A Wife's Prayer for the Restoration of Her Marriage

Lord my God, you are Elohim, the Creator God; you are El Shaddai, God Almighty and all-sufficient. Once again on this day I come before your throne to obtain your grace and your mercy. In Christ, my Lord Jesus, I have received the honor of coming boldly unto your throne of grace, that I may obtain mercy, and find grace in your sight to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). I praise you and I celebrate your goodness, for you have made me fearfully and wonderfully (Psalm 139:14). You chose me before the foundation of the world, that I should be holy and without blame before you (Ephesians 1:4); may your name be celebrated, Lord God. Blessed be your glorious name for ever, and let the whole earth be filled with your glory (Psalm 72:19).

I come before you, for you have given me the grace to be forgiven through the blood of Jesus and to have boldness to enter into your sanctuary, by a new and living way, which Christ has consecrated for me, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:19-20). So then, heavenly Father, I come before your throne with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having my heart sprinkled from an evil conscience, and my body washed with pure water (Hebrews 10:22).

Father of grace, I come to make my requests known to you by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6). Lord, may your presence keep my heart and my mind in the peace that passeth all understanding (Philippians 4:7).

I ask for your grace for the salvation of my home, Lord my God. On (state the date of your marriage), my covenant was sealed with (say his full name) before our families, before men and before you. You are the author of marriage; I come before your throne to plead my cause, that you may be gracious to me and deliver my home from the wicked spirits that are attacking it. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). I stand in the name and in the authority of the Lord Jesus, who, having spoiled principalities and powers, made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them by the cross (Colossians 2:15). It is written that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. In the name of Jesus, I command every spirit and every person who works with the kingdom of darkness to destroy my home to bow the knee now.

I take back authority over my marriage and my home. For it is written that every wise woman buildeth her house (Proverbs 14:1). But except you, LORD, build the house, they labour in vain that build it (Psalm 127:1). That is why I come to plead with you to build my home with me on the sure foundation of Christ. Forgive me for every time I did not seek you before making a decision. Forgive me for every time I took a path that was not your will. My times are in your hand, Lord; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me (Psalm 31:15).

You put enmity between the woman and the serpent, and between their seed, and you also gave the woman the power to bruise the head of every serpent that threatens her home (Genesis 3:15). Because of the power you have given to the woman, in the name of Jesus I bruise the head of every serpent that threatens my home. I put on the whole armour of God, that I may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. In the name of Jesus, I put on the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, my feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith and the sword of the living and powerful Word of God (Ephesians 6:13-17). I declare that no weapon that is formed against me shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against me in judgment shall be condemned (Isaiah 54:17). In the name of Jesus, I take authority over every satanic claim and every family altar raised up against my home, whether in my own life or in my husband's life. Lord, you have given me power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt me. I therefore declare that every spirit of jealousy, every spirit of adultery, every spirit of enmity, every spirit of confusion, every spirit of seduction and every spirit of false accusation at work against our marriage is now defeated, in the name of Jesus. Lord, it is written that they shall fight against me, but they shall not prevail against me, for you are with me to deliver me (Jeremiah 1:19). So deliver me, Father, from all my enemies. Bring confusion into the midst of my adversaries. Remove every false accusation brought against me, as it is written that we have overcome the accuser, the devil, by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of our testimony (Revelation 12:11).

Wash away my shame, Lord, and cover my nakedness. Lord Jesus, you who are anointed to preach good tidings unto the meek, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, I come to your feet to beg you to deliver me from all my troubles (Isaiah 61:1-2). Give me beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that I may be to you a tree of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that you might be glorified (Isaiah 61:3). You give the grace to build the old wastes, to raise up the former desolations, and to repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations; Lord, come and rebuild my home (Isaiah 61:4). Come and breathe upon the ruins of my life, to give me a new life and a new glory.

You incline our hearts unto you, to walk in all your ways and to keep your commandments, your statutes and your judgments; incline my heart and my husband's heart unto you, so that we may walk in the fear of God and in obedience to you (1 Kings 8:58, Proverbs 21:1). It is written that the king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will (Proverbs 21:1). You have given the husband authority as the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church (Ephesians 5:23); I come to plead with you to incline my husband's heart toward me. As you inclined the heart of King Ahasuerus toward Esther, incline my husband's heart toward me (Esther 2:17). You say in your Word that a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh (Genesis 2:24). I pray, my God, that my husband's heart will cleave to me and that we may be one flesh before you. I pray in the name of Jesus that any other woman who comes to stir up enmity between my husband and me will be defeated and judged by your Word. May every spirit of seduction, every spirit of Delilah, of Jezebel or of lies at work against him be defeated and cast down, in the name of Jesus. Deliver him from every force of darkness that influences his thoughts, his words and his actions for evil.

Lord Holy Spirit, I invite you into my home. Come and take control of my life and of my husband's life. When darkness was upon the earth and it was without form, and void, you were there, moving upon the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2). At the Word of God there was light, and God divided the light from the darkness (Genesis 1:3-4). Come, Lord Holy Spirit, and divide all darkness from your light in my home. Lord, let your light be in my home and let darkness be driven out, as it is written that light has no communion with darkness (2 Corinthians 6:14).

I pray, Lord, that my husband's heart will be saved and won to Christ Jesus, so that he does not perish. For you so loved the world, that you gave your only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). So I plead the merits of the blood of Jesus over my husband's life, so that the bonds of darkness that have held him captive until now may be broken. May every stronghold and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God in his life be cast down, and I pray that every thought in him be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).

Now unto you that are able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto you be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end (Ephesians 3:20-21).

Amen.