The Praying Couple® Podcast
We've built a connected marriage with nothing but our faith in Jesus and prayer. We both came from broken homes and know what it’s like to grow up without a healthy marriage to follow, wondering whether your own story can be different. We're here to tell you it can be!
Your family history doesn’t determine your marriage’s future. You can begin building a godly marriage legacy today, one faith-filled prayer at a time.
We’re Mike and Carlie Kercheval, M.A., Professional Christian Marriage Counselors, Certifed Life Breakthrough Coaches, and the hosts of The Praying Couple® Podcast. For 30 years, we’ve been deep in marriage ministry together, helping thousands of couples bring their faith into the conversations, decisions, and everyday moments that shape a healthy, lifelong Christian marriage.
This is the show for Christian couples who are tired of the distractions that keep them disconnected, and are ready to breakthrough and build a connected marriage through Scripture-based prayer.
This podcast will help you learn how to:
✨ Pray about the specific challenges you’re facing—even when you don’t know what to say
✨ Communicate so you both feel heard—without every difficult conversation becoming an argument
✨ Address unresolved hurts that keep showing up between you with grace and forgiveness
✨ Make time for your marriage when work, parenting, and everyone else’s needs keep coming first
✨ Grow closer emotionally and spiritually through simple, intentional steps you can take today
If you love your spouse but miss feeling like a team, keep getting stuck in the same disagreements, or wonder whether your marriage will ever feel as close as you hoped—you’re in the right place.
We bring our 30 years of marriage, decades of professional counseling and coaching experience, biblical wisdom, and Scripture-based prayers to help you work through what’s keeping you apart. Each episode focuses on one problem and gives you one practical step toward connection.
Grab your coffee, prayer requests, hit follow/subscribe, and let’s take the next step toward the marriage God designed for you.
Next Steps:
🙏🏽 Join The Marriage Prayer Club for monthly marriage prayer guides, calendars, and live prayer meetings: https://marriageprayerclub.com
🎙️ Subscribe to the Podcast: https://www.theprayingcouplepodcast.com/2400838/follow
Episodes
30 episodes
Prayer to Renew Your Mind and Walk in Peace
Welcome back to The Praying Couple Podcast. In this week’s Marriage Prayer for the Week Ahead, Mike and Carlie pray over husbands, wives, families, and marriages that need renewed ...
Prayer to Find Peace in a Season of Change
Welcome back to The Praying Couple Podcast. In this week’s Marriage Prayer for the Week Ahead, Mike and Carlie pray over couples who are walking through transition, uncertainty, emotional heaviness, grief, family changes, financia...
Prayer for Financial Breakthrough, Unity, and Hope
Welcome back to The Praying Couple Podcast and our weekly prayer installment: Marriage Prayer for the Week Ahead.In this week’s Spirit-led marriage prayer, Mike and Carlie pray over couples who are believing God for financi...
Prayer for When Your Marriage Feels Stuck
Welcome to a new weekly installment of The Praying Couple® Podcast: Marriage Prayer for the Week.Each Sunday, Mike and Carlie will be praying over your marriage, your home, your family, and the week ahead as the Holy Spirit...
Is God Calling You to Marriage Ministry? How to Discern Your Calling With Clarity
🎙️ Is God Calling You to Marriage Ministry? How to Discern Your Calling With ClarityThis is Part 1 of a powerful 5-part series designed to help you:Discern your callingUnderstand your storyRe...
A Call to Arms: Join the Marriage Prayer Army
Join The Marriage Prayer Club: https://marriageprayerclub.comHey Friend! We're so happy you're here. We are proud of you for taking action and praying God's will be done on earth as it ...
When Your Spouse Is Emotionally Distant: Biblical Hope & Prayer When Your Marriage Feels Cold
When Your Spouse Is Emotionally Distant: Biblical Hope & Prayer When Your Marriage Feels ColdEmotional distance in marriage can leave spouses feeling confused, lonely, and unsure how to reconnect. When your spouse seems withdr...
When Your Spouse Rejects You: Healing, Prayer & Biblical Hope for the Rejected Heart
When Your Spouse Rejects You: Healing, Prayer & Biblical Hope for the Rejected HeartRejection from a spouse can cut deeper than almost any other relational pain. When the person who promised lifelong covenant withdraws emotion...
What Happens When Couples Pray Together Every Day
What Happens When Couples Pray Together Every DayDoes praying together every day actually strengthen a marriage?Many Christian couples believe in prayer, but struggle to build a ...
When Words Divide: A Prophetic Prayer for Christ-Centered Communication in Marriage
When Words Divide: A Prophetic Prayer for Christ-Centered Communication in MarriageIs communication in your marriage strained, tense, or disconnected?In this episode of The P...
How Writing Your Prayers Will Change Your Life
Marriage Prayer Journaling: How Writing Your Prayers Will Change Your LifeMany couples want a deeper prayer life but struggle to stay focused, honest, or consistent. Thoughts wander. Emotions feel hard to express. Words come out r...
How to Pray Together Without Fighting About It
How to Pray Together Without Fighting About ItFor many couples, prayer sounds like a beautiful idea — until they actually try to do it together. What begins with good intentions can quickly turn into awkward silence, emotional...
3 Daily Prayer Practices That Changed Our Marriage
🎙️ Episode 018 - 3 Daily Prayer Practices That Changed Our Marriage (And Can Change Yours)Many couples want change in their marriage, but lasting transformation rarely comes from big emotional moments or one-time breakt...
Marriage Revival Starts with Your Prayer Life
🎙️ Episode 017: Marriage Revival Starts With Your Prayer LifeMany couples long for revival in their marriage — renewed closeness, restored tenderness, deeper unity, and spiritual intimacy. But revival rarely begins with dramatic c...
How to Pray With Purpose and Hope in an Unequally Yoked Marriage
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challenge🎙️How to Pray With Purpose and Hope in an Unequa...
How to Pray Together When You're in Different Spiritual Places
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challengeHow to Pray Together Without Pressure...
Why Most Couples Quit Praying Together and How to Start Again
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challengeWhy Most Couples Quit Praying Together and How t...
Why Everyday Prayer Is the Secret Weapon for Lasting Marriages
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challengeWhy Everyday Prayer Is the Secret Weapon for Las...
A Prayer for Seasons of Chronic Disappointment | Isaiah 40:31
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challengeHey Friend! We're so happy you're here. We are prou...
A Prayer to Trust God When Things are Falling Apart | Proverbs 3:5-6
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challengeHey Friend! We're so happy you're here. We are prou...
A Prayer for Revival in Your Marriage | Ezekiel 37:4-6
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challengeEpisode 010: A Prayer for Revival in Your Marria...
A Prayer for Your Unequally Yoked Marriage | 2 Corinthians 6:14
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challengeEpisode 009: A Prayer for Your Unequally Yoked Marr...
A Prayer for God to Teach Us His Ways | Psalm 25:4-5
🎁 Join our FREE 7-Day Prayer Reset: https://www.theprayingcouple.com/7-day-marriage-prayer-challengeEpisode 008: A Prayer for God to Teach Us His Ways<...