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Numbers chapter 30 verse 16.

These are the decrees that Yahweh commanded Moses,

as between a husband and his wife,

and between a father and his daughter,

while her childhood is in her father's house.

These decrees come in the midst of many others in the book of numbers, but I'm drawn particularly to pray based on numbers 3016 in light of marriages and future marriages.

So in light of marriages, like I'm compelled to pray

based on this verse that God would help me to always keep his word in my relationship with my wife,

to always obey his word and honor him in the way I love my wife and to pray for her that she would

keep his word and honor me as her husband. I'm so thankful for my wife. I so want us to have a relationship

that glorifies God according to his word. So I'm compelled to pray this for my marriage

and for other marriages. For others who are listening to this who are married and even if you're single listening to this to pray this for marriages around you.

And then for future marriages like I think about in the picture here,

between a father and his daughter, while her childhood is in her father's house.

I think about my daughter and my sons for that matter.

Like I want to love. and my sons for that matter.

Like I want to love and lead and teach and train them

in a way that they grow up to either thrive as singles or thrive in marriage.

I pray this all the time for them, for their future spouses if God leads them to marry,

that God would be honored in their marriages in their homes.

And I look around us, not just in our culture,

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