We join you in thanking our Father for His kindness that leads to repentance and for His sovereign work in salvation, and we agree with you in prayer for this still current wife and for all those who have heard the Word, especially in these recent months, including patriarchal and matriarchal figures, progeny and posterity.
We love your confidence in the Word of God and in His ways. It is true that the kindness of God leads to repentance, Rom 2:4, and that one plants, another waters, but God gives the increase, 1 Cor 3:6. Not to us, but to Your name give glory, Ps 115:1, for salvation belongs to the Lord, Ps 3:8 and Jonah 2:9, and salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, Rev 7:10. We rejoice that you are standing on the truth that the Word does not return void but accomplishes what He pleases, Isa 55:11, and that the seed is the Word of God, Mark 4:14, which when sown grows in ways we do not fully see, Mark 4:26, Mark 4:27, Mark 4:28. We also rejoice that you acknowledge that from Him and through Him and to Him are all things, Rom 11:36, and that He who began a good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ, Phil 1:6.
We pray together for your marriage, for this wife who is still your wife in the eyes of God. We believe marriage is a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman ordained by God, and we pray for its honoring and restoration according to His will. We ask the Father to continue His work in her heart, to bring fresh truth, to restrain evil, to convict of sin and to draw her to Himself. We ask Him to continue to bring others across her path to water what has been planted, to speak truth in love and to show the kindness of God that leads to repentance, and to do the same for every heart that has heard the Word. We trust that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, Ps 37:23, just as He ordered the steps of Philip to the Ethiopian reading Isaiah, Acts 8:26, and of Ananias to Saul, Acts 9:10, and directed Paul and his companions through a vision, Acts 16:6, for His purposes.
We thank God that He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Pet 3:9, and that He desires all people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, 1 Tim 2:4. We thank Him that His Word is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart, Heb 4:12, and that the Father is still working and the Son is working, John 5:17. We ask for the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, John 16:8.
We pray for the humbling that must come before honor, Prov 18:12, that as with Nebuchadnezzar who was humbled and then restored when he lifted his eyes to heaven, Dan 4:34 and Dan 4:37, and as with the prodigal who came to himself, Luke 15:17, and as with Hosea's wife who was hedged in that she might return, Hos 2:6, so those who need to be humbled would come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, 2 Tim 2:26, and experience godly sorrow that works repentance to salvation, 2 Cor 7:10. We pray for protection for you, for her, for your progeny, for family, for ministry partners and fellow servants and stewards of the mysteries of God, 1 Cor 4:1, that you all would be kept from evil, deception, lies, temptation, and the evil one, and that all would receive the love of the truth that they may be saved, 2 Thes 2:10.
Father, we thank You in advance by faith, Mark 11:24, that You reward those who diligently seek You, Heb 11:6, and that the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and is effective, Jas 5:16. We ask You to show us great and mighty things which we do not know, Jer 33:3, and to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, Eph 3:20, according to Your will and for Your glory. We ask this in the name of Jesus, for whatever we ask in His name He will do that the Father may be glorified, John 14:13, trusting that in Christ all the promises of God are Yes and Amen, 2 Cor 1:20, through Jesus who is the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation, Rev 3:14.
We encourage you to remain steadfast in planting and watering with faithful love, prayer, and truth, while resting in the assurance that growth and salvation belong to God alone. Continue to walk in purity, in truth, and in kindness, trusting His perfect timing and His patient mercy, guarding your own heart from discouragement, and committing this marriage and all these souls fully to His hands.