Level Up Your Marriage Sample

Prayer is critical for implementing spiritual truths in your life and in your marriage relationship. Let's spend today's reading entry praying for greater trust, rest and focus on God's perspective over our own.

Opening Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father, We praise You for Your great might and for Your victory over our enemy, Satan, and his demons (Colossians 2:15). It is in that victory which we find our own confidence to live, work and move forward in the purposes for which You have called us as a couple. It is in Your love that we are able to know what it means to cherish the love of each other. When our eyes are on You, we are set free to experience and enjoy the gifts and grace found within our spouse. We are set free to overlook unmet expectations as we rest in the knowledge of Your control and providential mercies.

Presenting the Situation

Use this portion of your time to direct your thoughts to specific areas in your marriage where distractions or worries may interfere with the confident peace and assurance which comes from faith in God. You may want to spend time writing out a diary of how you and your spouse spend your time and on what you focus your thoughts.

Then take a moment to place these before God in prayer, asking Him for wisdom on which things remove your focus from what He has for you to do, or to be. Sometimes the things Satan uses to distract us do not seem overtly evil and so we maintain their presence in our lives longer than we should. But anything that siphons your attention off of God’s presence and purpose for you as a couple should be examined as to its true worth.

Closing Prayer for Greater Focus

“Gracious Lord, life has a way of interfering in our thoughts and our focus, distracting us from what matters most. We come before you as a couple and pray that in our marriage, you will help us to stay focused on You and Your values and Your calling for our lives. Part of that focus is in living out our relationship together embodying the character of Christ to each other. Help us to stay attentive to the need for this character in how we address each other and serve each other.

Another part of that focus entails facing spiritual warfare from the perspective of victory rather than defeat, knowing that You are seated in the heavenlies above all rule, power and authority and that through Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, we are also seated with You. Give us insight and wisdom on the decisions we make as a couple that will reflect a long-term, eternal focus rather than a short-term, material mindset. And reveal to us throughout the moments of our days the blessing and peace that comes through keeping our thoughts set on You.

When our focus center on You, worry and anxiety cannot keep us from embracing our relationship fully. Set us free to fully live out the blessings of our marriage by keeping our focus on You and the wisdom, comfort and assurances we find in Your truth. In Christ’s name, amen.”

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