Please read Deuteronomy 24.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/deu/24/1/s_177001
Meditate on verses 1-4.
When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor
in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her
a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,
and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife, and if the
latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts
it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took
her to be his wife, then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to
take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination
before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD
your God gives you as an inheritance.
The meditation verses, a single sentence, illustrate the messy confusion of divorce. Jesus explained these verses when asked why there were laws permitting divorce and can a divorce be granted for any reason at all (Matthew 19:3-7). Jesus answered God intends a husband and wife never be separated; the laws for divorce were given because of people’s hard hearts, and the only reason for divorce is sexual immorality (Matthew 19:8-9).
Pray for the opposite of Deuteronomy 24:1-2 to happen in the marriages you are guarding as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD, thank you for the marriage
of _________ and ___________. Let them
find favor in each other’s eyes. Let there be
no indecency in their marriage.
Let a certificate of divorce never be written
and placed in their hands.
May they never send each other out of their house.
May they never become the spouse of another.
In Your name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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