Marriage

"Father, I come to you in the precious, all-powerful name of Jesus. I thank You for my spouse whom You have given to me as a gift. Forgive me for not always treasuring the gift of our union as You would want. All good and perfect love is from You so I ask that You flood both of us with Your unfailing, never-ending, covenant love that we would be a sign and testimony to the world of the love between You and Your Church. Remind us often that the mystery of marriage is a testimony of union with You. I choose to honor, respect, and love my spouse and I ask Your help to grow in grace and endurance as we learn this way of divine love. I yield my heart to You and ask You to soften it where it has become hardened and fill me with compassion where I have failed to be an example of Your lovingkindness. Strengthen my spouse today. May we be clothed in Christ and the armor of God and together, and see Your enemies defeated for Your  glory. As we are heirs in the grace of life, teach us how to walk as ONE and not two individuals with two separate paths and therefore have a double-minded household. Teach us Your ways and continue to stir in us Your Word, Your gifts, and passion for all things that are on Your heart as we serve You together."
Scripture References on Marriage

Hebrews 13:4
"Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous."

Proverbs 18:22
"He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord."

Mark 10:9
“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. "

Genesis 2:24
"Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

Colossians 3:19
"Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them."

John 14:27
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

Proverbs 21:9
"It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife."

Proverbs 19:14
"House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord."

1 Peter 3:7
"Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered."

2 Corinthians 6:14
"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?"

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."

1 Corinthians 16:14
"Let all that you do be done in love."

1 John 4:7-8
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love."

Ephesians 5:25-33
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,  so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church [q]in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;  for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are parts of His body.  For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife the same as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband."

1 Peter 4:8
"Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins."

Colossians 3:14
"And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony."

John 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 15:13
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."

1 Corinthians 13:13
"So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. "