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Marriage Prayers 2022

Day 30: OUR TIME

“…making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”

EPHESIANS 5:16-17

PRAYER

Lord, with each passing day we realize how precious and just how limited our time is. It is so easy for us to use it selfishly and foolishly, taking it for granted and treating it as if it were our own. We acknowledge that it is not. The time we have is a gift from You. Help us to steward it well and to give each moment we have back to You. Teach us to not base our actions on the limits of today and tomorrow but to live in light of eternity. We want to focus on the plans and purposes You have for Your people and specific roles and responsibilities You have planned for us to do. Reveal Your perfect will and help us to keep our focus on that which brings You glory.


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Day 29: GIFTS

“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.”

1 PETER 4:10

PRAYER

God, thank You for Your gifts and talents. You have blessed each of us with the talents needed to accomplish Your will, and more and more we realize just how uniquely designed we are as individuals. Your Word compares our lives as followers of You as individual parts of the same body. You created us for one purpose with a plan. The two of us are so distinctly different, yet when we come under Your authority those differences do not serve as hindrances but rather gifts to complement each other. Where one of us lacks, You have purposely given strength and direction to the other. God, we pray that You will teach us to function as one body. Help us to try to accomplish tasks that we were not created to do alone. Help us to the find joy in working together and give us the grace to follow You.


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Day 28: OUR PERSPECTIVE

“Be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”

EPHESIANS 5:1-2

PRAYER

Lord Jesus, thank You for Your life and what it means for our marriage. We pray that it may be a constant reminder of Your sacrifice, love, and duty and that we follow You fully in the pursuit of Christlike love. May we follow You in giving up our desires for the sake of each other. Help us to put aside personal wants and demands that get in the way of our oneness. Help us to die to these things, knowing that life will be produced in our marriage as a result. May we love selflessly, recklessly, and without reserve, looking at Your life as a model of perfect love for us. Though we aren’t perfect, we pray that Your grace would fill in the gaps and that our ability to express true love would grow increasingly. And may we be obedient to the calling You have placed on our marriage. You willingly went to the cross, giving all that You had for our benefit. Help us day by day and step by step to do the same in our pursuit of intimate relationship, that we might experience the delight and joy of knowing that we are both fully committed and that our love is here to stay.


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Day 27: UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

1 CORINTHIANS 13:7

PRAYER

Father, thank You for giving us a true picture of what love looks like. Help us to take whatever preconceived or worldly definitions of love that we have and replace them with the truth of Your Word and true unconditional love in our marriage. We pray that our love would be patient with each other and slow to give up. Help us to be kind to each other, never lacking in compassion. We pray that our love would be good willed and always humble before each other. Help us to always speak highly of each other in private and in public. May Your grace in our lives cause us to be slow to take offense and quick to forgive with each opportunity. Lord, we pray that we would be each other’s greatest shield, always defending each other from other people or situations that would attempt to cause us harm. And may we have an eternal optimism in regards to our relationship and Your intent and purpose for bringing us together. Lord, bless our marriage. May it never fail, and may Your name be made great through it.


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Day 26: SUBMISSION

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

JAMES 4:7

PRAYER

God, it is our heart’s desire to submit our lives to You. We come seeking You for wisdom and asking for Your guidance. We know that it is impossible without Your help. Teach us what it looks like to personally die to ourselves daily in order to walk in full submission to You. We know that we cannot resist the traps and tricks of the enemy without You. So we ask that You draw us into Your presence. We long to know You and to obey Your Word. Trusting that what You have for us is beyond anything we could ever imagine or earn, we surrender our will to Your way. We bring every area of our lives under Your authority and acknowledge You as Lord over our lives and all of creation.


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Day 25: A PLACE OF REFUGE

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”

PSALM 46:1-3

PRAYER

Lord, Your Word tells us that You are our refuge in times of trouble. God, trouble surrounds us, and it is our prayer that our home would become a place of refuge and safety in a lost and chaotic world. Satan is doing everything he can to prevent people from experiencing Your Love and the peace and joy that knowing You brings. Help us to open our doors selflessly and our hearts willingly to those who need to feel the security that comes from knowing You. Many of our friends, neighbors, and family are lost, burdened, and broken, and we ask that You use us and our home as a vessel to speak Your truth into their lives. Give us practical ways to serve and meet the needs of others, and may You shine through our actions. We seek You for strength and courage as we speak boldly to those You place before us and we thank You for the testimony of our union. May others find Your peace and rest in our home.


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Day 24: FOR OUR HEALTH

“Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.”

3 JOHN 1: 2

PRAYER

Lord, thank You that You care about our whole beings; body, mind, and spirit. We pray that we would live lives and have a marriage of balance, seeking to be spiritually healthy, first, which will lead to stronger mental and physical health. We pray that we would challenge each other to live healthy spiritual lives individually and that our relationship with You would drive each of us closer to You and into a more intimate walk with Jesus. We pray that we would sharpen each other mentally and that our activities and thought lives would lead to a stronger mental state to better discern and react to our environment around us. And lastly we pray that we would honor our physical bodies, for each other and for our best service to You. Lord, may Your grace make up the difference where we lack health and may You multiply our health for Your glory and our good.


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Day 23: FOR DIVINE DIRECTION

“Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”

GENESIS 18:19

PRAYER

Father, thank You for the promise that we have in Your Word that You will lead and guide us and that You will continually take us to the destination that You have in mind for us. You have always led Your people and we pray, as Your people, that You would lead us toward that place. Lord, give us the mind of Christ that we might think like You think and that decisions will lead us toward Your will. Knowing that we will fail, we ask that Your grace will guide us even in our bad decisions. Order our steps and show us when to go one way or the other. And finally, use all of our circumstances, the good, the bad, and the ugly, for our best and Your great purposes in history. Lord, we are waiting on You and trusting in Your plan through Your power for Your purpose today and forever.


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Day 22: FOR OUR LEADERSHIP

“For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

GENESIS 18:19

PRAYER

Jesus, thank You so much for bringing us together and for the promise that You will grow us and prosper us as we live in You. We commit our way to You and will make it our family’s purpose to be a blessing to those we touch, starting with those in our home, and on to our neighbors and community. Lord, give us wisdom in our leadership. Teach us to be compassionate and gracious leaders of those that we have responsibility to shepherd. Give us diligence in our leadership. We are relying on You for the strength and the endurance to be consistent in how we exercise our authority. Most of all, continue to shape our hearts, that we might manage our home and areas of responsibility with love for those we are serving and overseeing. May we lead by example in Godly living, kindness, generosity, and fairness.


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Day 21: OBEDIENCE

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”

JOHN 14:15

PRAYER

Lord, thank You for Your Word that clearly outlines what You expect from us—Your children. We love You and it is our heart’s desire is to obey Your commands. We know that in our own power it is impossible to please You, so we ask that Your Holy Spirit will give us the strength and discipline we need in order to live in full obedience of Your Word. Help us to live for You not simply with our hearts but through our actions. Teach us to obey immediately, fully, and without hesitation. We thank You for the gentle way that You guide us and lead us and we pray that our lives will be a testimony of our love for You.