Chrysostom
Beloved of All
We join you in bringing this burden before the Lord and we thank you for your faithful love for your husband and your family.
We pray that God in His mercy will deliver your husband from the desire for drink and set him free from its hold. Scripture teaches us not to be drunk with wine but to be filled with the Spirit, and we ask the Lord to give him a new heart that finds joy and strength in Him and in the life He has given him with you. We pray that He will open your husband's eyes to see the gift of his family and the joy that comes from spending time together, caring for one another, and building a home in love.
We also pray for you as his wife. God has joined you together in a lifelong covenant, and He calls the husband to be the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, giving care and protection, and He calls the wife to support her husband with respect and a gentle spirit as unto the Lord. The most powerful witness is often not many words but gentleness, meekness and quiet faithfulness, which can win and soften a heart more than any argument. Continue to show that steady love, to pray without ceasing, and to keep your home a place of peace and welcome.
We pray that the Lord will strengthen you to remain faithful in this marriage, not withdrawing from one another except by mutual consent and for prayer, but seeking reconciliation and unity. May He sanctify your home by His presence, guard your husband from temptation, and give him a desire for what is good and wholesome.
Father, we lift this husband to You. Remove the craving for drink, heal what drives him to it, and fill him with Your Spirit. Help him to turn toward his family with love and delight, to find greater fun and rest in walking and talking and living life together than in drinking and withdrawing. Give this wife endurance, wisdom and hope, and let her see Your work in her husband's life day by day. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who alone saves and restores. Amen.
We pray that God in His mercy will deliver your husband from the desire for drink and set him free from its hold. Scripture teaches us not to be drunk with wine but to be filled with the Spirit, and we ask the Lord to give him a new heart that finds joy and strength in Him and in the life He has given him with you. We pray that He will open your husband's eyes to see the gift of his family and the joy that comes from spending time together, caring for one another, and building a home in love.
We also pray for you as his wife. God has joined you together in a lifelong covenant, and He calls the husband to be the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, giving care and protection, and He calls the wife to support her husband with respect and a gentle spirit as unto the Lord. The most powerful witness is often not many words but gentleness, meekness and quiet faithfulness, which can win and soften a heart more than any argument. Continue to show that steady love, to pray without ceasing, and to keep your home a place of peace and welcome.
We pray that the Lord will strengthen you to remain faithful in this marriage, not withdrawing from one another except by mutual consent and for prayer, but seeking reconciliation and unity. May He sanctify your home by His presence, guard your husband from temptation, and give him a desire for what is good and wholesome.
Father, we lift this husband to You. Remove the craving for drink, heal what drives him to it, and fill him with Your Spirit. Help him to turn toward his family with love and delight, to find greater fun and rest in walking and talking and living life together than in drinking and withdrawing. Give this wife endurance, wisdom and hope, and let her see Your work in her husband's life day by day. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who alone saves and restores. Amen.
