Prayer, Plain and Simple

Prayer, Plain and Simple

Prayer for Relationship Reconciliation

posted by Mark Herringshaw

 

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How about this for a story of reconciliation: After working side by side for the same moving company, two men, Gary Nisbet and Randy Joubert finally discovered that they were not only long-lost brothers, but actually identical twins separated at birth and adopted into different families.  Truth can be more surprising than fiction!

For weeks people had joked with them about how much they looked alike as they rode in the same delivery truck together in Waldoboro, Maine.  Finally, something clicked with Randy. He pulled Gary aside and said, “This is going to sound bizarre, but were you adopted?” Gary, looked puzzled, then confirmed that he was in fact adopted.  They compared notes and found out that they shared the same birthday and – amazingly – the same birth parents.  They could only stared each other and disbelief. 

This story makes a shake our heads in wonder.  What a small and amazing world! Yet there is something painful here as well.  How many of us have some estranged relationships with a personal we DO know, someone who really should be close to us but is not.  Some happenstance event, some careless word or impulsive decision drove a wedge between us that has grown into a chasm and has kept us apart.  For Gary and Randy it was someone else’s choice that made the separation. For us it might have been our own choice.  That means we can, by another choice do something about it, take a step heal them that.

Prayer can play a key role in relationship reconciliation.  In fact, relationship reconciliation absolutely plays a key role in prayer.  Jesus says in Matthew 6 that forgiveness and relationship rift is a precondition to God hearing in answering prayer.  Likewise, when we’re willing, prayer and God’s help can pave the way for restoration in relationship. 

Do a quick audit on your own relationships.  Is there a rift separating you from someone significant?  What are you losing by losing this person’s involvement in your life?  Offer prayer now asking God to begin a healing here.  Ask God to bless this person, and to give you courage, strength, and wisdom to cultivate reconciliation.  Ask God for the opportunity to do what you can, and faith to trust him to do the rest, and perhaps bring about a surprising – though maybe not quite as dramatic – reunion.

 



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Christine

posted October 10, 2009 at 2:02 am


I would like to ask anyone who sees this to pray for my husband and I. He filed for divorce and it was final on Tuesday. I know that still loves me and that his dad plays a bigger role in our divorce that he is aware. When I married him I meant it when I said till death do us part. We need the Lord to work a miracle in our lives. Please pray for Zach and myself and for reconciliation in our relationship. Thank you.



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Leah

posted July 3, 2010 at 7:18 pm


Please pray for us…we have been together off and on for 3 years & are broke up at the moment. Please that we get back together & stay together. We have had the other women problem—I love this man with all my heart..He has moved out & I want him back in my life & home, please that he move back in so we can work our problems out.
Please pray for Leah & Charles..Amen



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katherine

posted July 11, 2010 at 5:10 pm


my significant partner and i have been seeing each other for almost two years. the last few months have been really rocky because he’s just not willing to work to maintain our relationship. but yet he’ll stick aroud just as long as everything is okay and i’m willing to pull all the weight. i know thtat he loves me deep down but has been burned and is just not willing. he’s the man of my deams and i see the beauty he posses. i pray for us to be reunited and work on the problems that we have together so we can come out stronger in the end. please for katherine and jason.



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Mia Parks

posted August 23, 2010 at 10:43 am


Please pray for my family. My future husband and I have been together 7 years today. We now have 3 girls and a baby on the way. We have been through so much together and I love him so much. I know he loves me too. We also have some personal issues to deal with that adds to some of the turmoil in our lives. We had been talking about marriage and have been working toward financial stability for awhile. We finally were able to become officially engaged with him placing the ring on my finger in Feb. 2010 and announcing our plans to our families. Unfortunately, Satan reared his head and now everything has fallen apart. He met this woman with 3 kids in March and they are living together now. He basically left our family in a huge financial crisis to seek refuge with someone else. There is more to the story, but I am hoping that we can work through our problems and be a family again. This stronger as a family and him stronger as a man, he was only 23 when we met and I know that he has been trying to mature and do the right thing, but it was so hard for me to see until a few months prior to our family falling. My girls miss him so much and at times it seems unfair for us to have to go on without him. Our family needs to be reunited for the sake of all that is effected by this chaos.



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Ccasey

posted August 24, 2010 at 11:12 pm


Please pray for my boyfriend and I. he broke up with me 3 weeks ago. I am supposed to have an answer on what he wants to do this weekend, as I asked him the day after the breakup if a 2-3 week break of not talking could help us, and he said yes. I love him so much, and he is a wonderful person. I don’t have many people to ask to pray for me, so I am happy that I found this site. He is the the best thing to have happened to me.
I will keep you guys who have posted in my prayers as well. I believe in prayer, and I know it works. I really need it right now. Thanks to everyone in advance:)



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Mayra

posted October 17, 2010 at 8:31 pm


Steven R.
The love of my life
Please help me pray for my ex-live in boyfriend to be reconciled to me, our home, and my daughter. Ask God to open his heart to me again and to make our dream of getting married to one another a reality again.
Please pray for God to make us one again, to bring him back home, and for us to be a family again. Pray that God please restore our love and reconcile us to each other. Pray for God to make our relationship a happy and healthy one full of love and God’s Blessings. Pray for God to heal us and our relationship. Pray for God to save both of us and our family. Pray for God to break down the walls that are seperating us, and to break the bonds and chains that are holding us down and apart. Pray for Liberation, for peace, love and happiness. God is a God of love. God made Eve for Adam, and brought them together. I pray that I be for Steven and that he be for me. And that the word of God be made manifest in our lives that of which what God brings together let no man seperate. In Jesus Christ Name, Thank you God For granting me the petition of my heart. In Jesus Christ Name Amen.



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Bryce

posted November 14, 2010 at 9:12 am


I need prayer. Last fall, I met the most wonderful woman I have ever known, and she became the closest and best friend I have ever had. This spring, I told her that I loved her, and we became boyfriend and girlfriend. In August, I asked her to marry me, because I knew I could never love anyone as much as I loved her. I started college in September, but had to drop out because of difficulties. Because of a difficult and warped upbringing, along with disagreements with my parents, I decided to move in with my fiancé’s family instead of back in with my parents. Over the last few months, I was not focusing on God and I am ashamed to admit I turned into an unbearable monster. Last night, the love of my life has told me that she doesn’t love me, she doesn’t want to be with me, and that God is telling her to break up with me. I have started to turn my life over to God this week, and have been starting my day with prayer and Bible reading (something I’ve never done before in my life). I don’t know what to do. I’ve lost my best friend and the person I love the most because of my own actions, and I fear that we may never be able to reconcile. I’m moving out this week to give her space and time to heal, as well as to work out my own issues and problems. I need a last chance to make this work. I need this woman in my life, because she knows and understands me better than I do myself, and as God said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” I need her to be my help-mate, to keep me accountable and to help me grow in my faith. Please, pray for me.



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Sue and Barrie

posted November 19, 2010 at 4:17 pm


Please pray that my husband Barrie can find forgiveness in his heart for the way I have treated him in the past. Please pray that he can find love for me again and that we can renew our vows and reconcile our marriage. Please ask God for forgiveness for the pain that he and Gail have caused me, and that I may find the strength to carry on whatever happens. I can never forgive myself for the neglect of my husbands emotional needs for all the years we were together, please ask God to forgive me.
I have been selfish and uncaring for too long and now my heart is breaking, please God help me with the pain. Sue



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Kelly Miller

posted December 5, 2010 at 7:17 pm


I have prayed for Christine, Leah, Katherine, Mia, Casey, Mayra, Bryce, & Sue & Barrie. (everyone here that I saw asked for prayer). I too am here for a prayer request. My son’s father & I have been involved for almost 9 years. We have been engaged, but off & on quite a bit. I want patience to wait on God this time. I know we are going to be together, but I feel we are apart for a reason. I know God is doing a work in both of us. However, I want it to happen now. Patience in this situation is extremely difficult. I want him now, I want my family back now. From the bottom of my heart I know we are apart for a reason. I know that God’s timing is perfect & I pray that Ocei falls back in love with me, stronger than ever & that when God says it’s time, we are reunited, married, & have a stronger relationship than ever. & like Matthew 19:6 says, What God has joined together let no man separate. Please pray for Ocei’s forgiveness of me for the things I’ve done that have hurt him & pray that I’m giving the strength & patience to wait on God to complete these works in us to make us better for each other. I pray for healing for myself & that this pain of our separation doesn’t last or keep me in this depressed state. Lastly, please pray that this process is swift & our family is back together sooner rather than later. I pray this things myself in Jesus name, Amen.



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monya

posted December 19, 2010 at 11:37 pm


I ask that you would pray for my kids father and I to reconcile our marriage. Our relationship came through the worst storm ever it could have come through, my spouse was accused of a crime, that he has now been cleared of. During this time, I was told the kids were not to see him. He got angry and stopped talking altogehter. Right before this happened we came on one accord, and got ready to resume the relationship! Well, during this time, he met another woman two decades older than me, she nutured him and supported him through this whole situation, and when the charges were lifted. She became closer, no he did not sleep with her, but he decided to ask for her hand in marriage. He said that this experience changed him, he does not see my family ever seeing him the same, and he does not want a bunch of drama. But, I am hurt, because I did not make the allegation-it was a third party, and now I have lost a chance to reunite with my husband. Am, I right to want him not to marry this new woman and come back to his family, and we raise the kids togther, or what? I want us to reconcile, but I dont know if its God will, because our marriage did not end because of adultery.It ended because I took to long, in telling him he could return. There were things, critical that I and the counselor asked him to change but he did not!But, even after that he still wanted us, and when we finally came to that place together, the biggest worst storm came. But, I still love him, and seeing him make a permanent move like that, after the worst storm came in our lives ever is really hard? Pray, God will reconcile us, if it is his will!



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Tona

posted December 30, 2010 at 8:50 pm


Please pray for me and my husband to reconcile our marriage. We are expecting our first child, and he was happy about it. His family has came in with their lies and it has torn us apart. He told me that he wanted his wife and child, now I’m not sure what he wants. I know that he still cares about me and I still care about him. I just really want to work my marriage out. I love my husband and I know that He love me.



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George

posted January 31, 2011 at 5:18 pm


Please pray for me and my wife. we have been marriedfor over 35 years. She gets angry with me for the smallest reason and sometimes that makes me angry. I wish this period of anger would pass.



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Tyler

posted February 6, 2011 at 2:23 am


Please pray for my family while we are still mourning the passing of my younger brother from 2 yrs ago. I know that this has caused alot of strain between family members, especially my parents. Ever since he passed away, its hard to understand what my dad speaks of is true or not. Second of all, please pray for my brother so that when the time comes we shall be reunited together in the Kingdom of Heaven for eternity. Also I ask that you may pray for me while I myself am fighting my own battles (not drug or alcohol related). Thank you all soo much



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Avinash Rao

posted March 27, 2011 at 12:33 am


Me and my girlfriend have been going through a lot of problems and it all started a year ago and continued because of my mistakes and carelessness and lies and unfaithfulness. Now im a completely different person though i need to learn and change more. Last week we had an argument and that was the first argument where i talked back at her a lot and it was a big mess since then she stopped talking to me. I believe she still loves me but now she is so upset with me that she doesnt wanna talk to me or think about me. Can you also pray that we put God first in everything? Can you please pray that God would work in us and bring us back together according to his love and glory? Can you also pray that God would bless our relationship with his love and mercy and grace and forgiveness and understanding?



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Kimberly

posted April 4, 2011 at 7:45 pm


Hi, Leon and I had been togther for 4 1/2 years. He was my everything. I went thru hell and back with him. I LOVE HIM. I even moved 2 hours away just to be with him. And now he has dumped me. I believe it is another woman. His baby mom to be exact. She doesn’t love him. Please pray for Kimberly and Leon to get back to the love we once shared. In JESUS name I pray.



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Christine

posted April 18, 2011 at 11:59 pm


My fiance and I have been together almost 4 years. I was a single mom and finally found someone who loved me, respected me and treated me very well and more importantly loved and accepted my children and they loved and accepted back which is so important to us since they do not have an active father in their lives. The last 2 months have been rocky, my finace strayed. I can forgive and I have but it did cause arguements which have led us to seperate and there be some anger. I pray that my fiance resloves any personal issues and comes back home. When we are together we have a beautiful relationship and a very strong love. This is the first disagreement we have ever had and it is very fixable. Please pray that my fiance and I can get back living in the same house so we may work on our problem and continue raising the children and making a happy home. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit…Amen



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Patricia

posted May 3, 2011 at 9:27 am


Dear Father I pray so that you can bless my marriage, it’s almost seventeen years. Bless us with peace, patience and understanding. Please keep that anger away from us, that pride that brings nothing but pain. Bless our home nd family with peace and always be in our hearts. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen



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Marsha

posted June 7, 2011 at 7:17 am


Please pray for my daughter Haley. Help her see that she is using her friend Matt to hide behind. Please guide her back to her true love Josh and guide Josh back to Haley. They have currently separated to find out where life is taking them. Help them realize that this is the time in their life that they should be relying on each other more now than ever before. Please give Haley and Josh the courage and wisdom to go back to each other.



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KEN

posted June 11, 2011 at 3:08 am


i met a beautiful mother of 3 almost 3 yrs ago..i have been alone all my life just about..never married..little bit by little bit i fell in love..she did too..we get along great,we laugh,talk,communicate,love well and she and i are/were best friends..there were some pretty tough times with 2 of her oldest children..almost ended us and did seperate us for a while..we reunited..only to have me ignore time with her,she suffered great heartache and anxiety when i wouldnt call or see her for several days when i worked my 12 hr over night shifts..honestly she did do more to accomadate the relationship than i did..she broke up with me little over a month ago..said her heart couldnt take the pain of me ignoring her need to be with me full time like a couple should be..i have never loved anyone as much as i love her..i know she feels/felt the same..she has told me so many times..i’m not much of a romantic and that she needs..i really believe that God brought us together..i ask for your prayers that she may find happiness and love again if not with me,although i want that more than anything for us to be together..one more chance to show her how precious she is..how much my life is blessed with her..i need her because i love her..thankyou all for your thoughts and prayers



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Anne

posted June 11, 2011 at 9:35 am


Please join my prayers for my husband and my for reconciliation. He doesn’t like any kind of conflict and leaves to avoid it. I pray that he opens his heart to me and marriage counseling so we can learn to communicate during difficult moments. I am committed to my marriage and spending the rest of my life with him. Please pray for us to reunite and continue to grow and build on the life we have built together. Thank you for your prayers.



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Juan

posted June 11, 2011 at 10:56 pm


Please pray for my wife and myself. We have been married for 11 years kids and are relationship has been on the rocks for a good while already. We are trying are best to work things out. I need her to commit as much as I am commiting. I ask please for your prayers.
Juan and Jessica.
Thank you.



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lea

posted June 18, 2011 at 8:34 pm


please pray for my daughter and her boyfriend. He left her because of her anger. After driving to be with her, fearful of her being suicidal, taking her to doctor we found out she has major depression The depression was causing her anger issues. She is being treated for her depression. I feel God blessed me by finding out her depression illness before it became deadly, but she shouldn’t lose her boyfriend because of her illness. Please pray for wisdom for the boyfriend that he understands she was ill and it was the illness that caused her actions. Please pray for a 2nd chance. My daughter saw herself married to this young man and she is grieving lost dreams, the loss of her best friend, the love of her life, and she is dealing with trying to recover from depression as well.
thank you



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SHEILA

posted June 20, 2011 at 10:07 am


I pray for all you that need pray and for reconciliation in your relationships.I to need prayer also that im going threw tough times with my ex of five years.I ask that you pray for our strength and for god to have favor for us all. Thank you.



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Elaina

posted July 1, 2011 at 9:08 pm


All you you lovely people have been added to my prayors. I am asking for prayor after making a mistake which although I regret, has been a learning experience. I said something to a great friend who now wants nothing to do with me. I pray for forgiveness, my friend back and to learn how to deal with certain emotions in a better way. Thankyou.



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Chance

posted July 2, 2011 at 6:51 pm


I have dated the most wonderful man for the last three years. He decided to end our relationship this June. We have been having issues for a year and he never wanted to fully work on the issues so we went back and forth on being together and apart. He said he is completely finished with our relationship this time. We have BOTH did things to contribute to the demise of our relationship, but we were so close to marriage and I know (because he has stated it) that we both still love each other. I have prayed on this and need much needed prayers for our reconciliation. I am truly a broken hearted woman right now. I need prayers of reconciliation and also prayers for his faithfulness to me. Thank you so much!



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Tina

posted July 18, 2011 at 8:15 pm


I pray that Jesus will bless R and I with reconciliation and allow us to rebuild our lives together as deep spirited friends. We have been in each others lives for almost 8 years now and I know that God has us separated for a reason but the missing is palpable. I thank you God for helping us in countless times of need and for being our Redeemer and I just pray that the Lord will see us through this and restore us once again. Lord please increase our faith and bless us with a peaceful resolution soon. Help us to look to YOU for all our needs and give us the courage, strength, and wisdom to open ourselves up to each other. Thank you.



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Dana

posted October 30, 2011 at 10:54 am


I am asking for to help me get my ex fiancé back we have been seperated for a week now. I love her very much and i know she is the one that I am suspose to be with I feel it in my heart. She is not talking to me I miss her sooo much and love her even more so please I pray that she will come back to me thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I know she will come back to me with the help of prayer thank you and god bless.



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Cedric

posted November 11, 2011 at 2:14 pm


I am asking that you stand in agreement on reconciliation
for the marriage of Cedric and Twanna Tellis.
I believe that God hates divorce according to (Mal 2-16) and (1 Cor.
7:10-16) and (Mark 10-9 & Mat. 19-6). I believe that God is already
restoring things in our marriage according to (2 Cor. 13:11) I ask that you pray for healing in the mind of
my wife, I also ask that God heal any and all past hurt and pain that she may
be suffering from. Pray that God will renew her mind, and that God teaches me
to love and have compassion for my wife as Christ loves and has compassion for
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Step

posted November 22, 2011 at 9:35 am


Please pray that Mark Parsons will forgive me and come back to our relationship that God will bless us and Mark will realize I am sorry and will offer him a stable peaceful life full of love and carinfg for him and his children



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Joe

posted January 8, 2012 at 5:58 am


I ask that ya pray for me and my family to gain spirital health in our lives and that all our problems get solved thanks amen….



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pea

posted January 19, 2012 at 1:29 am


pray for my love n me to get back together. living each day without him is getting very difficult..pray so that he loves me again and we get back together forever. Amen



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Caroline

posted March 14, 2012 at 5:24 am


Please pray for me that my relationship with my boyfriend may be restored and that we may be guided to holy matrimony and have a blessed marriage and children. I pray that he may begin to communicate with me and that we may be happier than before. Lord, please put the love for me back in his heart and rewrite my name in his heart. In your mighty name i pray, AMEN.



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Des

posted April 3, 2012 at 5:08 pm


Please pray for my family and I that my marriage will work. My husband left our home almost two weeks ago and we are about to start marriage counseling please pray that God will keep us together and that we can keep our marriage as it was meant to be.



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Judy

posted April 27, 2012 at 12:12 pm


Please pray for the restoration and reconciliation of my relationship with the love of my life. That he may forgive me. That the Lord opens the doors of communication and strengthen our bond more than ever before. I love this man so deeply and I am in pain each day we are apart. I pray we are reunited soon. Amen.



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Monica C

posted May 5, 2012 at 4:26 pm


Hi everyone, I am begging for you to please pray for my ex boyfriend Jeremiah and I. He broke up with me over a week ago and I am devastated. We had a relationship in which we both talked about our future. We have our own little family with pets and we had big plans for a future together and to be married. We are not perfect but I feel in my heart we are perfect for each other and we belong together, together forever. I am begging you to please pray for us to reconcile and get back together and to work on us individually and our relationship so we can just be together and have a loving, forgiving non judging and respectful relationship. Thank you do much. You are all in my prayers.



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Karen

posted May 9, 2012 at 8:25 am


I have read and prayed for every post and I ask for your prayers in this my hour of desperation, me and my ex partner have been broke up around eight months, we were together for over 13 years and have 2 children, he is now living with a girl of 20 and her parents, I am completely devastated as are our children, my heart is broken and I have often (daily at times) contemplated Suicide, I can’t imagine the rest of my life without him and am in so much pain everyday, I would appreciate all your prayers and thoughts for strength and peace, but most of all for our reconciliation, right now I can’t see any light and I can’t see how we could come back together as his given up on me completely, but I pray for a miracle that somehow someway he finds his way back home to me and our children and that we live out our lives together, I love him so much more than I have words to explain and I can’t bear to keep waking up in this pain and loneliness everyday, I will do whatever is necessary to rebuild our relationship and our family and I pray to god all his Angels and saints to help us find a way to be together again …. Thank you and Amen xxx I also pray that all the heartbroken here find peace again



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