The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian
Posted by joanabb on July 14, 2008
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. - Philippians. 1:6
Husband Update:I haven’t written about my husband in a while … that’s probably because not much has changed … not for the better, not for the worse either - Praise God for that! My husband still have too many questions and doubts in his mind to believe The Truth and he still pretty self-sufficient and good guy to think that he needs a savior…he’s life is pretty good, his wife loves him, his daughter is healthy and showers him with love too.
The interesting thing about this situation is that as I continue to pray for my husband’s salvation I have faced an enormous amount of change…for the better. I have grown as a believer. My faith is stronger, the Lord keeps opening my eyes to His truth, so many of my weaknesses, sin and the reasons or all the challenge I face today have been exposed to me under God’s light and I see so much clearer now … It’s AMAZING. Today on my drive to work I actually thought that maybe the Lord is waiting to answer this prayer of mine regarding my husband because he is really enjoying the healing He is doing in me right now…why rush…God knows when to rush and when not to. I am learning to really trust the Lord with everything in my life and it’s been FANTASTIC.
I continue praying for my husband though and I decided to post Stormie Omartian’s prayers here because they are beautiful and powerful prayers. if you are a Christian married to an unbeliever, I pray that these 30 posts will bring light to your life.
I encourage you to purchase Stormie’s book and read the bible daily as you wait for the Lord’s work in your life to begin giving fruit, because it always does. One of the things I love about the Power of a Praying Wife is that the first prayer is for the wife who actively prays for her husband, her family. How can we intercede for anyone else if we are still in the dark? I really think it’s very wise to start by asking our Lord and Father for guidance for ourselves as we embark on this journey.
Blessings, Joana
Source: The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian
Praying for his wife.
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 notablle 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 dissapointment 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 realisites of divorce begin.
Make me my husband’s helpmate, companion, champion, friend and support. help me to create a peaceful, restful, safe place for him to come home to. teach me 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 to 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 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” ( 1 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 and 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’re 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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