Book excerpt: For men and women who have read Stormie Omartian's The Power of Prayer to Change Your Marriage and embraced the challenge of a very personal encounter with God through prayer, there's a next step: The Power of Prayer to Change Your Marriage Prayer and Study Guide. Following the outline of the book, The Power of Prayer to Change Your Marriage, this Prayer and Study Guide encourages readers to go deeper in the 14 chapters that outline the most serious threats to marriages today and helps husbands and wives, individually or together, learn how to pray in a way that will protect their relationship from these problems—problems that can lead to unsatisfying marriages or often divorce. Thought-provoking questions help readers define their own unique, sometimes complicated, prayer needs. Stormie simply and effectively shows couples and individuals how they can cover their marriage in prayer so that it will last a lifetime.