Week 20: Marriages without Christ

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With the significance of Easter fresh on our minds, please join us this week in praying for marriages in which the redeeming sacrifice of Jesus is unknown.  The spouses in these marriages have joined in a relationship that demands oneness yet lacks the indwelling Spirit who makes that oneness possible.  They have joined in a relationship that demands the presence of every fruit of the Spirit yet lacks the Spirit who provides that very fruit.  They have joined in a relationship that demands the purest expressions of love yet lacks the personal knowledge of the Christ who, through His sacrifice, has given the highest example of that love.  These couples have also joined in a relationship that is subject to great challenges, difficult struggles and endless attacks of the evil one yet lacks the boundless resources of our God that equip believing couples to overcome these challenges and struggles and to resist Satan.


This week pray that these couples will

  • Realize their need as individuals for the redemption available in Christ Jesus
  • Understand they have joined in a relationship that cannot fulfill its potential without Jesus at its center
  • Be granted the kindness of our God that will draw them to repentance
  • Come into contact with believers who will be ready and willing to share their faith with them, nurture them with their love and mentor them with their wisdom


Also pray that God will use you to be salt and light to those couples who do not know Him.

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