Loving Your Spouse through Prayer
Week #2: Praying God’s Word into Your Marriage.
?What are some ways that we married couples can use our tongues/words to build up our spouses? Encouraging words, communicate openly, praise him/her to the children, pray for them and face them when you do pray.
What is the most destructive part of your body?
Your Tongue is the most destructive part of your body.
James 3:6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
- We can take this destructive part of our body, infuse God’s Word into it and with Faith, pray for God to help build up our marriages.
| Key Point #1: Using God’s Word in our prayers helps us to pray proper biblical prayers. |
- Why? God’s thoughts and ways are so much higher than ours and His Word is his way of showing us his thoughts and ways.
- Praying the bible into your marriage will help you to pray for His thoughts and His ways.
- Examples? Jesus and the Believers did it:
Jesus: Matthew 27:46 & Psalm 22:1
Matthew 27:46
45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[c] lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
Psalm 22:1
46And about the ninth hour Jesus(BN) cried out with a loud voice, saying, (BO) "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
- This was not a moment of weakness for Jesus but was (1) Jesus using prophesy to show that He was the Messiah, (2) it was an urgent appeal to God.
(1) the Jews of that day knew that Psalm 22 prophesized about the coming Messiah and they would match the prophesy to the Christ as the Messiah. The Jews knew that the Old Testament was filled with prophesy of the Christ coming but they also knew of two different ways the Messiah would come. One he would come as a Concurring King and two, He would come as a humble servant. The Jews were somewhat confused about what the Messiah would actually be, a concurring King or a humble Servant. As we know now, Jesus first came as a humble Servant and the second time He comes, He will come as a concurring King.
(2) Imagine only know something your entire life, say for instance the ability to breath. Also imagine that you are placed in an air tight room where no air can escape or enter. Now Imagine that the Oxygen in the room was sucked out and you were unable to breath any air. How would that feel? That is how it was with Jesus. His entire life, He had a direct link or connection. All He ever knew was the link to God. Now, at the time Jesus was about to die, ALL the sins of the world, past present and future, were heaped on Him and his connection/link to God was severed. He was separated from God. Isn’t that a good reason to express the loss of that connection in a question that would point Himself as being the Messiah?
The Believers:
Acts 4:23-26 The Believers Pray for Boldness:
23When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24And when they heard it, they lifted their voices(AE) together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord,(AF) who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25who through the mouth of our father David, your servant,[c] said by the Holy Spirit, (AG) "'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? 26The kings of the earth set themselves, and(AH) the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his(AI) Anointed
Psalm 2 The LORD's Chosen King
1(A) Why do(B) the nations rage[a] and the peoples plot in vain? 2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his(C) Anointed
- The Believers first praised God, and then they told God their specific requests.
- They did not ask for God to remove the problem but for strength to deal with it.
What bible verses can you think of that you can pray over your spouse?
| Key Point #2: Praying biblical prayers takes the focus off of Myself, my Spouse, and our Marriage, onto the One we should be focusing on. |
- Our focus should be on God, not ourselves.
When we focus on God, we look past our sinful desires and toward His Godly desires for our lives.
1 John 2:15-17 (English Standard Version) 15(A) Do not love the world or the things in the world.(B) If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world—(C) the desires of the flesh and(D) the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. 17And(E) the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
- We must set our minds on the Spirit. Romans 8: 5-8 (English Standard Version)
5For(K) those who live according to the flesh set their minds on(L) the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on(M) the things of the Spirit. 6For to set(N) the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For the mind that is set on the flesh is(O) hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law;(P) indeed, it cannot. 8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
| Key Point #3: Prayer is the best love language of them all. |
The 5 Love languages: Words of affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, Physical Touch.
Come up with a prayer for your spouse using Psalm 112 for men and Proverbs 31 for your spouse. Women for the Men: Psalm 112 Men for the Women: Proverbs 31
Today’s Challenge for the week: Pray Scripture over your spouse Daily.
Example bible verses you can pray through for your spouse:
Men: Psalm 112, Psalm 1:1-3, Psalm 119:105, Ephesians 3:16
Women: Proverbs 31, Romans 12:2, Song of Songs 2:15
Together: Colossians 1:9-10, Ephesians 3:16, Proverbs 3:5, Jeremiah 32:39, Psalm 51:10, Ephesians 5:22-23
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