There is an old yet timely adage which goes thus: "The family that prays together stays together." In the same manner mortar is normally used to hold bricks together, even so, Prayers are used to keep every Godly Marriage and Family together. The Family Institution has always been subjected to demonic attacks from time immemorial, but a heightened assault is being orchestrated by satan himself in these Last Days alongside all of his most efficient subordinates. On the basis of our Key Scriptural Text, the Lord Himself expressed His Confidence in Abraham's capacity to command or guide his entire household in the Ways of the Lord, something that is impossible without raising a Lively Family Prayer Altar. The Seven Mountains of Society and Culture that have been corrupted through negative media, education laced with atheistic philosophies, legislations and bills by the governments of nations are being used to severely sabotage the Family Structure and gender identification (1 Jn. 5:19).
The alarming rate of divorce and single parenthood is absolutely shocking and disturbing, even amongst some in the Church. Due to the Position of the Family as God's Number One Strategy for the exercise of Dominion, our adversary knows that if he can only succeed in perverting God's Intent and Purpose for the Family, His Ultimate Agenda would inevitably suffer a massive setback. The devil is waging a war with man because of God's Mandate for the latter, a Dominion Mandate that was designed to be fulfilled through the Family System. You can rest assured that satan would do everything within his power to guarantee that Genuine Christian believers win everywhere in the Marketplace but fail in the Family for man's failure in the latter is highly detrimental to God's Agenda. Any setback in business is much more bearable than any setback in Marriage and Family. It is only Strong Marriages that end up producing Strong Families and, in turn, raise Godly children who can confront the current satanic onslaught against Marriage and Family (Mal. 2:15).
Prayer does not just glue and hold the Family together like an Adhesive but it is also the Shield that protects us defensively as well as the Missile that destroys every scheme of darkness offensively. The Lord Jesus in the Gospels and Apostle Paul in his Epistles strongly emphasized the importance of Prayers in the life of the man hence "Men ought always to pray and not to faint" (Lk. 18:1b). Men are fainting everywhere on a regular basis, especially on the Family Front, because most of them have abandoned the Prayer Mandate laid on them to the women. Men must, as a matter of urgency, lift up their Holy hands in order to recover their Mandate, their Marriages and their Ministries. Every single broken Family becomes a feather in the cap of the devil. Praying FOR the Family and praying WITH the Family is a twofold collaborative effort between both spouses and should no longer be left in the hands of the women alone. Without men watching with Vigilance and Perseverance, the serpent is bound to slither into our Family Garden with reckless abandon (Gen. 2:15). We need to learn how to become the gatekeepers of our families so as to demobilise the serpent the same way the Lord God Almighty Himself did at the Very Beginning.