Families

21-Day Fast: Day 17 - Standing in the Gap for Families

Mathew 7:11 “If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!”

As we come before God today, we come with confidence knowing that He alone is God and loves us so much that He will not withhold any good thing from us.

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.”

  • Pray against the spirit of adultery that the enemy has positioned in marriages.

Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

  • Pray that the love of Christ will engulf the hearts of the husbands so that they will able to love their wives.

1 Corinthians 6:1 “When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?”

  • Pray that God will reveal His mind to the church regarding dealing with marital issues. The Bible is clear that we cannot take matters to the unrighteous but this is what we do every day. May God have mercy for violating His word.

Mathew 19:9 “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

  • Divorce is on the rise in the church. Pray that the fire of God will rise up and scatter the spirit of divorce in the name of Jesus.

Ephesians 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

  • Call on the God of Elijah to arise and answer by fire and destroy every ruler, authority, power, spiritual force from wherever that are destroying marriages.

Mark 10:6-9 “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and 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.”

  • Call on God to bring His word to pass. He is not a man that He will lie.

Psalm 105:8 “He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations

  • Pray that God will remember His covenant in marriages and not allow the enemy to divide families.

Ephesians 5:33 “However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

  • Declare this word over the husband and wife in the name of Jesus.

Malachi 2:14-15 “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.”

  • Pray that the Holy Spirit will convict the hearts of husband and wives with the word. 

Exodus 2:24 “So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

  • There are so many families that the enemy is tearing down and they have been crying to God. Pray that God will hear their cry and remember His covenant with them.

Revelation 2:20 “Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.”

  • Call on the fire of God upon any Jezebel assigned by the kingdom of darkness to destroy families.

Prayer for Children (follow this guide)

Exodus 23:20 “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.”

  • Pray that God will send an angel to guide our children in their daily walk

Romans 12:2 “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

  • Pray that the minds of our children will be renewed daily by the word of God.

Waiting for children:

1 Samuel 1: 19-20 “They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”

  • We stand on this word and ask God to arise and remember those waiting for children.

  • Let the anointing of Hannah fall upon every barren womb in the name of Jesus.

  • Pray that God will arise, remove shame and disgrace and send it back to sender in Jesus name.

Singles:

Proverb 19:22 “He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD.”

  • Pray that God will direct their path to find the right wife or husband.

  • Pray that God will mold every one waiting on God for marriage.

Deuteronomy 7:9 “Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.”

  • For all those waiting on God for marriage restoration, children to be born, getting married etc., whatever the issue is, declare this word over them in Jesus mighty name

Add as led by the Spirit of God for this is only a guide.

 

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