Prayer for your marriage helps in understanding God's will for you and your spouse. Scripture encourages us to always come to God with a humble heart, and as you pray, to seek His guidance for your union. In this article, we explore a collection of heartfelt prayers, tailored to couples ranging from newlyweds to those past their golden anniversary, for restoration, unity, protection of your marriage, and more. These prayers are intended to inspire you and your spouse to draw closer to each other and to God, fostering a deeper understanding of your shared purpose within your marriage.
Prayer for Your Marriage
Lord, lead me in a prayer revival for my marriage. Use my spouse and me to be part of the perfecting work You’re doing in each of our hearts and lives. Give me a greater humility and love so I might care properly for my spouse. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. - Praying Circles Around Your Marriage, Mark Batterson
In a lifelong commitment, prayer becomes a powerful tool, providing a foundation for you and your spouse to connect with God, seek His wisdom, and strengthen the bonds of love within your relationship. There's so many ways to do this! Find our list of prayers for your marriage in addition to Bible verses and quotes to pray over your marriage below.
More Prayers and Prompts to Pray Over Your Relationship
- Restoration in Marriage
- Unity
- Newlyweds
- Protection of Marriage
- Short Marriage Prayers
- Bible Verses to Pray Over Your Marriage
- Quotes about Prayers for Marriage
- Marriage CrossCards
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Prayers for Restoration in Marriage
Dear Lord, relationship struggles are so hard and heartbreaking. Please help us to know who to talk to and who can practically help us make hard decisions. Please help us all remember we are worthy because You say so. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. - Lysa Terkeurst
Gracious Lord, James 1:19 says, “Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry”(NIV). Help my husband and me to remember this when we communicate with each other. Help us to always lead with love, and give each other the benefit of the doubt in understanding what the other seeks to communicate. Give us a relationship that’s conducive to being open, honest and authentic with each other. Help us in our busy schedules to cultivate time to focus on communication. Give me courage to discuss those troubling areas in my life and marriage and not withdraw in silent or hidden frustration. Help me speak about these areas to my husband in love with open honesty. Grant my husband an open and receptive heart without anger or defensiveness. Please also add an element of greater spontaneity and fun into our communication. Let us flirt with each other more in what we say and how we say it, and revive in us a spirit of playfulness and cheer. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. - Bruce Wilkinson
Father, at times being married is no fun. It can be hard work. Please grant me a renewed perspective and a fresh resolve to keep working on my marriage in a way that honors You. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. - Karen Ehman
Dear Lord, I rejoice that You make all things new! You can even raise a dead marriage to new life. I choose to look ahead, not behind, in my marriage. I choose not to call to mind hurt from the past. I can't wait to see what good things You bring to my marriage as I trust and obey You. In Jesus' Name, Amen. - Melanie Chitwood
Prayers for Unity
Oh Lord, thank You for my husband. Thank You for entrusting me with the blessing and responsibility of loving him well. There are certain aspects of our communication where we struggle and misunderstand one another. Please intervene. Give us clarity of thought and respect for each other. Help us perceive what the other person is communicating. Help us to have a gentle spirit toward each other. - Bruce Wilkinson
Dear Lord, You make all things new. Will You give me new eyes to see the good things I sometimes miss? Help me not to dwell on the past but to focus on the present and future. You are making a way, Lord, and I trust You with my heart, my husband and my marriage. Help us deal with any issues that are damaging our relationship, so we can appreciate the new things You're doing. In Jesus' Name, Amen. - Melanie Chitwood
Lord, I pray now for my marriage. Thank you God for my spouse. Thank you for your love for him/her, and for our marriage. Thank you that you are a champion of marriage and you want to see our marriage last. Lord, forgive me – so often I put myself first, and push you and my spouse to the backburner. Help me prioritize our marriage. Help me fight for it when it’s hard, and to enjoy it when it’s going well. Help me encourage and support my spouse in all she/he has going on. Help me Lord! I know that without your guidance and support I would stumble and fall. Help us put you first, and strengthen our resolve to work through the hardest parts of marriage. In your name I pray, Amen. - A Prayer for Communication During Conflict
Prayers for Newlyweds
Dear Lord, thank You for my spouse. We want a marriage that reflects Your kind of commitment, Lord, the kind that lasts forever. Remind us, especially in the hard times, that we made a promise to each other and to You to be committed for a lifetime. Holy Spirit, please work in me so I will be the first to forgive and the first to say I'm sorry. In Jesus' Name, Amen. - Melanie Chitwood
Heavenly Father, relationships are one of the most important things You have given to us. And the marriage relationship is especially important, valuable and purposeful. I praise You for creating us as relational beings who can benefit from each other and build into each other. Thank You for the ability to communicate, whether through words, touch, texts or a myriad of other ways. I praise You for the desire You have placed within us to connect with others, and I ask that You increase that desire more in the days, weeks, months and years ahead. - Bruce Wilkinson
Heavenly Father, thank You for giving me the gift of my husband. I trust that You intentionally paired us together. Lord, would You capture his heart in new and fresh ways? I surrender him to You. I admit I am not in control and trust You to do what You will in his life. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. - Jarrad Lopes
Prayers for the Protection of Marriage
Dear Lord, help me tend to my marriage and protect its borders. Show me how to make it a marriage that glorifies You. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Dear God, we want to protect our marriage from any threat. We want to live freely and securely as a result of having chosen to live wisely. By Your Spirit, show us how to honor each other and please You. Amen. - Dr. James Dobson
Give me compassion for my spouse and show me how I can be an encouragement to him as we fight this spiritual battle that we are both in. Thank you for the victories you have already given us and for all the work you are doing in our lives and in the lives of our children. - Gina Smith
Gracious God, today I thank You for my spouse. I ask for forgiveness for the words and thoughts that have not been affirming. I pray for healing words to come out of my mouth—words that build up and do not tear down. Please protect my marriage from the pull of the world. Help us to look to You for guidance and keep our commitment to each other without wavering. I ask that You will walk us through every trial with wisdom and grace. In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen. - Jennifer Waddle
Short Marriage Prayers
Dear God, Teach me to fight for my marriage on my knees. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Father God, You alone are perfect. Help me to keep my eyes on You. I know that no one is an easy forever-partner. Remind me daily to curb my critical spirit. Teach me to see my husband through Your eyes. In Jesus' Name I pray, Amen.
Dear God, sometimes life can be SO hard and I need Your guidance to navigate my path. Lord, help me keep forgiving when I’d much rather hold a grudge, knowing You have totally forgiven me. Empower me to keep fighting for my marriage. Give me strength to show my mate some unconditional love in meaningful ways today, just like You’ve done for me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. - Stephanie Raquel
Give me a heart that is grateful for the gift of marriage. Help me to remember that we really are better together! Help me to be intentional to value and love my spouse in the way that he needs to be valued and loved. - Gina Smith
Help me to be committed to loving my spouse in the way that your Word tells me to love him. - Gina Smith
Bible Verses to Pray Over Your Marriage
Here are 20 Bible verses to pray over your marriage. For example:
Unity: Therefore what God has joined together, let no oneseparate (Mark 10:9).
Lord, I lift up my marriage to you today. I thank you for my spouse and for this union. Open my eyes to behaviors, attitudes, habits, or outside relationships that are tearing at our united front. I pray for a hedge of protection around our union for what you joined together, let no one separate. Amen.
20 Marriage Prayer Prompts
Lord, we pray for:
Adoration: My beloved is mine and I am his (Song of Songs 2:16).
Commitment: Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken (Ecclesiastes 4:12).
Endurance: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends (1 Corinthians 13:7-8).
Forgiveness: Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you (Ephesians 4:32).
Friendship: Two are better than one…if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10).
Fruitfulness: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23).
Gentleness: Walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:1-3).
Grace: Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone (Colossians 4:6).
Hope: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).
Humility: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others (Philippians 2:3-4).
Intimacy: Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control (1 Corinthians 7:5).
Kindness: She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue (Proverbs 31:26).
Love: May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for eachother (1 Thessalonians 3:12).
Peace: Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you (2 Corinthians 13:11).
Respect: Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband (Ephesians 5:33).
Self-Control: For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7).
Thankfulness: Pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:17-18).
Trust: There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear (1 John 4:18).
Understanding: Husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way (1 Peter 3:7).
Wisdom: Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it (Proverbs 4:23).
Marriage Prayer Quotes
These quotes emphasize the importance of prayer, love, communication, and commitment in a marriage.
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - Theodore Hesburgh
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin
"In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer." - H. Norman Wright
"A great marriage isn't something that just happens; it's something that must be created." - Fawn Weaver
"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together." - Robert C. Dodds
"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love." - Pearl S. Buck
"A strong marriage rarely has two strong people at the same time. It's usually a husband and wife taking turns being strong for each other in the moments when the other feels weak." - Ashley Willis
"The highest happiness on earth is marriage." - William Lyon Phelps
"Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day." - Barbara De Angelis
"Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day." - Joyce Meyer
Marriage CrossCards
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