Please pray for my wife

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musclecar_69

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My wife is enslaved to sin. She has problems controlling her thoughts, actions, and emotions and just can't make herself do the right thing. She is a Christian and says she is under conviction every day and that she is just miserable. She just can't let go of the remnants of some unhealthy relationships she had earlier in the year. I know God is working on her and in her life. I have seen some positive changes. I'm just afraid that there well be a relapse into her previous actions which would most likely lead to the end of our marriage. I pray for her many times a day, and have probably a hundred other people doing that, too. It's working, but it never can hurt to add more voices calling on God to save a marriage. I ask for all the prayers that can be brought to be brought to God for her. Please pray for her strength, steadfastness, and spiritual growth and wisdom. Basically all of Colossians 1:9. Thank you all.
 
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psychomom

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my friend...please be careful to not just give her Law...

God's Law is good, it tells us how we are to live.
but it's powerless to actually change us.

only the Gospel can do that...the Good News that God in Christ has
fully and forever loved us and forgiven us.
that we are accepted in the Beloved just as we are.
that God will conform us to the character of His Son.

and ...don't be afraid to admit to your own weakness and sin.

i'm praying...for all you asked, and that she will see Jesus in a glorious new way...
that she will look to Him. (and you, too..so that you won't be discouraged ♥ )
 

tourist

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What psychomom said as I could not say it better. I have prayed for your marriage as well.
 

JesusLives

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Dear Father In Heaven

Please be with this family and help them in this situation. Help them to both find the first love that they had for each other and to be able to forgive each other. Please send Your angels to this family to guard and protect against any outside influence that might tempt the wife to go astray and place a desire in her heart toward her husband. Give him the strength to love her in spite of the problems and help them to grow as a couple in Your love Father. Help them to learn to put you first in everything so they might have a love triangle with You at the head. In Jesus Name Amen
 
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musclecar_69

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JesusLives that is the perfect prayer! Thank you and thank you all for your prayers! God IS working on her. Sometimes I can see it, sometimes I don't so much, but I always know He is. I've asked Him to restore her relationship with Him first and then to bring her back to me. He has to come first in her life, and in mine. Only then will any marriage be successful.
 
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Brokenhearted28

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Im praying for you brother! please please pray for mine as well!
 
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Kaycie

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Healing her mind...

All sin starts in the mind. Have her walk you through one of these sinful thoughts from the very start of it- what brought on the thought, how she felt emotionally and physically, even what time of the month it was. Really break it down into tiny bits, and discuss one bit at a time. Analyze where her thoughts started to go wrong, and replace that thought with scripture and logic. Show her that she's allowing the desires of her flesh to speak louder than her conscience, and that this happens by allowing the desires of her flesh to come so quickly that it tramples over her conscience before its allowed to speak loudly against it.

What she has to do is identify quickly that this is the start of the thoughts that lead me to sin. Once she recognizes the start, have her imagine putting it on a shelf in a box (quickly), and have her imagine that next to that box on the shelf is a picture frame. Inside the picture frame is a picture of you with tears in your eyes. Have her feel the hurt you would have if she would take the box back off the shelf. Give her a sentence, just one sentence, and request that she says this sentence to herself when she is tempted to go against her conscience and against you. We are all tempted, but God will provide a way out. If temptation is the only one there to speak he will win.

YOU- you have to be there, in her mind, to speak to her heart and say, "Consider your love for me, consider my tears and my broken heart. Here I hold out my hand, take it and place it on your heart. Come to me. If I'm not here call my cell and say, "I just needed to hear your voice." And I will know to pray for you and for our marriage. You are not in this alone, I, your husband am here for you, don't shut me out. Remember our love, remember me."

Give her other thoughts to grab onto by which she can pull herself out of the sinking sand of temptation. Give her word pictures. Have her look into your eyes and remember that moment when she's tempted.

One power of temptation is the thought that it is so private that no one will know. Who can see into the thoughts in my head? God can, and every sin will be exposed for all to see. Have her imagine that she's right in front of you and in front of God, because God sees all even now, and we will all see all later.

Show her lots of love so that she can see the contrast between love and lust, diamonds and garbage.
 
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Angela53510

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Praying for your wife and for you to be the loving and forgiving husband God has called you to be.
 
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mystikmind

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The best friend of temptation is time, put those two together and in most cases it is just a matter of 'time', even for the most well intentioned and genuine hearts. The key is to try to find ways to remove and reduce temptation, ,, i suppose that is why we pray "lead us not into temptation"