Extreme Home Makeover

 "I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. As you make your requests, plead for God’s mercy upon them, and give thanks. Pray this way for kings and all others who are in authority, so that we can live in peace and godliness and dignity. This is good and pleases God our Savior, for he wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth. For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and people. He is the man Christ Jesus. He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone."  1 Timothy 2:1-6

Abba Father,

We praise You, for You are good, faithful, abundant and true. You are worth far more than gold or silver. Lord words cannot express how great, holy, and mighty You are. We praise Your Holy name!

Father today we thank You for the gift of marriage. Thank You for showing us the perfect example of how a marriage should be through Your word.  Lord You designed marriage to be full of…

love, intimacy, passion, trust, commitment, and joy. You also designed marriage to full of effort and to be selfless.

Lord today our marriages are full of bitterness, mediocre commitment and are lacking passion, intimacy, effort, love, trust, devotion, and are full of self.

Father we are in MAJOR need of spiritual change within our marriages. Satan is on the rise and he has set out to destroy our marriages. Lord we need You to come in and do an EXTREME Home Makeover!

Father today I ask You to show up in a mighty way and begin restoring and healing every marriage. 

Open our hearts to see the importance of getting our marriage between You and ourselves right first. Lord how often we forget or don’t even realize we became married to You when we accepted You as our Personal Lord and Savior. The very day we spoke those words, we spoke our wedding vows to You and You spoke them back by accepting us as Your own.

Lord we try and go around You and handle things on our own, and in doing so we come up way short, frustrated, and worse off than before. Lord God we need CHANGE! Marriages are falling apart all around us and couples are giving up. New styles of marriages are being formed that are not even of You. Lord God rise up within each of us today to put a stop to them. Open the eyes, convict, heal, and restore all those who are living in broken marriages, convenient marriages, abusive marriages, same-sex marriages, unfaithful marriages, and all marriages that do not have You placed in the center of them. 

Forgive us Father for trying to re-design marriage to fit our flesh.

Lord right now You know the need of every marriage all over the world. You know the heart of every man and woman, their desperation, their fears, their failures. With that Lord I ask You to come down and reveal Yourself in the biggest way that only You can.

Lord marriage was Your idea, You made that clear from the beginning. From Genesis to Revelation You give us glimpses, description, instruction, and insight on exactly how our marriages should be; full of joy, romance, faithfulness, passion, devotion, investment, and love.

You also made it very clear that marriage is work and we must work at them, because You require obedience.

Lord how can we expect spiritual change within our marriages if we are not even expecting spiritual change within our own hearts? How can we expect spiritual change within our earthly marriages if our marriage with You is not even where it is supposed to be?

Lord may we stop accepting our marriages the way they are, and start expecting them to be greater than they are.

Change our marriages back to the way You intended them to be, give us the grace, the desire, and the obedience we need to make them great and to reflect Christ and the Church. Amen