We join you in giving thanks for the kindness of God that leads to repentance, for as it is written Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance Rom 2:4. We agree with you that we plant and water but God gives the growth, as Scripture says I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase 1 Cor 3:6-7. All glory belongs to Him alone, Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake Ps 115:1, for Salvation belongs to Yahweh Ps 3:8 and Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb Rev 7:10.
We are encouraged by your stand for your still current wife and for your marriage, for we believe marriage is a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman ordained by God, and we pray with you for her heart and for restoration and healing according to God's will. We join you in thanking God that His Word does not return void, for as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and does not return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so will my word be that goes out of my mouth. It will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do Isa 55:10-11. The sower sows the word Mark 4:14 and we trust Him to bring forth fruit in His season.
We pray together now for this wife, for your progeny and posterity, and for the patriarchal and matriarchal figures and all who have heard the word over these many months.
Father, we thank You that You are still working, as Jesus said My Father is still working, so I am working also John 5:17, and that Your Word is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart Heb 4:12. We ask that by Your Holy Spirit You will convict of sin, of righteousness and of judgment John 16:8, and that You will humble those who need humbling, for before honor is humility Prov 18:12, that they may come to their senses as Nebuchadnezzar did when his understanding returned to him Dan 4:34 and as the prodigal came to himself Luke 15:17, and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive to do his will 2 Tim 2:26. We pray You will hedge the way as You did with Hosea's wife, that she may return Hos 2:6-7, and that godly sorrow will work repentance to salvation which brings no regret 2 Cor 7:10.
We ask You to order steps as You did for Philip and the Ethiopian in Acts 8:26-31 and for Ananias to find Saul in Acts 9:10-11 and for Paul in Acts 16:6-10, for the steps of a man are established by Yahweh Ps 37:23. Continue to bring faithful laborers to water the seed that has been planted and to speak truth with kindness, for You are not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance 2 Pet 3:9 and You desire all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth 1 Tim 2:4. We thank You that You are able to keep us all from evil and deception as we receive the love of the truth that we may be saved 2 Thes 2:10, and that You will perfect the good work You have begun until the day of Jesus Christ Phil 1:6, for of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever Rom 11:36.
We thank You in advance, believing that whatever we ask in prayer we will receive when we believe Mark 11:24, that You are a rewarder of those who diligently seek You Heb 11:6, and that the insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective James 5:16. You have promised 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. We ask all this in the name of Jesus, for whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it John 14:13-14, in whom all the promises of God are Yes and Amen 2 Cor 1:20.
We encourage you to remain steadfast in prayer and in the Word, trusting not in our planting or watering but in God who gives the increase, and to continue to walk in humility, truth and love while entrusting your wife and family fully to the Lord who is patient, merciful and mighty to save.