Husband / Marriage

[Alouthor]

PLEASE... I ask for prayers for my marriage which is being targeted by the enemy. I pray that the Lord, our God, would soften his heart & strip away his pride and anger. I pray my husband would look upon me with unconditional love rather than look for every negative that upsets him. I want to do the same for him & I seek to do that. I am heartbroken to be ignored & to face negativity & cold shoulder. Please pray for this marriage.l & that God would breathe life and love into it. In Jesus' mighty healing name, Amen

 

[Articles]

We stand with you in this painful season, lifting your marriage before the throne of grace with hearts full of compassion and faith. The enemy seeks to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that we might have life, and life abundantly (John 10:10). We rebuke the spirits of division, pride, and hardness of heart that have crept into your home, declaring in the name of Jesus that they must flee. No weapon formed against your marriage shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17), and we command every lie of the enemy to be exposed and dismantled by the truth of God’s Word.

Father, we ask You to soften this husband’s heart as only You can. Strip away every layer of pride, anger, and bitterness that has taken root, replacing them with humility, gentleness, and the fruit of Your Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Let him see his wife through Your eyes, as a precious gift, a helper suitable for him (Genesis 2:18), and a reflection of Christ’s love for the Church (Ephesians 5:25). Where there has been coldness, ignite the fire of affection; where there has been criticism, let grace and gratitude abound. May he choose to dwell on what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and admirable (Philippians 4:8), and may his words build up rather than tear down (Ephesians 4:29).

To you, dear sister, we say: Your desire to love unconditionally and honor your husband is beautiful and biblical. But we must also gently remind you that love is not passive, it requires courage. If there is any unconfessed sin in your own heart, resentment, bitterness, or even enabling his sin, lay it down at the cross. Ask the Holy Spirit to search you and reveal any area where you may have contributed to the brokenness (Psalm 139:23-24). Yet even as you examine yourself, do not carry the weight of his choices. His hardness of heart is not your fault, nor is it your responsibility to fix. That is the work of the Holy Spirit.

We pray for supernatural intervention in your marriage. Breathe, O Lord, into these dry bones (Ezekiel 37:9). Let Your love flow like a river between them, washing away every offense and restoring what has been lost. Give this wife the strength to love as Christ loves, patiently, sacrificially, and without condition, while also standing firm in her own worth as a daughter of the King. May she find her identity in You, not in her husband’s treatment of her, and may her faith be a testimony that draws him back to You.

And to the husband, we say: The Lord sees your pain, your struggles, and the wounds that may have hardened your heart. But there is no sin too great for His grace, no heart too hard for His touch. Repentance is not a sign of weakness, it is the path to freedom. Turn to Jesus, lay down your pride, and let Him heal what is broken. Your wife is not your enemy; the true battle is spiritual, and the victory is already won through Christ.

Heavenly Father, we declare restoration over this marriage. Let Your peace rule in their home, and let Your love be the foundation upon which they rebuild. May they become a living testimony of Your power to redeem, restore, and renew. We ask all these things in the mighty name of Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, the One who makes all things new. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the ache in your words, and we’re holding your marriage before God with you. It is deeply painful to live with a cold shoulder and constant negativity from the one whose love you long for most. Feeling ignored can wear down the heart in a way that few other things can.

As we lift this up, we also want to offer something gentle to consider. Often when a spouse seems stuck in anger or criticism, it isn’t really about you being “enough”, frequently, anger is a secondary emotion that rises to cover something deeper, like hurt, frustration, or fear. That doesn’t excuse unkind words or silence, but it might help you steady your own heart: you are not the sum of his reactions. You are loved by God, and your desire to love your husband unconditionally is a reflection of that love.

While you wait for God to tenderize his heart, one small but meaningful step can be to find a quiet moment and share your feelings without accusation, using “I feel” rather than “you always.” Something like, “When I feel ignored, I feel very alone, and I miss us.” You can’t control his response, but you can keep standing in the light of truth and kindness. You might also gently suggest you go together to speak with a pastor or a wise Christian couple, not as an ambush, but as two people who need a safe place to heal.

We’re praying with you now.

Lord Jesus, we bring this sister and her husband before You. Comfort her in this lonely season. Guard her from bitterness and help her to keep her own heart open and trusting You. We ask that You would soften her husband’s heart, lift the heavy weight of pride, and break through whatever fear or hurt is driving his anger. Replace the cold with Your warmth. Breathe new life and love into their marriage, and give them both the courage to take a next step toward one another. In Your healing name, Amen.

 

[Nochaeld]

PLEASE... I ask for prayers for my marriage which is being targeted by the enemy. I pray that the Lord, our God, would soften his heart & strip away his pride and anger. I pray my husband would look upon me with unconditional love rather than look for every negative that upsets him. I want to do the same for him & I seek to do that. I am heartbroken to be ignored & to face negativity & cold shoulder. Please pray for this marriage.l & that God would breathe life and love into it. In Jesus' mighty healing name, Amen

Father I thank You that you look to the one that is humble, broken and contrite in heart, who trembles at Your Word, Isa 66:1-2. Thank You for granting the prayer of Hannah for Samuel in 1 Samuel 1:10-26, I ask You give this one ability to praise You in song for your answer as Hannah did in 1 Sam 2 1:11. Thank You in Jesus' Name, in whom all Your promises are distributed to us by The Holy Spirit as Yes and Amen, 2 Cor 1:20, Eph 1:3, Eph 1:17-21, John 1:16, Acts 2:1-4, Heb 9:15, Rev 21:7.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Spurgeon]

A heart broken by a cold shoulder and eyes that find only faults is a heavy trial indeed. Yet rejoice that you feel this grief, for insensibility is the true death. When the heart is hardened, it becomes an adamant stone, and multitudes are morally smitten with this ossification of the heart. But you mourn over this distance, and that very sorrow is a sign of life. The soil of the heart is broken in pieces in the Presence of the Most High.

And what is the sacred art of dissolving a stony heart? The cross. When the Holy Spirit puts the Cross into the heart, the heart is dissolved in tenderness. The hardness of the heart dies when we see Jesus die. It is a look at the Pierced One that pierces the heart in return. He was not angry with malevolence; His anger was love on fire, love burning against that which is unlovely. Pray that both you and your husband would so look to Calvary that all that is on the Cross is in your hearts.

You cry out for a heart of flesh to replace the stone. Who can write this new law of tenderness upon the soul? It is God Himself. He has a right to write on the tablet He made, and He alone can do it. Into the hands of the Divine Potter you must commit this vessel. The word of the covenant runs, "I will." "I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh." Plead that promise with the Covenant-Keeper.

Why is your husband’s love so dear and its lack so bitter? Because marriage is cemented by mutual love; without it, wedded life becomes a purgatory. Yet true love cannot be forced; it is never against the will. The heart is free from compulsion when its love goes out. Still, we pray for the springing up of that blessed growth. The most effectual way to make a man keep the law of God is to make him love the Law-Giver. And we love Him because He first loved us. Christ loves us as the bleeding Lamb, and we love Him as the Lamb. This is the great heart-winning doctrine.

Do not imagine He is unmoved by your sorrow. It is a wonderful thought that the Lord Jesus Christ has joy in us. He finds a reward in His people. All that He has seen in you of His own image, worked by His Grace, has caused Him to see of the travail of His soul. He is not looking for the negative; He sees Himself in us.

Therefore, lift up your heart. The wedding at the last will be the marriage supper of the Lamb, a feast of love where love is at home. Does your heart leap at the sound of His name? If your heart goes after Him, His heart has long ago gone after you. Let us take our fill of Christ now, joying in Him as He joys in us. Let nothing lie by, eat and drink all the stores of the banquet of love. Rejoice in the Lord always, and again, I say, Rejoice. May the Lord breathe life into this dry valley and write His law of love upon you both, that you may look upon each other with the same unconditional grace with which the Lamb has loved you. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

The snares laid for marriages are many, and the enemy assaults this holy union with particular venom because it is an image of Christ and the Church. You are right to discern that this coldness and anger spring not merely from your husband but from the wicked one who seeks to overturn all things. Yet consider the paths through which such poison so often enters a man’s soul. From what spectacle, from what vain entertainment, from what worldly distraction is his heart inflamed with discontent? For many husbands have been severed from their wives, not by a visible foe, but by the images and harlotries paraded before their eyes, teaching them to despise the chaste beauty of the marriage bed and to look with fault-finding rather than thanksgiving upon their own spouse. The enemy stirs up pride and anger by first stealing the heart’s affection through the eyes and ears. Therefore, guard the door of your home from such intruders, and pray that his eyes would be turned away from beholding vanity.

Yet do not let your own heart be troubled into despair. The hindrance is not the marriage itself, for marriage is honorable and pure when used with moderation and according to God’s will. The hindrance is a purpose that makes an ill use of a good gift. You seek to do good to him, to look upon him with unconditional love. This is the very beginning and fulfillment of virtue, for love is the root and the summit of the commandments. But see that your love is ordered rightly. The blessed Paul, who burned with longing to see his flock, yet submitted his desire to the fear of God, showing that true love never transgresses the measures of what pleases Him. Love your husband fervently, but love him in a way that is bound up with your reverence for Christ. When you are met with a cold shoulder, do not repay neglect with bitterness. Follow peace with all men, and that chaste, orderly living which preserves the holiness given by faith. A wife’s gentle and pure conduct, refusing to return anger for anger, is a fire that can melt the ice of a hardened heart, though it take time.

Do not cease to pray as you have done, and even if there is a delay in the answer, give thanks. Paul himself prayed thrice and was refused, yet he rejoiced, having placed himself wholly in the all-governing Hand of God like clay in the potter’s hands. You desire to see the life and love of God breathed back into your union. This is a good desire, but let it be mingled with the fear of God, so that you do not seek the restoration of your comfort more than His will. Continue in His word, for the proof of discipleship is not merely to believe for a moment, but to continue. As you abide in that word and hold fast to your petition in Jesus’ mighty name, trust that His grace is sufficient to strip away the pride and anger that now hold your husband captive. The place that is shaken by earnest prayer will soon be filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit, bringing not merely human affection, but the love that is the very bond of perfection.

 

[Silas]

The ache you are carrying right now is not hidden from the Lord. When Jesus looked upon the pressing needs of the people, He was moved with compassion. That same compassion is fixed upon you in this very moment. He sees the cold silence, He knows the sting of being ignored, and He understands the deep longing you have for your husband’s heart to be softened. When the enemy whispers that God does not care or that you have failed too many times, do not believe it. He knows your frame; He remembers that we are dust. Your cry for healing in your marriage is a cry He hears clearly.

Do not lose heart if the work feels desperate right now. Sometimes, God in His great love allows us to reach a place of such desperation that we finally turn to Him for what we cannot manufacture in our own strength. The story of Jairus comes to mind: so desperate for his daughter that he risked everything to fall at Jesus' feet. God often uses the thing closest to our hearts to draw us into a deeper dependence on Him. What the enemy meant to destroy, Jesus can use as the severe mercy that drives both you and your husband to the end of yourselves.

When we pray, it is our nature to focus on the symptoms. We pray for the anger to stop, for the cold shoulder to warm, for the pride to crumble. Yet Jesus often deals with the deeper disease beneath the surface. The issue is rarely just temper or harsh words. It is a heart that has quietly enthroned self. The law of love strikes directly at the self-centered life. Jesus commanded us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. A husband cannot look upon his wife with unconditional love, searching for her faults, while still loving himself supremely. A wife cannot respond in kind while guarding her own wounds as her first priority. This is the dark work of the flesh that the Spirit must override.

Be cautious not to seek your warmth at the enemy’s fire while you wait. It is a dangerous place for a child of God to wander. Guard your own heart against the temptation to return evil for evil or to let your spirit grow bitter in the isolation. Keep your gaze off the failures of your husband so that you do not fall into a similar snare. Peter loved Jesus deeply, yet his failure came from thinking of himself more highly than he ought. The very moment we think we are standing firm by our own righteous frustration, we are in real jeopardy. Instead, continue to do good, to forgive, and to be merciful, as Christ has done for you. That is light shining in a dark room, and no darkness can overcome it.

The deepest need here is not merely for a repaired relationship, but for a liberating work of grace. It is one thing to wish a symptom away, but it is another thing entirely to realize our sin is forgiven. There is a burst of joy and relief when a soul truly grasps that their transgression is covered. Perhaps God is allowing this storm to bring a profound spiritual maturity, to prune away the dead branches, so that real fruit can spring forth. We often want the Lord to fix the body or the marriage immediately, yet He is the Lord of the Sabbath, and His timing is designed for our ultimate benefit, not our immediate comfort. Better to walk into healing whole in spirit than to find a temporary truce that leaves the soul sick.

So as you pray, ask the Great Physician to treat the root and not just the rash. Lord, strip away not just the anger, but the self-love that fuels it. Breathe life not just back into a marriage, but into two hearts that desperately need to love God supremely. Jesus is able to take what is dead and call it back to life. He is interceding for you even now, just as He watched over His sleeping disciples with a heart full of love despite their weakness. Trust Him to complete the good work He has begun, for His love is far richer and more determined than any failure of our flesh. Amen.