40 Day Love Dare Challenge - Daily Challenges for Marriage

Aug 31, 2026

40-day Love Dare Challenge provides structured daily practices designed to strengthen a marriage through intentional kindness, respectful communication, and spiritual reflection. The guide describes how partners can respond to conflict lovingly, express appreciation, initiate affectionate gestures, and pray for specific areas of growth. Each day pairs an actionable dare with a related Bible passage, encouraging humility, patience, forgiveness, and renewed intimacy across the full 40-day period.

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Overview

How to Use the 40 Day Challenge

Daily Dares

Day 1 - Day 10

Day 11 - Day 20

40 Day Love Dare Challenge (for those with a Spouse or someone not easy to love) You may have heard about or even seen the movie a number of years back called, Fireproof, about one man’s story to save his marriage. It is a powerful story worth seeing. (not on NetFlix, but maybe Amazon Prime, or at the Library) In the movie the lead character, played by Kirk Cameron, realizes that his marriage is on the brink of divorce. He is challenged by his father to take part in a 40-day Love Dare Challenge. Reluctantly he agrees, and the movie tells his story. The movie is based on a book by the same name by Eric Wilson (Author), Alex Kendrick (Author), Stephen Kendrick (Author). We invite you to consider taking the 40 Day Love Dare Challenge. Below are the 40 love dare challenges. This can be done by the husband for the wife, as in the movie, or by the wife towards the husband. Either way, it is sure to help your marriage grow, maybe even in areas you didn’t realize needed strengthening. The 40 Love Dare Challenge may not be appropriate for non-married relationships. Please use your discretion. There may be some challenges that could help repair friendships or difficult relationships, if one’s motives are pure/ for the building up of the other. Christ Church Oshawa assumes no responsibility. _________________________________________________________ Day 1: Resolve to say nothing negative about your spouse today.Ephesians 4:2 “with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,” Day 2: Do at least one unexpected gesture to your spouse as an act of kindness.Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.” Day 3: Buy your spouse something that says, “I was thinking about you today.”Romans 12:10 “Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.” Day 4: Contact your spouse sometime during the day and ask how he or she is doing and if there is anything you could do for them.Psalm 139: 17-18 “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.” Day 5: Ask your spouse to tell you three things that cause him or her to be uncomfortable or irritated with you. You must do so without attacking them. Proverbs 27:14 “Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.” Day 6: Choose to react to tough circumstances in your marriage in loving ways instead of with irritation.Proverbs 16:32 “Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” Day 7: On a sheet of paper, write out positive things about your spouse. At some point during the day, pick a positive attribute from the list and thank your spouse for having the characteristic.I Corinthians 13:7 “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” Day 8: Share with your spouse how glad you are about a success he or she recently enjoyed.Song of Solomon 8:6 “Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.” Day 9: Think of a way to greet your spouse today to reflect your love for them, and then do it with a smile and enthusiasm.I Peter 5:14 “Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.” Day 10: Do something out of the ordinary today for your spouse.Romans 5:8 “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Day 11: What need does your spouse have that you could meet today? Example: Choose a gesture that says “I love you” and do it with a smile.Ephesians 5:28 “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” Day 12: Demonstrate love by willingly choosin

FAQs

What is the purpose of the 40 Day Love Dare Challenge?

It offers daily actions meant to help a marriage grow by practicing kindness, respect, forgiveness, and love in specific, intentional ways over 40 days.

Can the challenge be done by either spouse?

Yes. The guide states it can be done by the husband toward the wife or by the wife toward the husband, as in the featured movie.

Is the challenge appropriate for couples who are not married?

The document cautions that it may not be appropriate for non-married relationships and advises using discretion, especially when motives are meant to build up others.

Aug 31, 2026

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