This is an example of a prayer of dedication for a wedding that commits the couple to a covenant marriage. It is similar to the one I prayed for my son’s wedding. I encourage you to use it as a template and personalize it.
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Relational Characteristics of a Covenant
A biblical covenant sets forth the relational characteristic of a covenant. These characteristics bind persons relationally. For example, the Jews, after the exile, felt lost and aimless in their relationship with the covenant-keeping God, Yahweh. In reassuring them, Yahweh speaks to invite them into a binding relationship again.
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Created in Intimacy – Adam and Eve’s Marital Oneness
Adam and Eve dwelled in marital oneness connecting to the Oneness in Trinity. Their oneness showed how they dwelled together. For the Trinity exists without rivalry or competition, an example of perfect love. Therefore, oneness always intends a dwelling together – a martial oneness shown with Adam and Eve.
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Monolith of Marriage – Truth or Fiction?
The sizeable upright truth about marriage found in Genesis 2:24-25 states, 24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. (NASB1995). The descriptive statement depicts the monolith of marriage for us.
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The Beholding of the Marriage Definition
How do you define marriage? Daily, different perspectives confront us. For example, if we interviewed people on the street and asked, “What is marriage,” the response is like beauty, each definition in the eyes of the beholder. But, unfortunately, the definition of marriage is up for discussion, or is it?
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