When we don’t want anyone snooping around our marriage, disturbing the comatose status quo that we’ve grown accustomed to, or aggravating the egg-shell layer of peace that we’ve finally established, we need an overhaul.

When we don’t make eye-contact with our husbands, rarely smile at them, and think that watching a B movie together is intimate, we need some waking up.

When one or the other of us is neglecting God, by forgoing Scripture and prayer, we need a break-through.

These are signs that something has run amuck within our hearts. That somewhere, somehow, we started living like we are dead instead of alive, alive in Christ.

Sometimes, these symptoms reveal that we have died in our marriage – young and prematurely. We might wear the ring and share the bedroom, but we have separated our hearts from one another, and are walking in disunity.

Man might look at the outer appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.

He sees what is hidden and can bring it into the light, giving us the resuscitation that we crave.

Then, He will bring our marriage to life again…

…and we can mean it when we say: until death do us part.

*****

When we brought our first baby home, I spent hours dancing with her around the little nursery. One of the songs that stirred my heart and became my naive prayer was “Invade” by Watermark. I had no idea that as I sang and prayed this song, Jesus was taking my request seriously. I had no idea that as the music played, He was beginning to remove the cloak of “normal” that we had tossed over our lives. Little did I know, He was about to invade our lives with healing; shedding light on us in the most tremendous, breath-taking ways. (More on that later!)

Requesting that Jesus invade our home was one of the most life-changing prayers I have ever stumbled upon.

It is one divine treasure that I offer to you with open hands.

Click on the title, “Invade,”to hear part of the song. But, more importantly, consider joining me in making it our brave request for the day or week or year… In my experience, even if the process is painful, receiving His light is worth it.

Invade

Come, come in

Invade all You see of us

Any man, who’d walk Your road is welcomed here
And You’re the only one

Chorus:
Jesus, come and walk the halls of this house
Tread this place and turn it inside out
With Your mercy…
Jesus, teach us the prayers that open these doors
Until Your light floods in and illuminates these floors
And let Your truth be on our steps and in these rooms
Jesus invade…

Reach, reach in
With the hand that heals all our suffering
Conquer all that is not of You
Bring Your spirit through out
As we fill these walls with Your praise

Jesus, come and walk the halls of this house
Tread this place and turn it inside out
With Your mercy…
Jesus, teach us the prayers that open these doors
Until Your light floods in and illuminates these floors
And let Your truth be on our steps and in these rooms
Jesus invade…

I call for angels
I call for mercy
I call for freedom
In the name of Jesus
In the name of Jesus

“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

1 John 1: 5 – 9