DAY 4
PRAYING FOR HIS SEXUALITY – One very important part of marriage is
sexuality, not only is it to procreate but it is also a bond between the man
and wife, and that is why you need to pray that the bond remains and the
sexuality is never drawn back.
PRAYER
Lord, bless my husband’s sexuality and make it an area of great fulfillment
for him. Restore what needs to be restored, balance what needs to be balanced.
Protect us from apathy, disappointment, criticism, busyness, unforgiveness,
deadness, or disinterest. I pray that we make time for one another, communicate
our true feelings openly, and remain sensitive to what each other needs.
Keep us sexually pure in mind and body, and close the door to
anything lustful or illicit that seeks to encroach upon us. Deliver us from the
bondage of past mistakes. Remove from our midst the effects of any sexual
experience – in thought or deed – that happened outside of our relationship.
Take away anyone or anything from our lives that would inspire temptation to
infidelity. Help us to “”abstain from sexual immorality” so that each of us will
know “how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor”(1
Thessalonians 4:3-5). I pray that we will desire each other and no one else.
Show me how to make myself attractive and desirable to him and be the kind of
partner he needs. I pray that neither of us will ever be tempted to think about
seeking fulfillment elsewhere.
I realize that an important part of my ministry to my husband is
sexual. Help me to never use it as a weapon or a means of manipulation by
giving and withholding it for selfish reasons. I commit this are of our lives
to You, Lord. May it be continually new and alive. Make it all that You created
it to be.
POWER TOOLS
1 Corinthians 6:18-20; 6:13
Proverbs 5:15-19
DAY 5
PRAYING FOR HIS AFFECTION-Sex and affection are
different things and a man and wife needs it, those little hugs, pecks,
carrying…. if you are in a marriage and it lacks, pray for the Holy Spirit’s
transformation
PRAYER
Lord, I pray for open physical affection between my husband and
me. Enable each of us to lay aside self-consciousness or apathy and be effusive
in our display of love. Help us to demonstrate how much we care for and value
each other. Remind us throughout each day to affectionately touch one another
in some way. Help us to not be cold, undemonstrative, uninterested, or remote.
Enable us to be warm, tender, compassionate, loving, and adoring. Break through
any hardheadedness on our part that refuses to change and grow. If one of us is
less affectionate to the other’s detriment, bring us into balance.
Where any lack of affection has planted a negative view of
marriage in our children, or taught them an incorrect way of relating to a
marriage partner, help us to model the right way so that they can observe it.
Show us how to openly confess or errors to them and demonstrate our commitment
to live differently.
Change our habits of indifference or busyness. May we not so take
each other for granted that we don’t’ make the effort to reach out and touch
one another with affection. Help us not to weaken the marriage through neglect
of this vital means of communication. I pray that we always “greet one another
with a kiss of love”(1Peter 5:14). I know that only the transforming power of
the Holy Spirit can make changes that last. I trust You to transform us and
make us the husband and wife You called us to be.
POWER TOOLS
Philippians 2:1-2; 2:4
Ephesians 5:28-29
Song of Solomon 2:6
1 Corinthians 10:24
DAY 6
PRAYING FOR HIS TEMPTATIONS
Temptations can come in many folds, drinking, hanging out till
late night, women….the best time to start praying about these temptations is
before it happens, and if it is already happening, pray it stops.
PRAYER
Lord, I pray that You would strengthen my husband to resist any
temptation that comes his way. Stamp it out of his mind before it ever reaches
his heart or personal experience. Lead him not into temptation, but deliver him
from evils such as adultery, pornography, drugs, alcohol, food addiction,
gambling, and perversion. Remove temptation especially in the area of (name
specific temptation). Make him strong where he is weak. Help him to rise above
anything that erects itself as a stronghold in his life. May he say, I will set
nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall
not cling to me(Psalm 101:3).
Lord, You’ve said that “Whoever has no rule over his own spirit Is
like a city broken down, without walls”(Proverbs 25:28). I pray that my
husband(husbands name) will not be broken down by the power of evil, but raised
up by the power of God. Establish a wall of protection around him. Fill him
with Your Spirit and flush out all that is not of You. Help him to take charge
over his own spirit and have self-control to resist anything and anyone who
becomes a lure. May he “abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good”(Romans
12:9). I pray that he will be repulsed by tempting situations. Give him courage
to reject them. Teach him to walk in the Spirit so he will not fulfill the lust
of the flesh.
POWER TOOLS
James 1:13-15
1 Corinthians 10:13
Romans 13:13-14
1 Timothy 6:9
Galatians 5:19-21
The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian
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