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my quivers full -> Prayer for all marriages (6/15/2008 10:36:46 PM)
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I want to open this up for anyone and everyone to add their hearts prayer for marriages.
I am now 11 months into a separation from my wife and kids and it has been a very difficult time but I see the hand of God upon it and I hold to His promises and words of encouragement over this time. I know of many christian marriages that are either in divorce or heading there or are in just terrible shape and my heart grieves. I felt from the Lord recently that He was shaking up all that which can be shaken. Many marriages that started on good ground and a solid foundation had at some time began to build things that were not of Him. Jesus is coming back for a bride without spot or wrinkle, and those things in our lives which are not from Him need to be removed so we are ready for Him when He comes to get us. Be one of the wise virgins and not the foolish ones.
Father, in the name of your Son Jesus, my precious redeemer, I bring before you marriages, especially those between your children. Father, I ask that you would forgive us for our selfishness, for our lack of loving one another as you have loved us, for treating ourselves as more important or better than our spouses, forgive us Lord for judging and condeming those we were called to love, for verbal abuse, emotional abuse and for all other forms of abuse. Father, I repent on behalf of husbands everywhere who have not honored thier wives, who have not been patient with them, who did not remember that you gave us wives as helpmates and equals. I repent for those who did not love their wives as they loved themselves. Have mercy on us Father. Teach us your ways, to trust you with every detail. Cause us to truly know that if we do not abide in your Son Jesus, we can accomplish nothing. Father I ask that you would help the women that we have hurt to forgive us as you also have forgiven us. Bless our wives with wisdom and help them to find thier strength in You. I pray that your word would shine brightly on the path before us all, teach us how to lay down our lives to serve each other and our our fellow man. Break the religeous spirit that keeps us from obeying You and walking in ways that are pleasing to You.
I thank you Lord, that with You all things are possible. I am so thankful that You sent Your Son Jesus to not only lay down His life to pay for our sins, but also to show us by His example how to live the life You desire us to live. I also thank you for sending Your Holy Spirit to empower us to walk in truth and light, to remind us of what Jesus taught and to guide us into all righteousness. May You, Soverign Lord, receive all the honor and all the glory for marriages that will return to You.
Thank you Lord.
Amen
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