Attack on our Marriage 26 year anniversary
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LookingUpPrayers: 632Requests: 42
November 26, 2022 at 11:36 amDear family, thanks for your prayers to date regarding my family’s financial certainty. Today i fervently ask your prayer, for my marriage. Please pray for me and my wife. I have underestimated the persistence and level of the latest enemy attack. I may have become complacent the past four weeks since the partial financial and relational relief due to the extension to my contract to March 2023 and improvement in $rate. I was rudely awakened, by what I can honestly say is a demonic hold that grips my wife’s perceptions and prevents us from worshipping and thanking God together. The enemy has cunningly entrenched a viscious cycle of her feeling insecure (despite drastic steps I have taken, and God clearly showing up, but still leaving room that requires our faith and dependence on Him) and me feeling disrespected and devalued as a husband, provider and spiritual leader for our home. For a bit of context, our 26th wedding anniversary is on 1 December. I totally understand that due to this past financial setback my wife feels constantly insecure (permanent employment is a minimum requirement for her to feel secure) and withdraws (respect, appreciation, gratitude to me partially, but ultimately to God.) I feel there is so much to celebrate about God’s faithfulness, and the path he is taking us on…but she refuses to join me in prayer as we used to, or the acknowledge the attack we are under, or to follow biblical guidance on how to fight this spiritual battle. She is purely fighting an earthly financial one, with her own resources. She refuses suggestions of biblical counseling (online or in person) and she refuses to speak to me for days and sometimes weeks on end. She says she needs the space and it is better for her/us, but I know she spends her days doom scrolling her/our budget spreadsheet and mindlessly distracts herself via online newsfeeds. She us definitely not seeking guidance from God (refuses to attend church or other church activities) in prayer and fasting. The only positive effort she is making is to speak to and be friendly with our sons, whose opinion and futures she rates highest. My feelings and wellbeing are treated as irrelevant, because in her view I don’t deserve better. This, coupled with the timing (anniversary) clearly points to a spiritual enemy coordinated attack plus a totally savage event this week. This has been a hallmark of our marriage. Not 24×7, as we have had good times. But this has been the pattern for our setback events, for 26 years, and since June this year it has been our experience 60 to 70% of any given month. We have never managed to break the hold the enemy has over us. I have constantly prayed, and trusted God’s provision would eventually win her over. At times I have become complacent, as I thought God had resolved the negative spiral, just to be surprised by it again. Please pray that my wife would not make her joy dependent on any person, but rather that she would make it dependent on her relationship with God. When she was younger , she was continually unhappy because of her father (whose traits she seems to have inherited, and she doesn’t want), now lately she has made her happiness dependent on me. As humans we will fail. I am not perfect, but hand on heart I am a student of the scriptures and aspire and do most of what God expects of a husband – although imperfectly and most probably inconsistently. I can honestly say I love her despite her behavior and I am doing everything in my power to serve hervun a godly way, despite the deep pain and rejection I feel combined with the knowledge that a decision (career) I took has increased the normal uncertainty we face in this broken world, even though, at the time I felt God’s provision and leading Pray that I may stand strong and faithful and continue to depend on his strength and not my own.
GCOGAPrayers: 16539Requests: 1262
November 26, 2022 at 1:27 pmAmen to all your prayers. I stand in agreement with you and pray for Gods divine guidance and supernatural intervention in the affairs of your marriage. May the Holy Spirit perfect the work of healing and restoration in the name of Jesus Christ Amen Gods Chosen OneGA🙏🙏
spiritdoc1Prayers: 39951Requests: 2382
November 26, 2022 at 3:03 pmDear Mr. William Cheney; Happy 26th Anniversary Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock. Praying for you and your wife🙏🏻
sparrowPrayers: 10294Requests: 19
November 27, 2022 at 2:42 amFather in heaven, I pray you will rescue this wife from self centeredness. I cover her with the blood of Jesus Christ. May she not be deceived by the enemy. May her eyes be opened. May she become the helpmate you have equipped her to be. Bless this man with patience, and strength and courage. Help him not be distracted from you by his wife. Help him continue his daily devotions, quiet times, Bible study etc. with an open door for his wife to join but with his heart on You Lord. May this couple grow in grace and the love and knowledge of the Lord. In Jesus name
kim4Prayers: 57Requests: 22
November 27, 2022 at 6:07 pmI am in agreement with you and pray for your marriage.
His.debbiePrayers: 5436Requests: 58
November 27, 2022 at 6:17 pmPraying for the Lord to revive your marriage and bring peace, love, and joy back into your relationship! In the name of Jesus, amen! 🙏🙏🕊🕊✨✨❤️❤️
frankopoy68Prayers: 4384Requests: 52
November 28, 2022 at 2:54 amAmen, Dear Lord may the truth of your words become more powerful and stronger in this marriage and bring them unity. May love prevail. In the loving name of our Lord Jesus Christ we pray.
goingupsoonPrayers: 20097Requests: 1132
November 28, 2022 at 12:39 pmAmen! In JESUS name. ❤
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