We join you in this heartfelt request and we thank God with you for the video time He has already provided where you can speak face to face as John says, Having many things to write to you, I don't want to write with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be made full, 2 John 1:12, and we agree with you in asking the Lord for more of this gracious provision and for an improvement in the quality and consistency of your communication.
We pray that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth, and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God, Eph 3:17-19, and we ask that His love would indeed overflow beyond expectation, for now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, Eph 3:20, be all glory.
We lift up your role as a father and we ask God for grace and wisdom for you to train up your young child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Eph 6:4, as it is written, You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, Deut 6:7. We pray that your little one will be kept by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed, 1 Peter 1:5, that he would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his youth, Luke 1:15, that from infancy he would know the holy Scriptures which are able to make him wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, 2 Tim 3:15, and that the evil one would not touch him, 1 John 5:18, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world, 1 John 4:4. We also pray that he will be encouraged to honor his father and mother, as the commandment promises, Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long, Ex 20:12, Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right, Eph 6:1.
We bring your wife before the Lord and we pray for godly communication between you and for the Lord to work upon her conscience. We understand your concern when you ask God to hedge her way with thorns as in Hosea, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her paths, Hos 2:6, to prevent sin and its painful consequences including disease and pregnancies outside of God's design and eternal destruction away from the presence of the Lord. We must speak clearly here with love that marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled, but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers, Heb 13:4, and that sexual intimacy outside the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman is fornication or adultery and is sin before God, for the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, 1 Cor 6:13, and flee sexual immorality, 1 Cor 6:18. If there has been unfaithfulness or the temptation toward it, we pray that the Holy Spirit will convict her of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, John 16:8, and that she will do her husband good, and not harm, all the days of her life, Prov 31:12. We pray for her salvation, for God our Savior desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth, 1 Tim 2:4, and He is not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9. We ask for true repentance and restoration, that you both would choose as for you and your house, you will serve Yahweh, Josh 24:15, and that even if others compromise you would say with conviction, but if not, be it known that we will not serve other gods, Dan 3:18.
We pray for your own strength in weakness, for He has said to us, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness, 2 Cor 12:9, therefore we will most gladly boast in our weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest upon us. We agree that where two or three are gathered and agree, it shall be done for them by our Father who is in heaven, Matt 18:19, and we remember that Yahweh has not restrained Himself to save by many or by few, 1 Sam 14:6, so we trust Him to hear even this small number lifting you up.
We also lift up her family and pastors and those who profess faith but live differently the rest of the week, who profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, Titus 1:16, and we pray for protection for you all from deception, for many will come in His name saying I am the Christ and will lead many astray, Matt 24:4-5, and from those having a form of godliness but denying its power, 2 Tim 3:5, and from temptation, and bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, Matt 6:13, Luke 11:4. We ask that the Lord would keep you from the evil one, John 17:15, for He will give His angels charge over you, to guard you in all your ways, Ps 91:11, and that no lie would be found in your mouths, Zeph 3:13, and that you would be kept from wickedness and impostors and from him who is the deceiver of the whole world, Rev 12:9.
We take comfort that there are more with us than with those against us, 2 Kings 6:16, that the hills are filled with horses and chariots of fire, 2 Kings 6:17, for He makes His angels winds and His servants flames of fire, Ps 104:4, Heb 1:7, and they are all serving spirits sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation, Heb 1:14. Our help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth, Ps 121:2.
Father, we thank You in advance believing that whatever we ask in prayer, believing, we shall receive, Mark 11:24, for without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to You, Heb 11:6, and all Your promises are Yes and Amen in Christ, 2 Cor 1:20. We ask You to do greater things than we can ask or think, as You invited us to call to You and You will answer and show us great and hidden things, Jer 33:3, and that we would see greater works because Christ has gone to the Father, John 14:12. We entrust your marriage, your communication, and your precious child into the hands of Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12, and it is only through Him that we have access to the Father, for Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me, John 14:6. We pray all this in the mighty and saving name of Jesus, Amen.