What a crazy busy day it was yesterday. I totally forgot to post the prayer for yesterday so youre getting a double dose today. Chapter 5 – His Affection “In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church” Ephesians 5:28-29 Father God, Lord Jesus and Holy Spirit, I pray for open physical affection between (husband’s name) and myself. Enable each of us to lay aside self-consciousness or apathy and be effusive (the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm) in our display of love. Help us to demonstrate how much we care for and value each other. Remind us throughout each day to affectionately touch one another in some way. Help us to not be cold, undemonstrative, uninterested or remote. Enable us to be warm, tender, compassionate, loving and adoring. Break through any hardheadedness on our part that refuses to change and grow. If one of us is less affectionate to the other’s detriment (injury, damage), bring us into balance. Where any lack of affection has planted a negative view of marriage in our children or taught them an incorrect way of relating to a marriage partner, help us to model the right way so that they can observe it. Show us how to openly confess our errors to them and demonstrate our commitment to live differently. Father, change our habits of indifference or busyness. May we not so take each other for granted that we don’t make the effort to reach out and touch one another with affection. Help us not to weaken the marriage through neglect of this vital means of communication. I pray we always “greet on another with a kiss of love” (1Peter 5:14). I know that only the transforming power of the Holy Spirit can make changes that last. I trust You to transform us and make us the husband and wife You called us to be. In Your precious name I pray…..
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:12:55 +0000
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