Season 2 Ep. 24 // Breakthrough in 2022

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Breakthrough in 2022

Bryan: Welcome to the amplified marriage podcast. This is the very first episode of the year 2022. Today we're talking about breakthrough and how you can experience breakthrough in 2022, with everything going on. This is what we all need to hear.

Natalie: Welcome to another episode of amplified marriage. I'm Natalie and Brian, wherever you are, whatever you're doing. We've been saying this every single podcast. Grab a coffee, gravity get cozy and comfy. We're so glad that you joined us for this chat 

Bryan: today. Well it is the very first episode of 2022 happy new year.

Bryan: Happy new year to all of you that are listening. We really appreciate your support. We did take all of December off and a little bit of November. We ended up, we ended up getting COVID our whole family, all five of us. Everyone's fine. We're doing okay. We worked quite tired for even a week or two after COVID, but yeah, I 

Natalie: feel like we are just getting our energy back.

Natalie: Now, right now, weird. Considering we got this right at the end of November, beginning of December. 

Bryan: So it was a, it was a bit of a tough, it's kind of a, an odd sickness. When you get it, it's kind of a bit bipolar. You don't really know what you're going to get next. It's like rolling the dice and maybe I'll get the fever.

Bryan: Maybe I'll have my taste. Maybe I won't. It's really strange, but we we appreciate you hanging in with us and we're ready to go into 20, 22 with with lots of good stuff. 

Natalie: That's right. And encouragement and vision. 

Bryan: Yeah, absolutely. And so today we're going to start just talking about what it means to have breakthrough.

Bryan: I I'm a pastor, a lot of you know, that I got to preach a message. Just this last week, actually Breakthrough. And I feel like it's something that we all need to hear is something that even as I was preparing for and I was getting ready to preach this, I felt this is something that we needed to hear when Natalie and I were talking about this, we felt this is something that you need to hear.

Natalie: How, how is it possible with all things considered and looking around us and all the circumstance. Each person might be facing, how is it possible to even be excited or even have hope for a breakthrough? And so we just kind of want to break down a few basics here for you that we've tailored to apply to marriage and 

Bryan: relationships.

Bryan: We do realize that, you know, the last two years have been tough. We've been, it's been so up and down. It's been a real challenge. We know that as, even as we're looking through this next year, we don't know what your relationship looks like. We know that maybe you do need a breakthrough, maybe you're tired, or you feeling weighty and you and your spouse are struggling to maybe communicate maybe while, if we look out and we look at the news, society is not looking super positive.

Bryan: If anything, like I know we're in BC and our BC government, just even through their language, actually just how they were speaking was to divide families. It was to put families into two separate camps. They were unapologetic about it. It was in my opinion, Ignorant arrogant thing to do to consider that families shouldn't be together.

Bryan: And what that does is only further push the narrative that it's okay for families not to be together and for families not to fight together and or fight for being together. And there's something that's been happening in relationships. Some relationships have weathered the last two years. Well, others have really struggled and really suffered through it.

Bryan: And we know that COVID still thing. We know that pressure's still happening. And oftentimes. Even in our relationships something that's easy to do when you're married is to actually get fixated on something else and not have to actually dig into your relationship to make that better and to improve that.

Bryan: And COVID gives us just a really good excuses to not actually deal with the things that are happening. And we can just blame a pandemic for why our relationship is, has gone down the tubes, 

Natalie: which is certainly hasn't helped. I mean, we fared very well. All things considered with, with the kind of spectrum that catching this can provide.

Natalie: So for that, I'm incredibly grateful, but we know others that really have struggled and are still continuing to struggle. So so we thought it was important to just kind of like, there is hope at the end of all of this, 

Bryan: not even at the end. I know, but 

Natalie: now. W in the last two years, it seemed pretty endless, 

Bryan: right?

Bryan: Yeah. It seems like we're not getting anywhere and things are just, we're kind of just sitting on a treadmill and we're just like a hamster wheel kind of thing. And so we do today. We want to bring you up. An understanding or a hope or a something that there is freedom in your marriage. There is health in that marriage, that there is joy that you can have renewed vision, that your relationship that may be damaged or maybe needs to need some help, or even if you're listening to this and your marriage is great.

Bryan: You're like, man, what did, what can I get from this? That it's a healed relationship. That those, those wounds in your heart that's kept you far from each other can be healed and you can be. That's right. 

Natalie: And for, for us, that was God absolutely bringing like healing, those wounds, healing, those voids. When we shifted our perspective off of ourselves, I really think that that I'll speak for myself.

Natalie: When I shifted my perspective off myself, that's really when God was able to have the Liberty and the free reign to do what he wanted to do in our relationship. 

Bryan: And we did one, I kind of just touch on a bit of a cultural piece. It's really, really interesting that we're on. I'm on. And I'm not on there a lot.

Bryan: I'm on Facebook. I'm also not on there a lot, but if you are looking to find some kind of answer or some kind of reason, or some kind of piece to the puzzle as to why, what 

Natalie: like a, for a lack of breakthrough for, for 

Bryan: lack of breakthrough or why your marriage is the way it is. Tik TOK, Instagram, Facebook is just movies, TV, romcoms are not where you're going to find any kind of breakthrough for your relationship.

Bryan: No, 

Natalie: in fact, it just further furthers the narrative, the narrative of your not good enough for me, or I'm not good enough for you, 

Bryan: right? Because on Instagram, you've heard me talk about this before. I am. I also do this. I put the very best of our family on Instagram. Cause not, not in my CA. It's not because I'm like, I hope they only see the good side of me.

Bryan: Right. But that's just what people put. We put on the happy pictures we put on the fun that we had. Like we went shooting a few months ago and one of the guys from our church took me and my sons out. And it was a blast. We had a great time to shoot and skeets and target shooting that went on Facebook.

Bryan: Cause that was a good time. We didn't hear, we didn't take video of our time when we were in COVID and struggling and being tired and exhausted and fighting with each other. Cause we're all in the same space. None of that made it into Facebook. So what ends up happening? Is that these things, whether you realize it or not actually are detrimental to your mental health and to your, the health of your relationship.

Natalie: Looking to that to fulfill, if even if you're 

Bryan: looking for answers, like I, I went to Facebook to get motivational answers or Instagram answers and people can do that. We've heard people, I I've run into like I saw a motivational thing or a scripture on Instagram, and that was my devotions kind of thing like that, that kind of, that kind of attitude, like great 

Natalie: for inspiration.

Natalie: But that, that isn't the same. And so diving 

Bryan: into the. To experience breakthrough and a relationship that's not going to be from social media. No. They give us this false narrative. 

Natalie: So then you might be asking, well then where does that leave us? Because we've been guilty of looking to TV shows or movies or whatever, whatever.

Natalie: And I think one of the things that frustrated me before we stepped into breakthrough in our own marriage was. I just expected. Okay. God is at the helm, right. God is changing me. And so then everything is just going to fall into place. And it was really frustrating to me because I'm a systems person. I like procedures and I like routine.

Natalie: So it was like, okay, if I'm doing this Lord and you're speaking this, and I'm, I'm working on me. Then ta-da, this should be the end or like the reciprocated response. And oftentimes it wasn't, and it was really frustrating because I just could not wrap my head around breakthrough, being hard. 

Bryan: Right. It should, it, it almost has this, this idea is that if you're going to break through, it's going to be like, it's going to be easy, but really some what happens oftentimes in breakthrough is a breakthrough or the things that the weight of things gets almost gets worse before you have, you have some kind of breakthrough 

Natalie: at the threshold of stepping into breakthrough is when the onslaught of all the feelings are gonna come or like it's never coming.

Natalie: Or the frustration, like. In our situation anyways, you might be like, oh, everything just falls into place. And I guess good for you. But that was not our experience at all that often times it felt like the walls were caving in. It felt like our vision narrowed. It felt like my hearing had a filter on it and it was,

Natalie: almost like everything's moving in slow motion. So before. We left up north. I had said to Brian and like some, like our lives feel like we're on a merry-go-round. And for those of you who have ever been on one, I mean, it's dizzying for one, but two. You're passing by, at such a speed that I wouldn't feel safe jumping off of it.

Natalie: And yet it's moving too fast that you can't like, you can see what's out there. You can see kind of maybe what God has for you, but you can never grab it. It was so irritating and so frustrating for years. It was like that. Exactly. So don't be discouraged if you're like, I feel like we're on the cusp of a breakthrough, but my goodness, this is doesn't like, it seems like it's gotten harder.

Bryan: And oftentimes in, we make, we make the situation harder because the way we're seeing things, the filter in which we, we respond to each other, the filter in which even over the last two years of the pandemic is, is there's been unmet expectations. There's been anger. There's been frustration. Sometimes we're lashing out.

Bryan: Not because anything in particular that you maybe are supposed to, our kids have done, we're just in general, there's this bubbling up in this frustration. That's always rated at the surface and then it maybe comes out and it's actually sometimes caused damage to the relationship. Not irreversible. We don't think a lot of things are reversed.

Bryan: Some are some are, and those are the whole different podcasts, but some are, but we've lost jobs. There's been like loss of babies, loss of family members, people have died from COVID, but they've also died from just normal things that would have, if there was no pandemic would have happened anyway. And so I think one of the ways that we really, we really need to focus in and kind of see.

Bryan: Where our breakthrough is and know that there is breakthrough is, but kind of by looking back and seeing, Hey, look at all the things that we've been through, right. Even as a 

Natalie: couple. Edited Insta real, let's say right. Looking back. And I think a lot of people are like, oh, we just want to thank automated through that.

Natalie: And we're going to sweep that away and never talk about it again. Right. I would encourage you. There's something that happens. Maybe it's just me where we've gone through a lot in the 20 years that we've been married. And I have always said, and I know we talk about all using OBS absolutes, but in this particular case, I've always said to God, help me remember.

Natalie: What you've brought me through, help me remember, not, not just in my marriage, but in the miracles that he performed with our children, with our pregnancies in finances and all of these things have helped me to remember your faithfulness. Yeah, absolutely. Because I don't want to be in a place of.

Natalie: Plenty and abundance and like, forget where we came from. Right, right. So there's wisdom in, maybe you journal. I journal and I love it because not, not so that it focuses on, oh my gosh. It really shifts things in perspective. Like going back and rereading things, maybe it wasn't, maybe I was feeling like it was worse than it actually was.

Natalie: And I see it written on paper or I'm like, holy jeepers. I was in a bad place there. Right. It's not a bad thing. Yeah. To go back and just look back at the thing is that you've 

Bryan: been brought there. God, that you made it as far as you did. Thank you, Lord, for bringing me to where I 

Natalie: am right now. That's right.

Natalie: And then through these hardships and through these disappointments that we chose to be closer together. Yeah. 

Bryan: And here's, here's the. As a pastor, something that I get to do frequently is, is, you know, preach, teach, share, one-on-one disciple people, mentor people. And the thing that I talk a lot about is calling and just as I want to break this down, when you, what you've been through, that reminds you of all the things that you as a couple, you as, as two individuals that have come together and have created babies possibly, or had relationship you've had fights, you've been intimate.

Bryan: All of those things, all of those things that make up all those little moments that make up, not that one romcom big moment that makes the whole relationship. I'm talking all those little things that have formed a relationship to where they are. I believe that when you get married and you've chosen each other to wake up every day and choose that person, you are called to each other.

Bryan: Now the calling of marriage, if you decided to be married, you have taken on a big responsibility pressure. It's hard. It's hard, but. Is difficult, but it's fulfilling, it's fulfilling, but it's difficult. It's challenging. It's hard. So you have to remember where God's brought you to the place that you are right now.

Bryan: And some like guaranteed that in your relationship, if you're thinking back to where of all the things that you two have been through. That there's good times there. And you can also almost go back and pinpoint probably where things started going sideways. Right, right. Cause I can tell you right where things are going sideways for us.

Bryan: I can think back even now. And I'm actually a little ashamed of some of the things that I said and did, but I can think back to the times that of the things that I said, and I did that, I knew that didn't help our relationship and probably pushed us a little further into the abyss. 

Natalie: And so many times. I like praying for each other.

Natalie: And just, we're talking about shifting our perspective. So many times we were praying and whatever, and God didn't, or God may have spoken something to each of us in prayer, but the response from the other one was not as God predicted. Do you know what I mean? And that can be so frustrating. And then we ended up blaming God.

Natalie: Right. And we stop listening because. Well, you didn't respond in the way I wanted you to respond or in the way that he said it would go, but did he actually say it would go like that? Right? Or I just kind of got all tangled up in what I thought he was doing. And rather than praying about me and Lord, like change me, change my perspective.

Natalie: It took 12 years for me to get there. And so what did I do in those other 12 years? Well, I prayed for God to change my husband and had, had no shortage of words to describe how I was feeling about the things he was doing and not doing right. And praying that God would change his. Instead of changing my heart and how our prayers can be so focused on us and my selfishness rather than saying, okay, I'm not perfect, Lord.

Natalie: You need to work in me so that you can show me how to love. And vice versa the way that you've called. There's that word? Me to love him. Right. And so a lot of shifting our perspective is it's not God's fault. If you are not like if your spouse isn't responding to you because of a lack of communication.

Natalie: Well, that's not God. Right. Does that make sense? Right. And so instead of blaming God for everything, that's going wrong in your relationship, take a hard look at yourself. Like what is my part in the breakdown of this relationship? Because God's heart is for breakthrough. Right? 

Bryan: And, and the thing that I was going to say too, is that we we've coached a lot of couples and.

Bryan: It's interesting how men woman, I feel like on my side, it's more men that are like, oh, I was doing these things and she didn't respond quick enough for me. Like, she didn't change the way I wanted her to. And so then they quit trying and then it just ends up being a vicious cycle of crazy. Like, why did you quit?

Bryan: Are you you're willing to fight for you're willing to fight. And cheer for your hockey team, your whole life, even though they've never won or they've never won the, the, but you're unwilling to fight for your marriage, which actually has long lasting effects. Your hockey team is just an entertainment and it has no value as it provides.

Bryan: It has provides no long-term effects. If they fail or succeed, unless you are obsessed, it really doesn't matter, but you're releasing. That can have like long-term damaging effects. If you're unwilling to put the effort in to be the husband or the wife that God's called you to be, if you're not willing to fight for that and they didn't change as fast as you wanted them to.

Bryan: Is that, is that, 

Natalie: I don't know. I think it comes down to laying your pride down, right? I'm both sides. It's not just a man thing where men are prideful or whatever women are prideful too, and nobody wants to be wrong. No one wants to admit that they're. But it's so important for you to take a hard introspective, look at yourself and be like, what have I contributed to this and own it.

Natalie: Yeah. 

Bryan: Right. That's me. I did do 

Natalie: that exactly. Right. And so I think the catalyst for breakthrough in shifting perspective is gratitude. Right? So how can you do that? Well, you can start by making a gratitude journal or just writing out one. One thing that you're thankful for, maybe you're not in a relationship, this still applies, right?

Natalie: What are you thankful for this past year? It could just be one thing. If you're married or in a relationship, what am I thankful for about my spouse or my partner? It could be just one thing. And I think that that's a domino effect. It works. It worked for us. It shifts our perspective off of us and onto God shifts our perspective off of what our spouse and partners may be doing.

Natalie: That's wrong and, and encouraging them in like focus on what am I grateful for, for what they are doing. Great. Right. And stop nitpicking, all the things that aren't going your way. Shift the narrative, 

Bryan: right? That's that's very true. And this is what they're going to throw it. The prescription here, Psalms 77 11 says this.

Bryan: I will remember the deeds of the Lord. Yes. Will remember your miracles from a long ago. There's a statement that that there that I have written here, it says I can stand in my faith for my breakthrough because I. All that I have been through when we trust in God and remember all that he's brought us through all that we've had to fight through with her spouse, all the things that we've gone through, all the fights, the discussions, the disagreements, the good times, the bad times.

Bryan: Then you can stand on that, knowing that God's got your back and he can, he's going to support you, is going to love you is going to care for you. And he's getting to give you the strength to make those right decisions moving forward. He's going to nudge you, right. And the next one that we want to, to talk with you about is the first is.

Bryan: Remember what 

Natalie: you've been through next one is what you look through. So we're talking about lenses, both Brian and I worked glasses. So, and I'm a visual learner. And so this is applicable. 

Bryan: We just want you to shift your perspective a little bit on which 

Natalie: lens are you looking for? I mean Brian had made the.

Natalie: Analogy of being at the eye doctor when they stick those things in, they keep changing the lenses on you. And is it this one or this one that you see better is, is very. What's the word I'm looking for? I just didn't want to say that one again, of shifting our perspective, really focusing on the lens.

Natalie: Here's 

Bryan: here's the thing. If you're willing to shift your perspective, you're going into the eye doctor with the intention that the eye doctor is going to tell you what's wrong with you. So you trust him, you believe in him, you know what he's going to do. You know that he, maybe he's going to make a mistake or she's going to make a mistake what it is, but you're going in with the intention that when you leave the eye doctor, Is different than when you came in that we're seeing clearly that we're seeing clearly.

Bryan: And if we, sometimes all we need to do in our relationship is we need to shift our perspective because what happens when we get stuck, we look through the lens that we are currently existing in. 

Natalie: So we just listed a few here. So it could be the lens of fear is like these past couple of years. There there's been a lot of fear.

Natalie: Right. And, and rightfully so. There's been a lot of confusion. There's been a lot of up in the air, like what is going on? There's been, there's been some tension and anxiety. COVID and all that, that comes with that. But that's one aspect of fear, right? If you're dealing with mental health issues, there's fear of there.

Natalie: Like, am I going to be able to access the doctor? Am I going to be able to get the medications? You know if you are in a natural disaster areas, am I going to be able to get the help that I need? So there's a lot of fear surrounded. Is that the lens that you're choosing to live life through? Right. 

Bryan: Oh, sometimes we live through the lens of, well, my parents couldn't make it work at my grandparents.

Bryan: Couldn't stay work. And so why do I even really need it? And sometimes that one's actually subconscious. Like that's a subconscious thing. You've actually decided to deepen your heart. Maybe never said it out loud or thought about, but never said out loud, my parents didn't make it. So I'm not going to my grandparents didn't make it.

Bryan: So I'm not going to sometimes we look through the lens of answer, unanswered prayers or unmet expectations. Right. We're confused. 

Natalie: Right. We're not working. So why bother trying? I'm always trying, or I'm always the one that's doing all the words, making the effort. Right. And it gets, it gets frustrating, right.

Natalie: Or you're on the opposite. End of that. I'm just always failing at 

Bryan: everything right then and there, or maybe saying like, Hey, I don't understand why it's not better. I've done this, this and this. And sometimes the lens in which we look through our relationship is, well, it's not working already. Why? And then subconsciously, I keep saying that so consciously we're pulling back, maybe it's a conscious effort, right.

Bryan: We're pulling back and we're not putting all of our effort in that we were maybe before, because it's too hard now. And we think that it's not working 

Natalie: or we're looking through the lens. Where has God been through all this? Great. And why hasn't anything changed? Come on. Let's be real. There were, there were times where I was like, okay Lord, there was some frustration.

Natalie: Like I get that you're in control, but could you end this already? Could you just step in we've if we're being honest, we've all had those moments. 

Bryan: Right. And then, and because of that, maybe. It's kind of forced us to look. Through other lenses or to try and look to another lens to see. And some, maybe that lens is the news.

Bryan: Like we talked about this already. Is it news? Maybe you're looking to Instagram. Maybe you're looking to Facebook or demine or to, to TV, or maybe as a man you're finding some solace in a female, female friend or a female coworker 

Natalie: and ladies, same thing. Maybe it's a male coworker, right. Or it could be girlfriends.

Natalie: It could be guys going to their guy friends. Right? I really don't think like it's just right. No 

Bryan: opposite sex. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Or maybe you've, you've turned to pornography or you've turned to alcohol, you've turned to drugs, like whatever it is you've turned to eating. Right. And, and so there's, there's, that's the lens in which you're seeing through.

Bryan: Right. So what's the next one? Well, 

Natalie: I think to just, if we're talking about remembering where we were to shift our perspective, And what are we seeing through to shift our perspective if we,

Natalie: if we can remember that, obviously this isn't God's fault. Right? And so if we can remember and take a step back and be like, okay, I'm speaking out of. Fear I'm speaking out of whatever it might be. I'm speaking out of anxiety or whatnot. Yeah. If we're, if we're always talking about God's faithfulness, I think it's important to, to, if we're shifting our perspective to know who's walking with us, right.

Natalie: So yes, obviously first and foremost, God directing and leading and guiding. He is the ultimate one that is going to be able to shift that perspective to, to something that. For us to be able to fulfill the call that he's called us to, we can't do it in our own strength. We can't do it through our own lenses.

Natalie: We have to look at our lives, look at our relationships through his lens. So knowing who's walking with you is walking with God a priority, right? And so these are super important to fight for breakthrough. You need to walk with also people that are champion Joel, Lord. I knew this would happen.

Natalie: Championing. For your success, right? You want to arm yourself in link up with people that are cheering you on for the success of your marriage. For the success 

Bryan: sounds foundational, but surprisingly hard for people to manage big time. It's really odd. Like you have to be, I use this word today. You have to be ruthless Savage merciless, even in who you are.

Bryan: Close to you because those people, like I I've said this before, I can look at the relationship that you're in and the people around you and tell you what your success looks like based on those people. Right? And more often tops more oftentimes than not. I'm correct. And how those people were treating you, talking to you, encouraging you, building you up.

Bryan: Any one of those things. If you don't have the right people in your corner, you're 

Natalie: going to fail and to call you out on your stuff and to not be afraid to say, Hey, That's a really skewed vision, skewed line of vision you've got going on. There's a 

Bryan: thing you hear it hear in movies all the time, that person that's willing to bury that body with you, right?

Bryan: Not literally, not literally, but the one that's willing to go to war for you and your spouse. One, that's willing to challenge you. The one that's willing to just love you. The one. That's not going to run away because things got tough between you two, the one that's not gonna run away because you came to them crying and your heart was broken because of something that's going, you don't want that person.

Bryan: Like God is sometime, this is what we believe that God's going to say it to you. If you don't believe in God, I will tell you, you're going to have a moment in your life. When you feel that you need to shed that person that's causing you damage that's toxic, that's broken. That needs to be gone from your life in order for you to be successful in your relationship.

Bryan: And you have. In that moment. If you're a believer, you're going to be obedient to what God says. If you don't know Jesus, you're going to have to make a decision in that moment, because that could be the future success for you and the 

Natalie: that's right. And if you hear nothing else today, hear this, you become who you hang out with.

Natalie: And we've had to learn this the hard way by allowing people for the sake of having friends too. B, how do I put this nicely, I guess, pruned out of our lives and cut off for the sake and the safety and the preservation of our marriage and moving forward. And so don't be afraid if you're like, oh Lord, I know exactly what they're talking about.

Natalie: Don't be afraid to take that step and say, I want better for my marriage. And. My relationship and some people just aren't meant to be in that with you. And that's totally 

Bryan: fine. Absolutely. That's fine. And here's the thing is that We want to end with this. We want to move into this place that said, if you want to experience some breakthrough, these are the ways that I've gone through this, that we have fought through this.

Bryan: And our relationship is that you have to remember what you've been through. You have to remember what you've been through the lens in which you look through is super important. And the people that you hang out with, and we want to do something just a little bit different than we usually do. As we want to end with prayer.

Bryan: We don't usually do this on the podcast, but we felt launching into 2022 that we wanted to end with prayer. And so we, I'm just going to, I'm going to pray for you. You can turn it off for keep going or whatever you want to do, but I feel like this is what we want to do. We want to pray over your relationships, pray over your future.

Bryan: Pray over this year with you and just see. And believe that God is going to move in a mighty way in your relationships, moving a mighty way in your marriages and your as your parent or not a parent, but whatever that looks like. And so I'm just going to pray, Lord, thank you for all of those that are going to hear this.

Bryan: Thank you for. The the direction that their relationship can take. And the future that they can have is all with a decision that we're not going to give up. We're not going to stop. We're going to fight for our relationships. We're not going to let the world dictate. We're not going to let culture dictate what our relationship looks like when a relationship sounds like how we communicate, how we love each other Lord, we're just going to go in and we're going to step forward into the relationship that you've called us.

Bryan: Lauren marriage is a calling, learning that as all of the people that are listening in this moment, that when they hear this Lord that they would be strengthened by your presence. God, they would be set, set free in some things in their minds to be able to pursue their spouse, to pursue their husband, to pursue their wife, the way that they've wanted to Lord that something would just change in their hearts as they experienced his breakthrough for the very first time in their life that their marriages, their relationships would be.

Bryan: Fresh would be new, would be on fire would be passionate, would be loving Lord and would have the best communication they'd ever had learned. They would be reminded of all the things that they've had to get through to get to this thing and not be willing to throw it away that we just asked for your blessing.

Bryan: Anyone who's hearing this blessing on all of those that are going to hear this Lord. And those as they work harder on their relationship, Lord, that you bless them, give them the strength, give them the mercy and the grace and the forgiveness of their heart. To be able to walk through these tough times where their relationship Lord and they would be strengthened by you Lord.

Bryan: So just bless them in Jesus name. 

Natalie: Amen. We just lift up those who are suffering in silence over these last two years, maybe longer Lord. And we just pray that your holy. Which speaks so loud and clearly to them, God, that you would encourage them, that you would bring around the right people so that they feel supported.

Natalie: They don't feel that they're walking this alone. Lord, would you bring help? Would you open the doors of finances for all of those who are struggling, job opportunities, those who have lost their houses, children, family members, Lord, I just pray for your comfort over. Our listeners lives, father and globally, Lord that your hand that people would see your hand at work, even if it looks like nothing's changing God in that we just lift up marriages and lift up relationships and family dynamics, father.

Natalie: And we just thank you, Lord. That we're just believing that you're going to make a move 

Bryan: in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Well, we do know that if you like this podcast, it means a lot when you have an opportunity to share it and let people know about it, you can follow us on Instagram. On Facebook. We are hoping this year is a year of more engagement with you.

Bryan: Our listeners onto those two, two places, Instagram and Facebook. And again, if you have a question or a topic, please let us know. We would love to, or a prayer request. We'd love to pray. So you can email us@amplifiedmarriageandgmail.com and add. Heard us say many times before we believe that your marriage this year can be reset, refreshed, and restored.

Bryan: Thanks for listening.