Restore Your Marriage

#4-Connect spiritually with your spouse.

Another important step to improving a troubled marriage is for the couple to pursue spiritual intimacy together.

“Spiritual intimacy connects two hearts as well as two spirits,” Gary said.  ”Often when the horizontal relationship is clogged, it is reflecting that the vertical relationship is messed up. So what we coach people on is when a husband is walking with Christ, when a wife is walking with Christ, it is out of the overflow of that spiritual intimacy with Jesus that the horizontal relationship will connect.”

The best way to connect spiritually is to pray together, he said. Many times couples feel insecure about praying with each other so they avoid it.

“We coach guys to go home and take your wife’s hand, sit down, tell her, ?I’m not really good at this, but I love you. I’m committed to you. Let’s just do this,'” Gary said.