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RichLP -> RE: Friends, LIFT UP MARRIAGES in PRAYER! HELP ME DO IT!!! (8/2/2005 11:43:15 PM)
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Heavenly God, My Father, I thank You for creating the wonderful, beautiful institution of MARRIAGE. You said in Your Holy Word that a man shall leave his father and mother to be joined to his wife, and that the two will become one flesh. Lord God, across cultures, classes, and even countries, divorce is so common now. People appear to consider divorce an easy thing, and it seems that many people lack the respect and seriousness towards marriage that You intend it to have. Lord God! I pray not to condemn divorcees nor to ban laws permitting it, but I pray that You will strengthen and fortify marriages everywhere, even the marriages of non-believers. I pray that anger, hurt, bitterness, wounds, sadness, disappointment, grudges, miscommunication, and any other issue that may exist in marriages everywhere be solved! I pray that Your Spirit shall touch married people so that they will renew their commitments to each other and so that they will give marriage a chance! God, even Your people today are suffering with broken, struggling marriages. Please fortify and support them! Lead them through your love to apologize, to admit wrongdoing, to seek reconciliation, and to work together so the marriage bonds and vows may be restored and renewed! Lord God, I am single and one day hope to get married, and give You many thanks that there are healthy marriages. I pray that You will lead Your people to encourage married people who are struggling, through prayer and counsel, and I also pray that You will use Your people as witnesses to married nonbelievers so that these may come to know Your through Christ Jesus. I pray also for the married friends I have. I pray for JH and JY; for KM and J; for NC and KH; for RC and his wife; for ER and his wife; for M and OK; for JK and JNI. Oh Lord, an assortment of couples, and not all are believers. But may Your love shine upon them and make their marriages work! Lord God, Yours is perfect love; may it be a model of love between husbands and wives everywhere! In Jesus' Name, Amen.
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