RoughCutPauseAndPray240201 Audio

The speaker begins by thanking God for the opportunity to pray for marriages. They ask for God's will to be done in their own marriage, as well as for the marriages of others. They express gratitude for God's provision and ask for guidance in being good stewards. They confess their sins and ask for forgiveness, as well as the ability to forgive others. They thank God for teaching them how to pray and ask for His help in spreading the practice of praying for marriages worldwide. Abba Father we enter into your courts with praise and thanksgiving. Thank you for this day. Thank you for being Almighty God. Thank you for the opportunity to pause and pray for marriages. And so today Lord in this moment we want to pause and praise for my marriage, Angela's marriage, and for the marriages of everyone who is listening to this whether it is now or they're listening in the future. We lift up our marriages to you and asking that your will be done in our lives. We ask that you would fill us with your Holy Spirit, that you would help us to be mindful of your Holy Spirit, to be obedient to your Holy Spirit without delay so that we might receive the blessings that you have for us and that we might be a blessing to others. Lord we thank you and praise you for providing all that we need. We ask that by your Holy Spirit you help us be mindful that you have provided us all that we need and that you'll ask us to be good stewards of what you have given us. We ask that you help move us in ways where we are good stewards and where we are able to be aware of what is needed in our space for our children, for our family, for our household. Lord we thank you and praise you for providing it and ask that you help us be mindful to use it with good stewardship. Lord we confess our sins before you. We recognize that we fall short of your glory, that we fall short of the glory, that we're hurtful to our family, to our spouses, to our children, to others, and that we struggle in our flesh to be able to to do good things and yet not always are we able to and so we ask for your forgiveness. We also ask that you empower us to forgive one another, particularly in our relationships, that you help us to have the ability and to use the ability to communicate when we are hurt and what we are hurt about and for us to be able to own what we have done that has hurtful to others and to take steps so that we avoid hurting our loved ones in the future. We thank you and praise you Lord for these things. We thank you for teaching us how to pray. We thank you that we can set this time aside to pray for marriages and we ask Lord that you would by your Holy Spirit move forth on this day forth and on the first of every month as we pause and pray for marriages. We ask that you help us spread the word that ultimately people all around the world would pause and pray briefly for marriages.