#1,093 – Praying for the Protection of Marriages (Luke 16:18)

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David Platt

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

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Lord, we ask for Your strength and protection that marriages might display the glory of your gospel.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:04.0	Luke chapter 16 verse 18
0:07.0	everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery
0:12.0	and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
0:17.0	This is just one short verse in the middle of Luke chapter 16,
0:26.9	Jesus teaching on divorce and remarriage
0:29.6	and it's elaborated on in other Gospels.
0:31.9	It's just one short verse here in Luke chapter 16 verse 18 but as
0:36.8	I was reading through this chapter I was just provoke and want to pray right now for every marriage represented in those who are listening right now,
0:49.0	or for those who are single for married couples around you and I just want to pray especially during these
0:58.8	trying challenging days in the middle of a pandemic and all kinds of added stress in different ways for protection of marriages.
1:10.0	So God, we pray right now for every marriage represented in those who were
1:20.3	praying right now when I pray for husbands and for wives. We pray that you would help us as husbands to love our wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Help us in an
1:37.8	Ephesians five kind of way to nourish, to cherish, to lay down our lives for the good of our wives.
1:48.5	God, we pray, maybe even as a result of reading this simple verse and praying this prayer that
1:57.2	today you would lead us to love our wives in a deeper way, in a greater way, to serve our wives and maybe a new way.
2:09.4	God, please help us to love our wives well.
2:13.6	God, I pray for wives.
2:15.2	Pray that you would help them to love their husbands well
2:21.1	to follow their husband's leadership as their husbands follow Christ, or to
2:27.8	respect their husbands in a Ephesians five kind of way to show how the church relates to Christ with the way they relate to
2:39.1	their husband. God I pray for marriages that are struggling. We pray together right now for marriages that are in difficult times right now.
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