“And this second thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Mark 10:8-12 “And the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” And in the house, the disciples asked him again about this matter. And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Matthew 19:4-6 “He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Facts About Marriage
Marriage is God’s ordained Covenant meant to be a lifetime (only death brings separation) relationship between a man and a woman. It was never meant to be for a season, or reasons, rationales that we see today such as I don’t love her anymore, or what I am getting out of it.
Divorce is not permitted by God because He does not break covenants
Divorce can be permitted ONLY for reasons quoted in Matthew 19:9 “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.” However, the bible also talks about forgiveness in Matthew 18:21-22 “Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.” THEREFORE, THERE SHOULD BE NO DIVORCE. God hates this word.
A married man should NEVER be in a sexual relationship with other women or man
A married woman should NEVER in a sexual relationship with another man or women
Nothing is approved by God between man and man or woman and woman. Hebrews 13:4 “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.”
Finally, the rate of divorce in the church is alarming. As intercessors, we must arise and stop this epidemic.
Pray that God will uproot the heart of bitterness and separation/divorce and give couples a heart of forgiveness for the maintenance of the altar of marriage
Ephesians 5:21 “Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.’
Pray that couples will submit to one another out of respect for God, it has nothing to do with them individually.
Colossians 3:14 “And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
Pray that the God of love will rekindle the fire of love in marriages
1 Chronicles 16:11 “Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually”.
Pray for the desire to seek the Lord continuously and allow His strength to flow through the marriage daily.
Luke 15: 17- 20 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father.”
Pray that all the prodigal wives and husbands will come back to their covenant homes
Judges 16:4- 5 “Sometime later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, “See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
Pray that God will arise in His mercies and deliver every husband who has fallen in love with Delilah. Call them back to their wives in the name of Jesus Christ.
Joel 2:12-14 “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing—grain offerings and drink offerings for the Lord your God.”
Pray that the Husband and wife will come back to the Lord from wherever they may have fallen. There is room for forgiveness at the altar. The Lord is always waiting
Joel 2:24-25 “The threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten-- the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm -- my great army that I sent among you.”
Pray that broken marriages will experience attraction again that is filled and outflowing with God’s love and mercies
Call on the Lord of the marriage covenant to arise and restore every broken marriage, those hanging on a thread, etc.
Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
Call forth the fire of God upon powers of darkness working against marriages. Oh, that the fire of God may burn them down to ashes like the land of Sodom and Gomorrah
Micah 2:1 “Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning's light, they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.”
Call forth the judgement of God upon all those who sow seeds of wickedness in marriages and plan evil to destroy people's homes.
John 11:43-44 “When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen and a cloth around his face.”
Stand on the anointing at the tomb of Lazarus and call on the anointed Christ to arise and release that anointing of Life over every broken marriage. For there is nothing too hard for God according to Jeremiah 32:27 “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”
Exodus 22:18 “Do not allow a sorceress to live.”
Call on the fire of God to descend upon owners of every evil altar of witchcraft and their altars erected against marriage. They must be scattered by fire in the name of Jesus Christ.
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.”
Speak life over every broken marriage in the name of Jesus
Psalm 127:3 “Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from Him.
Psalm 113:9 “He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!”
Pray that the word of God will visit every marriage waiting on God for the fruit of the womb.
Psalm 128: 3 “Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.”
Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”
Pray that the fire of God be release upon every womb and destroy every barrier and barrenness in the name of Jesus Christ.
Genesis 8:1 "But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded."
Pray that God will arise and remember them and cause that every water standing in the way of childbearing will recede in the name of Jesus Christ.
Homosexual Relationship:
Roman 1: 24-27 “Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
Anyone who is involved in this kind of relationship is calling for the wrath of God over them and their household. We must be alert and rise up against such evil that seems to have made its habitation in the church, our homes, and the community. We must denounce it and pray it out of our homes, communities, and churches. We must pray for those who are caught up in this lie of the enemy for God to deliver them and set them free.
Pray that God will pouch His church and release His fire upon such altars in the name of Jesus Christ.
Pray for a heart of repentance and return to the Lord
Pray that God will arise and arrest such hearts in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank God for hearing our cry
Ennette Heaggans