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Every Wed. we pray and fast for one another for resolution to our marriages and our lives. Every Wed. we can check in and let our fellow prayer warriors know we have prayed for the group. Prayer does mighty things and group prayer is even better. "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst." Matt 18:20.

I will be entering the prayer post on Sundays so everyone has an opportunity to check in and to add their own personal prayer request if they want to/need to. Then on Wed. we can check in, hit the "Post Reply" button, and enter "Amen".

I think it will be great to see how God works in our lives and heals our marriages and us. If you want to pray with us I will be more than happy to add your name to the list below.


Prayer Warriors who are praying and being prayed for: -.{189 Prayer Warriors and counting}
cajunky . Ezra . Willgetthruthis . Godisincontrol . Natasha79 . JohnC . NMWBTWBD (Not My Will, But Thy Will Be Done) . Wallace . relady . steadfast and committed . morriggs . lupolady . stillwaiting . Broken Hearted . PasDeDeux . hopeful_person . GinnyF . justpeachy . cry2much . SNL . LostAgain (Dave&April) . Dodger (Rtron) . gloriachu . LoveNcare . JMF . WEN . NiteHawk . Absurd . LetSTry . AgainsttheWind . cemmerson . getting better . kellidiane . Terrified . BeeLee . idostylin . Resilient . thiscantbehappening . day by day . Jloves . broken x3 . Sue with Hope . sunrise1 . shepette . Malc . Faithfulwife . timbo-e . Angelia . FeelingAllAlone . broken_joe .

dopey . awake . trulyafriend . Is it to late? . stilltryingtosaveit . landslide . GODBLESSU . vega . LoyalWarrior . janna-m-r . ferbie . EpiphOny . Simmy . cajeanie . d_rose . lost_lonely . briank4775 . mayflower . Caged_Bird . LunaDove . goldilocks109 . darwud . Mrs. Darwud . Zuzus_Petals . adamv . Army Hubby . Gail (mojodiva) & Shane . bonnie five & H . TryingToKeepHope . Hopeful98 . Ighoping . SoTired (Mike & Trish) . evega . Douglas and Kirsi Nielson . Jessicafl27 . kimmy2 . auntielala . weezy8550 . miserynmissouri .STBXWife . sealfan . Jen Brown . SMIAJ . Cinderella . GreggC . trying_to_accept . solon . serenitydipity . ilia . lonejrock .

anchorhugger . Prayer & Patience . Chikar . Alex6 . Hopeforamiracle . fishlady . rookie . Made A Mess of Things . *DeepSigh* . boden . new comittment . deeplyhurting . jeff15679 . Bob Castaldi . k57mo . skottyjay (Scott & Melody) . TROD (Tony and Julie) . thisso . ladysheep . hurtmorethanheknows . singleguy . tryingTOsaveMYmarriage . Keesley . recovering_dad . Terrianna . javaContour . BH . Cheryls . cherry log . AD. . Suebee . REJECTED . LoveMyEx . LostHusband . kings kid . kwhittle . vividwhisper . imready2try . staeryn . JoeCM . mike729 . Ridingtherollercoaster . DREslinger . ecpsap . Mr.Miew . StandingTogether . Alcoholic’s Wife . gentle . Stung by a Bee . maximus1 . Blended family girl . Diamonzzz . sctaylor . RichardF . bygraceamfree . butterflie . FinallyLearning . angielt . luke parrish . sadmama . Timeheals . OuchThisHurts . mojo95 . Cherylpa . nvrgvup . Titleist . auto009988 . Hope92 . JLight . Culprit007 and hubby . ddc03 . new_beginning . Waiting On My Change . allmyloveforever . jamesp . wontgiveupyet . gzangel . wahoodee . sad and tired . ruffled . Shul . Learning Lots . prayingforchange . ChangingMan . rosj . txsunnyblueskies . roughroad . sprezzatura . SurvivingInNC . angels9 .

Prayers Answered/God's Gifts to Us:

Hopeful98 (H went to church and was able to smile and say hello to him) . Shul (H wants to turn back to God) . RichardF (expecting a little blessing from God - baby!) . Shul (had opportunity to show love and friendship to H) . Lupolady (H continues to make contact each week) . StandingTogether (H has agreed to read The Five Love Languages together) . Titleist (W moved back home) . hopeful98 (H went to church again) . LunaDove (God kept her out of trouble) . hopeful98 (H commented to MIL's H that he was not interested in checking the D status - doesn't care about it anyways) . LunaDove (received a pay raise and is getting a good tax return - God is taking care of her and son) . Hopeful_person (remarried her H in Jan. PTL!) . ItsInHisHandsNow (had a 3 hr conversation with wife) . LunaDove (God answered her question) . hopeful98 (H went to church) . tryingTOsaveMYmarriage (made a promise to God to give me a headache when I am not living His Word – boy does my head hurt ;-) . lupolady ( was a Witness and Testimony to her faith to a woman in the vet’s office) . Steadfastandcommitted (W told OM she would soon be leaving her job, he replied that he guesses he’ll have to start dating) . RichardF (W and him went to a 'marriage weekend' together and have started communicating again) . TTSMM (stood by D in church when she did her first reading ever during her "First Penance" ceremony) . Standing_For_M (H is talking about MC; H is spending nights at the house; received $$ to payoff outstanding bills and bank the remainder) . adamv (talked and prayed the prayer of salvation with his 8yr old son) . finallylearning (has broken ties with the OM) . Steadfast and Committed (MIL left the hospital; his dog was found by the Humane Society) . Standing_For_M (H stayed over for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; rec'd Christmas gifts for her and her kids and food/groceries from her mom and her job; had great talk with H on phone; H said he told a co-worker a story about when they first dated) . lupolady (broken arm is healed; bought herself a new car) . staeryn (H moving back temporarily to help with their new baby) . sadmama (H is ending A and coming home; her D's pray for the Prayer Warriors) . hopeful98 (R&R in Mexico) . tryingTOsaveMYmarriage (at Mass, a child was being baptized and my D said, "Look Daddy, another member has just joined God's family; D is doing a reading at her "First Sacrament of Reconciliation" service this Saturday) . Standing_For_M (her & H attended S' holiday concert and had a good time) . tryingTOsaveMYmarriage (kids were playing very loudly while W was baking and she didn't lose it, she let them have fun) . hopeful98 (had a nice conversation with her H) . Standing_for_M (had a five hour talk with H, some flirting with him as well) . tryingTOsaveMYmarriage (in my D's public school, they discussed things pertaining to the winter season, she said "God's Birthday") . tryingTOsaveMYmarriage (I struck up a conversation with a former Catholic-Christian and shared my life, experiences and "The Purpose Driven Life" with him. first time I ever shared my faith with a stranger) . Blended faily girl (found a job within a Christian environment and received a raise) . Blended faily girl (the Lord placed a strong Christian woman in her life for a "Purpose") . Blended faily girl (four hour Bible study with sister on phone) . Standing_for_M (her H stayed the night, on the sofa, after visiting her and the children) . tryingTOsaveMYmarriage (a wonderful Thanksgiving with my wife and children - no fighting or talk of divorce) . Standing_for_M (her H's heart is softening by his actions towards her and their children) . LoveNcare (her son returns to his wife after 14 months) . lupolady (hard cast taken off her arm) . kings kid (good news about her biopsy) . Terrianna (daughter not moving away) . Steadfastandcommitted (wife is back and we are planning to renew our wedding vows in our church) . tryingTOsaveMYmarraige (D is interested in the Christian music I am listening to and asks a lot about God) . hopeful_person (H seemed more willing to consider a reconciliation) . GreggC (wife's heart is softening a bit and son asking about things in the Bible and believes in it) . WGTT (WH coming home) . d_rose (got a ways to go but we are going there together.) . Faithfulwife (GOT A JOB, Found a house, D is final and got a puppy that “just LOVES me”) . tsc (marriage being restored) . janna-m-r (Husband came home and wants to try to restore marriage even though he is the BS) . Steadfastandcommitted (wife gave up other man) . Stillwaiting (Got to see her husband for 2 hours and his heart seems to have softened) . Stillwaiting (neice is o.k.) . cajunky (wife not engaged & did something with family, told me she loved me) . Free (Marriage Restoration begun ) . Againstthewind (Got job) . betrayed and desparate (sucessful cancer surgery) . WGTT (accepted into mentor program) . Movingonwithlife (Wife coming home) . cry2much(sucessful surgery) . Steadfastandcommitted (first string again) . Lupolady (air conditioner) .

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Hopeful98 please add me to the list and explain some about the fasting/praying on Wednesday please! I prayed with a man on the phone last night that talked about fasting prayer for infidelity but we didn't have time for detail. thanks and.........PEACE OUT

Dear Lord help me and all of my friends here to have the strength of Moses and when our arms are tired from lifting them up to you, let us surround each other and hold each other up. I pray in the name of your Son who you sent to us, to give up his very life for us, spilled his earthly blood for us to be forgiven our sins. Please Jesus accept my repentence for everything I have done to lead my family and I into this situation. Lord touch my husband with your pure love and Light, remind him of the vows he took with me, and the covenant he made with You, to honor his wife, be honored by his wife and create a family under your law. Everyday Jesus, remind my husband of the years of memories and joys and how we held each other up during sorrow and hardship for so many years. Convict him. Wrap a hedge of thorns around any sin that might further touch my husband. Jesus please lead the ow to her own sin free path, give her the heart to restore her own family and let us restore ours. I BELIEVE you gave my husband and I to each other and I BELIEVE you also pray for our restitution and our new life , lived in your spirit more fully than ever before as we learn these hard lessons and come closer to You. Lord I pray for my sons, they know not how to wait like you have taught me so well. help me to instill Your gifts to them and guard their hearts against anger and pain. Humble us all to your will, accept the burdens we lay on your altar and bring us the Peace that passeth understanding. Restore to us the fruits of the Spirit as we struggle against the flesh and strive to walk in your Spirit. Remind us to guard our tongues and stand beside us as we work through these hard times. Guard us from behind. lead us from the front- watch over us from above. Let us earn our hearts desire according to your will and bless our every step. in Jesus name I submit this prayer. alleluia amen.

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Add me to the list, please, and pray hard (by name) for my WW, Alice Ann, and her OM, John, and his wife Carolyn, and our daughter Clara (7) and son Theodore (2). Specifically, please pray for a miraculously open counseling session Wednesday at 1:00 Eastern time -- with a Christian counselor familiar with MB principles that WW was willing to talk to on the phone and maybe even meet with some day -- that WW does not plan to attend and for the custody hearing she's scheduled (though we still live under the same roof) for next Wednesday 7/14, the day before D's 7th birthday. And thank God for his word to my heart yesterday afternoon, "the pain for you is over."

SurvivingInNC -- a public school teacher who received laying on of hands and prayer today from his principal, prayer from entire school clerical staff, and prayer from FORMER principal and assistant principal.

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Hello everyone. I want to include my marriage in your prayer for tomorrow. For my husband's heart to become soft and pliable. That God break any hardness in his heart and that he be willing to work out this marriage. Husband says he feels too pressured by the marriage and he doesn't know if it can work. Pray for him and his salvation. Lord Jesus please remove the pressure the enemy has casts on my husband to try and destroy this marriage. I thank you for restoring this marriage and breathing life into it. Thank you for the marriage made in heaven you have created. I ask all of this in Jesus name. AMEN.

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The Power of a Praying Wife

Chapter Twenty-Nine - His Faith

I always smile when someone tells me he or she has no faith, because I know it’s probably not true. Everyone lives by faith to a certain extent. When you go to a doctor, you need faith to trust his diagnosis. When the pharmacy fills your prescription, you have faith that you’ll receive the appropriate medicine. When you eat at a restaurant, you trust that the people serving you have not contaminated or poisoned the food. (some restaurants require more faith than others). Every day is a walk of faith on some level. Everyone believes in something. “God has dealt to each one a measure of faith” (Romans 12:3).

We choose what we will believe in. Some people choose to believe in themselves, some in government, some in evil, some in science, some in the newspaper, some in hard work, some in other people, and some in God. The only person I have ever known who did not believe in anything ended up in a mental hospital because it drove her crazy. Faith is something we cannot live without.

Faith is something we can’t die without either. Our faith determines what happens to us after we leave this world. If you have faith in Jesus, you know that your eternal future is secure. That’s because “The Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the Dead…will also give life to your mortal bodies thru His Spirit who dwells in you”. (Romans 8:11). In other words, if the same spirit who raises Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He will raise you up as well. Having certainty about what happens to us when we die will greatly affect how we live today. Confidence in our eternal future gives us a perspective on living in the present that is laced with confidence as well.

Here’s a scary thought! When healing some blind men, Jesus said, “According to your faith, let it be to you”. (Matthew 9:29). Doesn’t that make you want to reevaluate your level of trust in God? The good news is that this means we have a certain amount of control over our lives and can, to some extent, determine how things are going to turn out for us. Our lives don’t have to be left up to a chance, or allow to go flapping in the breeze according to whatever wind is blowing at the moment. Our faith will help determine our outcome.

We all have times of doubt, even Jesus wondered how God had forsaken Him. It wasn’t that He doubted God’s existence or ability to come to his rescue, he just didn’t expect to feel forsaken. Sometimes we don’t doubt God’s existence, or whether he is able to help us, we just doubt His desire to have any immediate impact on our lives. Surely he is too busy for my problems, we think. But the truth is He is not.

Does your husband have times of doubt? If so, your prayers for him to have ever increasing faith will make a big difference of his life, even if he doesn’t know the Lord, you can still pray for faith to rise in his heart and look for improvement in his level of peace. There is nothing in your husband’s life that can’t be conquered or positively affected with an added measure of faith in God. Jesus said of any man who has faith to believe in Him, “out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). That alone can be enough to wash away a lifetime of pain, trouble, fear, sorrow, apathy, hopelessness, failure, and doubt. Shall we pray?

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Lord, I pray that you will give (husband’s name) in added measure of faith today. Enlarge his ability to believe in You, your Word, your Promise, your Ways and Your power. Put a longing in his heart to talk with You and hear your Voice. Give him an understanding of what it means to ask in Your presence and not just ask for things. May he seek You, rely totally upon you, be led by You, put You first and acknowledge You in everything he does.

Lord, You’ve said that “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” (Romans 10:17). Feed his soul with Your word so his faith grows big enough to believe that with You all things are possible (Matthew 19:29). Give him unfailing certainty that what You’ve promised to do, you will do (Romans 4:21). Make his faith a shield of protection. Put it into action to move the mountains in his life. Your Word says “the just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17); I pray that he will live the kind of faith filled life You’ve called us all to experience. May he know with complete certainty “how great is Your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which You have prepared for those who trust You (Psalm 31:19). AMEN!

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Lord please hear the additional prayers stated here by your children and answer them according to your will.

thank you Lord for the additonal prayer given today by hopeful98 for the husbands. Lord my dear sweet husband needs you so badly in his life as we all do. I pray the above prayer for him and pray that you accept it as a fervent prayer on his behalf and the next week when he goes on a trip and introduces the OW to some of his family that Lord ALL of them will be convicted and see things through your eyes and that their hearts would be touched and turned by you because you are the only one who has that power.

Lord, I haven't had anything to eat since monday night and only some apple juice yesterday. part of it is that i just feel sick as to the new development in my situation and hearing about the trip that my H and the OW will be going on but Lord I also want it to be some measure to show that only you can give me what i need to live on. Lord, i don't the proper way to fast but Lord please accept my prayer as well as others today as one that is with a hungry body and soul for you. I ask these things in your name Lord and humbly pray for your will in the lives of the people here. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

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Lord, I come boldly to you today as a child in Christ. Heal all the marriages that need to be healed. Give us all a new breath in our marrigages. We offer our sacrifices to you oh Lord and I know that in the end you will glorify yourself and make us the husband and wife you have called us to be. So be it in Jesus name. AMEN

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Amen.

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Amen!!

Praying for you all today!

God Bless!!

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Dear Lord, please protect the WS from life-long consequences and build a hedge or wall of thorns around them to keep them from harm and to keep the things of this world at bay. You are the only one that can do this and if necessary allow us to bear the burden of their actions until they are able to turn their lives over to you. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.


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