Prayers to Stop Divorce

[ReformedGirl]

My brother and sister-in-law are on the verge of divorce. My sister-in-law has filed for divorce papers, but my brother doesn’t want one. There has been infidelity committed in the marriage by both. The Lord has been working in my brothers life for the past few years and he has repented for his affair - plus other marriage areas where he has sinned and failed. We truly have seen a great change in his life.

Unfortunately, his wife has remained in contact with the affair partner and basically says she just wants to be single. She says she can’t forgive my brother for his affair, although my brother has truly forgiven her for hers.

His wife claims to be a Christian but lives just like the world. There is no fruit.

I’m requesting prayer. Please pray for her salvation first and foremost. And if she is backslidden, please pray that the Lord will restore her back to him. I also ask for prayer that the Lord will soften her heart and that she will stop the divorce proceedings. I pray that she will be able to forgive my brother as Christ forgives us for our sins and failings.

Please also continue to pray for my brother. Please pray that the Lord will guide him through this difficult time and give him wisdom and peace. Pray that he will trust the Lord no matter what happens and that he will continue to rely on the Lord.

Thank you so much for your prayers! They’re truly appreciated.

 

[Southernscotty]

Reformed I am so sorry to hear this and I am praying for God's peace to come into their relationship.

 

[Tigger45]

Lord have mercy

 

[Freedom~Sprite]

Maybe consider that when both partners have committed adultery while married, that they have told one another they are not in covenant with one another as married people are to be according to God's word.
Adultery is one of the allowances for a Christian couple to seek dissolution of their marriage. Why pray to keep two people together from someone's standpoint on the outside looking in? When those two people have told one another in their adulterous actions that they do not want to be in marriage cleaving only to one another.
Speaking personally, sometimes we think our will to stay married despite everything that shows us we are bound with the wrong person, takes a toll in other ways. Our health, our appearance, our fidelity or lack thereof. We think because we chose this person as our spouse at the time that it must be for all the rest of our lives together and that God concurs.

But if we listen to our own carnal ego are we correct? Let no man separate those two whom God has called together.
Not only, according to your relating the story of your in-laws, has one man and one woman separated these two in their committing adultery, but they are now being separated by the wife's will to divorce.
Maybe see it a new way. No man nor woman is able to separate those two whom God has called to come together in marriage.

God's will be done.
Perhaps divorce from the wrong one is the way God chooses to lead each to the right one.

Perhaps you would pray your in-laws find their way to God's will.

 

[Ash8676]

Praying for your Brother and your sister-in-law.

 

[Greg Merrill]

I believe Matthew 5:32 has been wrongfully interpreted as giving one reason for divorce, and 1 Corinthians 7:15 has been wrongfully interpreted as giving yet another reason for divorce. Neither was seen centuries ago as giving reasons for divorce, but in our society where 1/2 of the marriages end up in divorce, people have used these verses to rationalize either their own divorce or divorces of other family members, friends, etc. People put themselves first in these marriages, above their spouse, above God, and then end up in divorce. What a notion it is for people to put God first in their marriage, as He would have it (Mark 12:30; Mark 10:6). To them this is a total mystery they probably have never heard of or thought about. It is all about them, in their mind. They don't recognize the problem, so they hardly can be expected to recognize the solution.
Father, I pray that these people will come to recognize the problem, repent of their selfishness and sins and turn to making You Lord of their life, their marriage, their plans, and find the blessing You have designed for them. Jeremiah 29:11-13. Amen.

 

[Lily76_]

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