A Prayer for Your Broken Marriage to Be Restored
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. — Matthew 11:28, NIV Maybe you're sleeping in separate rooms, or lying next to someone who feels like a stranger. Maybe there was an affair, or an addiction that keeps taking priority over you, or just years of slow drift until you woke up one day and realised you were roommates, not spouses. You've prayed the short desperate prayers already, God, fix this, usually at 2 a.m., usually through tears you didn't plan on. This is for you, whether your marriage is in crisis this week or has been quietly dying for years. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. — Matthew 11:28, NIV Bringing this to God Psalm 62:8 tells us to "pour out your heart before him," and it's worth knowing that David wrote those words while people were actively plotting to bring him down, the psalm opens with him describing himself as a leaning wall, a tottering fence. He wasn't p...