Hello everyone. We're Matt and Lisa Jacobson.

And this is Faithful Life podcast, Marriage Weekend Edition, where every Friday we take just a few minutes to talk about one simple way for you to enjoy a better weekend together.

Hello everyone.

Welcome to Marriage Weekend Edition.

We are planning on having a great weekend together.

We sure are, and we hope you are too.

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We're so glad you're here.

So we're going to talk today about the subject of encouragement and specifically of a wife encouraging her husband.

And I know that this goes both ways.

There are certainly times when a husband can be encouraging his wife.

But we're talking about those times today of when your husband is feeling kind of heavy, kind of down, way to the world on his shoulders.

And it's not going well. And he is discouraged, and the amazing role that you can play as that plays out in your home. You know, I remember

the first time this happened in our marriage. I'm not saying it didn't happen earlier, but it was

this one day in particular. And it had been building for quite a while because there had been a lot going on at church.

There were a lot of problems that you were facing as a pastor.

We had some challenges at home and even at the workplace.

So it was just all kind of been weighing on you for quite a while.

And you walked through the room and just the way you were walking, your shoulders were kind of stooped.

And you had this heavy footsteps.

And I just looked up, I thought, oh, wow, look at how much he carries. And I guess selfishly,

I had always kind of pictured you would be my encouragement. And I had never anticipated that I

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