An unhappy marriage is worse than hell, some would say. Nobody sets out to want to build a home on the foundation of failure. However, somehow, some of us still encounter experiences that threaten and even affect the foundation of our marriages.
‘I am afraid, I don’t know what to do’, ‘I don’t think I can pull through this’, ‘he doesn’t love me anymore’, ‘she has found love in another’…, if thoughts as these depict what you are going through in your marriage, you must cry out to the Lord who instituted marriage. He has the answer to the unhappiness in your marriage.
Through the prayers for unhappy marriage below, you can conquer every unhappiness and experience the bliss that heaven gives.
Prayer of Healing for Unhappy Marriage
I thank you, dear Lord, because you are the mighty healer. You have the power to heal all diseases. I ask you, O Lord God, today that you heal my marriage. Healing, they say, begins from the heart, dear Lord heal my heart and my spouse heart from hurt, pain and frustration that we have encountered in our journey through this marriage.
Dear Lord, I am tired of the endless problems and struggles I face now and then. Help me and heal my marriage. We set out from the onset to deal with setbacks, but O Lord is, trials just pop up out of nowhere and cause painful situations. You are the great physician, Lord; I look up to you for help and for health in my marriage with you; nothing is impossible. I think it takes two to make a marriage work, but now I know that I need you more than ever before for Divine the intervene in my marriage and bring healing to our hearts in Jesus name, amen.
Prayer of Love for Unhappy Marriage
Dear Lord, I thank you for your mercy over my marriage. I am in need, Lord, and I ask you for help. I ask for your love in my marriage because the best our love for each other could produce is unhappiness. Only Your Love can make our love for each other meaningful. I pray for your love to fill our hearts and make us alive to each other again.
Our love for each other is not enough; bring an inexhaustible and better wine into our marriage as you did at the wedding of Cana in Galilee. You made a difference at the wedding; let my marriage not be an exception. Come to Lord, fill our hearts with an unquenchable love for each other. Let not many waters of life quench the sparks of love in our hearts, but let it be a flame and cause it to glow to overshadow all our challenges in Jesus name. I also ask for this one thing I ask for, let me love my spouse and be loved by my spouse, amen.
Prayer for Mercy for Unhappy Marriage
O Lord of Mercy, I bless you because you’re good. When all has failed, mercy is the only arms we can fall into. Creator of marriage have mercy on our marriage Lord your God says in psalm 145:8-9 that you are gracious, full of compassion, great in mercy good to all and your mercy and your mercies are all over your works. I cry for your mercy over my marriage, locate every fault and every cause of unhappiness, be it in me, in my spouse or even from external forces and sweep them away by your mercy, have compassion on us and subdue our iniquities. Cast all our sins into the depths of the sea, let your streams on mercy flow through us and make our marriage the product have mercy in Jesus name, amen.
Prayer of Unity for Unhappy Marriage
Dear Lord, I thank you because you are one, and the mystery of oneness lies with you. You ordained that two shall become one teach us this mystery dear Lord deliver my spouse and I from arguments conflict and misunderstandings that tear us apart and keep making us far from being one. We Stand when we are united and fall when we are divided.
Take away the differences in our ideologies, philosophies and beliefs that affect our oneness. I ask for the grace to fulfil your commandment of oneness in the book of Philippians chapter two, help me with lowliness of mind, help me to esteem my spouse better than myself, help me to look more on his things rather than mine, let the mind that runs Christ and made him one with his father run through us and make us one in you. Thank you, Lord, in Jesus name, amen.
Prayer of Restoration for Unhappy Marriage
I thank you, dear Lord, because you are the restorer of the broken down walls of human life. The walls of my marriage are falling apart, dear Lord. I ask you to help me restore every faulty foundation and mend every cracked wall. Lord, I am confident that you can restore my marriage because you restore a thing you restore it to a place greater than where it was before, so it shall be with my marriage.
Put a stop, O Lord, to the stress, to our worries and give rest to the problems weighing us down. Restore our Union physically, mentally and spiritually. You promised in your words in the book of Joel 2:25 that you will restore the years the locusts have eaten, the cankerworm, the caterpillar and the palmerworm. Let this saying come to pass concerning my marriage, restore my marriage to a better estate in You by the power in the name of Jesus amen.
Prayer of Peace for Unhappy Marriage
Thank you, heavenly father, the giver of peace; you give peace that passes all understanding. I ask you for your peace to calm every storm in my marriage. God, I know that things can change around us when things change inside us, cause our strivings to cease, still our fears and bring us to the depth of peace. Lord, help my spouse and I to believe in peace and take steps of sacrifice to work at having peace.
Grant us the courage to confront our problems rather than ignoring them. There is an understanding that brings peace; help us with this understanding. Lord, kill every root of bitterness and hatred that has brought about the divisions we are experiencing. Thank you, heavenly Father, for a peaceful abode in our marriage, amen.