PRAYER OF BLESSING FOR COUPLES

             God bless you as a husband.  May your strength be your wife's protection.  May your character be her boast and pride.  May you so live that she will always find in you her haven.

            Wife, God bless you.  May you have tenderness that will make you great.  May you have a deep sense of understanding and a great faith in God.  May you have that inner beauty that never fades.

            May you both continue to grow in the truth that marriage is not merely living for each other but joining hands to serve God.  May you have a great spiritual purpose in life.  May you not expect perfection in each other.  Perfection belongs only to God.  May you minimize each other's weaknesses and be swift to praise and magnify each other's strengths.  May you always see each other through love's kind and patient eyes.

            God bless your lives together.  May you have enough tears to keep you tender, enough hurts to keep you human, enough failures to keep you tightly clutching God's hand, and enough blessings to affirm that you are indeed God's children.

            May you never take each other for granted but always experience that breathless wonder that exclaims, "Out of all this world, you have chosen me."

            May your life together be such that at the end of life you will be found then as now -- still hand in hand, still thanking God for each other, still faithful servants of our Heavenly Father -- until at last one shall lay the other into the arms of God.

(c) 2001 Family Builders Ministries
This information is a part of the Family Builders Ministries Leadership Network and is provided as a resource to help local congregations build healthy marriages and families.

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