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Proverbs chapter 5, verse 18,

Let your fountain be blessed and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

This is one of multiple proverbs here in the very beginning, especially of this book,

that warn against adultery or unfaithfulness in marriage. And specifically here in verse 15, God is giving us an

exhortation for husbands and wives to rejoice in one another. And remember the whole picture of marriage that God has

painted on the canvas of human history is a picture of his love for his church. That a husband's

love for his wife is intended to be a reflection of Christ's love for the church. And a wife's love for her husband

is intended to be a reflection of the church's love for Christ. And the relationship between Christ

and his church is to be marked by joy. Jesus rejoices over his church. The church rejoices over Jesus.

And so I want to lead us to pray. Certainly for anyone

who's listening to this, who is married, who is a husband or a wife, to pray, ask God for this

kind of rejoicing in your marriage. And at the same time, I want us to all pray, regardless of whether

or not you're married, but to pray together for marriages around us. Pray for parents, pray for

friends, pray for siblings' marriages, pray for others in the church. Just think of other marriages you know.

Whoever the Holy Spirit brings to your mind, let's just pray, Proverbs 518, over those

marriages that they would be marked by joy, the kind of joy that Jesus has for his church and the church has for Jesus,

that that would be evident.

A husband's joy in his wife and a wife's joy in her husband, God, we pray for this kind of joy

in marriages.

We pray, God, for husbands who rejoice in their wives we just pray for any of us who are

husbands and for every husband who you're bringing to our mind right now to pray over

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