Week 52: Marriages and Chronic Pain

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Please join us this week in praying for marriages that must deal with chronic pain.  Couples in these marriages can struggle sometimes because they incorrectly identify the suffering spouse as the problem instead of situation that is causing the constant pain.  Financial pressures can often assail these marriages as couples seek any and all possible solutions to the debilitating situation.  Just the day-to-day grind of managing pain is physically and emotionally exhausting.  And finally, chronic pain can steal a couple’s hope, and, where hope is absent, depression can rush in to take its place. 

Please pray with us that these couples will

  • have faithful prayer warriors to lift them up consistently              rightly identify the situation as the burden, not the suffering spouse
  • not be crushed by financial pressures
  • not lose hope but rejoice in the hope they have in Christ Jesus
  • receive the care they need and freely express gratitude for that care
  • be joyful as they experience periods of relief, even though the relief may be temporary and of a short duration

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