# “A Wedding Prayer” by Nick Roark

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- Published: 2026-02-14T15:00:00-06:00
- Author: tollelege

Our gracious God and Heavenly Father,

We praise You as the fountain of all being and all blessing. Your streams of mercy
are never ceasing. Your redeeming love deserves our loudest praise.

We praise you for Ed and Imelda; thank You for saving them; thank You for bringing
them together; thank You for guiding them to this day; and thank You for Your promise
that You will always be with them, even as they walk together now as husband and
wife.

Father, thank You that Ed and Imelda come before You today not as their own, but
as those who belong to Christ— in body and in soul, in life and in death— they belong
to their faithful Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Shape their marriage by this truth:
that they belong to the Savior, and in Him to one another.

As husband and wife, help Ed and Imelda to believe the gospel everyday– that their
precious Savior has fully paid for all their sins with His precious blood. Lord 
Jesus, if You should mark iniquities who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness,
with You there is steadfast love, with You there is plentiful redemption, that You
may be feared, and adored, and exalted.

Keep Ed and Imelda from keeping any record of wrongs in their marriage, knowing 
that all their sin, not in part but the whole, was nailed to the cross and they 
bear it no more. Help them to forgive each other every day from the bottom of their
hearts.

Cause them to recall that when their sins had orphaned them, the Friend of sinners
sought them, bought them with His precious blood, and brought them home to His banqueting
house, and the banner of them is love– unconquerable and inseparable love.

On this day of joy, help them to rest in the knowledge that no one in heaven above
or on earth below loves them more than Jesus Christ does. Teach Ed and Imelda how
to reflect this love as husband and wife: a love that is patient, steadfast, and
kind.

Father, bless them abundantly. Make their marriage a beacon of gospel grace. Make
their home a harbor for hope for the hopeless and a resting place for the weary.
Make them wholeheartedly willing and ready, from this day forward, to live for Christ
and for each other, reflecting Your welcoming love to the world.

Father, when trials come— remind Ed and Imelda that Your love for them is unconquerable.
Remind them that all things work together for good for those who love God and are
called according to Your purpose. Help them to overcome every obstacle in the power
of Christ who loved them first and who has conquered them by His grace.

Father, by Your Holy Spirit, comfort them with the knowledge that their lives, their
marriage, their eternity, rests not upon the shifting sands of circumstances, but
upon the firm foundation of amazing grace. Grant them as husband and wife an unshakeable
hope, the very hope of glory.

Fix their eyes this day on Christ, the one who died⁠—more than that, who was raised⁠—
who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for them. As they hold
fast together now as husband and wife, may they know that they are held fast by 
Jesus, whose love will never let them go.

We ask all these things through our faithful Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ our
Lord, who lives with You and reigns with You, together with the Holy Spirit, one
God, forever blessed and forever praised.

Amen.

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