Marriage

Dear Lord,

Thank you for today. Thank you for our life and the gift of marriage. You are an amazing God! Thank you for sending Your Son and sacrificing Him so that we could be free from the slavery of sin and spend eternity with You! We pray that our marriages would keep Christ at the center. Please help us to keep our focus, to understand the purpose of marriage, and to know how to operate in it as You have intended. Lord, break the chains of selfishness, pride, and stubbornness. Help us...

 

Dear Lord,

We pray that You would remind us that You have called us to not be offended so easily. 1 Corinthians 13:5 tells us that love is not easily provoked or resentful. Lord, help us to find the good in fellow believers. Help us to seek peace and to give the benefit of the doubt whenever possible.

In Jesus’ name, amen!

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Dear Lord,

Thank you for your grace. Thank you for forgiving me when I don’t deserve it. We pray that in our marriage we can forgive each other just as You forgive us. Help us to extend grace to one another. We pray for other couples as well, couples who are holding onto bitterness and resentment and hurt. Please help them to forgive each other and reconcile their relationship. May Your will be done in us and may the testimony of Your redeeming love reflect in our marriages.

In Jesus name...

 

Dear Lord,

You love when Your people live and walk in communion! We know You desire for us all to have relationships around us that are willing to walk with us and do life with us. It is when we are in community with other believers that we grow the most. God, bring friends into our lives that will pray for us and encourage us but also challenge us. Build a community of Bible believing Christ followers around us.

In Jesus’ name, amen!

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Dear Lord,

Thank you for today and thank you for our friends. Lord, You have blessed us with people who love us so much that they are willing to tell us when we need to work on our character or repent of sin. They grow with us and walk with us and it truly is a blessing to have them in our lives. Thank you for using us to speak into their lives as well. This is how You intended your church to operate. That we would all encourage and exhort each other daily. That we would spur each other on...

 

Dear Lord,

Thank you for constantly transforming our minds to be turned towards You always. Lord, we pray to always be striving to become men and women of integrity. We pray that we would be the same person in private that we are in public. We want our integrity to be a blessing to our children and their children after. We want to leave a legacy of uprightness for our family.

In Jesus name amen!

Proverbs 20:7 “A righteous man who walks in his integrity— How blessed are his sons...

 

Dear Lord,

Thank you for the gift of marriage, even though sometimes we neglect to see it as a gift… it truly is. Thank you for using our marriage to reveal to us areas in our lives that need change and parts of our character that need transformation. We are so sorry that we sometimes fight. We have different perspectives that leave us needing to feel validated. We pray that You would help us to fine tune our apologies, to be more humble and sincere. But we also pray that we would fine tune...

 

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Dear Lord,

Fill our hearts and minds with romantic passion and intensity for each other. Help us to know how to emotionally invigorate one another. Help us to hear what the other longs for and desires. Help us to pursue each other in this way.

In Jesus’ name, amen!

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Dear Lord,

Our kids are so smart. It doesn’t matter how old they are, they pick up on everything. They can smell hypocrisy from a mile away. Lord, we pray that we would lead, love, and discipline our kids in holiness. We pray that we would not merely teach them with our words, but would show them with our actions what it means to love and obey You. We pray that we would have self-control over the way we speak to our kids, especially when we are frustrated or tired. May we walk out in our...