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Proverbs chapter 5 verse 18 says let your fountain be blessed and

rejoice in the wife of your youth.

And I won't continue on into verse 19 because this is intended to be a G-rated

podcast and I don't know if there's somebody listening who might have some kids in the car or something right now.

So we'll stop there, but the whole picture here in Proverbs Chapter 5.

It's a warning against adultery and it's an exhortation that verse verse

18 let your fountain be blessed rejoice in the wife of your youth this

proverb beckons husbands like myself to look at our wives and

rejoice in them. Rejoice in the wife God has given to you.

Let your fountain be blessed by her.

Mutally, this proverb beckons wives to rejoice in the husband of your youth.

And so I want to pray specifically for marriages.

And obviously I know that not everyone who is listening to this is married. Maybe some of you are

are single, some of you may be divorced and so we come at this picture of

marriage and this exhortation for marriage from different perspectives,

but we all need to pray in our own lives and for others lives around us for a blessed fountain and a rejoicing husband and

wife in marriage in the relationships we see around us.

So, God, we pray for this.

I pray for this in my marriage.

We pray for this in each one of our marriages.

For those of us who are married,

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