Praying for Marriages (PfM)

As we remember our veterans this Memorial Day weekend, we ask you to do triple duty in prayer this coming week.   First, we ask you join us in thanking God for those who have made the supreme sacrifice while standing in the gap in our defense.   Second, we ask you to pray for those husbands and wives who have lost their spouses as they defended our country and fought for those who needed our help in times of oppression.   Third, we ask you to pray for an often forgotten part of the military family, those husbands and wives whose spouses are still missing in action.   While it is practically impossible to determine how many there are, some number of MIAs are still separated from their families.   The spouses they have left behind live with the constant stress of not knowing if their loved one is dead or alive.   As time goes by, just maintaining hope is a daily challenge.   Yet giving up hope can seem like a betrayal.   Often these sp...

Please allow us this week to call you to pray for the marriages of our home church, Wedgwood Baptist Church.  As a congregation we are going through a period of introspection, asking that our God will bring about revival in our individual lives, our marriages, our families, and our congregation, hoping that revival within will lead to revival outside Wedgwood's walls.  As couples seriously seek the Lord and commit to honesty, openness and transparency with Him, the evil one will look to disrupt and undermine.  Revived marriages are a threat to the goals of the father of lies. Pray this week that the married couples of our church will Humble themselves before their Creator, the Lover of their Souls Commit to being honest, open and transparent with the Lord Not be distracted by the lesser things of this world Hold each other accountable and encourage each other as they pass through a time of evaluating and changing their priorities Be quick to forgive and quicker ...

Please join us this week in praying for married couples on the mission field.   Couples on the mission field often experience a number of stressful situations all at the same time.   They are separated from family and friends; they are immersed in a new and strange culture; they are starting a new job; they are establishing a new home; and, on top of all that, they are often learning a new language.   Just one of these situations can create difficulties.   All of them together almost guarantee some degree of marital conflict.   Many times the conflict will arise because the spouses adjust to all the changes differently or at least at different speeds.   One may have difficulty with homesickness; one may have a harder time with the language; or one may make cultural adjustments with less ease.   Also, if the adjustment period is elongated, the spouses, together or individually, may start to doubt their suitableness for the mission God has call...

Please join us this week in praying for marriages dealing with the military deployment of a spouse.  Although there are many elements of military life that can affect a marriage, probably none affect the couple more than the separation of deployment.  Just preparing for the deployment of a spouse can be stressful for the marriage. During this preparation period it is not unusual for the couple to become emotionally and physically detached.  This detachment may be an unconscious defense against the separation that would otherwise be too emotionally hard.  The anticipation of the deployment is also accompanied by fear of the unknown, fear of never seeing the departing spouse again and fear of facing daily life alone.  Once the deployment occurs emotions can fluctuate wildly:  relief that the good-bye is over; resentment of being abandoned; guilt for abandoning; excitement about accomplishing a mission; deep and debilitating loneliness.  When th...