To back up to Thurday's post about the cord of three and praying for your spouse I decided it might be good to give some thought on how to effectively pray for you spouse. To go back to what I had made note of in, "The Cord of Three" It s literally the fact that God's word says that the two become one flesh and if that is the case then no one can pray for your spouse as effectively as you can
at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'[a] 5and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'[b]? 6So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
Matthew 19:5,6
So what does it look like to pray effectively for one's spouse?????
As I sought God over this very question several years ago he brought me back to the word...I simply started with praying scriptures over Jason. When I wasn't sure how to word what was heavy on my heart I would go to the reference for that specific issue in scripture and confess those scriptures over Jason, myself and our marriage.
It was in this place (my prayer closest) where I really learned how to intercede on my husband's behalf and to "Call on the name of the Lord."
Some of my favorite scriptures are listed below for marriage. I simply use these to hedge in my marriage! (Note: My words in prayer are outlined in blue.)
(Please continue to watch over and rebuild our marriage, and not
let the evil one stop the rebuilding. Help me not to be discouraged or
distracted by the enemy's diversion tactics. You will be faithful, God, to
complete what you have begun in me and my spouse.)
Philippians 1:6 being confident of this,
that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the
day of Christ Jesus.
(Lord, do not let me or my spouse worship any other God's besides
you, including money, drugs, alcohol, sex, food, control, shopping, looks,
gambling, my car, my house, or even my children! You lead to life—worshiping
other things leads to death.)
Romans 6:16-20 Don't you know that when
you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the
one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to
obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you
used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to
which you were entrusted. 18You have been set free from sin and have become
slaves to righteousness. 19I put this in human terms because you are weak
in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in
slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in
slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. 20When you were slaves to sin,
you were free from the control of righteousness. 21What benefit did you reap at
that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God,
the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23For
the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[a] Christ
Jesus our Lord.
(Throw off the lies of the Devil, Stand firm in the Knowledge of
Christ. He alone is your salvation in times of trouble. Build your
house on the Solid Rock)
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