Praying about and FOR your marriage is without doubt one of the most vital issues you may pray about. With 50% of marriages ending in divorce, it will possibly simply develop into a type of belongings you silently don’t take note of, after which out of the blue, you’re on reverse sides of all the things and might’t appear to return collectively to avoid wasting your life.
In the present day, I wish to share with you 30 prayers that can strengthen your marriage. You may pray these with or with out your partner, however take one prayer every day and repeat it month after month! This may actually assist your marriage.
Prayer is such a strong factor. Not do we have to go to a priest like within the Bible days earlier than we obtained the Holy Spirit inside us to speak to God. We will entry Him anytime and we should always reap the benefits of that privilege as a lot as humanly doable.
30 Days of Prayer to Strengthen Your Marriage
I hope that these prayers bless you as a lot as they bless me. Let’s get began!!!
Day 1: Placing God First {Matthew 6:33}
Expensive Lord Jesus, I want with all my coronary heart to place you first in my marriage and in my life. So typically, I discover my coronary heart within the thick of the world and caught up in life’s issues and stresses and I pray that at the moment, you clear the trail in my thoughts and maintain my coronary heart purely and solely in love with YOU. Assist me to see issues as you see issues and do issues as you’ll need me to. Get ahold of my coronary heart and deepen my love for you Lord.
Day 2: Arguing {Proverbs 15:1}
It’s really easy to get caught up within the warmth of the second and wish to defend ourselves or show we’re proper and battle for our rights, Lord. Please assist me to mortify my flesh and understand that it’s not about who is true and who will not be and that in an argument, nobody wins. Each of us simply find yourself offended and it hurts my coronary heart to see my husband offended. My want is to please my husband and make him completely satisfied. I don’t wish to battle or see him offended. Please assist our relationship to be stronger in you, and provides us a renewed sense of affection for one another at the moment in order that we could put this argument behind us and deal with you.
Day 3: Cash {Hebrews 13:5}
It looks as if we’ve got so many cash disagreements and might’t get on the identical web page in any respect on this topic. I pray Lord, that you just carry peace, if nothing else, simply carry peace to our dwelling and assist us each to be extra versatile so that we would serve you and focus our consideration on what YOU would need for us, not our personal fleshly sinful wishes. Please assist me to be extra humble when speaking with my husband with regards to marriage and assist carry peace to our midst as solely you may.
Day 4: Respect {Ephesians 5:33}
Lord, I do know that my husband seeks for me to respect him greater than he cares if I really like him! That’s how vital respect is to a person and I simply want a lot Lord to respect him. He’s accomplished one thing currently that makes me not belief him and hurts my respect for him. He hasn’t essentially earned my respect on this method and despite the fact that he hasn’t Lord, I pray that you just’ll assist me to look previous that, look previous the errors and simply focus my coronary heart and soul on you and your command to me to respect my husband. Please, Lord, give me a respect for my husband that he would admire and luxuriate in.
Day 5: Communication {Ephesians 4:29}
Lord, currently we’ve got not been putting as a lot time into our communication. It’s extra rushed and blunt, fairly than caring, loving, and considerate. Lord, in the event you would please, please assist us to take extra time to actually join and talk. Assist us to worth speaking extra and to spend extra time collectively speaking. Speaking about life, about love, concerning the kids, funds, all the things Lord. Present us with unity in our dwelling and healthful speech on our tongues that we could glorify you this present day and forevermore.
Day 6: Faithfulness {Proverbs 3:3-4}
Lord, so typically my love for my husband will not be certain up in steadfast love and faithfulness. I admit that I battle with being devoted and constant in all the things I do and I want a lot to be extra devoted in my coronary heart and life. Assist me at the moment to decide to my husband, extra of my coronary heart, so that he could have increasingly more of me as I yield my spirit to you and my coronary heart to him.
Day 7: Intimacy {Tune of Solomon 1-8}
Intimacy is such a fragile and treasured factor. To my husband, being intimate means one thing totally different than it means to me. To me, I would like us to be extra intimate in a extra mild and serene method. I pray Lord at the moment that you just assist my husband be freer and know that it’s okay to be tender with me. The world chokes these virtues out of him, however Lord, please put them again in. Assist us to be extra intimate, not simply sexual actions, however extra intimate in our hearts Lord as we search to honor and please you in our marriage.
Day 8: Preserving Our Priorities Proper {Ephesians 5:22-25}
Lord, we all know from Scripture the order of relationships is that you’re first (Deuteronomy 6:5) after which subsequent is my partner (Ephesians 5:22-25), nevertheless typically I admit, I don’t all the time put him as first after You. Typically the world will get in the best way, my flesh. I wish to be first. It’s simply not simple to all the time be devoted considering of his wants above my very own. I’m egocentric and fleshly and wish to put my wishes forward of his wants and this could’t be. Lord, please give me a extra real, fruit-filled love for my husband in order that I can maintain HIM because the second precedence in my life. I want it so desperately, however typically, it’s simply so onerous and I want your assist to be higher at it.
Day 9: Real Love {John 13:35}
There are such a lot of sorts of love, Lord. There’s agape love, Your love for all of us, unconditional, sacrificial, and pure. There’s Philia love, a cohesion. A love you are feeling for a pal or brother in Christ. There’s Eros, a romantic and passionate love, and lastly, there’s Storge, a household love. Love that’s constructed on empathy. Lord, I don’t have ALL all these love for my husband. I might love to have the ability to have all 4 sorts of like to and for my husband and I ask that you just give me extra of those that I want as a way to be a greater spouse. So that I really like my husband extra completely as you like us, Lord. Please give me extra real love, extra of all 4 sorts of love for my husband. Fill me extra with empathy, with romance and fervour, with a love that’s his as a result of he’s my finest pal and an unconditional, sacrificial love. Fill me with all 4 sorts of love for my husband.
Day 10: Integrity {Proverbs 10:9}
Integrity is without doubt one of the most vital issues you may have in ANY relationship and inside my marriage is not any totally different. My husband and I are so stuffed with integrity and I do know that you just discover, however I pray that you just develop us even MORE in our integrity with each other and in addition in our dealings aside. Once we are tempted to not do one thing that’s proper, after we are tempted to promote out, please preserve our integrity and assist us to be the individuals that you just want.
Day 11: Being Type {Galatians 6:9-10}
My husband is amazingly sort to me and to others. He’s somebody actually particular to look at on this space and I pray, Lord, that you just make me extra like him on this method. It’s one of many issues that I simply actually treasure about him a lot. Please develop me to be extra sort and loving, mild and meek. Taking each thought captive and asking myself whether it is sort earlier than I communicate it. On this method, you’re glorified when I’m sort to my household.
Day 12: Forgiveness {Ephesians 4:32}
There are days the place I simply don’t wish to forgive my husband. He’s accomplished one thing mistaken, he is aware of it, I do know it, and he’s unwilling to confess he’s doing something in any respect. It’s so irritating to my coronary heart and I simply, in my very own sin nature, don’t wish to forgive him. Please Lord, will you assist that cussed pleasure in me? Assist me to like my husband extra, to be a girl who’s fast to forgive and present mercy and charm as you regularly present ME!
Day 13: Persistence {Romans 12:12}
Expensive Lord, you understand how a lot I battle with endurance typically. It’s so powerful for me to be affected person. I can’t do that alone and I pray that you just assist me be extra affected person with my total household. Assist me keep in mind that my children are simply children and that I can’t anticipate perfection from them. Assist me to be extra affected person and loving with my husband, displaying him grace when he wants it as he’s so sort and loving and mild with ME. Assist our total household to be extra affected person with each other, Lord.
Day 14: Teamwork {Ecclesiastes 4:9-12}
One of the vital widespread issues amongst married ladies is that we are likely to overlook how IMPORTANT it’s to work as a workforce. We get so targeted, Lord, on the day by day grind and sometimes are unappreciative of our spouses and the assist that they offer us. As a single mother, now I do 100% of EVERYTHING. I’ve completely no assist in the husband division and I see simply how very important the husband’s function is, how a lot he helps (even when we expect he does nothing; belief me, he’s doing stuff!) and so my prayer at the moment Lord is that I always remember these items. I always remember to point out appreciation to my husband. I always remember to work as a workforce and to KNOW that we ARE a workforce! If I overlook, Lord, please gently remind me how blessed I actually am to have assist!
Day 15: Honesty {Proverbs 19:1}
Lack of honesty can fully destroy a wedding. Lord, please assist me to all the time be sincere, even within the small and “insignificant” issues, for all the things is tremendous vital and NOTHING is actually insignificant. You inform us that if we’re devoted with little, we might be devoted with a lot and in order that’s my prayer at the moment. I wish to proceed to be devoted in all areas, together with honesty, even when I’m tempted to inform a bit of white lie, let me proceed to forbid myself to do it and never lie. Assist me to point out my husband that he’s SAFE to return to me and share ANYTHING, even when it’s hurtful as a result of it’s all the time higher to be truthful than to cover or lie about one thing, in the long term, and Lord, I’m on this marriage for the long term!!!
Day 16: Help {Ecclesiastes 4:12}
I wish to spend money on you increasingly more. I wish to be extra of a mission for you and assist others see you thru me. With a view to serve you extra, Lord, I need assistance. I want extra assist. I can’t do all of it on my own and I pray that my husband helps me extra, emotionally. I pray additionally that I’m not discovered hypocritical on this space however that I’m totally, 100% supporting him as effectively, emotionally and spiritually. Assist us to be united, a workforce, totally supporting one another and our love for you, Lord.
Day 17: Dedication {Numbers 30:2}
On daily basis I search to honor you. I get up and I learn my Bible, searching for your will, searching for for use by you. It’s an enormous dedication that I’ve made to you, however I ponder to myself, how a lot am I additionally dedicated to my husband in the identical method? Do I get up within the morning and suppose to myself, “How can I serve my husband at the moment? How can I present my love and dedication to him extra this present day?” I totally admit that I don’t and I pray that you just assist me to alter that. Assist me to worth increasingly more, every day, my dedication, love, and servitude to my husband.
Day 18: Compassion {Colossians 3:12-13}
It’s not all the time simple to point out compassion. Typically I really feel like my husband has accomplished one thing mistaken to me. He’s harm me, and I simply don’t WANT to point out compassion and charm to him. I wish to be offended. I really feel like I’ve a proper to BE offended, Lord. However even when there’s a proper to be offended, I do know that I nonetheless want to point out grace and compassion to my husband and I pray that you just soften and alter my coronary heart. Assist me to wish to be extra compassionate towards my husband’s shortcomings as he’s SO fantastically nice at being compassionate with mine!
Day 19: Positivity {Ephesians 5:20}
I’ve been so unfavorable currently. It looks as if all the things goes mistaken and there are trials and temptations in all places. I get annoyed with life. I get annoyed in my marriage. I get annoyed with myself. Please Lord, assist me to be extra constructive. I do know that it begins with being content material and so I pray that you just simply assist me to be extra content material in my life. Assist me to see extra of the wonder and fewer of the ache. Assist me to be a extra constructive, caring, and inspiring particular person, not just for my husband and household but in addition in my spirit in the direction of the world. For I’m your baby, your ambassador, and when individuals see me depressing, it does NOT glorify you or entice others TO you. Assist me to be extra constructive in order that I could also be used extra by you, each in my marriage and to the world, Lord.
Day 20: Understanding {Psalm 119:130}
There are numerous occasions in my marriage that I simply don’t really feel like listening or I feel I already know the reply and so I’m not listening as I should. Please assist me to hunt to grasp how my husband is feeling extra. Please assist me to take the time to actually perceive him and his wants and wishes higher, Lord. You recognize that I’m not an ideal spouse, however I positive attempt to be and I do know that all of it begins with a willingness to grasp my husband. Within the occasions that I’m not feeling significantly prepared, please soften my coronary heart towards my husband that I could also be used in your glory to point out the world, your love by me, to him.
Day 21: Friendship {Proverbs 18:24}
Typically life will get busy, Lord, and we’re simply not capable of spend as a lot time collectively to deepen our friendship as I’d like. I pray that you just assist decelerate our world so that we could possibly spend extra time collectively, really investing in our basis: friendship! Real love is all the time rooted in a deep and lasting, intimate friendship. Please proceed to strengthen our friendship and assist us to know one another extra on this method.
Day 22: Peacefulness {John 14:27}
Peacefulness is one thing that I so strongly search and want. It’s the premise on which I would like my dwelling to be grounded in. Lord Jesus, please assist our dwelling to be a cheerful hope, stuffed with peace, love, and contentment. Assist us that after we are feeling stuffed with strife and enmity, that you just draw us again to you, collectively, so that we preserve peace in our dwelling.
Day 23: Gentleness {Titus 3:2}
The world bangs our husband’s round and makes them really feel fully insufficient when they’re mild, and but you Lord, had been mild and meek whenever you walked the Earth. Please assist my husband perceive and really feel prefer it’s OKAY to be extra mild. You’re the good shepherd, Lord, please present my husband that he will also be and mild shepherd. Please additionally assist my coronary heart to be extra mild and tender towards my husband, even in occasions that I don’t really feel prefer it. Cowl us along with your peace and gentleness, Lord, that we could also be discovered treating one another proper and with respect.
Day 24: Humble {Psalm 25:9}
Being humble is one thing that I actually battle with. The extra that you just give me, the extra you bless me, the extra I are likely to suppose it’s due to my very own benefit or worthiness that I’ve one thing and I do know that’s mistaken. Please assist information and form my coronary heart and angle to be regularly humbled. It’s not dangerous to be grateful and grateful that you just give us issues, it’s mistaken to suppose I deserve it, whether or not in my marriage or in life basically. Assist me to remain on the course of studying the stability between being humble, but in addition, sharing the way you’ve blessed me in my life.
Day 25: Cooperative {1 Peter 3:15}
Being cooperative is difficult typically. I’m egocentric, Lord, and I simply need my very own method. It’s troublesome to see previous what I would like and to the wants and wishes of others. I fall quick on this method so typically, Lord. Please assist me to be extra cooperative with my partner. Assist me to offer extra and take much less. Assist me to place his wants earlier than my very own and to like him extra in a mild and forgiving method. Assist me, Lord, to be much less egocentric!
Day 26: Playful {John 15:11}
Life looks as if it’s a relentless barrage of to do’s. Day in and day trip, there’s all the time one thing to suck our pleasure from our life. Please assist me to repeatedly keep in mind that and to protect my coronary heart and thoughts in opposition to the monotony of life. Assist me and my husband to be extra playful towards each other, extra playful in life basically, to have extra FUN, to do issues, go locations, and simply adore one another and spend plenty of time with one another in enjoyable ways in which we every get pleasure from. Assist us to keep in mind that life will not be meant to work an excessive amount of and that playtime is tremendous vital in my marriage. Assist me and my husband to prioritize the enjoyable in life in order that we will proceed to have a cheerful and wholesome marriage.
Day 27: Versatile {Ephesians 5:21}
Lord, typically I battle with being versatile. My thoughts is continually wanting to consider what I would like as an alternative of what my partner would need. Please assist me to be extra versatile and assist my partner to be extra versatile too, so that we could also be extra united as one than we at the moment are.
Day 28: Well mannered {1 Peter 3:8}
Lord, I by no means realized earlier than how vital it’s to be well mannered to your partner. I all the time felt prefer it’s vital to voice my opinion and let him know the way I really feel, not hiding something. However I’ve realized currently that we will nonetheless voice our opinions however achieve this in a well mannered and mild method. I pray that you just instill in me extra politeness. After I respect my husband extra, I’m extra well mannered, so I additionally pray Lord, that you just give me extra respect for him. Then I may be extra well mannered and deal with him in the best way that he deserves to be handled as the pinnacle of the family and fellow inheritor in Christ.
Day 29: Attentive {Proverbs 4:20-27}
One of many issues that I worth about my relationship with my partner is that we’re attentive to one another’s wants, nevertheless, typically, we each may be self-focused. Please assist us to share widespread floor extra, spend extra high quality time with one another and present love to one another extra, focusing not solely on the opposite’s wants, but in addition their targets, wishes, and issues that make them completely satisfied.
Day 30: Onerous Working {Proverbs 13:4}
Typically I take without any consideration how onerous working my husband is. He goes to work and works all day. On the weekends, he spends time along with his household. He tends to issues round the home that break. He’s the primary breadwinner and he offers so lovingly and sacrificially for his household. However because the day goes on and the youngsters have made me an entire wreck and it’s only a onerous day that I wanna pull out my hair, I’m tempted to consider that I’m operating this household on my own and I’m not. Lord, assist me to recollect how onerous working my husband is, so that I respect and love him all of the extra for sacrificing for me and the youngsters day by day. Thanks a lot for giving me such a tough working husband!
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