Marriage

Dear Heavenly Father,

I praise your Holy Name! You are so good, you are so faithful, and you love so extravagantly! You are the Creator of the universe and You created me! Please help me to view myself as you do… beautiful! I pray that our culture would begin to turn around and encourage women in what true beauty is! I pray that we would be blinded to the distorted standards that the media portrays today and instead see myself through your eyes! Take away the worry and cares that...​

 

Dear Lord,

Please help me to support my husband. Sometimes I am so consumed with my own life, worries and frustrations, that I neglect to encourage and affirm my husband. I don’t want to continue being selfish. I desire to be a wife who seeks to inspire and encourage her husband. May You anoint my words so that they fall sweetly on my husband. Fill me with wise words, beautiful words, and meaningful words. I pray that I would have the courage to verbally affirm him no matter where we are...​

 

Dear Lord,

Please give me the strength and confidence I need to face the pressures of today. It seems that pressures come from all different angles and sometimes these pressures push against me so hard I feel like I am going to explode! I pray that Your Holy Spirit please help me handle these pressures and face them with faith in Jesus’ name AMEN!​

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Dear God,

I come to You today and thank You for my marriage. There are so many different seasons we face in marriage, yet keeping You at the center of it helps us get through anything. Thank You for everything, the good, the more challenging, the fun , and the sad. All that we experience in marriage and life builds on our character. Please continue to transform husbands and wives, showing us how to unconditionally love. I specifically pray for our hearts to be healed, restored, and...​

 

Dear Lord,

Please help me to love my husband today. Inspire my heart to do something nice for him, to help him solve a problem, to encourage his heart, or to serve him joyfully. I pray the other women in my life would spur me on to show my husband great love. I pray I would respect him with my attitude and with my words. I pray my husband feels loved by me and knows that I desire intimacy with him, that he is wanted by me, and that I am grateful to be his wife in Jesus’ name AMEN...

 

Dear God,

Thank You for today. I ask that You would fill my heart with peace and understanding. Help me to be a better wife to my husband. Stretch me and mature me. Replenish my marriage, filling it with joy, purpose, holiness, and zeal. I pray that my marriage is a great example of Your testimony to other couples. Please protect my husband today. Prepare his heart to lead our family, affirm him through his work, ignite passion in him to love me, and bring healing to him in Jesus’ name...​

 

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You for my husband, my family, my life. Thank You for my job, my parents, my friends, my church. Thank You for the food You provided and will provide for us. Thank You for the clothes I get to pick out and wear everyday. Thank You for the sun that sustains life, and Your Son, Jesus, who sustains life and eternal life! Thank You for Your sacrifice so that I may live abundantly with Your Holy Spirit living inside of me...​

 

Dear God,

Thank You for today. Thank You for Your unfailing love, Your provision, and Your patience. Thank You for giving us creative ideas and interesting inspirations. I lift up all of our dreams and aspirations to You. We know that some of them we must sacrifice or prune out of our lives, while others will flourish as we seek to attain. I pray that You help us to narrow down or determine which dreams You want us to chase. Guide us as we make decisions and use our husbands to encourage...​

 

Dear Lord,

It says in Psalms 145:18 “The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth.” We call upon you right now in truth! We thank you for listening to our prayers and responding! Lord, we desperately want our marriages to be fulfilled. We want to experience every good thing you designed in marriage. Please transform our marriages, transform us and transform our husbands. Be near to us Lord and walk us through this journey!

In Jesus name AMEN!​

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Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You for our lives. Thank You for encouraging us and loving us daily! Thank You for our husbands and the marriages You have gifted us! We pray for wives all around the world! We lift them up to You and ask that You overwhelm all of us with Your peace. Help us to calm our busy lives and find time to rest in Your presence, to seek after You wholeheartedly, to give You all of our worries, cares, and concerns. May Your Holy Spirit remind us of all Your ways...​