Prayers for Marriage

A Prayer For My Spouse

Dear heavenly Father, I thank You for the spouse with which You have blessed me, and pray that we may continue to grow together in love with every passing day. I pray that our marriage may be filled with trust and love and that You would supply us with an abundance of Your grace in our lives, and peace in our hearts.

May we always seek to be kind and compassionate one with the other. May we be ready to listen and to bear each other’s burdens with gentleness of spirit and cheerfulness of heart.

Help us to be sensitive towards each other's weaknesses, forgiving towards each other’s faults, encouraging towards each other’s strengths and to share each other’s burdens with patience and wisdom, as we place the other's well being before that of our own.

Help us to grow more in tune with each other as each year passes and bless us with an ever-closer union, as together we look to Jesus, to be the rock on which our marriage is founded. 

Thank You Lord and I pray this in Jesus' name,

Amen.

Marriage Restoration Prayer

Dear God, it was You Who in the beginning said that it is not good for a man to be alone and so You brought forth woman to be his helper and companion, his comfort and friend. And Lord I thank You for the beautiful institution of holy matrimony.

Father, today I come to You in sadness and distress because my marriage is facing some serious challenges and our love for each other seems to have waned into disinterest and mistrust.

Help us Lord to restore our marriage, and bring us back to a place where we were so happy to be in each other’s company. Forgive the careless words and the foolish actions we have both engaged in and restore to us the beauty of the love we once had, I pray.

Fill us both with Your love, and give us the wisdom and strength to rebuild our marriage with the strong bond of unity and grace that is only found in You.

Thank You Lord for hearing this prayer,

Amen.

Our Daily Prayer In Our Marriage Together

Loving Father, thank You Lord for the multiplied blessings there are in marriage, and that You made us male and female and united us together in love. Thank You for my wonderful life-partner, whom I see as a gracious gift from You.

Thank You, Lord, for bringing us together in love and for the joy we find in our union with each other and our fellowship with You. I pray that You will continue to draw us closer to each other, to unite us together in love and friendship and to build up our relationship with each passing day.

Keep us faithful to the vows that we made to each other and to You when we first became one in our beautiful and holy union. Strengthen our marriage day by day, we pray, and during those times of trials and difficulties, may we cling closer to each other and to You in love and patience, respect and kindness, integrity and forgiveness.

May we keep You as the head of our family union and seek to do only those things that are pleasing in Your sight. In Jesus' name we pray,

Amen.

Praise And Thanks For Marriage

Loving Lord, we praise You for the works of Your hand, for You are our great Creator of the world and all that is in it, and we bless You for creating man and woman in Your own image and likeness.

Thank You for uniting us together in the bond of marriage, so that we can be to the other a God-given helper, an encourager and a lover. Thank You for the blessings this unique union affords. We are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made.

Give us I pray, a long and fruitful life together, and may we grow in grace together and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus.

May our home be a place of security and rest, where You are the head of our house, the unseen guest at every meal and the silent listener to every conversation.

Amen.

Prayer For Reconciliation In Our Marriage.

Dear Lord, my marriage has almost fallen apart and I hardly know when things started to go wrong. Things have become increasingly difficult and fraught and the love that we once had for each other seems to be dying. I hate the thought of divorce and was shocked when it was first suggested.  I come to You Lord, asking that You guide and direct us both in this increasingly hurtful situation.

Lord, I don’t want us to separate or get divorced. I pray that in some wonderful way You will use this as a wake-up call for us both to seek You with all our hearts, and to change the way we treat each other. I pray that we may begin to apply proper biblical principles in our marriage, rather than dragging each other down by what we say, or don’t say.

Lord, I know that by my attitude and actions, I have not been the husband/wife that You would have wanted me to be, but rather have not considered my spouse in the way that would please You.

I pray that it may not be too late for reconciliation and ask that in Your grace and mercy, You would enable us both to move forward together, by placing You in Your rightful position as ultimate head of our family.

Protect the innocent parties in our failing marriage and forgive me for all my foolish actions. Make me the man/woman that You would have me to be. In Jesus' name I pray,

Amen.

Restoration For Unfaithfulness In Marriage

Precious Lord, I feel that my heart is breaking, as I have found that my spouse has been unfaithful to me. The pain is so deep and I just feel numbed by everything that has happened. Father, I have come to realise that strictly speaking there is no ‘guilty party’, for when a marriage falls apart some of the ‘blame’ must lie at each of our doors, for allowing our relationship to become stale or for being too busy or disinterested to notice that we were drifting part.

Forgive me, Lord, for my part in our deteriorating marriage and help me also to forgive as You forgave me, unconditionally and with such deep love.

Help us Lord I pray, to rebuild our life together, to build up the broken fragments of the love we once had for each other and to start afresh without fear of blame and in newness of love. May we both be prepared to listen to Your voice of correction and instruction, and take to heart Your words of kindness and forgiveness.

Amen.