The Good Wife-Prayer Battle Day 28-30

DAY 28

PRAYING FOR HIS SELF-IMAGE

Fighting your husband about his perception of himself won’t change anything. If your husband’s self image needs a makeover, pray and be patient for changes which may not happen overnight.

PRAYER

Lord, I pray that (your husband’s name) will find his identity in You. Help him to understand his worth through Your eyes and by Your standards. May he recognize the unique qualities You’ve placed in him and be able to appreciate them. Enable him to see himself the way You see him, understanding that You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet (Psalm 8:4-6). Quiet the voices that tell him otherwise and give him ears to hear Your voice telling him that it will not be his perfection that gets him through life successfully, it will be Yours.

Reveal to him that he is the image and glory of God (1 Corinthians 11:7), and he is complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:10). Give him the peace and security of knowing that he is accepted, not rejected, by You. Free him from the self-focus and self-consciousness that can imprison his soul. Help him to see who YOU really are so he’ll know who HE really is. May his true self-image be the image of Christ stamped upon his soul.

POWER TOOLS

·         Romans 8:29

·         2 Corinthians 3:18

·         Colossians 3:9,10

·         James 1;23-25

·         Isaiah 60:1

DAY 29

PRAYING FOR HIS FAITH

To a certain extent everyone lives by faith, but we also have times of doubt. Pray for your husband that in his time of doubt, he would have an ever increasing faith that will make a big difference in his life.

PRAYER

Lord, I pray that you will give (your husband’s name) an added measure of faith today. Enlarge his ability to believe in You, Your Word, Your promises, Your ways, and Your power. Put a longing in His heart to talk with You and hear Your voice. Give him and understanding of what it means to bask in Your presence and not just ask for things. May he seek You, rely totally upon You, be led by You, put You first, and acknowledge You in everything he does.

Lord, You’ve said that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). Feed his soul with Your Word so his faith grows big enough to believe that with You all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). Give him unfailing certainty that what You’ve promised to do, You will do (Romans 4:21). Make his faith a shield of protection. Put it into action to move the mountains in his life. Your Word says, the just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17); I pray that he will live the kind of faith-filled life You’ve called us all to experience. May he know with complete certainty how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You (Psalm 31:19).

POWER TOOLS

·         James 1:6-8

·         Romans 14:23; 5:1

·         Matthew 17:20

·         Galatians 2:20

DAY 30

PRAYING FOR HIS FUTURE

A bright future is what everyone wants. There is always a vision of how ones future will be like else life seems pointless. A man who has lost his vision or dream of a bright future misplaces his sense of purpose in life and it makes him hopeless. Pray that your husband never loses focus of his vision for his future and for him to be able to see it from God’s perspective.

PRAYER

Lord, I pray that You would give (your husband’s name) a vision for his future. Help him to understand that Your plans for him are for good and not evil – to give him a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11). Fill him with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that he may have a walk worthy of You, fully pleasing You, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of You (Colossians 1:9,10). May he live with leading from the Holy Spirit and not walk in doubt and fear of what may happen. Help him to mature and grow in You daily, submitting to You all his dreams and desires, knowing that the things which are impossible with men are possible with God (Luke 18:27). Give him God-ordained goals and show him how to conduct himself in a way that always invests in his future.

I pray that he will be active in service for You all the days of his life. Keep him from losing his sense of purpose and fill him with hope for his future as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast (Hebrews 6:19). Give him his heart’s desire (Psalm 21:2). And the heritage of those who fear Your name (Psalm 61:5). Plant him firmly in Your house and keep him fresh and flourishing and bearing fruit into old age (Psalm 92:13,14). And when it comes time for him to leave this earth and go to be with You, may he have such a strong vision for his eternal future that it makes his transition smooth, painless, and accompanied by peace and joy. Until that day, I pray he will find the vision for his future in You.

POWER TOOLS

·         Jeremiah 29:11; 31;17

·         Psalm 37:37,38; 92:13-15; 27:4

The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian