These daily marriage devotionals are compiled from verses that we have shared with Christian couples in many counseling sessions over many years. Please read one per day and meditate on how it applies to your marriage. (Note: if you are not certain you are a Christian, please read The Sinner’s Prayer)
Casting Every Care upon God
A marriage concern can become so consuming that it dominates waking thoughts, conversations, and decisions. The burden feels personal and urgent because it matters deeply. Yet carrying it continually in human strength can produce exhaustion, irritability, and fear.
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. (1 Peter 5:7 KJV)
Peter does not say that our cares are meaningless. He tells us to place them upon God because He genuinely cares. Casting is an act of humble dependence that transfers the controlling weight from our limited strength to His faithful care.
Name the burden clearly and pray, “Lord, we place this in Your hands.” Then identify what remains your responsibility and what belongs only to God. Complete the responsible action without repeatedly trying to control the outcome.
Because anxious cares often return, casting may need to be repeated. Use the returning worry as a reminder to pray rather than as proof that prayer failed. Encourage one another gently instead of criticizing recurring fear.
Prayer: Caring Father, we place every burden of our marriage upon You. Show us what to do and what to release. Guard us from control, fear, and exhaustion. Help us rest in Your personal and faithful care. Amen.
Your marriage matters to God because both of you matter to Him. His care is greater than the concern that presently fills your vision. You may carry responsibilities faithfully without carrying the future as though God were absent.
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If you miss one, two, or many days, don’t worry about it and don’t try to catch up. Just start where you are and keep going. We have found the Holy Spirit can prompt you to return to just the passage you need for today.
This is an ongoing labor of love because these marriage devotionals will never be finished, but we have to start somewhere, so we will update often. We appreciate your support and prayers because this is a work of God not us. And please forgive us because we have never found a verse that doesn’t apply to marriage somehow.
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (Proverbs 30:5)
Going beyond marriage devotionals
- Leave and cleave – God gave husbands instruction to leave and cleave because they need to break ties with their birth-families to forge their marriages
- The perspective of a successful marriage – If this perspective can lead to an incredible Olympic victory, imagine what it can do for your marriage. It’s almost a miracle!
- Biblical relationship checkup – This Biblical relationship checkup helps couples find where they are on God’s map of a successful marriage and find direction for improvement
- Help for hurting marriages – When I am weak, then I am strong. Help for hurting marriages is found in the wisdom of these Bible scriptures. Apply them as often as needed.
- Tying the Knot: A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage by Rob Green – Field-tested and recommended by multiple counselors in a thriving counseling practice, Tying the Knot has already guided many couples into a stronger and more joyful union. Let this nine-week pre-marriage study reorient your life and marriage around Christ, so you both will experience all the blessings of marriage as God designed it.
- Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Emerson Eggerichs – Cracking the communication code between husband and wife involves understanding one thing: that unconditional respect is as powerful for him as unconditional love is for her. It’s the secret to marriage that every couple seeks, and yet few couples ever find. While both men and women deserve both love and respect, in the midst of conflict the driving need for a woman is love and the driving need for a man is respect. When either of these needs isn’t met, things get crazy. Taking God’s biblical practice of marriage and applying it with practical techniques, Emerson Eggerichs shows how mutual Love and Respect can balance a marriage and encourage a successful relationship.
- Love Life for Every Married Couple: How to Fall in Love, Stay in Love, Rekindle Your Love by Ed Wheat – This is a favorite classic book because it has stood the test of time. Physician Ed Wheat has helped thousands of couples improve their love lives and build happier marriages. In Love Life for Every Married Couple, he’ll help you improve your marriage through sharing, touching, appreciating, and focusing healing attention on your mate.