This was started on another thread so I thought I would start a whole new one. What we want to do is get as many people as possible together to pray for the restoration of our marriages. You may be seperated or divorced but the main goal is for a group of believers to bring our request before God so he will bless our marriages again.

Every Wed. we are to pray and fast for one another. Every Weds we can check in and let everyone know we have prayed for the group. Prayer does mighty things and group prayer is even better.

I think it will be great to see how God works in our lives and heals our marriages.

Praying for : cajunky,Ezra, Willgetthruthis, Godisincontrol, Natasha79, JohnC, c++_guy, Wallace, relady, steadfast and committed, morriggs,lupolady, stillwaiting, Broken Hearted, PasDeDeux, hopeful_person,GinnyF, Not peachy in Ga, cry2much,SNL,LostAgain(Dave&April), Dodger, gloriachu, LoveNcare

Prayers answered : Lupolady(air conditioner),Steadfast(first string again)

Love in Christ
Cajunky

<small>[ October 10, 2002, 01:48 AM: Message edited by: cajunky ]</small>

Cajunky,
What a great idea! I am in. We all need more prayer time and I would feel better just knowing that someone is praying for me.

i have a special request today. I signed my final papers today and it was hard but like my wife said "this marriage is over. It had become dirty". I want you to pray for my whole family. My mom and dad have cried a lot because they have lost their favorite daughter in law. My mom cried on my shoulder tonite because she lost a best friend. My dad lost someone who was like a daughter. We were a very close family until I was unfaithful. Just pray that God will heal all the relationships that were broken because of my senseless act. I do love my wife and family very much and want it restored into a Godly relationship.

Love in Christ

cajunky,

I want to join in - found this too late to fast today but I can still pray. What other thread has formed a prayer group?

I too have a request, In the next week, WH will be home & I pray for wisdom and guidence. WH is still seeing OW, doing illegal substances and spending money like he has a money tree. Steve Harley suggested separation which is my plan. This M can only be saved by the Grace of God.

God Bless,

D.

I'll be praying too.......

And I will especially be praying for peace and healing for us and our families in whatever form God designs.

K

Cajunky,
Count me in too! What a great idea. I already belong to a prayer group that meets Wednesday mornings, so this will just extend that time.
Will we be bringing specific prayer requests as well, or is the idea to pray for marriage in general, and specifically?.. It is definitely time for a marriage 'revival' in our world. Thanks for starting this. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Main focus on our marriages but other prayer request are welcome also.

Love in Christ
cajunky

Im in
JC

I am in, too.

I'm in as well.

Count me in as well.

relady

Prayer changes attitudes and events. Two scriptures I found in concordance in bible.

Exodus 32:9-14

Acts 12:5-7

Love in Christ
cajunky

Please, please count me in. I've had over 20 people praying for my M and I don't think it would have progressed like it has w/o them. For those who want to, but not sure how to start praying for their spouses might I suggest Power of a praying Husband/Wife by Stormie Omartian. I know things really started getting better when I started modeling my prayers after the ones in that book and as I increased the number of people praying for us.

Can you imagine what could happen when 22,000 people were praying each others marriages and relationships?????

Of course please add mine to the list. My wife started updating her resume to get transferred out of where is works (which is 8' from OM). Pray that God destroys their relationship and opens up a postion for her to move to.

S&C

S & C,

That book is very powerful. The first day I read it and did the prayer I noticed a difference in my WH. Couldn't tell you what it was but different.

This summer I found out some things about WH that were devastating to me & I stopped praying for him. Recently the Lord nudged me to pray for him again but have only been able to do the chapter on tempation. So, thats what I do.

That would be a good idea to pray on the specific topic each week, and for those who didn;'t have the book, we could list the topic and a little about it. ???? Anyone else's thoughts?

God Bless,

D.

Good idea....We can start from the first chapter in each book and alternate between the two each week. I will take Power of a Praying Husband book and start with chapter one for next week. I will post it on monday or tuesday.

Man...I am so fired up to have so many people praying for our marriages.

GOD IS GOOD!!!!!!

Love in Christ
cajunky

<small>[ September 26, 2002, 11:15 PM: Message edited by: cajunky ]</small>

Cajunky,


GOD IS GOOD!!!!!!

Here's a song my prayer group sings that has really touched my heart. I keep it by the computer & refer to it often .....

God is good, all the time. He put a song of praise in this heart of mine.

God it good, all the time. Through the darkest night, His light will shine.

God is good, God is good, all the time.

If your walking throught the valley and there are shadows all around

Do not fear, He will guide you and keep you safe and sound.

Cause He has promised to never leave you nor forsake you and His word is true.

We were sinners, so unworthy, still for us He chose to die.

Filled us with His Holy Spirit, now we can stand and testify

That His love is everlasting and His mercies, they will never end.

.....Though I may not understand all the plans you have for me

My life is in your hands and through the eyes of faith I can clearly see

God is good, God is good, all the time.

I'm excited too. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> Thanks, I've been feeling pretty down lately and today really snapped on the kids who didn't have school becos of tTropical Storm Isidor.

God Bless everyone tonight.

D.

<small>[ September 26, 2002, 11:27 PM: Message edited by: WillGetThruThis ]</small>

cajunky,

Here are the chapters in "The Power of a praying Wife" & was curious if they corresponded with the one for praying husbands ???
1. His wife All start with his....
2 Work
3 Finances
4 Sexuality
5 Affection
6 Temptations
7 Mind
8 Fears
9 Purpose
10 Choices
11 Health
12 Protection
13 Trials
14 Integrity
15 Reputaion
16 Priorities
17 Relationships
18 Fatherhood
19 past
20 Attitude
21 Marriage
22 Emotions
23 Walk
24 Talk
25 Repentance
26 Deliverence
27 Obedience
28 Self Image
29 Faith
30 Future

Here's a stand from pg 15 ....
" I will not stand by an watch my H (or XH) be waried , beaten down or destroyed."

" I will not sit idle while an invisible wall goes up between us"

" I will not allow confusion, miscommunication, wrong attitudes and bad choices to erode what we are trying to build together"

"I will not tolerate hurt and unforgiveness leading us to divorce"

Well some of these may have happened to many of us here, but we can still hold this in our minds.

Another thought on pg17 hit me....

" God, I confess my unforgiveness toward my H or (XH). (or W or XW) Deliver me free from all of it"

Here's another .... pg 18

" When we are miserable in M, we feel anything will be an improvement over what we are experiencing. But we don't see the whole picture. We only see the way it is, not the way God wants it to beocme. When we pray however, our hearts become SOFT toward God and we get a vision. We see there is hope. We have faith that he will restore all that has been devoured, destroyed, and eaten away from the M. " I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten" We can trust Him to take away the pain, hopelessness, and unforgiveness. We are able to envision His ability to resurrect love and life from the deadest of places."

There is more good stuff here, but I had actually gone up to bed & said goodnite to my college age son. I read the chapter on temptation which I was not going to do before responding tonight. Then I got this overwelming feeling I should come down and post what I did. My oldest S said " I thought you were going to bed????" " I was, just had to write one more thing...."

Thanks cajunky, I had been giving up hope. I stopped reading many of the rejoice ministry emails. And other things as well . I had an F-it attitude.

Next weekend is my 25 year college reunion & I'll be going with a roomate of mine. WH went to same college but hasn't gotten the invitation cuz he's not been home since Feb. My thoughts were leading me down not a good path.... I won't go into it, but they weren't Godly.

God Bless and this time heading for bed. 5:30 comes too soon.
<img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" />
D.

Please count me in also. I have been praying for more than two years and will continue to pray for all marriages.

Ok...here are the titles to the chapters in Power of a Praying Husband.

1. Her Husband
2. Her spirit
3. Her Emotions
4. Her Motherhood
5.Her moods
6 Her Marriage
7. Her Submission
8. her relationships
9. Her Priorities
10. Her beauty
11. Her sexuality
12. Her fears
13. Her purpose
14 Her trust
15 her protection
16 Her desires
17 Her work
18 Her deliverance
19 her obedience
20. her future

I think since the Mans and Womens are different we ought to post both on sunday nite then weds. you can pray the appropriate one.

I will take Power of the Praying Husband and post this for all the males to pray by. If we could have a volunteer to take the Power of a Praying Wife and do the same each sunday nite then that would be great. We will have at least 20 weeks worth.

Love in Christ
cajunky

<small>[ September 27, 2002, 07:30 PM: Message edited by: cajunky ]</small>

Hey, Cajunky, don't forget about ME!!!

Since I'm sorta the one who got this topic started with the other thread....

I just don't always get on board to see where the threads are going. Work keeps me off line a lot during the week.

If you want, I can cover the woman's version.

It will be difficult to copy the entire first chapter, since it's quite long (I guess there's a lot to fix about us "wives") <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

Let me know, 'k?

God's Blessings to all,