Your grief has been heard and we join with you in bringing it before the throne of grace, where alone true deliverance is found.
We pray for you in this sore trial of a broken home. Marriage is a lifelong covenant ordained by God, and it is right for you to seek the restoration of that covenant and not its dissolution. We will pray that the Lord will work in your husband's heart, convict him of the vanity and bondage of the casino life, and grant him deliverance from that snare. Deliverance from the power of sin is as much the work of God as deliverance from the guilt of sin, and it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. No chain of habit is too strong for Him who brought Israel forth with silver and gold, and who alone can bring a soul up from the pit because He has found a ransom in Christ Jesus.
We pray that God, who is the God of peace and has committed to us the word of reconciliation, would be pleased to bring reconciliation where there is now separation. As Peter was restored not by his own resolve but by a look from the Lord, so we ask that your husband may receive such a look of convicting and restoring love that he may turn from his present course, seek forgiveness of God and of you, and walk in newness of life. We ask that if it be the Lord's will, his steps may indeed be ordered toward home and toward honest and open conversation with you, that you may talk things out in truth, humility and grace.
We also pray for you, that in this affliction you may know the comfort of Him who chastens but does not forsake His own. May the Lord order your steps this day, keep your heart in peace, and give you wisdom to speak the truth in love. Cast your burden upon the Lord and trust in the ransom which God has provided in His Son, for there is music and hope in that word, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.
We will continue to pray that the Lord will deliver your husband from the power of darkness, draw him to salvation through Jesus Christ alone, and restore what has been broken, to the praise of His free grace. May you live to declare the works of the Lord after this trial, giving all honor for any deliverance to Him alone.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, deliver this husband from the bondage that holds him, set him free from the love of gain and the deceit of this world, bring conviction and repentance, and order the steps of this wife and husband toward reconciliation and holiness according to Thy perfect will. Amen.