“Two are higher than one, because they’ve an excellent return for his or her labor: If either of them falls down, one might help the opposite up. But pity anyone who falls and has nobody to assist them up. Also, if two lie down together, they may keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one could also be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands isn’t quickly broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
The Bible tells us that two are higher than one. We know God’s Word to be true, but when we’re human and honest, we’ll often admit that marriage is difficult. It doesn’t at all times look like two really are higher than one, does it?
Making our marriage stronger takes intentionality, and I think, prayer. When we’re intentionally humbling ourselves and praying for our spouse, our heart grows more soft and pliable. God is capable of work in my heart in addition to in my spouse.
But should we pray? What if marriage is so hard we are able to hardly utter words of hope? This is where praying God’s Word comes into play. Learning to wish God’s Word has been something God has utilized in my life once I was desperate and without words. Praying God’s Word gives me the words when I even have none, but in addition gives me the boldness to wish because I do know I’m praying in alignment with His Will if I’m praying His very words. Praying God’s Word is for the weak and broken, like me. Praying God’s Word is for all of us!
And even in case your marriage is robust and also you don’t need assistance finding words to wish, the verses and Scriptures listed below might help offer you recent ideas for easy methods to pray on your marriage.
10 Verses and Scriptures to Pray for Your Marriage
1. Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; don’t be discouraged, for the Lord your God shall be with you wherever you go.” (Lord, make us strong for you.)
2. Proverbs 24:3-4 “By wisdom a home is built, and thru understanding it’s established; through knowledge its rooms are crammed with rare and delightful treasures.” (Lord, may our homes be built on your wisdom.)
3. Psalm 1:1-3 “Blessed is the one who doesn’t walk consistent with the wicked or stand in the way in which that sinners take or sit in the corporate of mockers, but whose delight is within the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is sort of a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf doesn’t wither—whatever they do prospers.” (Lord, may our delight be in you, may we meditate in your law day and night. When we achieve this, our marriage and our family shall be like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in its season and whose leaf doesn’t wither.)
4. Psalm 51:10 “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit inside me.” (Lord, create in each of us a pure heart, in search of you first in all things.)
5. Song of Solomon 4:10 “How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How rather more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume greater than any spice!” (May we delight in our love for each other.)
6. Isaiah 62:5 “As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Builder marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.” (May we rejoice over each other and in turn, rest within the knowledge that you just, God, rejoice over us as your children.)
7. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 “Love is patient, love is kind. It doesn’t envy, it doesn’t boast, it isn’t proud. It doesn’t dishonor others, it isn’t self-seeking, it isn’t easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love doesn’t enjoyment of evil but rejoices with the reality. It at all times protects, at all times trusts, at all times hopes, at all times perseveres. Love never fails.“ (Lord, give us your sort of love for our spouse and for our families. Grow us in patience, kindness, honor, service, and will we never keep a record of wrongs. May our love never fail since it is your love in us.)
8. Ephesians 5:21-33 “Submit to at least one one other out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your personal husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the top of the wife as Christ is the top of the church, his body, of which he’s the Savior. Now because the church submits to Christ, so also wives should undergo their husbands in every part. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or some other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands should love their wives as their very own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, nobody ever hated their very own body, but they feed and take care of their body, just as Christ does the church— for we’re members of his body. ‘For this reason a person will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the 2 will develop into one flesh.’ This is a profound mystery—but I’m talking about Christ and the church. However, each one in every of you furthermore may must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” (Lord, may we joyfully submit to at least one one other out of reverence for Christ. May we love like Jesus.)
9. Philippians 2:3-7 “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not seeking to your personal interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with each other, have the identical mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, didn’t consider equality with God something for use to his own advantage; moderately, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” (Lord, help us to not do anything out of selfish ambition. Give us humble hearts toward each other, not seeking to our own interests, but to the interests of our spouse. Give us the mind of Christ.)
10. Colossians 1:13-14 “For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the dominion of the Son he loves, in whom we’ve got redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” (Lord, may we always remember that you just rescued us from the dominion of darkness. May we show that very same forgiveness to our spouse!)
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