everything that we've been through are going through and have overcome all by learning how to lean on God and each other in order to help you learn how to love by faith. Good morning Selena. Robin Williams, yep, nice, good call. I've never seen that movie from beginning to end. Good Morning Vietnam.

Speaker 2: 1:03

Neither have I. No, there's a lot of really good movies that I've never seen. That movie From beginning to end. Good Morning Vietnam. Neither have I. No, there's a lot of like, really good movies that I have not seen.

Speaker 1: 1:08

He was so far like I was like, just A little bit too young for me.

Speaker 2: 1:12

I've never seen the whole Fight Club. I know I'm shocked by that I know I've never seen the whole Fight Club, things like that.

Speaker 1: 1:21

There are a few movies that I've seen multiple times beginning to end fight club is one of them, for sure.

Speaker 2: 1:25

Yeah, it's a guy's movie I've had to like I wanted to figure it out, it's it's stuff. Yes, and see all the stuff again. Yes, I see, I like movies like that where you have to go at, like inception don't say it.

Speaker 1: 1:37

We're not talking about that movie interstellar yes, we're not talking about that. Keep it moving, moving.

Speaker 2: 1:43

I like movies like that. It takes you a few dozen times to really understand it.

Speaker 1: 1:50

You're trying to get me fired up. Why do you hate Interstellar so much? I'm not talking about Interstellar. Why is it so bad we're not doing this?

Speaker 2: 1:57

Okay, I respect that. Selene, I'm just going to choose to not get riled up about if anybody wants to talk to me about this movie, like, please, let's do a sidebar and we can talk about, we can have a group movie discussion about the one movie that kyle detests you can't stand.

Speaker 1: 2:17

I'm not talking about it. I'm not talking about it. So this month we're in the Great Book Series what's it called? Serious Couples Series oh yeah, the SCS, the Serious Couples Series, it's a book club.

Speaker 2: 2:31

We're only here. This is our last episode for the month of March, and so we decided, while we have a few episodes here, why don't we go ahead and share some of the few books that really helped and shaped us in our you want me to say couple instead of you're?

Speaker 2: 2:48

fine, say it bro I feel like you want me to say couple instead of you, since we have a couple of episodes this month. Yeah, we have a couple of book recommendations that really helped us when we were in our serious couple stage before we were engaged, before we were married.

Speaker 2: 3:04

We knew this was going somewhere. We had every intention of seeing it to the end at the altar, and so these books really helped us. Something that Kyle pointed out in the last episode is that, even if you are married, these are really good books to still dive into and check out, because there might be some things, topics, issues that you would have never even considered, even in the number of years that you've already been married. So going back, having this refresher, would be really helpful for you as well.

Speaker 1: 3:37

That's always how it goes. When you have to give instruction on something or really discuss something and you care about it, you go back and you re-dive into it yeah, I found that re-diving into these books to in my show prep was so helpful to me. Like see, like whoa, that's where I was, that's what I was thinking back then and now it's like this and compare and contrast the old stuff. So that's where, like, these kind of books are great to have the paper version.

Speaker 1: 4:03

I'm such an audio book person such a digital book person, but it is so great.

Speaker 2: 4:08

To write the notes.

Speaker 1: 4:08

To have it, to write the notes in it and be able to look back at, like, where was I when I was talking about this? What was I thinking when I was talking about this?

Speaker 2: 4:15

And not only that, but I had a really deep revelation, probably like yesterday Okay, very recent and the revelation was this I got two degrees. I got my bachelor's and my master's, both in health administration. Okay, and at the time it was 2007, 2008, going into 2009. So president Obama was just becoming president, okay. So the running joke that I have with people is you know, if you want to know anything about Obamacare, I'm your girl. I can break this down for you because I spent lots of money understanding it and looking into it and seeing how it affects America. In that time, today's day, today's health care, I was thinking to myself like, wow, I don't know very much about the healthcare policies of today.

Speaker 1: 5:05

Okay, right.

Speaker 2: 5:06

Even though I got my training all those years ago. Today it doesn't hold up because I never continued the education to keep up with the updates and the policies. Yeah, and I feel like going through books like this is like continuing education for your marriage. Just because you got married a year ago, five years ago, 10 years ago, doesn't mean you still retained the updated information of how we went through seasons, of how your person grew, of how we've developed and evolved. You still have to constantly continue to educate yourself so that your marriage can be relevant and recent and really just help thrive in today's time.

Speaker 1: 5:46

And so that's our encouragement, for this series was to provide you with a couple books to hey, let's go back and get some continuing education credits for our marriage, right, let's go back and make sure that we're on the right path, that we're in the same flow, that, even though our marriage feels great right now, let's do some investing so that it feels great continually.

Speaker 2: 6:06

It grows great continually. I feel like I'm going to butcher this, but C-E-C.

Speaker 1: 6:12

Continuing Education Credit.

Speaker 2: 6:14

For the S-C-S.

Speaker 1: 6:16

For Serious Couple Series. Yes, all right, you did that.

Speaker 2: 6:20

I did it.

Speaker 1: 6:21

So, without further ado, let's get into what this week's book is. Yes, drum roll please, selena, that's your drum roll, wait let me have my throat dry, okay. Okay, sip the coffee. Okay Ding, I can't do it. This week's book is Prep for marriage. I brought the book because it's got five authors and a general editor. I'm not. I'm not even gonna go for these names david, brent, jeff and lloyd come on, give them some credit david boy, brent nelson, jeff schulte and lloyd shadrack. What a cool name preparing for Marriage.

Speaker 1: 7:02

This is a great book. Blessed Our Marriage in so many ways.

Speaker 2: 7:07

This is from the Family Life publication. So if you know Family Life, they're also affiliated with the Weekend and Remember they have a podcast, they do a ton of stuff, so this is through their avenue 100% Christian-based.

Speaker 1: 7:22

Learn about God's. Let's read this part. Learn about God's. Let's read this part. Learn about God's unique blueprints for marriage. Discern God's will for your relationship Handle your finances. I go slow here, because that's what people always want to talk about and plan for the future, clarify your roles and responsibilities. That was a great section.

Speaker 2: 7:40

That was very good.

Speaker 1: 7:44

Establish a positive, loving sexual relationship. Deal with issues, expectations. Another huge, huge thing we talk about a lot Expectations and family histories and evaluate, as a couple, your readiness for marriage. Are you ready for this?

Speaker 2: 7:55

I feel like there's eight chapters to this. Was there eight?

Speaker 1: 7:58

Let's see, you want me to look at this. Yeah, let's dig in here.

Speaker 2: 8:09

So, in contrast to the 101 questions to ask before you get engaged, Kyle and I did that book before we were engaged. Obviously right, but we Keep going.

Speaker 1: 8:15

I'll tell you in a second.

Speaker 2: 8:16

Keep going.

Speaker 1: 8:17

I don't want to interrupt you.

Speaker 2: 8:18

We did this before we were engaged. So we were very serious, we were dating, but we were close enough to know like, okay, we, we know marriage is in our future. We just want to make sure we're overly prepared for taking the next step, cause we don't want to take the next step and not be prepared. We did that book. This book we did immediately after we got engaged.

Speaker 2: 8:38

Yeah, we started and went slow this was kind of our premarital book study that we did before we met with our pastor and before we did the actual premarital part to marry us.

Speaker 1: 8:52

I laughed because we did this book 2012-ish.

Speaker 2: 8:56

Yes.

Speaker 1: 8:56

And then, all of a sudden, you remember that there's eight chapters. Yes, how does your brain do that? How does your brain remember that there's eight chapters in this book? I don't know 13 years ago. Chapters in this book? I don't 13 years ago.

Speaker 2: 9:06

I don't know, I don't have an answer.

Speaker 1: 9:09

That's why I started laughing, because I'm like how does she remember there's eight chapters? Like your brain, it gets me every time. So yeah, eight chapters. Appendixes.

Speaker 2: 9:20

And I think that's why we did it as like a pre-premarital course, because we were like, oh, eight weeks with our spiritual mentor, that would be a great thing to do at the first part of our engagement season.

Speaker 1: 9:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 9:33

Because if we waited till the end of our engagement season then you're worried about venues and money and dresses and all the parties and stuff like that. So we did this early on to help us really start to form.

Speaker 1: 9:46

Keep us grounded. It was to keep us grounded during the wedding planning.

Speaker 2: 9:48

Yes.

Speaker 1: 9:49

We were like, hey, we can get so wrapped up and get in such a hurry to plan the event that we get out of sync with planning our spiritual future, planning our physical connection future.

Speaker 2: 10:00

Yes, the marriage part and not just the wedding.

Speaker 1: 10:03

Right. We did this to avoid getting so wrapped up in the day that we miss the meaning of the day.

Speaker 2: 10:09

Which is a huge problem that a lot of couples have. They think once they get engaged it's like okay game on wedding and they almost forget about this, even to the point where you go to get premarital counseling and when you do that oftentimes it is with the pastor of your church, but how many other hats is your pastor wearing and how often can they pour into you for an entire season of this?

Speaker 2: 10:33

Maybe you guys are blessed and you have a church where this is in place and there are people, there's a whole ministry that's really focused on this and that is one of our desires one day is to become that for our church and so helping people and it's not a bother, it's not an add on. You're not constantly rescheduling, but a lot of the times the premarital counseling portion in in order is is just kind of like a stipulation to okay, we have to do this in order for this person to marry us, you know, and they don't really carve into the time of like what does it really take and really work and iron out those issues that you might run across when you go through these eight chapters.

Speaker 1: 11:13

So each chapter is set up like this, where it's based in a biblical truth, right, and then it talks about like examining really what the Bible means by what they're saying there, and then it gives you a couples project to work out and work together and ask you real questions. It's a workbook style, so there's fill in the blanks and there's thoughts, and then there's optional assignments. Oh yes, those are great so you can dig deeper and go more into this topic and get you know, go more into this topic. If the topic is a hard one for you, I'm going to recommend that you get into this, to the optional assignment to help you get deeper in that topic.

Speaker 2: 11:52

I have so many things to say, but I don't know where you're going to go with this. That's all right. We're a team, let's go.

Speaker 1: 11:57

I got one last thing to say about the setup. There's also a section for couples who are previously married so that they can work through previous marriage issues and make sure you don't make the same mistakes.

Speaker 2: 12:07

Bring baggage into it Right.

Speaker 1: 12:09

Okay, you got so much to say. Where do you want to go here?

Speaker 2: 12:11

So I want to ask you specifically what was your biggest takeaway from doing this book.

Speaker 1: 12:23

That's funny. You should say that because in preparing for the episode, I marked a couple things I wanted to talk about. Okay, the one thing that I liked the most was this part where they were talking about roles right and how to be a man. You know we were talking about Ephesians 5. 25.

Speaker 1: 12:37

Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her and there was a chart in there about how to be a, you know, a good leader, a lording leader, a passive non-leader or a servant leader, and I thought that, filling out this chart and really thinking through how to be a servant leader for my wife, was my biggest takeaway.

Speaker 2: 13:00

Okay.

Speaker 1: 13:00

And so in each situation, I still find myself to this day like how do I be a servant leader in this situation when you're freaking out and overwhelmed and stressed or whatever it is? How do I serve her to lead the family Like servant? You know how do I wash her feet?

Speaker 2: 13:20

That's awesome Because how that has helped you and you've carried it on for our whole marriage. What helped me the most in this book is understanding how a wife is to be a helper and submit.

Speaker 1: 13:37

Okay.

Speaker 2: 13:38

Because when I met that topic in this book, I was still very much independent, very. You're not going to tell me what to do. You're not going to take away my power. You're not going to dull my shine Like I'm going to do me and you're going to do you, and I respect what you do, but you're also definitely going to respect my shine, like I'm going to do me and you're going to do you and I respect what you do, but you're also definitely going to respect what I do. And so I had to like. This book helped me understand, from a woman's perspective, what it meant to be a helper and what it meant to submit willingly and lovingly under the leader authority of a husband. I want to even say we took vows, we took a part of our wedding ceremony from this book yeah, yeah, yeah, we did yeah, there was a portion of the book that like really come on miss memory trap.

Speaker 2: 14:29

You should have this memorized it really summarized this because you know you, when you go to a wedding, they have the typical love is patient, love is kind, love does not easily anger and it's just like, okay, we we hear this all the time, but we wanted verses and we wanted scriptures and we wanted passages that really help our family and friends and us understand what it is that we are doing.

Speaker 2: 14:56

And there was a paragraph in this book that was so beautifully stated. When a man and a woman come together, they choose to love in all of these different ways, and from the love that they choose in all of these different ways, there comes the sacrifice of themselves to become a new thing that would become them as one. I don't know how it's worded it's in there, but we use that passage as one of the readings for our wedding.

Speaker 1: 15:24

You got into your favorite part of the book. I got into my favorite part of the book. Let's dig into the back of the book Because when I was doing the show prep, I found an awesome section that I wanted to, and we should have done this a long time ago. It is the interview. Couple's interview.

Speaker 2: 15:38

Okay.

Speaker 1: 15:39

So you're supposed to, as a premarital interview, a couple who's been married more than five years?

Speaker 2: 15:46

Okay.

Speaker 1: 15:47

And get their. I think we did this Get their feedback.

Speaker 2: 15:50

I think we did this.

Speaker 1: 15:50

Did we interview my parents?

Speaker 2: 15:53

No.

Speaker 1: 15:53

No.

Speaker 2: 15:54

Your parents took the, so there's another appendix called the parents questionnaire. Okay, all of our parents took that oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, dictator in chief my father. Okay, yes, yes. So one of the good things about this is they ask what would you like your?

Speaker 1: 16:14

in-law.

Speaker 2: 16:14

Your kid what would you lock your kid-in-law to call you?

Speaker 2: 16:17

yeah and my father said dictator in chief yes and then there was also you know, if we have kids, what would you like to be called like? They had that question. Yeah, and how was your like, what is your thoughts on love and what are your thoughts on this? And what if your son or daughter has problems and they come to you like, what are you going to tell them? What if your son or daughter has problems and they come to you like, what are you going to tell them like? In other words, like, turn them back around and send them back to their spouse or you know whatever. Whatever, but it was, it was very thorough I bet you I have that email.

Speaker 1: 16:47

Yeah, it was written out. I forgot about they wrote them out, they wrote them out oh we printed them and they they're probably in that wedding planning binder yeah, I could see it being there okay, so interview questions. Let's see, I'm only gonna ask you a couple. There's, there's nine here you're gonna ask me nine questions.

Speaker 2: 17:04

No, no, I'm only gonna ask you a couple. I was gonna say, I talk a lot, bro, that'd be a whole another episode tell me about it that should be a good episode.

Speaker 1: 17:11

Oh, maybe that could be a mini, a mini so what asking some questions all these interview questions okay so it's got like a past, present, future, three sections okay okay, so what are some of your fondest memories you have of your first years of marriage, selena?

Speaker 2: 17:40

understand this.

Speaker 2: 17:41

In our first years of marriage, which probably a lot of you guys can you know relate to, we were broke okay we were broke and we were really struggling and and we were just two kids trying to make our dreams come true, and that required a lot of just being focused and not looking to the right or to the left. But I will say that's a word, bro Keep going Okay, keep going Sorry. But I will say, before we had children, we did a lot of things together. Yeah, we went to the park together, we went to the movies together, we went out to eat together. We always went to this diner all the time to eat. We, we just hung out like I feel like once we were married and we didn't have curfews and we didn't have boundaries, we were just able to kick it and enjoy each other's company yeah at all hours of the day and that was really fun yeah, stay up late, wake up early.

Speaker 1: 19:46

So I have two fondest memories. My fondest memory is of our first years of marriage.

Speaker 2: 19:51

It was definitely our prayer room yes, oh yes, I forgot the prayer room.

Speaker 1: 19:56

And how much time we spent in there every morning for like those first six months we did, and just figuring out how to really do that together yes, spiritual intimacy that was an awesome that was awesome time of our marriage. And then the uh second is honestly our, our fighting in the beginning I didn't want to bring it up no, it was.

Speaker 1: 20:18

I look back on it with fond memories because it's funny now that we matured through that and we've grown through that and we learned those lessons, yes, and we've learned those lessons, yes, and those were vital to our growth as a couple and getting through that together, learning how to fight those are fond memories.

Speaker 2: 20:32

That's another book Fight Fair, I think, is the name of it.

Speaker 1: 20:35

Oh, okay, dropping little nuggets of wisdom, yeah, all right. Looking at the present here.

Speaker 2: 20:40

Okay.

Speaker 1: 20:42

Let's see what are some practical ways you have found to keep your relationship with god a priority in your marriage and family. Practical ways keep your relation, your relationship with god, a priority in marriage.

Speaker 2: 20:58

Me personally.

Speaker 2: 20:59

Yeah, I make it in 2025 in this current season because, it changes from season to season depending on what's going on, but in this current season 2025, I have made it a point to wake up early before I do anything else in my day, before I work out, before I do anything. I've been getting in my word and I used to do an audio read through the Bible. I did that twice. I did that for two years. I read the Bible twice. But now I'm getting back to the physical word and there's something about being in the papers and writing the notes and seeing the context and flipping back to seeing the cross-reference and just really fully digesting and chewing on the word. And so I've been doing that and you have been joining me.

Speaker 1: 21:45

We have been doing that together, so now we're doing it together.

Speaker 2: 21:48

It used to be just me, and then you would see me. But then you were like I'm going to sit here too, and now we're both reading and studying the word together, and I encouraged you to bust out your physical word as well. And so now we both have our Bibles cracked open and we're both studying together, and that's been a beautiful thing.

Speaker 2: 22:09

We're not really talking conversing as much, because we're just it's our personal time, it's our personal time, but we're doing the personal time together and now, like if a kid comes down in the morning a little earlier than expected, they see us in our word and I know that that is going to have a lasting impact. I remember when my parents were reading the Bible first thing in the morning before the sun came up. That's something we used to pray together and I definitely I still pray on my own in my office when you guys are all gone. I spend a lot of time in prayer and worship In my single by faith society.

Speaker 2: 22:46

I do a lot of prayer with my girls in there and so there's a lot of personal prayer that I do outside of what my family sees and that I think helps, contributes to my family dynamic and me being a good wife.

Speaker 1: 23:02

Good answer, good answer. Good answer yes, that's so cool. Any, I don't know any last thoughts on this book you want to share.

Speaker 2: 23:10

This is a very okay for short sweet to the point. This is a very thorough book to help you get your foundation work in, to get you prepared for a marriage. Okay, the title is exactly what it is it's going to help you prepare for a marriage. Kyle and I are actually working on our own premarital course, called the Love by Faith premarital course, of course, and what we want to do is we want to not only help prepare you for marriage, but we want to help you navigate through your wedding season, because a lot of temptation and a lot of stress falls into that, and we want to be able to be there for you in that aspect. We want to help you with your groundwork of keeping it going through your honeymoon phase. So there's going to be that portion of like.

Speaker 2: 23:56

Once the wedding is over, what then? How do you? What should you focus on? How do you continue to prepare and set that foundation and solidify it so that it's there and it's going to be an awesome course? There's an assessment, well-rounded, that we've been creating to help people understand. Okay, what are my strong and weak points and how can we work on those together?

Speaker 1: 24:17

You left out the part about preparing for ministry.

Speaker 2: 24:20

Oh, yes, of course, and so we're also going to include. You know now that two people who serve and love the Lord are going to become one. You know how does that now look in your church setting and in your ministry setting and in discipling other people and other people and couples, you know, in the future time. So we really want to just take all of the things that we have learned from these books and from our studying and compile it into one big, beautiful course that would really help serious couples not just get to that place of I do, but get to a place of we're one and we're strong with God and we're going to do what God is calling us to do in this marriage, and we're confident and comfortable in knowing what God has called us to and how to accomplish that.

Speaker 2: 25:09

Yes, so be on the lookout for that. That's coming very soon.

Speaker 1: 25:14

If you're interested in taking part of that, get in contact with us. We have all of our links open.

Speaker 2: 25:21

We're currently in our beta phase of the Love by Faith premarital course. So if you are a couple who is serious and you guys are interested in becoming a beta course taker, please contact us and we will do some behind the scene work with you guys at a reduced cost rate and you guys will get all of the mentoring and support from us as we go along and continue to prepare this course for the rest of the world.

Speaker 1: 25:49

We, selene and I, love by Faith are out here to help marriages grow, help couples do what God has called them to do, help them live for Christ the way God has called us to to make disciples to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to go into the community and make an impact. And so this is just another building block, in that it's bigger than the playbook. It's bigger than just a questionnaire or a workbook that you fill in the blanks. It's doing life together. Yes, that's what we're about. Yes, because this Christian walk isn't solo, it isn't two against the world. It's doing life together. Yes, that's what we're about. Yes, because this Christian walk isn't solo, it isn't two against the world. It's a team, it's a church, it's a village that is working together for one mission. This is just another way for us to really solidify that and to walk out our calling, walk out our ministry for what God has called us to do.

Speaker 2: 26:37

Amen. I love what you said there, because anyone can just go ahead and get these books and we encourage you to go ahead and get these books. But if you are looking for someone to do this life with, if you are looking to be discipled in this particular ministry because marriage is a ministry, right? So if you're looking to be discipled in that ministry that you guys are passionate about pursuing, then this is why the Love by Faith premarital course would be a great fit for you.

Speaker 1: 27:05

That's it. We've said what we need to say.

Speaker 2: 27:06

And-.

Speaker 1: 27:07

Go ahead and.

Speaker 2: 27:09

It's the last episode before a spring break. Oh, spring break.

Speaker 1: 27:16

I'm dancing for spring break. The idea of the weather breaking is what I'm dancing for. I can't wait. I got so many yard projects this summer we do. We have a lot of yard projects. I can't wait.

Speaker 2: 27:25

We have a lot of spring things going on, but we are taking the next two weeks of March off. Of course, if you guys have been following us since day one, then you guys know that we're not really going away. We have a little couple bonus episodes that are going to come your way in between, but for the most part we are just so appreciative that you guys are hanged out with us all winter long and we will see you thoroughly, uh, in april with a whole new series, new plays in the playbooks that will be coming your way and more of Kyle's shenanigans. Come on.

Speaker 1: 28:01

I got a behind-the-back double play going on the playbook next April.

Speaker 2: 28:05

What does that even mean? Double back, double play.

Speaker 1: 28:08

Behind-the-back double play. What is? That it's a baseball reference, because we're getting into spring training season.

Speaker 2: 28:13

Oh, I see.

Speaker 1: 28:14

The guys caught it.

Speaker 2: 28:15

Okay, guys who like baseball caught it.

Speaker 1: 28:18

Let's pray. Let's get me out of here. I got to go to work.

Speaker 1: 28:20

Oh my gosh, Lord, we are grateful for this space. Lord, we're grateful for your calling on our lives. We're grateful for the couples who take your calling seriously and who take your calling and walk it out by faith. Lord, we pray to be your light in our communities, to be your light in our homes and to be your light in our homes and to be your light in our workplaces. We just pray for guidance, Lord. We pray for your Spirit to be filling and overflowing through us, Lord. Each day, Lord, we pray for the marriages, the couples who are serious, who are listening to this, that they would abide in you, Lord, that they would take this instruction, take this wisdom offered and apply it. And we just give you glory for any of the outcomes, all of the outcomes. Lord, we give you glory for this life In Jesus's name, amen.

Speaker 2: 29:09

Amen. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you're on YouTube, please like, share and subscribe. If you're listening to us on Apple or iHeartRadio or even Spotify, then give us a five-star review so that more couples like you can find us and they can learn how to love by faith.

Speaker 1: 29:25

She took my line.

Speaker 2: 29:27

Really.

Speaker 1: 29:27

You closed with love, by faith. That's perfect.

Speaker 2: 29:29

No, I say that every single time. I haven't memorized at this point what I say.

Speaker 1: 29:34

Way to go, man.

Speaker 2: 29:35

It's the call to actions, you know.

Speaker 1: 29:37

Love by faith, y'all.

Speaker 2: 29:41

Love by faith, faith y'all, love by faith y'all. We hope you have a great rest of your march, enjoy your spring. We will see you again in full episode mode in april, and we'll see you then all right, bye, bye what I'm doing goofy faces for your cover picture. I'm not going to use any of the goofy faces. Have you seen the other book episode? I put the picture of the book.

Speaker 1: 30:07

Oh no, I didn't see that. I didn't see that.

Speaker 2: 30:09

Well, that explains why you didn't like it.

Speaker 1: 30:11

I listened to them.

Speaker 2: 30:13

I don't watch the video. Did you give us a five-star?

Speaker 1: 30:14

review. Yes, when, twice? Really yes, really yes, okay, one on spotify, one on apple. Go away, come on, what is this? The inquisition? We've come to the same point that we come to every week I'm not leaving.

Speaker 2: 30:30

You're not leaving before me. Why not? Because I have to go see you next.