We hear the pain in your heart and we stand with you in prayer for your marriage and your two children, for we know that marriage is holy before God and what God has joined together, let no man separate, as it says in Matthew 19:6. We also hear that you are deeply distressed by another woman who is drawing your husband away and encouraging him to divorce you, and we grieve with you over this attack on your family.
Scripture warns us clearly about the strange woman whose lips drip honey and whose mouth is smoother than oil, but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword, her feet go down to death, her steps lead to Sheol in Proverbs 5:3-5, and again we are told to keep far from her to be delivered from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words in Proverbs 6:24. What this woman is doing in enticing your husband away from his covenant and encouraging divorce is sin before God, for God hates divorce in Malachi 2:16, and marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the bed undefiled, but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers in Hebrews 13:4. If your husband is entertaining this relationship, carrying her picture and considering leaving his wife, he is walking in adultery of the heart and potentially of the flesh, and we must lovingly but firmly call that what it is, for you shall not commit adultery in Exodus 20:14, and we pray he will turn from it in repentance.
We also understand your concern about a spell and a picture. We want to gently remind you that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places in Ephesians 6:12. The Scripture tells us there shall not be found with you anyone who practices divination, sorcery, or witchcraft in Deuteronomy 18:10-12, and that such works are of the flesh in Galatians 5:20. Yet we take comfort that there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel in Numbers 23:23, and greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world in 1 John 4:4. No spell has ultimate power over a child of God, for our weapons are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds in 2 Corinthians 10:4, and when we submit to God and resist the devil, he will flee from us in James 4:7. We do not fight evil with evil or seek a counter spell, but we fight on our knees with prayer, fasting, and the Word of God.
We noticed your request did not mention the name of Jesus Christ, and we want to lovingly share that it is only by His name that we have access to the Father, for Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me in John 14:6, and 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 in Acts 4:12. If you have not already, we encourage you to put your complete trust in Jesus Christ, believing that He died for our sins and rose again, and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead and you will be saved in Romans 10:9. It is through His name that our prayers are heard.
We encourage you to remain faithful to your marriage covenant even as you contend for it, for the wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives in Romans 7:2, and the Lord instructs that the wife should not leave her husband in 1 Corinthians 7:10. Continue to show Christlike love and respect, that even if your husband does not obey the Word, he may be won without a word by the behavior of his wife in 1 Peter 3:1. Do not repay evil for evil, for vengeance belongs to the Lord in Romans 12:19, but guard your heart and your children in prayer, put on the whole armor of God daily in Ephesians 6:11, and seek the support and covering of your pastor and faithful believers in your church to stand with you, for the effective, earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results in James 5:16.
We now pray together with you.
Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, and we lift up this dear wife and mother and her marriage and her two children to Your throne of grace. Lord, You hate divorce and You love covenant, and we ask You to intervene in power in this home. We pray that You would open her husband's eyes to see the deception of the strange woman and the sin of adultery, that You would convict his heart, remove the blindness, and cause him to turn from this path and to loathe the picture and influence that is drawing him away. We ask that You break and render powerless every evil influence, every manipulation, every work of darkness and witchcraft that has been spoken over him, for we know no weapon that is formed against us will prosper in Isaiah 54:17 when we are in Christ. We pray that You would cause that picture to be discarded and that his heart would return fully to his wife and children. Lord, we also pray for this strange woman, that You would convict her and lead her to repentance and salvation, that she would turn from destroying a family. Father, comfort this wife, strengthen her faith, guard her from fear and bitterness, fill her with peace that surpasses understanding, and protect her children from confusion and harm. Let Your will be done in this marriage, that it would be restored, healed, and made stronger than before for Your glory. We ask all of this in the precious and powerful name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, amen.