The New Creation Marriage

The New Creation

Marriage

The following prayer was given to me by the Holy Spirit for

my husband and me.

Husband, you may pray the part for the wife in the third

person.

Wife, you may pray the part for the husband in the third

person.

Find time to pray together if both parties are willing and

receptive.

P RAY ER

The couple prays together:

Father, in the name of Jesus, we rejoice and delight ourselves

in one another. We are in Christ, the Messiah, and have become

(new creatures altogether) new creations; the old (previous moral

and spiritual condition) has passed away. Behold, the fresh and

new has come! May our family be seen as bright lights — stars or

beacons shining out clearly — in the [dark] world.We are willing

to receive suggestions from each other. Our relationships in our

individual families can benefit from the analogy of the family of

God in Ephesians 5. In this relationship we are learning to

function so that each preserves his or her own personality while

responding to the desires of each other. This unity of persons that

preserves individuality is a mystery, but that is how it is when we

are united to Christ. So we love each other and let the miracle

keep happening!

We will walk in agreement on the authority of Your Word

and seek to understand one another. That is more important than

being understood. We will be quick to listen, slow to speak, and

slow to anger, in the name of Jesus.

The husband prays:

*Father, I take responsibility for my family just as Christ does

for the Church. I am a provider for my family. Marriage calls for

reciprocal giving, so I love my wife with the self-giving love that

Christ showed for His family, the Church.

You are helping me provide leadership to my wife the way

Christ does to His Church , not by domineeri n g, but by

cherishing. I will go all out in my love for her, exactly as Christ did

for the Church — a love marked by giving, not getting.

Christ’s love makes the Church whole. His words evoke her

beauty. Everything He does and says is designed to bring the best

out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with

holiness. And that is how I want to love my wife. I realize that I

am doing myself a favor — since we are already “one” in marriage.

Christ feeds and pampers the Church since we are part of His

Body. And this is why I left my father and mother and cherish my

wife.We are no longer two, but we have become “one flesh.” This

is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all.What

is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the Church. And this

provides a good picture of how I am to treat my wife, loving myself

in loving her.

The wife prays:

*Father, in the name of Jesus, I purpose to understand and

support my husband in ways that show my support for Christ. As

the Church is totally responsive to Christ, I respond to my

husband in every aspect of our relationship.

I am being transformed by the entire re n ewing of my mind,

and I am a good wife to my husband, appropri a t e ly re s p on s i ve to

his needs. I thank You for my inner disposition that reflects the

glory of God. I cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, g racious kind

that God delights in. The holy women of old were beautiful

b e f o re God that way, and were go o d , l oyal wives to their

husbands. I resist the temptation to become anxious and

intimidated. When I speak, I have something worthwhile to say,

and I say it with kindness.

In Jesus’ name, amen.

Scripture References

2 Corinthians 5:17 AMP 2 Corinthians 5:18

Philippians 2:15 AMP Ephesians 1:4,6,8 AMP

Ephesians 5:25-30 AMP Ephesians 5:22,33 AMP

1 Peter 2:6 AMP 1 Corinthians 11:7 AMP

1 Peter 2:23 AMP Proverbs 31:11,12 AMP

2 Corinthians 3:6 Matthew 19:5,6 AMP