Prayer Request from Rebecca

PLEASE PRAY FOR UNSAVED SPOUSES

Please share testimonies and respond with encouraging words, additional scriptures, insight, etc…



I want to encourage spouses to pray for their unsaved spouses. I read something on the web a while ago that disturbed me about a woman whose husband was not saved. While she acknowledged the Lord, she was very disappointed that her husband died (after 40 years of marriage) without accepting Jesus. Her story was even more sad as the relationship was extremely difficult, she was very lonely, and from what I gathered bordered on abuse (emotional abuse).

In some way, I want to encourage…
Paul is telling us that we need to walk in such a way that we will be an example to our unsaved spouses.

I Cor. 7:16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

17 But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.



And in this verse:

II Cor. 6:17 Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you."

We are called to be separate from the world. That does not mean to be separate from your husband or our wife, but to be separate from the things of this world, walking according to the will of God and not the flesh. This is addressed in the verses below.

Eph 4:20-24 But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Our spouses need to see Jesus in us and sometimes that is a challenge. I would encourage people to pray, pray, pray… Get to know the Lord like no one else. Talk to him, he is your friend. Lean on him, he is your father. Cry out to him, he is compassionate…

Thanks