A prayer for Marriages

MARRIAGESDear Heavenly Father, the God who created everything and for your pleasure they are created. We approach your mercy throne with confidence knowing that you hear and answer prayers. There is no other God beside you Lord and for this we praise your holy name. We come to you today placing all marriages in your holy hands.

You are the one who ordains marriages and have set an example for us to follow in Genesis 1 which states: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply.” With this confidence we know Lord that you have placed a man and a woman together in holy matrimony.

Your words also declares that what you have put together let no man put asunder, so we pray for the marriages, that you intervene, cut a clear every fruit that is not of you in these marriages and let only your will be seen in them. We pray that unconditional love will abide, we pray that understanding will abide, we prayed that peace will be in these homes, we pray that you be a fence around these marriages every day.

Heavenly Father, your word declares that an excellent wife is the crown of her husband, and that he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. So Father, we ask you to bless these marriages, let them find favor in you. Give them the desire Lord to love, honor and obey each other. Give them the strength to uphold each other in times of trouble and despair. Give them the knowledge and wisdom to deal with situations wisely when they arise.

Holy Father, we pray from you words today, allow each wife to submit to her own husband, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. We pray God that each husband loves his wife, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Help the husbands to realize as your word states that he who loves his wife loves himself.

Give the husbands grace to live with their wives in an understanding way, showing honor to them as they weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life. Father, we give you thanks as we place these marriages into your hands and we praise you Lord for answering this prayer in the name of your only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.


By Verisha Barrett