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It's Never Too Soon or Too Late to Pray for Your Marriage Stormie Omartian's bestselling books on prayer have changed the lives of millions. In The Power of Prayer to Enrich Your Marriage, Stormie shows husbands and wives how to pray with urgency and power for God's protection against the 14 most common marital problems that can lead to distrust, dissatisfaction, and sometimes even divorce. Whether you want guidance to help you avoid common pitfalls or you need healing and restoration from struggles you've already faced, you can partner with God to strengthen your relationship. This book will help you prevent and pray through the challenges that may arise in your marriagelift your requests for good communication, forgiveness, wisdom, and much more to the Lordexperience heartfelt peace knowing that no obstacle in your relationship is too great for GodThe Power of Prayer to Enrich Your Marriage also provides you with Bible verses that will speak truth to your heart about your relationship with your spouse and God, and personal prayers you can use to ensure your marriage lasts a lifetime.

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Prayer in Christianity

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	02 février 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736982429
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version . Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Verses marked NCV are taken from the New Century Version . Copyright 2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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The Power of Prayer to Enrich Your Marriage
Previously published as The Power of Prayer to Change Your Marriage , now with extensive revisions and new material
Copyright 2007, 2021 by Stormie Omartian
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-8241-2 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-8242-9 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Omartian, Stormie.
[Praying through the deeper issues of marriage]
The power of prayer to change your marriage / Stormie Omartian.
p. cm.
Originally published: Praying through the deeper issues of marriage. c2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7369-2515-0 (pbk.)
1. Spouses-Religious life. 2. Prayer-Christianity. 3. Marriage-Religious aspects-Christianity. I. Title.
BV4596.M3O43 2009
248.8 44-dc22
2008017307
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Contents

What You Need to Know About the Power of Prayer to Enrich Your Marriage
1. Pray to Keep Communication Open Between You
2. Pray to Keep Anger from Hurting Your Relationship
3. Pray to Keep Forgiveness Flowing Freely
4. Pray to Keep Negative Emotions from Affecting Your Lives
5. Pray to Keep Your Marriage Strong While Raising Children
6. Pray to Keep Finances from Becoming Out of Control
7. Pray to Keep Destructive Behavior from Establishing a Stronghold
8. Pray to Keep Ungodly Attractions from Entering Your Mind
9. Pray to Keep Love Alive and Hardness of Heart from Developing
10. Pray to Keep Your Priorities Clear and in Order
11. Pray to Keep Loss and Grief from Defining Your Future
12. Pray to Keep Working Toward Agreement and Unity
13. Pray to Keep the D Word from Ever Becoming an Option
14. Pray to Keep Hope and Faith in the God of Miracles
With God s power working in us,
God can do much, much more than
anything we can ask or imagine .
EPHESIANS 3:20 NCV
What You Need to Know About the Power of Prayer to Enrich Your Marriage
R ecent statistics suggest that soon nearly half of all marriages will end in divorce. Does this mean, then, that every marriage has only a fifty-fifty chance of making it? That can t be right. There must be exceptions to this. I m sure there are some couples who have never had a problem and their marriage has always been perfect. I have never met any of them, but they must be out there. And surely there are newly married couples for whom the glow has not worn off and reality has not set in, and they have not yet experienced the stresses, losses, and trials of life that can put a strain on any marriage.
Thanks to the thousands of letters, emails, phone calls, and contacts on my website and social media-including the many who have approached me to talk after a speaking engagement or a book signing-countless people have told me about the problems they are facing in their marriages. I kept a record of their stories (not their names), and in this book I included the 14 most common reasons given for their marital problems. I believe in the power of prayer to affect these in a life-changing way.
I wrote this book for everyone who is married-or planning to be married-and I hope it will be used not only to prevent possible struggles from developing into anything serious, but also for praying through current struggles to find healing, restoration, and enrichment in your marriage relationship. The good news is that when change is needed in a marriage, the power of God working through us as we pray can change everything-even the problems we face that seem to be insurmountable and unchangeable. Can it be that our prayers could produce divorce-proof marriages? It s definitely worth making a consistent and faith-filled effort to pray fervently about them.
The truth is, God has more for us in our marriages than just avoiding divorce. He wants us to be happy and fulfilled in them too. He is not glorified when we are married and miserable. He also has a great purpose for each marriage, but His purpose cannot be fully realized if the people in them are living in strife and discouragement.
You might be surprised if you knew how many people there are who appear to have perfect marriages and yet are struggling with serious problems. Even the friends and family around them don t suspect they are having difficulties because of their ability to cover them up and present an amazingly strong front. Many people believe they can gut it out and live with the situation, but too often that proves unbearable. This is especially true as people get older and realize that nothing is changing in their marriage, and they know they can t live as they have been for the rest of their lives.
I am thoroughly convinced that all of these problems could be avoided if we would truly understand what God wants for our marriages and how the enemy of our soul will always try to thwart that. And we can, too often, play right into his hand. But there is a way to hasten the demise of the enemy s plans and see God s plans for our lives and our marriages prevail.
It s called heartfelt prayer.
Of course, you can t change someone s will, but your prayers for your spouse can help him (her) to better hear from God. Whether he (she) chooses to listen to the prompting of the Lord to his (her) heart is within that person s will to make the choice.
Nearly every marriage has its challenges. So if your marriage has already been challenged in any number of ways, don t think you are failing. You are normal. The good news is that God has a plan to restore your marriage to the way He intended it to be. And He wants you to partner with Him in order to see that happen. The way you do that is to live close to God and be fervently in prayer every day for your spouse and your marriage.
I know this works because my husband and I have at one time or another struggled with most of these problems ourselves. We have had times of communication breakdown between us that were so bad we didn t speak to each other for days, and then we only spoke what was absolutely necessary and nothing that bordered on real communication for months. We were both so broken by situations in each of our pasts, and my husband s anger and my supersensitive reaction to it nearly caused our marriage to be one of the 50 percent that didn t make it. We ve had our times of unforgiveness, and we ve both struggled with negative emotions such as depression, anxiety, and fear that permeated the atmosphere of our home.
There have also been seasons when my husband and I were so occupied with raising children that we neglected us . We ve had times of financial difficulty and disagreements over it. We ve experienced a hardening of our hearts toward one another, and occasions when we each felt as though we were very low on the other s priority list. We have actually used the D word, threatening to get a divorce, even though neither of us really wanted that. I have personally felt at times that all hope was lost and we needed a miracle. And it was true, because outside of a miracle of God, there was no hope .
Actually, it did take a miracle of God to turn things around. I saw God miraculously change our hearts and teach us to move into the wholeness He has for us. But it didn t happen by doing nothing. It happened as a result of consistent prayer and faith in God to hear our prayers and answer in His way and His timing . It happened because of God s grace and His power to do what seemed impossible to us. It happened because in each situation, we chose to give up our own way and live God s way , according to His Word.
How Your Past Can Affect Your Marriage
The reason I was so sensitive to my husband s anger was because I was raised by a mentally ill mother who was angry about everything. She was angry because she thought her father-my grandfather-loved her older and younger sisters more than he loved her. She thought this because when she was 11, her mother died suddenly and tragically in childbirth and her father wasn t able to care for his three daughters. My mother was sent to live with other family members, and she felt rejected because of