This week we are talking about our husband’s trials and tribulations. This is important because whatever affects our husband affects us. So those things that our husbands go through affect the things we do as well. It is also important how we handle things when we or our husbands go through trials. It’s hard to always have a positive look especially when bad things happen, but if we stay focused on God, we will know he can get us through anything!
“Everyone goes through hard times. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Sometimes our prayers help us to avoid them. Sometimes not. It’s the attitude we have when we go through them that matters most. If we are filled with anger and bitterness, or insist on complaining and blaming God, things tend to turn out badly. If we go through them with thankfulness and praise to God, He promises to bring good things despite them.”
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” -James 1:2-3
“A wife’s prayers for her husband during these times may not change some of the things he must go through. After all, if we never suffered anything, what kind of shallow, compassionless, impatient people would we be? But prayer can help him maintain a positive outlook of gratitude, hope, patience, and peace in the midst of it, and keep him from reaping the penalty of a wrong response.”
I know how hard it can be to go through a trial or tough time. It’s hard to remain faithful and encouraged. But if you do the reward is great!
“Whether it feels like it or not, when we serve God, His love attends every moment of our lives-even the toughest, loneliest, most painful and desperate. He is always there in our midst, working things out for good when we pray and look to Him to do so.”
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” -Romans 8:28
“His purpose for our trials is often to bring us humbly before Him to experience a breaking in our inner, independent, self-sufficient selves, and grow us up into compassionate, patience, spiritually strong, God-glorifying people. He uses these situation to teach us how to trust that He loves and cares for us enough to get us through the tough times.
This is so true! My parents divorced when I was fifteen, and I had such a rough time. I didn’t know how I would get through it or if I would ever come out of it. But even though it wasn’t a pleasant experience, I can look back and see now that God had a purpose and a plan in all of it. It helped me grow as a person and in my walk with Christ.
Maybe you have heard of the illustration of the potter. The potter works the clay until it is something admirable and beautiful. When you or your husband go through a tough time, that is God molding and making you into a better and beautiful person. It may hurt, but the end result is beyond beautiful.
If your husband is going through something right now, encourage him. Use this opportunity to tell him of past trials you have had and how God helped you through. Pray with him and for him, and remain positive. God brings you to a trial but he will also bring us through and out of a trial.
“I can’t think of any trial that my husband and I have gone through that didn’t grow us deeper in the things of God, even though it was miserable to endure at the time and we had little appreciation of where we were headed. But as we prayed through every rough spot, we found our faith growing and our walk with God deepening. And when our attitudes were right, so did our love for one another.”
“If your husband is going through a difficult time, carry it in prayer, but don’t carry the burden. even though you may want to, don’t try to take away his load and make it yours. That will ultimately leave him feeling weak or like a failure. Besides, God doesn’t want you doing His job. He doesn’t want you trying to be the Holy Spirit to your husband. Even though it hurts to see him struggle and want to fix it, you can’t. You pray, encourage, and support, but God uses trials for His purpose and you must stay out of His way.”
“Pray that your husband will be able to press in closer to God until nothing can separate him from His love-not what he is going through now and not what will happen in the future.”
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” -Romans 8:38-39
Prayer:
“Lord, You alone know the depth of the burden my husband carries. I may understand the specifics, but You have measured the weight of it on his shoulders. I’ve not come to minimize what You are doing in his life, for I know You work great things in the midst of trials. Nor am I trying to protect him from what he must face. I only want to support him so that he will get through this battle as the winner.”
“I come before Your throne and ask for grace for my husband. Strengthen his heart for this battle and give him patience to wait on You. Build him up so that no matter what happens he will be able to stand strong through it. Help him to always ‘Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.’ (Romans 12:12) Give him endurance to run the race and not give up.
“I pray he will look to You to be his ‘refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed’ (Psalm 57:1). May he learn to wait on You. I pray that he will find strength in You and as he cries out to You, You will hear him and save him out of all his troubles (Psalm 34:6).”
Power Tools:
-I Peter 1:6-7
-Psalm 55:22
-Psalm 55:16-18
-Psalm 71:20-21
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Thank You, this was beautiful and full of truth and just what I needed to hear.
Diane