Wednesday 2 August 2017
THE POWER OF A PRAYING WIFE
God Can Work Powerfully Through a Praying Wife. Today's challenges can make a fulfilling marriage seem like an impossible dream. Yet God delights in doing the impossible if only we would ask! Stormie Omartian shares how God can strengthen your marriage as you pray for your husband concerning key areas in his life, including... his spiritual walks, his emotions, his role as a leader, his security in work, his physical protection, his faith and his future You will be encouraged by Stormie's own experiences, along with the Bible verses and sample prayers included in each chapter. Join the millions of women who have been blessed by this life-changing look at the power of a wife's prayers.
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PRAYER
Lord,
Help me
to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don't have what it
takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness,
impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness,
long-suffering, and the willingness to bear all things.
Take my old emotional habits, mindsets, automatic reactions,
rude assumptions, and self-protective stance, and make me
patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled.
Take the hardness of my heart and break down the walls
with Your battering ram of revelation. Give me a new heart and
work in me Your love, peace, and joy (Galatians 5:22,23).
I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment.
Only You can transform me.
Show me
where there is sin in my heart, especially with regard to
my husband. I confess the times I've been unloving,
critical, angry, resentful, disrespectful, or unforgiving toward
him. Help me to put aside any hurt, anger, or disappointment
I feel and forgive him the way You do totally and
completely, no looking back. Make me a tool of reconciliation,
peace, and healing in this marriage. Enable us to communicate
well and rescue us from the threshold of separation where the realities of divorce begin.
Make me
husband's helpmate, companion, champion, friend,
and support. me to create a peaceful, restful, safe
place for him to come home to. Teach how to take care of
myself and stay attractive to him. Grow me into a creative
and confident woman who is rich in mind, soul, and
spirit. Make me the kind of woman he can be proud to say is
his wife.
I lay all
my expectations at Your cross. I release my husband from
the burden of fulfilling me in areas where I should be
looking to You. Help me to accept him the way he is and
not try to change him. I realize that in some ways he may never
change, but at the same time. I release him to change in
ways I never thought he could. I leave any changing
that needs to be done in Your hands, fully accepting that
neither of us is perfect and never will be. Only You, Lord, are
perfect and I look to You to perfect us.
Teach me
how to pray for my husband and make my prayers a
true language of love. Where love has died, create new love
between us. Show me what unconditional love really is
and how to communicate it in a way he can clearly perceive.
Bring unity between us so that we can be in agreement
about everything (Amos 3:3). May the God of patience
and comfort grant us to be like-minded toward one
another, according to Christ Jesus (Romans 15:5). Make us a
team, not pursuing separate, competitive, or independent
lives, but working together, overlooking each other's
faults and weaknesses for the greater good of the marriage.
Help us to pursue the things which make for peace and
the things by which one may edify another (Romans
14:19). May we be "perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the
same judgement" (l Corinthians 1:10).
I Pray
that our commitment to You and to one another will grow
stronger and more passionate every day. Enable him to be
the head of the home as You made him to be, and show me
how to support and respect him as he rises to that place of
leadership. Help me to understand his dreams and see
things from his perspective. Reveal to me what he wants nd needs
and show me potential problems before they arise.
Breathe Your life into this marriage. Make me a
new person, Lord. Give me a fresh perspective, a
positive outlook, and a renewed relationship with the man
You've given me. Help me see him with new eyes, new
appreciation, new love, new compassion, and new acceptance.
Give my husband a new wife, and let it be me.
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