Greeting Prayer
Warriors,
If you’ve ever
wondered why marriage can be so difficult, it is because it is good and holy,
and subsequently despised by Satan.
He will attack it at any cost. Satan wouldn’t waste his time instilling
doubt, twisting the truth, and creating havoc if marriage wasn’t important to
God’s plan. All this begins to make sense when you see in scripture that Christ
uses marital imagery to reveal his divinity to us.
I will betroth you to me forever:
I will betroth you to me with justice and with judgment, with loyalty and with
compassion; I will betroth you to me with fidelity, and you shall know the
LORD. Hosea 2:21-22
For your husband is your Maker; the
LORD of hosts is his name, Your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, called God of
all the earth. Isaiah 54:5
Satan wants to keep
us from the Divine. The unity found in
marriage between a man and woman, where two become one flesh, mirrors the
intimacy of Jesus with the Father, the fire of their love being the Holy Spirit.
This is the intimacy the Lord calls us to and that he desires to have with each
of us, His bride.
Husbands,
love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for
her. Ephesians 5:25
“I pray not only for them, but
also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they
may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be
in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I
have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one,
I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one,
that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you
loved me. John 17:20-23
Jesus, we ask for a special grace upon
marriages so each of us may withstand the snares of the devil. Send St. Michael the Archangel to protect us from
both the worldly battle for marriages and the battles that lie within hearth
and home. Open the eyes of those contemplating
marriage, so that they may see the truth and be led by the Truth. Lord, sustain us when
we are weary, so that we may forever walk the path to You.
Blessed are
those who have been called to the wedding feast of the Lamb. Revelation 19:9
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
Help others to hold faith as a shield, to quench
all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one. Pass
it on!
