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The world as a whole seems to be experiencing crises. In the last five months, we have seen headline after headline in the news and on social media. There is so much hardship, pain, death, loss, uncertainty, fear, chaos, and unrest.

In addition to it all, there are countless more trials, hardships, and painful circumstances that didn’t make headlines. We are all hoping for peace. We are all wondering how to walk out these things, especially together in marriage.

Whether you are currently facing hardship or if those times are ahead to come, we want to encourage you to walk through them in your marriage together, supporting each other and looking to God's Word to guide you.

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- [Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith, with Marriage After God.

- [Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.

- [Aaron] And today we're gonna share how we walk through trials and hardships. Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast, where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.

- [Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as Unveiled Wife.

- [Aaron] And I'm Aaron, also known as Husband Revolution.

- [Jennifer] We have been married for over 13 years.

- [Aaron] And so far we have five children under eight.

- [Jennifer] We have been doing marriage ministry online for over nine years through blogging, social media and writing over 10 books.

- [Aaron] With a desire to inspire couples to keep God at the center of their marriage, encouraging them to walk in faith every day.

- [Jennifer] We believe that Christian marriage should be an extraordinary one, full of life,

- [Aaron] Love,

- [Jennifer] And power

- [Aaron] That can only be found by chasing after God.

- [Jennifer] Together.

- [Aaron] Thank you for joining us in this journey as we chase boldly after God's will for our life together.

- [Jennifer] This is Marriage After God.

- [Aaron] Hey everyone, thank you for coming back to the Marriage After God podcast, this is Episode two of season four. We missed a week, that's okay. We, sometimes things happen. And that's kind of what this episode's about. But before we get into the topic, we just wanna invite you if you have not already, join the thousands of marriages that have taken the marriage prayer challenge. It's a completely free resource that Jennifer and I have created for you. And all you gotta do is go to marriageprayerchallenge.com all one word. And just fill out the form and boom we'll start sending you every day for 31 days, a prayer prompt and a reminder to be praying for your spouse. And we literally just wanted to offer this to you to encourage your prayer life that you guys are praying for each other daily. And we hope it inspires a ongoing prayer life even after the 31 days. So that's marriageprayerchallenge.com, it's completely free. Go check it out today.

- [Jennifer] Alright, so hi, everyone, Jen here . Thanks, Aaron for that awesome intro and reminder to do the marriage prayer challenge. I hope you guys do that. So today's topic is about walking through hardship and trials and, you know, I just wanted to start out by recognizing and acknowledging that the world as a whole right now, seems to be experiencing crisis after crisis. I mean, 2020 has been a little crazy.

- [Aaron] Yeah, we're not even like halfway through the year, right?

- [Jennifer] Oh, man.

- [Aaron] And it's felt--

- [Jennifer] Five months, five in five months, we've seen headline after headline for I mean, disaster after disaster. We have had massive fires, locust invasions wreaking havoc, the whole COVID-19 thing and the lockdown and that, you know