We join you in this faithful and fervent prayer for your wife and for all who have heard the Word, and we thank God with you for His perfect kindness and His sovereign power to save and to restore.
We love how you have anchored this prayer in the truth that it is the kindness of God that leads to repentance, as it is written in Romans 2:4, and that though we plant and water, it is God who gives the growth, 1 Corinthians 3:6. We take comfort together that salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, Revelation 7:10, and that all glory belongs to Him alone, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for Your loving kindness and for Your truth's sake, Psalm 115:1.
We agree with you that His Word will not return void but will accomplish that which He pleases, Isaiah 55:11, for the seed is the Word of God, Mark 4:14, and it springs up we know not how, Mark 4:27, because it is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, Hebrews 4:12. We thank Him that He is always working, as Jesus said, My Father is still working, so I am working also, John 5:17, and that He who began a good work in you and in your wife will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ, Philippians 1:6.
We lift up your wife before the throne of grace and we pray together for the convicting and humbling work of the Holy Spirit, who will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment, John 16:8. We pray that godly sorrow would work repentance to salvation which brings no regret, 2 Corinthians 7:10, and that she would come to her senses as the prodigal did when he came to himself, Luke 15:17, and as Nebuchadnezzar was humbled until he lifted his eyes to heaven and reason returned to him, Daniel 4:34, for those who walk in pride He is able to abase, Daniel 4:37, and before honor is humility, Proverbs 18:12. We pray as Hosea prayed for his wayward wife, that You would hedge up her way with thorns and make a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths of sin but must return, Hosea 2:6, and that she would escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive to do his will, and come to repentance and to the knowledge of the truth, 2 Timothy 2:26.
We pray also for you who are planting and watering. Do not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up, Galatians 6:9. We encourage you to continue to love your wife as Christ also loved the assembly and gave Himself up for it, Ephesians 5:25, cherishing the sanctity of marriage as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman that God has joined together and which He honors, for marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers, Hebrews 13:4. If there has been fornication or adultery or any departure from the marriage bed, we rebuke that sin in love, for it is sin against God first, and we call it to repentance, that there may be forgiveness and cleansing through the blood of Jesus and true restoration that honors God. We pray you will continue to speak the truth in love and to show the kindness of God that leads to repentance, and that God will order steps and bring others across her path to water the seed, as He directed Philip to the Ethiopian reading Isaiah 53 in Acts 8:26, and directed Ananias to Saul in Acts 9:10, and directed Paul through a vision into Macedonia in Acts 16:9, for the steps of a man are established by Yahweh, Psalm 37:23.
We thank You, Father, that You are not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9, and that You desire all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth, 1 Timothy 2:4. We thank You that You are a rewarder of those who diligently seek You, Hebrews 11:6, and that the insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective, James 5:16, and that You keep us from evil and from deception for those who receive the love of the truth that they may be saved, 2 Thessalonians 2:10. We ask You to keep your household, your progeny and posterity, your patriarchal and matriarchal figures, your fellow servants and stewards of the mysteries of God, 1 Corinthians 4:1, from the evil one and from every temptation and lie.
Father, we pray together now in the name of Jesus, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12, and whatever we ask in His name He will do, John 14:13. We thank You in advance, believing that we receive what we ask according to Your will, Mark 11:24, and we ask You to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, Ephesians 3:20, and to show us great and mighty things which we do not know, Jeremiah 33:3. Let all that is done be from You and through You and to You, to whom be the glory forever, Romans 11:36, and let every promise be Yes and Amen in Christ, 2 Corinthians 1:20, who is the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God's creation, Revelation 3:14. Continue to establish this marriage for Your glory, to bring this wife to full repentance and faith, and to cause Your Word to bear fruit a hundredfold for Your honor, until the day of Christ, in Jesus' name we pray, amen.