DAY 16
PRAYING FOR HIS PRIORITIES
We wives always want to top in your husband’s lists of priorities
after God, but men have different ideas of what their priorities should be. It
is not easy setting your priorities in order. You also should keep your husband
at the top of your priorities too. The simple little things you do shows him he
is top in your list. On the other hand you should pray you are on top of his
priorities.
PRAYER
God, I proclaim You Lord over my life. Help me to seek You first
every day and set my priorities in perfect order. Reveal to me how to properly
put my husband before children, work, family, friends, activities, and
interests. Show me what I can do right now to demonstrate to him that he has
this position in my heart. Mend the times I have caused him to doubt that. Tell
me how to prioritize everything so that whatever steals life away, or has no
lasting purpose, will not occupy my time.
I pray for my husband’s priorities to be in perfect order as well.
Be Lord and Ruler over his heart. Help him to choose a simplicity of life that
will allow him to have time alone with You, Lord, a place to be quiet to Your
presence every day. Speak to him about making Your Word, prayer, and praise a
priority. Enable him to place me and our children in greater prominence in his
heart than career, friends, and activities. I pray he will seek You first and
submit his all to You, for when he does I know the other pieces of his life
will fit together perfectly.
POWER TOOLS
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Matthew 6:33; 6:24; 13:45,46; 4:10
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Philippians 2:4
DAY 17
PRAYING FOR HIS RELATIONSHIPS
The influences of good friends keep us in the right path. As they
say birds of the same feathers flock together. During marriage class we were
taught not to keep singles as our dear friends and the married ones we keep
should be morally upright with good reputations. Pray bad friends and
influences away from your marriage, pray about all your husband’s relationship,
relationship with his parents, brothers/sisters, uncle/aunties, cousins,
coworkers, neighbors, friends.
PRAYER
Lord, I pray for (husband’s name) to have good, godly male friends
with whom he can openly share his heart. May they be trustworthy men of wisdom
who will speak truth into his life and not just say what he wants to hear
(Proverbs 28:23). Give him the discernment to seprate himself from anyone who
will not be a good influence (1 Corinthians 5:13). Show him the importance of
godly friendships and help me encourage him to sustain them. Give us believing
married couples with whom we can feel comfortable sharing our lives.
I pray for strong, peaceful relationships with each of his family
members, neighbors, acquaintances, and coworkers. Today I specifically pray for
his relationship with (name of person). Inspire open communicationa dnmutual
acceptance between them. Let there be reconcilationw here there has been
estrangement. Work peace into anything that needs to be worked out.
I pray that in his heart he will live long and be blessed in his
life (Exodus 20:12). Enable him to be a forgiving person and not carry grudges
or hold things in his heart against others. Lord, You’ve said in Your Word that
he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know
where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes (1 John 2:11). I
pray that my husband would never be blinded by the darkness of unforgiveness,
but continually walk in the light of forgiveness. May he not judge or show
contempt for anyone but remember that we shall all stand before the judgment
seat of Christ (Romans 14:10). Enable him to love his enemies, bless those who
curse him, do good to those who hate him, and pray for those who spitefully use
him and persecute him (Matthew 5:44). I pray that I will be counted as his best
friend and that our friendship with one another will continue to grow. Show him
what it means to be a true friend and enable him to be one.
POWER TOOLS
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Hebrews 10:24,25;
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Matthew 5:23,24
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1 John 1:7
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Luke 17:3,4
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John 13:34-35
DAY 18
PRAYING FOR HIS FATHERHOOD
Been a father is one of the best things
that can ever happen to a man, and they fear not been able to be a good
father. Most men do not recognize their
importance to their children, they feel it’s just providing the money, it is
more than that. There should be a good relationship between them. Pray for your
husband to have a greater understanding of his heavenly father’s love.
PRAYER
Lord, teach (husband’s name) to be a good father. Where it was not
modeled to him according to Your ways, heal those areas and help him to forgive
his dad. Give him revelation of You and a hunger in his heart to really know
You as his heavenly Father. Draw him close to spend time in Your presence so he
can become more like You, and fully understand Your Father’s heart of
compassion and love toward him. Grow that same heart in him for his children.
Help him to balance mercy, judgment, and instruction the way You do. Through
You require obedience, You are quick to acknowledge a repentant heart. Make him
that way, too. Show him when to discipline and how. Help him to see that he who
loves his child disciplines him promptly (Proverbs 13:24). May he never provoke
his children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the
Lord (Ephisians 6:4). I pray we will be united in the rules we set for our
children and be in full agreement as to how they are raised. I pray that there
will be no strife or argument over how to handle them and the issues that
surround their lives.
Give him skills of communication with his children. I pray he will
not be stern, hard, cruel, cold, abusive, noncommunicative, passive, critical,
weak, uninterested, neglectful, undependable, or uninvolved. Help him instead
to be kind, loving, soft-hearted, warm, interested, affirming, affectionate,
involved, strong consistent, dependable, verbally communicative, understanding,
and patient. May he require and inspire his children to honor him as their
father so that their lives will be long and blessed.
Lord, I know we pass a spiritual inheritance to our children. Let
the heritage he passes on be one rich in the fullness of Your Holy Spirit.
Enable him to model clearly a walk of submission to Your laws. May he delight
in his children and long to grow them up Your way. Being a good father is
something he wants very much. I pray that You would give the desire of his
heart.
POWER TOOLS
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Proverbs 17:6; 3:12; 23:24; 29:17
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2 Corinthians 6:18
The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian
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