Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Song of Solomon chapter 2, verse 16,

My beloved belongs to me, and I belong to him.

Is that not a beautiful picture of belonging in marriage,

that you belong to one another?

1st Corinthians 7 talks about this as well, that a husband and a wife,

their bodies belong to each other. This beautiful picture of union that God has created in marriage,

this sense of belonging, that let's be honest, there is an adversary who wants us to feel alone in marriage,

and many people do, many husbands and wives, and I'm guessing some who are listening to this right now,

feel a sense of aloneness in marriage, which is obviously not God's design,

and so I want to lead us to pray for this sense of belonging. And maybe in

some marriages for a recovery of this sense of belonging, that this posture in marriage would

mark us, would mark each of us as a spouse to look at this other person and say, I belong to that person.

They belong to me.

Therefore, I want to take full responsibility for caring for them, for loving them, for honoring,

respecting them, for serving them, for building them up, for nurturing them, for doing

everything I can for them.

They belong to me. God has entrusted this person

to me to care for in this way. So let's pray, oh God, please help us who are married to experience

the fullness of this sense of belonging that you've designed for marriage, that we would

realize husbands and wives that we belong to each other, that we would care for each other in this

way, love each other, serve each other, support each other, encourage each other, build each other

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