Week 9: Marriages and Infertility

Join us this week in praying for marriages dealing with the issue of infertility.  Couples in these marriages experience drastic ups and downs, hopes and disappointments, month after month.  Hormonal issues can create mental and physical weariness.   Medical testing and treatments and their side affects can add to this weariness and also strain couples' financial resources.  The marriage relationship can also be tested, particularly when the husband and wife cope with disappointment differently and grieve differently.  The spirits of couples in this life situation can be wounded by insensitive questions and statements made by others, both knowingly and unknowingly.  Finally, despite their best efforts to rejoice with others, these couples can struggle emotionally as they see their friends becoming pregnant and have children with apparent ease.


As you lift these couples up, pray that they will

• have one or two close friends who understand and remain supportive
• seek wisdom and clear leading for which doctors and which treatments to engage
• rightly judge where the ethical boundaries lie
• not dismiss other parenting options, such as adoption, without prayerful consideration
• know how much to risk sharing with different people
• maintain unity as a couple
• in all circumstances choose to turn toward God and each other with questions, frustration and grief, resisting the temptation to turn away into their own isolated world
• desire above all else God's will and plan for their lives