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Prayers for Your Relationship: Dating, Trust, Hard Times and the Future

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Summary

  • Short prayers cover a dating relationship, honesty, purity and boundaries, protection, old hurts from past relationships, the future and the person God may be preparing for a single reader.
  • Prayers for a struggling relationship cover a fight, broken trust and a relationship that may be ending.
  • Scripture’s tests for a relationship include Amos 3:3, 2 Corinthians 6:14, Proverbs 4:23 and Paul’s description of love in 1 Corinthians 13:4–5; controlling jealousy and fear of a partner are warning signs of abuse.
  • Hapgood’s 1906 Orthodox service book gives the betrothal petitions for “perfect and peaceful love” and “oneness of mind,” and the marriage prayer that recalls Jesus at Cana.
  • Russian Orthodox Christians ask Saints Peter and Fevronia of Murom, canonized in 1547, to pray for couples; Russia has kept 8 July as the Day of Family, Love and Fidelity since 2008.

Whether a couple are dating, engaged or married, this prayer fits: “Lord, you know us both. Make our love honest, patient and kind, keep us faithful to you and to each other, and show us the future you want for us. Amen.” It can be said alone or together. Prayers for a good relationship Put your partner’s name where [name] appears. For a boyfriend and girlfriend Lord, thank you for [name]. Help us treat each other with respect, talk honestly,…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Proverbs 4:23; Isaiah 43:18–19; Amos 3:3; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 13:4–5; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 4:29). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Betrothal Service, pp. 292–293; The Rite of Holy Matrimony, p. 300. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
  • “Петр и Феврония” (Peter and Fevronia). Православная энциклопедия (Orthodox Encyclopedia). Moscow: Church Research Center “Orthodox Encyclopedia.” https://www.pravenc.ru/text/2580394.html
  • Love Is Respect, National Domestic Violence Hotline. https://www.loveisrespect.org/
  • National Domestic Violence Hotline. https://www.thehotline.org/
  • GOV.UK. “Domestic abuse: how to get help.” https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help
  • Фонд поддержки детей, находящихся в трудной жизненной ситуации. “Детский телефон доверия” (Children’s helpline), 8 800 2000 122. https://fond-detyam.ru/detskiy-telefon-doveriya/

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