| I believe that marriage is an institution from God. | | | | prayed for God to do what I wanted him to do! |
| And with it comes a certainly responsibility to | | | | Some people refer to these as "fox hole prayers" |
| preserve that which God has joined together. So | | | | and they go something like this: "God, if you'll just |
| when a Christian marriage begins to fall apart, we | | | | get me out of this mess I'm in, I'll never do blah |
| have to rely on God's strength to help us get | | | | blah blah again." Although I rarely seemed to get |
| through it. I'd like to offer Christian marriage | | | | what I want, I continued to pray that way. It was |
| advice that can save your marriage and win back | | | | the only way I knew how! |
| the love of your spouse when nothing else has | | | | It was only when I discovered a new way to |
| worked. | | | | pray that things began to get better in my |
| When my marriage began crumbling a few years | | | | marriage as well as in my life. I no longer pray for |
| ago, divorce was the furthest thing from my | | | | outcomes. That's MY will. I only pray now for the |
| mind. My wife and I had been married in our | | | | knowledge of GOD's will and the power to carry it |
| church and made a commitment to each other | | | | out. The impact that simple prayer has had on |
| and to God. I have never believed in divorce as | | | | my life has been tremendous. |
| an answer and was shocked when my wife | | | | If you have never prayed this way, I invite you |
| started talking about it. I was devastated and | | | | to do it now. Pray only for the knowledge of |
| feeling betrayed! If God had joined us together, | | | | God's will for your marriage and the power to |
| why were we falling apart? | | | | carry it out. You may find that you don't always |
| And so I did what I had always done in difficult | | | | get what you want, but you always get what |
| situations. I prayed to almighty God to help me fix | | | | you need! |
| my problem. This was how I had always prayed. I | | | | |