Marriage

Dear Lord,

We pray for wives and husbands who refuse to surrender to You. We pray that they fall to their knees and acknowledge You as the King of kings! May Your Holy Spirit reveal power and glory to them! Lord, please captivate their hearts. Meet them in their brokenness. Restore and heal their marriages. Thank you, Jesus, for sacrificing Your life so that we may be forgiven and washed clean of our sins. We pray that all of us surrender our lives, our marriage, our everything to You! For...

 

Dear Lord,

You have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, purity, and a sound mind. Lord, we pray that we would not be afraid to come to You with our hearts. We pray that we would enter into your throne room boldly as You have asked us to do. We pray that we would lay down our lives at your feet and submit all to You and your authority. We pray that we would share with You, our hurts and frustrations as well as our joys and our excitement. You are a good father and we pray that we...

 

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Dear Lord,

Sometimes we lack self-discipline. We often say things we shouldn’t, look at things we shouldn’t, think things we shouldn’t, and even have wrong motives. We feel like Paul when he says in Romans 7 “For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.” Help us to gain this powerful character trait. We want to have full control over our mouths, eyes, minds, and hearts.

In Jesus’ name, amen...

 

Dear Lord,

Thank you for your love for us and thank you for the calling You have placed on each one of us. Lord, we pray that we would seek You with everything we have. We pray that we would take every effort to add to our faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For we know if we possess these qualities in increasing...

 

Dear Lord,

Thank You for our family. We pray a blessing over our family and we also pray that You would protect us. This world is full of evil and every day there is something crazy happening. We pray that You would cover our family with Your hand of protection. Please give us peace and strength. Help us to be there for each other in any way that we can. We pray Your will is done in our lives and in our marriage.

In Jesus’ name, AMEN!​

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A wife recently reached out to me about her struggling marriage, and in the course of our back-and-forth, I made this observation:

Lack of safety may be the #1 reason marriages dissolve. It could be emotional safety. Physical safety. Financial safety. Whatever. But when you no longer feel safe with someone, intimacy is simply not possible.

Do You Feel Unsafe?​

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Dear Lord,

We need help focusing. There are so many distractions in this life and things that try and take our focus and attention away from You, each other and our kids. Lord, we know we have a lot of responsibilities, but we pray that Your spirit would guide us and show us when something needs to be cut out of our lives or when we need to say no to something. Show us how to use our time more effectively. Show us how to make time to be in Your word more regularly. We love you Lord and need...

 

Dear Lord,

Forgive us for our anger and frustration toward each other. We know that we were both overwhelmed and frustrated, but we should have had more self-control over our tongues. Lord, help us to not allow the sun to go down on our anger. Teach us how to be angry without sinning. Give us patience for one another. We want to be men and women who resemble Your Son, Lord.

In Jesus’ name, amen!​

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Dear Lord,

We pray for husbands and wives today. May You fill them with Your strength as they endure today. We pray for Your peace to surround them. May Your will be done in them and through them as Your Holy Spirit guides their paths. We pray that they would not be so distracted with what they have to do that they neglect one another. Please help them to serve each other with all humility and selflessness. Help them to fulfill what needs of theirs they can and to not withhold because...​