A Good Prayer For Relationships

All of us have relationships, whether many or few. Even if we claim to have no friends, we still have relationships with our neighbors, parents, or other family members. We, humans, are created by God to be social beings. Therefore, we all have relationships. However, the question is whether they are relationships that honor God.

Heavenly Father, show me Your glory so that I may glorify and honor You with my relationships. May they all be relationships that are rooted in both the fear and love of You. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

What Does the Bible Say About Relationships?

To know what and how we can pray for our relationships, we should first know what the Bible says regarding relationships. We need to understand that in everything we do as Christians, we are to glorify God. That means we also glorify and honor God in our friendships, romantic relationships, and family relationships. That is and should be the basis of every relationship we have.

Christ should be at the center of our relationships with fellow believers. If Christ is not the center and foundation of our Christian relationships, they will be like any other relationship we have with unbelievers, just a cleaner version. What makes Christ-centered relationships that glorify and honor God different from the relationships we have with unbelievers is that the former always point us back to Christ, edify us, and help us pursue holiness.

Christ-centered relationships and relationships with unbelievers may have loving one another, carrying each other burdens, and being there for one another as a common denominator, but what relationships with unbelievers or between unbelievers will never have is helping one another live in love and truth, as written in Proverbs 27. Relationships are also how people pray for us. We gather to pray corporately and, at times, partake of the holy communion together, where we receive grace, as written in (And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Acts 2:42), and (I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 1 Timothy 2:1). Christ-centered relationships are where we receive godly counsel with scriptures as the basis, as (Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. Proverbs 11:14) says. Even the way believers love one another is different from unbelievers’ love. Believers love because God first loved them; the love they show and give others is an outflow of God’s love for them. Their love is a sacrificial kind of love.

 

Proverbs 11:14 KJV
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

However, that is not to say that our relationships with unbelievers are inherently ungodly. If we have healthy friendships with unbelievers, where we don’t compromise and sin but constantly try to reach out to them for Christ, there is nothing wrong with that. However, if we are the ones who are being influenced to sin, then that relationship is not just dishonoring to God but also not wise to keep.

With that, now we know what to pray for in our relationships, and that is for our relationships to glorify and honor God. A God-centered relationship submits to the scriptures and pursues holiness. All of this is grounded in the Scriptures, and therefore we can take time to pray for our relationships.

How Can We Pray A Good Prayer For Relationships?

We can pray a good prayer for our relationships by going to the Bible and learning about how our relationships should be. The verses we mentioned before about what a glorifying and God-honoring relationship should be, were Scriptures from the Bible. As we learn from the Bible what a God-glorifying, God-honoring, and God-centered relationship is, we will understand what we can pray for.

If you are praying for your relationships with unbelievers, you can ask God to use your relationship to reach out to them, so they can hear the Gospel as you preach it and repent. Discipling them should be the goal of building a relationship with them.

Father in heaven, I pray for my relationships with my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, that they will always be glorifying relationships before You, where Christ is always at the center. May we always love and encourage one another, reproof one another, and help each other grow in holiness. I also pray that my relationships with my workmates shall allow them to be reached and invited to my Bible study, where they will hopefully hear the Gospel. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

Sin has broken some of our relationships. It has tainted relationships with pain because of our own selfishness. However, this is not so when Christ redeems us. In Christ, we are given a new heart filled with God’s love so that we may love others with the same sacrificial kind of love He has shown us through Christ. We love because He first loved us.