Can God Heal a Broken Marriage? | Brad & Heidi Mitchell | S6EP115Can God Heal a Broken Marriage? | Brad & Heidi Mitchell | S6EP115
The Call with Nancy Sabato
Brad and Heidi Mitchell recount how adultery, public exposure and deep hurt fractured their long marriage, and how repentance, counselling and seeking God began restoring it. They share why praying together became central to their healing and offer simple ways couples can start praying to strengthen their own relationships.
34:26•6 Apr 2026
Can God Heal a Broken Marriage? Brad & Heidi Mitchell Share Their Story
Episode Overview
- Serious betrayal does not automatically end a marriage; genuine repentance, wise counsel and time can open a path to restoration.
- Rebuilding trust is the offender’s responsibility and requires consistent, transparent behaviour rather than demanding quick forgiveness.
- Drawing close to God through Scripture, teaching, music and prayer can sustain a spouse who feels isolated and deeply hurt.
- Praying together, even with very short or scripted prayers, can grow spiritual intimacy, reduce conflict and strengthen unity.
- Couples who cultivate a shared prayer life may experience greater marital stability and a stronger sense of protection against spiritual attack.
“Rebuilding trust takes time. It takes patterns. It takes consistency for that to take place.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety and healing when the damage feels beyond repair? This conversation on The Call with Nancy Sabato focuses on Brad and Heidi Mitchell, a couple who walked through adultery, public humiliation, financial collapse, and deep emotional fallout in their marriage, and still chose to seek God together.
Brad speaks plainly about his affair during a stressful season in ministry, calling it “dark and ugly and a breaking of the marriage covenant,” while Heidi shares the shock, shame and loneliness of moving to a new state only to have her life fall apart six weeks in. She describes asking two big questions: is Brad truly repentant, and is God really releasing her from the marriage?
You’ll hear how counselling, honest repentance, and pressing into God through prayer slowly moved them from survival to restoration. Heidi talks about drawing close to God with sermons, worship music and Scripture when, as she says, “I really was in a place where I didn’t have anyone else.” An older couple, a wise counsellor and examples from the Bible gave them a small but steady hope that their story wasn’t finished.
Out of that journey grew their focus on helping couples pray together and build what they call a Christ‑centred marriage. They share why only a tiny percentage of couples pray together, the fears that get in the way, and very simple ways to start—like one‑sentence prayers or reading a psalm aloud. They highlight research showing that couples who pray together report far higher marital happiness and dramatically lower divorce rates.
If your relationship feels fragile, distant or just spiritually flat, this honest, sometimes raw conversation may give you a different question to ask: what might change if you invited God into your marriage through daily prayer?
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