LORD God, my Father, sometimes I feel like Moses in the desert when the poisonous snakes were unleashed on the Hebrews. When he prayed, You told him to mount a bronze serpent in the encampment so anyone who was bitten could look at the serpent and be healed.
I know how he must have felt when we have couples come to study new paradigms for being in healthy relationships, then go home and immediately revert to old and tired ways of relating to one another. Please give us patience and a willingness to help them have "do-overs" until they get it right.
You know the ones who are breaking our hearts at this moment, and I pray for You to stir in them the willingness to come be healed.
I pray this in Jesus' matchless and powerful name. Amen.
Verses for Today and Why They Fit
Numbers 21:4-9 – Moses lifts bronze serpent; Israelites look and live
Why It Fits: Your illustration—direct parallel
John 3:14-15 – "Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up..."
Why It Fits: Jesus connecting Himself to the bronze serpent
Galatians 6:9 – "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
Why It Fits: Perseverance when progress seems lost
Romans 2:4 – "...the kindness of God leads you toward repentance."
Why It Fits: Repeated "do-overs" reflect God's patience
Luke 15:20 – The prodigal son—father runs to meet him while he's still returning
Why It Fits: Openness to returnees
