The consequences of a marriage failing are great. Failure in marriage affects more than husband and wife. Failure also affects friends, the extended family, the children and the children’s children and so many more. Based on the 2016 statistics through the ABS the average number of divorces per day were just under 128 and these divorces impacted the lives of just over 110 children. Attacks on marriage are often one small imperceptible step at a time, but all the time satan is diligent in his attack, as he has been since just after the first marriage.

The reasons given for divorce give us some idea of the most common areas of attack and therefore areas that we need to equip the people of the church, and our wider community, for he