Marriage

Dear Lord,

Thank You for the dance that is marriage. Every day that we are given to spend together is a gift. We appreciate the friendship and camaraderie, the love and intimacy that is experienced in our relationship. Thank You for Your Word, which directs our hearts in our roles in marriage and how we can love each other well. We pray we never lose sight of marriage being a dance that we get the privilege of sharing with each other. Please help us to dance gracefully in a way that honors...

 

Dear Lord,

Thank You for the millions of moments You have gifted to us in our marriage. We have experienced great moments and more challenging ones. We have experienced joy, sadness, frustration, and peace. We have had some highs and some lows, and everything in-between. We know that it is all of the millions of moments we spend together that make up a picture of our marriage, a mosaic that is forming into a masterpiece. Please help us to remember this in good times and in more difficult...

 

A question was sent to us that said, “I caught my spouse cheating. What do I do?”

First of all, I can’t imagine what you’re going through right now—the thoughts, emotions, all the things that are circling in your mind.

I am confident that they could be overwhelming to the point where you don’t know what to do. You can’t see straight, and it feels like your whole world is...

 

Dear Lord,

Thank You for the gift of friendship. Thank You for the friendship we get to experience in our marriage. We are grateful for each other. We love having each other as a companion to experience life with. We pray we would continue to cultivate our friendship by being transparent with each other. We pray we would tell each other the truth on all occasions. We pray we would not hold back sharing our hearts with one another. We pray our transparency would cultivate love and intimacy...

 

Sex according to God’s design includes great physical pleasure, but also involves your emotions and your soul. You connect deeply and intimately with your spouse as you share something unique to your relationship: the sexual joining of your bodies that represents and nurtures your covenant love.

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Dear Lord,

Thank You for creating us with emotions. We are deeply and profoundly grateful to be able to experience this life with emotions. Being able to feel helps us understand You, ourselves, and the world around us. As much as we appreciate our emotions, they can sometimes get the best of us. We pray we would have self-control over our emotions. We pray that when we feel strong emotions we do not let them overwhelm us or overtake us. We pray we remain in control and that we do not...

 

Dear Lord,

Thank You for Your Word and for truth. Thank You for leading us as we live out our lives together. We pray our marriage would be a representation of the love Your Son, Jesus Christ, has for His Bride, the Church. We pray our marriage would be marked by our transparency and our honesty. Please help us to be truth tellers. Please help us to have integrity. We pray trust can grow because of the honesty we choose to live out every day in Jesus’ name AMEN!

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Dear Lord,

Thank You for today. Thank You for our marriage. Thank You for the growth we have experienced and the love we have for each other. We pray our love for one another would continue to grow stronger. We pray for a marriage revival that starts in our relationship today. We pray our hearts would prioritize our marriage, concerning ourselves with the most important aspects of our relationship that needs attention and improvement. We pray our love would inspire others to make their...

 

Sex seems purely physical to some, as if it couldn’t be associated with our soul. Frankly, the only time God is brought into many marital bedrooms is when someone yells “Oh my God!” in the heat of climax.

But while sex is physical, this act can also honor God and touch our spirit. Maybe you don’t always feel it, but do you believe it? When we make love according to...

 

Dear Lord,

Thank You for the many resources You have provided to us so that we may increase our knowledge and understanding of all things in life. Most importantly, we thank You for Your Holy Word. We pray we would always be learners. We pray we would eager to know more about the world around us and apply that knowledge so that we can make informed decisions and walk in wisdom. We pray we would consume information through a biblical perspective, filtering through what is truth and what is...