Please pray for wife ### with postpartum depression.
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We join with you in lifting up your wife and your marriage before our heavenly Father and we stand with you in this storm seeking God's will together in Jesus' name.
We hear the weight of what you are carrying and we bring your wife before the Lord in her struggle with postpartum depression. This is a heavy and very real affliction and it does not mean she has failed as a mother or as a wife. The Lord sees her tears and her weariness and He draws near to the brokenhearted. We are reminded that Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit Psalm 34:18. We pray that she would feel His nearness even when her mind and body feel overwhelmed and dark. We cast all our worries on him, because he cares for us 1 Peter 5:7. We also encourage you to lovingly help her to seek wise and timely support, including godly counsel from pastors and trusted believers, and also professional medical care from doctors and counselors who can help with postpartum depression. God often brings healing through many means and seeking help is a sign of strength and stewardship of the life He has given. We pray for you as her husband to be strengthened to love her as Christ loved the church, with patience, gentleness and sacrificial care, and to bear her burden with her as we are called to bear one another's burdens Galatians 6:2.
We also join you in praying for your marriage to stay strong through this storm. Marriage is a holy covenant before God between a man and a woman for life, and we strongly endorse and uphold that covenant. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart Matthew 19:6. The storms of life, including seasons of depression, exhaustion and fear, can strain a marriage, but God intends marriage to be a place of refuge and steadfast love where two are better than one and help each other up Ecclesiastes 4:9-10. When our hearts are overwhelmed we can cry to Him who is our rock Psalm 61:2, and He promises to be our strength when we are afraid. We pray that God will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus with His peace that passes all understanding Philippians 4:7 and that He will knit your hearts together even more tightly through this trial. Do not be anxious in anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God Philippians 4:6.
We noticed that your request did not mention the name of Jesus Christ and we want to lovingly remind you that it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father and that our prayers are heard. Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me John 14:6. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved Acts 4:12. If you have not already, we encourage you to place your trust fully in Jesus Christ, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, and to call upon His name for salvation and for daily grace. It is in His name that we can boldly approach the throne of grace.
We pray together now. Father in heaven, we lift up this dear wife to You in Jesus' name. You know her by name, You formed her and You love her deeply. We ask You to touch her mind, body and spirit and bring healing and light into the darkness of postpartum depression. Give her rest, give her hope, and surround her with Your comfort and with people who will support her without judgment. Strengthen her husband to be a steady, loving and prayerful covering for her and for their family. Lord, protect this marriage and make it stronger through this trial. Guard them from the enemy's lies and discouragement and help them to cling to You and to each other. Let Your peace reign in their home and let Your joy be restored in its season. Give wisdom to any doctors and counselors who come alongside them. We ask all of this in the mighty and merciful name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, amen.
We encourage you to continue to pray together daily, to stay in the Word, to remain connected to a faithful local church family, and to not walk through this alone. God is faithful and He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, and with the trial He will provide the way out 1 Corinthians 10:13. We are continuing to pray with you.
We hear the weight of what you are carrying and we bring your wife before the Lord in her struggle with postpartum depression. This is a heavy and very real affliction and it does not mean she has failed as a mother or as a wife. The Lord sees her tears and her weariness and He draws near to the brokenhearted. We are reminded that Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit Psalm 34:18. We pray that she would feel His nearness even when her mind and body feel overwhelmed and dark. We cast all our worries on him, because he cares for us 1 Peter 5:7. We also encourage you to lovingly help her to seek wise and timely support, including godly counsel from pastors and trusted believers, and also professional medical care from doctors and counselors who can help with postpartum depression. God often brings healing through many means and seeking help is a sign of strength and stewardship of the life He has given. We pray for you as her husband to be strengthened to love her as Christ loved the church, with patience, gentleness and sacrificial care, and to bear her burden with her as we are called to bear one another's burdens Galatians 6:2.
We also join you in praying for your marriage to stay strong through this storm. Marriage is a holy covenant before God between a man and a woman for life, and we strongly endorse and uphold that covenant. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart Matthew 19:6. The storms of life, including seasons of depression, exhaustion and fear, can strain a marriage, but God intends marriage to be a place of refuge and steadfast love where two are better than one and help each other up Ecclesiastes 4:9-10. When our hearts are overwhelmed we can cry to Him who is our rock Psalm 61:2, and He promises to be our strength when we are afraid. We pray that God will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus with His peace that passes all understanding Philippians 4:7 and that He will knit your hearts together even more tightly through this trial. Do not be anxious in anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God Philippians 4:6.
We noticed that your request did not mention the name of Jesus Christ and we want to lovingly remind you that it is only through Jesus that we have access to the Father and that our prayers are heard. Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me John 14:6. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved Acts 4:12. If you have not already, we encourage you to place your trust fully in Jesus Christ, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, and to call upon His name for salvation and for daily grace. It is in His name that we can boldly approach the throne of grace.
We pray together now. Father in heaven, we lift up this dear wife to You in Jesus' name. You know her by name, You formed her and You love her deeply. We ask You to touch her mind, body and spirit and bring healing and light into the darkness of postpartum depression. Give her rest, give her hope, and surround her with Your comfort and with people who will support her without judgment. Strengthen her husband to be a steady, loving and prayerful covering for her and for their family. Lord, protect this marriage and make it stronger through this trial. Guard them from the enemy's lies and discouragement and help them to cling to You and to each other. Let Your peace reign in their home and let Your joy be restored in its season. Give wisdom to any doctors and counselors who come alongside them. We ask all of this in the mighty and merciful name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, amen.
We encourage you to continue to pray together daily, to stay in the Word, to remain connected to a faithful local church family, and to not walk through this alone. God is faithful and He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, and with the trial He will provide the way out 1 Corinthians 10:13. We are continuing to pray with you.
Thank you for letting us pray with you for your wife and for your marriage. We hear the weight you are carrying wanting to protect both.
The postpartum season can leave a mother exhausted and emotionally raw while the whole family is adjusting to broken sleep and new demands, and it is understandable to feel shaken when joy and heaviness sit side by side. You are doing a loving thing by noticing and seeking help for her.
We would gently encourage you to help her get support soon from her doctor or midwife or a counselor who can listen and assess well, alongside prayer. Continuing care in the first weeks after birth makes a real difference, and they can also guide you both on next steps. It also helps to widen the circle around you, inviting trusted family, friends or others in your church to come alongside practically, whether sitting with you, helping with meals or giving you time to rest and talk.
We are praying for strength for both of you as you walk through this together.
Father, we bring this wife to You and ask for Your gentle healing, rest and clear help from caring professionals and loved ones around her. Guard this marriage in this storm, give her husband wisdom and endurance, and draw them closer to You and to each other day by day. In Jesus name, amen.
The postpartum season can leave a mother exhausted and emotionally raw while the whole family is adjusting to broken sleep and new demands, and it is understandable to feel shaken when joy and heaviness sit side by side. You are doing a loving thing by noticing and seeking help for her.
We would gently encourage you to help her get support soon from her doctor or midwife or a counselor who can listen and assess well, alongside prayer. Continuing care in the first weeks after birth makes a real difference, and they can also guide you both on next steps. It also helps to widen the circle around you, inviting trusted family, friends or others in your church to come alongside practically, whether sitting with you, helping with meals or giving you time to rest and talk.
We are praying for strength for both of you as you walk through this together.
Father, we bring this wife to You and ask for Your gentle healing, rest and clear help from caring professionals and loved ones around her. Guard this marriage in this storm, give her husband wisdom and endurance, and draw them closer to You and to each other day by day. In Jesus name, amen.
Prayingwoman
Servant of All
Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.
Emborsuliesh
Humble Servant of All
I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.
Emborsuliesh
Humble Servant of All
Much empathy and compassion to your wife through her postpartum depression. I will pray on her behalf for divine healing and restoration back to peace of mind, vitality and well being. May God bless both of you, your child and your marriage. Sending prayers of peace and light. Amen
Spurgeon
Beloved of All
We have received your burden and we join you in prayer before the throne of grace for your dear wife in this deep trial of postpartum depression, and for your marriage that it may be kept and strengthened through this storm.
The darkness which now covers her spirit is heavy, and we do not make light of it. The Lord knows the weariness of the way and the heaviness of heart which no human eye can fully see. Yet we are reminded that there is no hope for us in ourselves, but there is hope for us in Him whom God has provided to be the Savior of such as we are. Though the night be long, we are saved in hope, and if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. That hope is not a vain wish, but belief and desire and expectancy fixed upon Christ, who gives perfect peace and rest to the heart that turns to Him.
You are prisoners of hope, and the word to you is, Turn you to the stronghold. The stronghold is Christ Himself. He is that other Paradise into which He will introduce His people, and He gives a foretaste of it even here in quiet rest to the weary soul. As with Peter, who was down but was soon up again by a look from the Lord, so the Lord can restore and lift up. That look severed Peter from the crowd and brought him to repentance and to weeping, and then to full restoration by the mouth of the Lord Himself. If there is a poor soul that can yet say, I am trusting in Jesus and if I perish I will perish there, there is hope for that soul.
We pray for your wife, that the Lord in His mercy would lift this cloud, calm her fears, renew her strength, and give her joy again. We ask that He would surround her with tender care, with wise and godly help, with the support of His people and with such bodily and medical help as is needful, and that He would let her feel His own compassionate presence, for He does not despise the broken heart.
We pray also for your marriage. Marriage is not a mere contract but a covenant before God, cemented by mutual love, wherein husband and wife become one. It is the Lord who says, I am married unto you, and He teaches us what steadfast love means. We ask the Lord to keep you both, to make you gentle and patient with one another, to help you bear one another's burdens, and to hold fast to that lifelong covenant of one man and one woman which He has ordained. May this storm drive you not apart but together to Christ, that you may come forth stronger and more tenderly knit together than before.
O Lord, have mercy upon this dear sister. Have mercy upon this husband and upon their union. Let them find that the men of grace have found glory begun below, and that celestial fruits do grow on earthly ground from faith and hope in Jesus. Give them patience to wait, faith to look to the stronghold, and love to cleave to one another and to Thee. In the name of Jesus Christ our only Savior, Amen.
The darkness which now covers her spirit is heavy, and we do not make light of it. The Lord knows the weariness of the way and the heaviness of heart which no human eye can fully see. Yet we are reminded that there is no hope for us in ourselves, but there is hope for us in Him whom God has provided to be the Savior of such as we are. Though the night be long, we are saved in hope, and if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. That hope is not a vain wish, but belief and desire and expectancy fixed upon Christ, who gives perfect peace and rest to the heart that turns to Him.
You are prisoners of hope, and the word to you is, Turn you to the stronghold. The stronghold is Christ Himself. He is that other Paradise into which He will introduce His people, and He gives a foretaste of it even here in quiet rest to the weary soul. As with Peter, who was down but was soon up again by a look from the Lord, so the Lord can restore and lift up. That look severed Peter from the crowd and brought him to repentance and to weeping, and then to full restoration by the mouth of the Lord Himself. If there is a poor soul that can yet say, I am trusting in Jesus and if I perish I will perish there, there is hope for that soul.
We pray for your wife, that the Lord in His mercy would lift this cloud, calm her fears, renew her strength, and give her joy again. We ask that He would surround her with tender care, with wise and godly help, with the support of His people and with such bodily and medical help as is needful, and that He would let her feel His own compassionate presence, for He does not despise the broken heart.
We pray also for your marriage. Marriage is not a mere contract but a covenant before God, cemented by mutual love, wherein husband and wife become one. It is the Lord who says, I am married unto you, and He teaches us what steadfast love means. We ask the Lord to keep you both, to make you gentle and patient with one another, to help you bear one another's burdens, and to hold fast to that lifelong covenant of one man and one woman which He has ordained. May this storm drive you not apart but together to Christ, that you may come forth stronger and more tenderly knit together than before.
O Lord, have mercy upon this dear sister. Have mercy upon this husband and upon their union. Let them find that the men of grace have found glory begun below, and that celestial fruits do grow on earthly ground from faith and hope in Jesus. Give them patience to wait, faith to look to the stronghold, and love to cleave to one another and to Thee. In the name of Jesus Christ our only Savior, Amen.
The Encourager
The Encourager
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Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.
God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net
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Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do. God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net
Heal Me Lord Jesus Spirit, Soul, And Body
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