Father God, I believe that you can bring a healing restoration in marriages. So, Father God, you know, the one thing about a death and a burial is following death and burial is resurrection. And maybe you feel like your marriage has been dead and buried, but, you know, that’s a good place to have a resurrection.
And in the name of Jesus, I believe for your marriage to be restored, to be resurrected to new abundant life. Let the old things be passed away and the dead bury the dead, but let God get up and bring healing and restoration. And don’t bring up the old and don’t bring up the junk and don’t bring up the past, but let God make a new thing for you.
RR: Bury it, Lindsay.
LR: Bury the ghost, bury the old, and bury the past. The Bible says, “Forgetting the past.” I mean, it just flat says forget it. Forgetting the past, you press forward. The only way you can press forward is you turn your back away from the past and move on forward. And the way you do that is asking Father God to supernaturally anoint your marriage according to His Spirit, in Jesus’ name.
RR: Marilyn, Robin, is there a word for marriages tonight coming from you? I sense that there’s something, there’s a word to be given for marriages tonight. I don’t know exactly what it is. If you feel led.
MG: I just thank God that He has taught us that forgiveness is something that makes a big difference in marriage. If you want God to bring new life to your marriage, then it’s so important that you forgive.
RR: It’s hard to do, isn’t it?
MG: quickly, that you forgive quickly and forgive one thing that hinders people from forgiving, which allows healing to take place, is that they wait till they feel like forgiving. They want to calm down and get over it for a while, you know, but forgiveness is not based on a feeling. Forgiveness is a command. You do it out of obedience. And if you’re having a difficult time forgiving, what you do is, you exercise your will.
You say, “As an act of my will, I forgive and I release that thing.” And then begin to pray for that person and minister love from your heart, from your spirit to them. And tell the devil that he will not use you against your husband or your husband against you or your wife against you or you against your wife.