EACF 40 Days of Prayer 2019
Day 16: For marriages
Marriage is not the goal for life: giving glory to God and enjoying Him are the real goals of life. Marriage is something that God has given to some people for enjoyment and edification and procreation for the sustaining of mankind. We should pray for those who are married, to grow in their grasp of God's love, to share that love within the marriage and within the family, that the children and community would be blessed. Pray for those who are married to grow in grace, in faith, and in faithfulness. Society suffers when marriages are not strong and when they fall apart. Children suffer, but also friends and family members. Pray for God-centered marriages and households. Pray for specific people in EACF.
"Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” - Hebrews 13:4 ESV
"Wives, submit to your own husbands, 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. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
"Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” - Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV
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