Carlie K. 0:00

Hello. Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Praying Couple Podcast. We are your hosts, Mike and Carly Kirchival. And we're excited today to introduce a new feature, something that has been coming up in our spirit, and we can't ignore it because we have to obey God. We do. We've learned over the years. Listen, we've tried at times to resist his instructions and, you know, pretend like we didn't hear it. And it just never works out.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

No.

Carlie K. 0:30

It never works out the way that we would hope. But in all seriousness, we're excited to bring a new feature. And that is going to be weekly prayers over your marriage that we're going to release every Sunday. We are going to be praying over you and your marriage covenant for the week ahead. And we're excited about it. And don't be surprised too if you don't see kind of random episodes pop up as we feel led by the Spirit of God, specifically for wives. So there may be episodes that come in the future that I am praying specifically over the wives, and Michael is praying specifically over the husbands. And we look forward to just entering into a different format and just literally being led forth by the Spirit of God.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

Yeah. You know, this is something that, you know, Carly and I, even earlier in our marriage, or the various places that we traveled, me, us being in the military, that I wish we had something that we had people praying for us and having that sense of community. So we're very passionate about this. And we want to help those that are like, hey, I'm looking for something like this. I need agreement. I need someone to not look at me like a microscope or judge me, but someone that's speaking the word over myself and my marriage. And so we're very, very passionate about praying over married couples.

Carlie K. 1:55

Yeah, because a lot of times we've didn't have support. You know, there was times when we were in foreign countries and we have we've had people to pray for us, you know, over the years in churches and, you know, pastors and leadership, but not necessarily specifically, for sure, not specifically over our marriage. Yeah. And certainly not every week dedicated prayer over our marriage. And so we know this is something that is lacking in the body of Christ when God called us to marriage ministry almost 30 years ago now. This was not happening then, and we've seen very little traction with it in the modern church. So we're just excited to fulfill this calling. We are excited that we can minister and allow the Spirit of God to flow through us out into marriages around the world. Let's go ahead and get started.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Father, we just come before you. We thank you that you are the God that is more than enough. God, I pray specifically for marriages out there, people that that feel stuck right now. God, whether it's a financial stress, whether it's an emotional stress, whether they're grieving, God, there's a there's people out there that that feel stuck. They desire to get closer to you, they desire to communicate with each other, they desire to put their focus on you, but there's something in the way that is keeping them stuck. So I speak healing over it right now, in the name of Jesus. Holy Spirit, I ask that you will reveal what that is and that you will remove it by the power and the blood of Jesus. I speak healing over it right now. God, there's people that are praying, believing you for a financial breakthrough. I speak healing over it right now in the name of Jesus. You are Jehovah Al-Shaddai. You are the God that is more than enough. God, help us to continually build our faith in you as you remove those burdens. God, we cast these cares upon you. We are not designed to take these on, but we give you these cares right now, whatever it is. God, there might be things in our childhood that has been hidden. I ask that you will bring it forth up and that you will heal us from it in the name of Jesus. God, I thank you for breakthrough. God, our partner with our assigned angels to minister to us so we can come together as husbands and wives in agreement and inligning with your word, knowing that you are the God that is more than enough. God, we choose not to focus on our circumstances, we choose not to focus on our emotions, we're not, we choose not to focus on what other people think, but we choose to stand on your word and believe you for what you have already said and done. So, God, I speak healing over it right now, and I thank you for breakthrough in the name of Jesus.

Carlie K. 4:59

Father, we're just so grateful for another day to serve you, God. We're grateful for the covenant of marriage. Father, right now I just ask for wisdom, Lord. Wisdom and you say in your word that wisdom is the principal thing. So, Father, right now, I'm asking you for wisdom to go forth. Every couple under the sound of my voice, whether it's us one spouse listening or both together, I ask that the spirit of wisdom would come and speak to their hearts, Father. That you know the cries of their hearts, you know the needs that they have this week. Yes, you know what they're facing, God. You know them, the things that they keep them up at night. You know, God, because you never leave us and you never forsake us. So I thank you that your word tells us that if anyone lacks wisdom, that we can come to you, we ask you, the Father. You are our Father. We ask you, and you will give to all liberally. You will liberally give us wisdom without finding fault. So, God, we thank you that wisdom is ours for the taking and we are asking for it for our own marriage. Yes, that we're asking for it also on behalf of those out there who are listening to this. Yes. We pray also for wisdom upon anyone who's not listening. God, we pray that you would draw them to yourself through your wisdom. Father God, I also praise you for giving us your word. I pray, Father, that we will take advantage of your word, that we will come to it, we won't neglect it, that we won't forsake it, that we won't just dismiss it and act like it's just a book or just a random piece of paper with words on it. This is you, your power. This is you. You are your word. You are your word. So, Father, we thank you for that. I pray, Father God, for the wives out there right now who feel alone. Because oftentimes when I minister to wives, God, these women are carrying a lot of loads that the world does not see because we're just expected to carry it and just smile and keep on keeping on. I pray for those women right now who are silently carrying burdens, but they are in like desperate, dire need of help. I pray, Father, that you will give them the courage to speak up and to speak out and ask for help, not to be embarrassed, even to tell share it with their husbands. Sometimes husbands they can't read our minds, they don't know what's going on all the way at the core of us. They may notice things, they know us, they love us, but they don't understand because they're not us. So, Father, I just ask that conversations will be had, healing conversations that will go forth. Michael prayed a lot about speaking healing over situations and marriages. So I stand in agreement with that, God, and I ask for healing in the area of the specifically wives, their hearts. Yes, Father. That they would have the courage and and they would have the desire to step out of their comfort zones and say, you know what? I need help. Will you pray for me? Honey, I need help with this. Could you maybe take this on for a little while while I just rest, whatever the thing may be. And I pray the same thing for husbands, God. I pray in the name of Jesus that every husband would be strong enough because they are depending and truly relying on you, that they would be strong enough to tell their wives things that they're holding back. Yes, because they're afraid to be perceived as weak, or they're they're afraid to be perceived as a failure. You are not a failure, you are not weak. He is made strong in your weakness. Trust and know, brothers. You are exactly who God says you are. You are more than a conqueror, you are an overcomer. You are the head and not the tail. You are above and not beneath. So, Father, we just pray in the name of Jesus that not only does your healing go forth over marriages this week, but over families, God. Over relationships with the children, that they would be better parents, God, because they would be led forth by you. We can't do it on our own accord. It has nothing to do with us, it has everything to do with obeying you and being led forth by you. So, God, I just thank you. Whatever struggles that our brothers and sisters are facing this week as individuals, as as a married couple, as parents, Lord, as as daughters and sons, cousins, aunts, uncles, all of it, whatever role they play, whatever you designed and called them to be, I thank you that you are with them this week and you are healing them. You're exposing areas that need healing. And I'm praying in the name of Jesus that they will be empowered by your spirit to be courageous, to ask for help, to ask for help, to be humble, and to literally submit themselves before you, casting their cares upon you because you care for them, Father. Yes. So, Lord, we trust you for all these things. We're grateful that we know it's already done, and that you are exactly who you say you are. Yes. We love you and we praise you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So we just pray this week again. You know, we're we're grateful. We wish you well, and we know want you to know that our inbox is always open. You can email us anytime at hello at theprayingcouple.com with prayer requests, with praise reports. We do ask that you, you know, if you want to be prayed for and want to keep up with what we're doing here, that you would subscribe to our podcast. And if you're ministered to and blessed by it, we do ask that you would leave us a review. Yep. 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SPEAKER_00 10:35

Yes.

Carlie K. 10:35

So we would love that. So more brothers and sisters like you could find us.

SPEAKER_00 10:40

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Carlie K. 10:55

Yes. Well, we love you all. We're grateful for you, and we will see you next week.

SPEAKER_00 11:02

Yep. Bye bye.