Prayers to celebrate marriage
By Lynette Kittle
Bible Reading:
“That is why a man leaves his father and mother, unites with his wife, and they become one flesh.” – Genesis 2:24
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In today’s society, wedding celebrations take on a luxurious, party-like tone, where the larger and more elaborate weddings remain on the roadside the more simple celebrations of union for one woman. Our culture has embraced sacred marriage and transformed it into the wedding industry. It’s based on making a lot of money. From expensive wedding venue options to expensive reception halls, couples spend thousands, and sometimes millions, on weddings, adoringly, on a luxurious wedding designed to compete with royal weddings that forget and leave the sacred meaning and holiness of marriage at the altar.
Costly weddings cause cold feet
Tragically, for many couples who want to cause the true cold waters of their marriages in life, the cost of weddings and receptions has become a major obstacle, and even an excuse for many couples to postpone their sacred marriage indefinitely. Rather than focusing on the sacrament of marriage itself, couples are engaged for years, put their marriage aside, and throw it aside, taking into account the goals that are too expensive and unattainable for countless couples today. Sadly, the exorbitant costs involved and the high finances needed to quit a recent wedding bring great stress between couples and their families.
Why is marriage celebrated?
But as many individuals consider, marriage is not just a reason to hold an epic party or contract. Many fiancées have prenuptial agreements that are necessary to even need to say “I” at the altar. Many have reduced marriage to legally binding agreements, which is a sacred covenant between men, women and gods. As Hebrews 13:4 explains, sanctifying marriage. “Marriage should be respected by all, and the bed of marriage is kept pure, because God judges adulterers and all sexual immorality.”
God designed the marriage where he was central, embracing the couple with his glue that was made to virtually not break.
“It may be overwhelming, but the two can protect themselves. The codes of the three chains are not immediately broken,” so God-created, ordained and sanctified sacred pure union is designed to lift the barrage of the most cruel attacks and difficulties, and is designed to be repaired very strictly. “Therefore, no one separates what God has come together” (Mark 10:9).
True celebration of marriage
Holy Marriage is created to be more than a renamed or updated relationship status. It is a photograph of the selfless Christ and his beautiful, pure bride, church, that unite the two people physically and spiritually, and that a man sacrifices when they marry his wife.
As Ephesians 5:25 explains, “Husband, I love your wife, and Christ loved the Church, and gave up on himself for her.”
Let’s pray:
Dear Father,
Our hearts are deeply grateful for the gift of a truly special marriage, just as we all celebrate other relationships on earth and the months of the year. Thank you for creating it, being at the heart of this Holy Union, embracing the couple, helping us to maintain our commitment to you and each other. It recognizes how you ordained and sanctified the holy marriage, bringing us together, making us within you, reminding us that marriage is a photograph of Christ and His bride’s church. It celebrates not only our own marriages, but the marriages surrounding us, making us realize how we can influence, support and encourage the marriages of our family, friends, neighbors and colleagues. Today and every day, Lord, raise and strengthen our marriage commitment to honor and praise your name.
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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Lynette Kittle is married to four daughters. She enjoys writing about faith, marriage, parenting, relationships and life. Her writings have been published by Focus on the Family, Decision, Today’s Christian Woman, Kirkcameron.com, ungrind.org, startmarriageright.com and more. She holds a Masters degree in Communications from Regent University and is an associate producer at Soul Check TV.
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