Gracious Father, we are steadied and enamored with your sacrificial love that redeems and sanctifies our once helpless souls. Your presence is constant, and your love is unceasing. You are continually praising and consecrating and never condemning. You will never abandon us. You always guide with wisdom and truth. Nothing will ever drive you away. You will not let us go. You delight in us, and, amazingly, rejoice over us with singing. Enliven our spirit to grasp how wide and long and high and deep the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Lord Jesus, you command us to love our spouses with the same incredible love you have showered on us. Empower us to spill out onto our spouses the supernatural love of Jesus that will steady and enamor their hearts as we quietly demonstrate where our source and power comes from. Like your love, cause our love to be unshakable, constant, and unceasing creating peace in their hearts. Enable your edifying love to flow through us that is full of grace, enduring hope, and praise as we pour into their lives. When challenge or conflict arise, give us openness to listen well, sensitive hearts to your Spirit. When we have sinned, give us a willing heart to quickly seek forgiveness. When wronged, give us tender communication and patience allowing your Spirit to work.
Father, increase our faith to trust in your transforming work and enable us to see hope even when things are difficult. Impart in us persevering confidence even amid confusion and chaos. With steady emotions and tender guidance yielded from your Spirit, impart though us wisdom and truth. Secure in our hearts as spouses an indestructible bond that never wavers. With your undeniable love, empower us to pour out upon our spouses delight and rejoicing over them.
In Christ, through Christ, and for his glory we ask,
Blessings!
Romans 8:28-32
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
Romans 8:33-34
33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Romans 8:35- 39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hebrews 13:5
5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
I John 2:27
27 As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
Psalm 32:8-9
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
9 Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.
John 6:37-40
37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
II Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot disown himself.
John 10:27-30
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
Ephesians 3:18-19
18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 5:25
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.