I need prayer for my marriage. My husband left us 2 weeks after Easter last year. I need strength to make it through this Easter.<P>My husband is an alcoholic. I am a child of an alcholic father. Last Easter, I realized my life was headed the same direction I grew up. My husband was drunk at home the night before Easter. I was so angry at him for drinking. I had so many holidays ruined from alcohol that I didn't want my kids to live the same way I did.<P>When he realized how serious I was about no alcohol in the house, he left. He said I should love him for who he is, and that included the alcohol. I love him and know that the alcohol is not part of the man I love. <P>Later on, he confided that there was another woman who accepted him for who he was. She liked him drinking. But he was willing to come home only if he could drink around the house. I wouldn't let him.<P>Please pray for him that he will come home a sober man, and be the father his boys remember him being. He has not seen our boys in over 2 months. He hasn't contacted me since January.<P>All around me marriages are ending in divorce. I see the opportunity to follow that way, but the only thing holding me back is that we renewed our vows February 1999. I made a vow to God that I would be with this man until death do us part. <P>I keep reading I Samuel chapter 25 and keep wondering if I honor this marriage until death parts us, will God restore unto me a man who loves me and the boys as his own?<P>Lord, I pray that this marriage is in YOUR hands, that YOUR will be done, I am at a cross road where I have no will left. I accept what YOU have planned for me. Lord I trust in you.<P>------------------<BR>Trusting God

I understand your feelings all too well, Kayti. I, too, am married to an alcoholic. He also had an affair with a woman who liked to drink right alongside him. He is back home now, we are struggling to restore our marriage. The only thing that has given me any hope for our marriage is my faith in God and prayer. Keep praying, and living for the Lord. He loves you and will step in and take care of you while your H is gone. <P>My H also tells me that he wants me to love him and accept him the way he is, alcoholism included. What I have accepted is that I cannot change him, only our Heavenly Father can do that. I do love him very, very much, and the greatest desire of my heart is to have my loving, SOBER husband back someday. <P>I will be praying for you Kayti and your husband's deliverance from his alcoholism. It is such a hard, hard life to live, being married to an alcoholic. God has a plan for you Kayti, keep listening for that small, still voice to tell you what to do.<P>Thank you Lord, for comforting Kayti during this heartbreaking trial. Show her Father the direction you want her to follow. Go before her in all contact she has with her husband, giving her peace in her heart, and unfailing faith in You. Thank you Father for working in her husband's life, convicting him of his sins, and delivering him from alcoholism. We pray that You will bind Satan, and allow the Holy Spirit to move aggressively in her husband's life. Bring this man to repentance, Lord. Turn his heart and mind towards home, his wife and children. Trouble his heart day and night, letting him have no rest until he repents and goes home. Thank You Lord, we praise Your Holy Name, IJN AMEN.

i will pray for you, but not for him to sober up. i also come from an alcoholic family and i know what it can do to a family. he will only sober up if he wants to. i will hold s prayer vidual for you so tha you can get through the up coming easter holiday.<P>

Dear Lord, <P>I know that you will help Kayti's husband to sober up. Lord, we ask you to deliver Kayti's husband from his drinking problem. Dear Jesus save this man from that iniquity before it completely destroys his family and his own body. Lord, you love him and we love him in Jesus name. Heal her husband, take him away from the alcohol like you did for my brother. Thank you for healing my brother and thank you for healing Kayti's husband like I know you will in your time because we ask it in your name and we know that this is your desire for his life. Thank you, Lord Almighty. In Jesus name, AMEN!<P>------------------<BR>Amber Nichole