Lift up love and marriages around you with these 6 ways to pray for marriages

This Valentine's Day it is important to embrace others' love.

While it is important to try to express appreciation and love to your significant other every day, there are a choice few days in the year that remind you to reconnect and make time for each other.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Valentine's Day is shaped all around love and commitment. Your Facebook feed will soon fill up with pictures of "look what I got!" and "Oh my goodness, my lover is the best ever!" It's hard not to get jealous during those times.

This year, make it a point to embrace others' love and happy marriages; take the time to celebrate their good fortune and wish them many more days of happiness together.

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"The health of these marriages are integral to the happiness of our loved ones. The raising of our children. The testimony of God on this earth," explains Crosswalk.com.

We all want to see our friends happy. Making sure your friends stay happily married is a big step. It means encouraging positive talks about husbands and "not falling into female bonding that too often happens around bashing our men," according to Crosswalk.com.

If we are to care about marriages, it is important to lift those marriages and couples up in prayer.

With help from Marie Osborne and Crosswalk.com, here are some ideas for how to pray for the marriages around you:

Parents and in-laws:

"That their marriage would continue to grow in strength and maturity, but that they would not lose that spark of passion and novelty that makes life exciting. That they would be comforted yet still excited by one another."

Siblings and friends:

"That their marriages would be free of comparison. That they would make time for one another and find ways to connect despite the business of parenting children. That they would prioritize one another over their children and that you could be a help in uniting them to one another."

For the friend or family member struggling in marriage:

"That you would listen to the Holy Spirit and His prompting as to your role in their reconciliation. That God would strengthen them and heal the wounds that fester. That the enemy would not have any power to take advantage of vulnerabilities in their marriage. That hearts would be humbled and made whole and that God would supernaturally unite them once again."

In regards to every marriage you know, including your own relationship, Crosswalk.com presents 6 endearing things to pray for:

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1. Humble communication

"Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble." 1 Peter 3:8

2. Selfless service

"Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others." Philippians 2:3-4

3. Encouragement and Praise

"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching." Hebrews 10:24-25

4. Passion

"I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me." Song of Solomon 7:10

5. Forgiveness

"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." Ephesians 4:32

6. Connection with the Lord

"Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me." John 15:4

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