Greetings Prayer Warriors,
This week in the U.S. we celebrate Veterans Day, we honor the many sacrifices our veterans made to protect our country and other parts of the world. Yet, their sacrifices reached far beyond their military service. Time spent away from their spouse may have had consequences, as loneliness, lack of affection, and anxiety crept in. Those left at home made similar sacrifices. The stress this may have placed on their marriage is unimaginable. When the veteran returns, the relationship never just picks up where it left off. Re-entry and re-engagement are a process, and sometimes what once was, slowly over time (or even very quickly) crumbles.
To honor our veterans, join me in prayer for their marriages.
Lord, help their love flourish again or some more!
[Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7
Bless our patriotic warriors who served in our Armed Forces in any capacity. Bless their spouses who served silently on the home front. Come with your heavenly grace and heal their emotional wounds, especially the ones that continue to fester and create division within their marriages. Increase their faith and hope, so they may know that you stand in the divide, holding them together until they can build the bridge back. For those with wounds seen and unseen, deformities, or severe limitations, bring them new hope as you bring them living angels to minister to them and their families, showing them that you are the source of truly indescribable peace, joy, and love. Open their hearts to your grace that they may rebuild and strengthen their marriages with you as their foundation. Make sacrificial love be their hearts desire, that they may be a living witness to your unfathomable mercy. Lord, hear our prayers of petition and answer them! Amen.
If there is any encouragement in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. Philippians 2:1-2
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
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