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This prayer is adapted from The Marriage Gift: 365 Prayers For My Marriage Devotional​

Dear Lord,

The promise of eternal life is our ultimate comfort. While we wait our turn to experience eternity, we ask You, Lord, to continually cover us with Your peace. Thank You also that we can comfort one another through physical touch and affirmation. Being married provides a camaraderie in which we can enjoy being known, making a home together, and experiencing...

 

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On this week’s Marriage After God podcast, we’re leaning into something that has transformed our marriage: praying for each other and our marriage every single day. This episode is a practical invitation to make daily prayer non-negotiable, and it explains why the health of our marriages hinges on it.

[Why daily prayer matters]

- Daily commitment protects what we’ve built together. We remind ourselves that “every day we...

 

This prayer is adapted from The Marriage Gift: 365 Prayers For My Marriage Devotional​

Dear Lord,

Please help us to take care of our bodies by eating healthy and staying active. Stir our hearts to encourage one another to make good choices that benefit our health. Despite striving to keep our bodies healthy, we know change is inevitable. Please help us embrace the way our bodies shift over time. Lord, keep us from entertaining negative thoughts about our bodies and...

 

This prayer is adapted from The Marriage Gift: 365 Prayers For My Marriage Devotional​

Dear Lord,

We seek to honor You as we aim to love our families well. Lord, establish core values and standards in our home that align with Your Word. We long to pass down a love of Your Word to the next generation, which can happen only if we both commit to upholding these values, leading to fruitful lives. Lord, move in our home and show us any area where we have misplaced our...

 

This prayer is adapted from The Marriage Gift: 365 Prayers For My Marriage Devotional​

Dear Lord,

We praise You for the power of forgiveness! Holy Spirit, give us understanding of how deep, how wide, and how high the Father’s love is for us. Mature us and grow our ability to apologize and forgive each other. May we be willing to reconcile so that the Enemy does not gain a foothold in our marriage. We specifically pray we would experience restoration after trust is...

 

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This prayer is adapted from The Marriage Gift: 365 Prayers For My Marriage Devotional​

Dear Lord,

In humility we ask You to remind us to rely on You every moment of every day. We also thank You for the way we can rely on one another in our marriage. Strengthen our commitment to support each other and fortify our faith in You so that our marriage foundation is like a rock firmly planted in its place.

In Jesus’ name, AMEN!

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This prayer is adapted from The Marriage Gift: 365 Prayers For My Marriage Devotional​

Dear Lord,

Please help us grow in our faith and in our love for one another so that when we experience conflict, we respond in a way that honors You. We yearn to be reconciled quickly, not letting pride get in the way of the restoration of our relationship. Destroy our pride, in Jesus’s name! Create in us a clean heart, Lord, and renew a right spirit within us.

In Jesus’ name...

 

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Welcome back to Marriage After God — week 21 of our 30-week marriage devotional series. We’re pulling from Husband After God and Wife After God, and we’re inviting you into our prayers, and our conversations about praying for your spouse.

Today’s focus: praying for your spouse and what that does for your oneness with God and with each other.

Genesis 2:24 says, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother...

 

This prayer is adapted from The Marriage Gift: 365 Prayers For My Marriage Devotional​

Dear Lord,

We recognize that in all You have given us, You have also trusted us to manage it well. We consider it an honor to have the responsibility of being good stewards. Open our eyes and our hearts to what You are doing in this world and how we can use what we have to support Your work and fulfill Your will here on earth.

In Jesus’ name, AMEN!

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This prayer is adapted from The Marriage Gift: 365 Prayers For My Marriage Devotional​

Dear Lord,

Will You bolster our faith and give us the courage to initiate prayer together? Make us brave to pray for each other, without being concerned with messing up our words or not praying perfectly. Bless our marriage with unity as we commit to praying for each other.

In Jesus’ name, AMEN!

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