Prayer for Marriage and Family
The people closest to us can bring the greatest joy and the deepest hurt. Maybe your marriage feels distant, a child has stopped calling, or a family argument has gone on for years. Maybe you are lonely and wishing you had someone to pray about at all.
God cares about all of it. Prayer won't make another person's choices for them, but it can soften your own heart, steady you, and open a way that wasn't there before. If you are ever unsafe at home, please reach out for help right away. Your safety matters to God.
Prayers you can pray today
Lord, we are hurting and we don't know how to fix this. Soften both of our hearts. Help me listen before I answer, forgive what I have been holding, and show us the way back to each other. Amen.
Father, I miss my family. You know what was said and what wasn't. Heal what is broken between us, give me the right words at the right time, and help me love them while I wait. Amen.
Promises from Scripture
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7Bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Colossians 3:13The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
Psalm 34:18You don't have to pray alone
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