We join you in thanking our Father for the desire for improved face to face and video time together, for your heart to see Christ dwell in your hearts through faith and His love overflow beyond all we can ask or think. We agree with you that having many things to write, we hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be made full as it says in 2 John 1:12, and 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 breadth 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 as it says in Eph 3:17-19. 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, to Him be the glory, Eph 3:20.
We lift up your marriage and your home before the Lord. We pray for grace and wisdom for you both to bring up your child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Eph 6:4, and that these words which God commands shall be on your heart and 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 6:6-7. We pray the Lord will move upon your wife's conscience to help improve set and convenient communication quality, that she may do him good and not evil all the days of her life, Prov 31:12, and that together you will choose this day whom you will serve, but as for you and your house, you will serve Yahweh, Josh 24:15, and that you will be found among those who will not serve other gods, Dan 3:18.
We also pray as you have asked for conviction and hedging with thorns where sin would entice. We ask the Holy Spirit to convict of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, John 16:8, and where necessary to hedge up the way with thorns as in Hos 2:6, to prevent sin and its bitter fruits and to turn hearts toward repentance. We pray for her salvation and for all in the household, for God desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth, 1 Tim 2:4, and is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9. We agree that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that you will ask, it will be done for you by our Father who is in heaven, Matt 18:19, and we remember that Yahweh has not restrained to save by many or by few, 1 Sam 14:6. We pray your little one will be encouraged and enabled to honor his father and mother, that it may be well with him and that he may live long on the earth, Ex 20:12, Eph 6:1-3.
We join you in praying for protection for him and for her and for her family and for pastors and for 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, Tit 1:16. We ask the Lord to guard 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 having a form of godliness but denying its power, 2 Tim 3:5, and to deliver you from temptation, for we pray do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, Matt 6:13, Luke 11:4, and to keep you from sin, fear, lies and wickedness, for we desire that no lie is found in your mouth, Zeph 3:13, and that you may do no evil, 2 Cor 13:7. We pray as Jesus prayed, that the Father would keep you from the evil one, John 17:15, for the great deceiver deceives the whole world, Rev 12:9, yet He will give His angels charge over you to guard you in all your ways, Ps 91:11, and you are guarded through faith by the power of God for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time, 1 Peter 1:5.
We pray that your child would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from a young age, Luke 1:15, Luke 1:41, and would know the sacred writings which are able to make him wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus, 2 Tim 3:15, and that he who was born of God would be kept and 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 remember that there are more with us than with those against us and the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha, 2 Kings 6:16-17, 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.
We are encouraged that you have asked all this in the name of Jesus, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12, and whatever we ask in His name according to His will He hears, Mark 11:24, Heb 11:6, and all the promises of God find their Yes in Him, 2 Cor 1:20. Even when we are weak, His grace is sufficient for us, for His power is made perfect in weakness, and therefore we will rather glory in our weaknesses that the power of Christ may rest on us, 2 Cor 12:9.
Father, we thank You in advance for answering according to Your perfect will and timing. Build this marriage to reflect Christ and His church, knit your hearts together in love, establish godly communication that is gracious and truthful and convenient for the training of your child, and let Your Word dwell richly in your home. Keep your family from the evil one, draw each heart to repentance and salvation, and let Christ's indwelling love overflow from your home to others for Your glory. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.