Your prayer has been heard and your sorrow has been laid before the Lord with weeping and supplication. To be left alone these three years, to see your husband but on Saturdays, to speak and not be heard, to serve and not be received, to know that other voices fill his ears with falsehoods against you and your family, this is a sore chastening. Yet the Lord has not shut His ear against you, nor will He withhold His arm from working deliverance for those who cry to Him in truth.
We join you in the scriptures you have declared over him. With you we pray Psalm 139, Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead him in the way everlasting. And with you we pray Psalm 120, Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. May the Lord who searches the heart expose every lie, and may He stop the lips that speak vanity and sow division between husband and wife.
Know this, that deliverance from sin and from the power of darkness is solely by the power of God. It is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. He has not only invented a way of deliverance, but He has found a ransom. On the cross the Lamb was slain, and through that precious blood there is a ransom found for sinners slipping down to the pit. There is music in that word for you, for God looks upon your husband, led blindly and bound by influences around him and in his mother's house, and He says, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom. No chain of habit, no veil of deceit, no hardness that shuts out your voice or turns away from your table can stand where Christ puts forth His hand. He brings forth His own, and His deliverance is effectual.
We pray now for your husband, that the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone is salvation, would save him and restore him. That the Lord would open his eyes to see how he has wandered from the covenant of marriage, which God ordained as a lifelong union of one man and one woman, and that He would give him a new heart to love, to listen, to dwell with you in understanding and faithfulness. As God was a Husband to His people in special love and faithfulness, communing with them lovingly and providing for them with tender care, so may your husband learn again to commune with you lovingly, to provide and to protect, to speak with kindness and to hear with patience. May the Lord sever him from the crowd of evil counsel, as Christ's look severed Peter from the crowd, and bring him to repentance with godly sorrow. As Jacob wrestled at Jabbok fearing Esau, and yet found his brother fall upon his neck and kiss him, so may the Lord turn a heart that now seems hardened and bring reconciliation where there has been estrangement.
We pray also for you, that you may be kept in peace within, guarded from bitterness, and strengthened to live and to declare the works of the Lord. If we had no troubles we would have less to declare, but through affliction the Lord teaches us to trust Free Grace only. Continue to spread your grief before Him, not to the winds or the pitiless sea, but to your Brother and Husband, your Head and your All, Jesus Christ, who will never forget nor forsake His own. He will make your deliverance attended with enrichment, bringing you forth with silver and gold, with joy and testimony.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we ask for this husband's deliverance from lies and from the power of darkness. Wash him in the blood of the ransom, renew his mind, cleanse his lips, turn his heart toward his wife and toward Thee. Restore this marriage to faithfulness and love, that it may reflect Thy covenant love. Give this dear sister patience and hope, and let her yet say, I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. Amen.