The Rutherford County TN WoF group just started a study on The Power of a Praying Wife. I felt this was such an important step for us military wives to take. After all, marriage is hard enough but then you throw in the deployments and moves and all the other great stuff that encompasses the military life. We love it, but…
The Power of a Praying Wife takes us to the core in the first month as we begin praying for ourselves. Yes, you heard right…to pray for the husband you must first pray for the wife. Not a feel good prayer either, I might add. But a down and dirty prayer. One where you ask God to reveal all the yucky stuff in yourself that prevents you from praying effectively for your husband. Are you holding in any feelings of unforgiveness, resentment, disappointment, or maybe just a bad attitude? We need a clean heart to come before God in prayer. Psalm 66:18 says ” If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.” Isaiah 59:2, “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear.” I have to say that this is tough to accept, because I feel sure that most of us at some time have prayed “change him, change his mind, change his choice”, you get the picture. However, usually the changes MUST begin within ourself.
I want to close with the following prayer, it comes right from the book, The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian. If you right now, are being spoken to by this article, then please join me in repeating this prayer:
“Lord, nothing in me wants to pray for this man. I confess my anger, hurt, unforgiveness, disappointment, resentment, and hardness of heart toward him. Forgive me and create in me a clean heart and right spirit before You. Give me a new, positive, joyful, loving, forgiving attitude toward him. Where he has erred, reveal it to him and convict his heart about it. Lead him through the paths of repentance and deliverance. Help me not to hold myself apart from him emotionally, mentally, or physically because of unforgiveness. Where either of us needs to ask forgiveness of the other, help us to do so. If there is something I’m not seeing that is adding to this problem, reveal it to me and help me to understand it. Remove any wedge of confusion that has created misunderstanding or miscommunication. Where there is behavior that needs to change in either of us, I pray You would enable that change to happen. As much as I want to hang on to my anger toward him because I feel it is justified, I want to do what You want. I release all those feelings to You. Give me a renewed sense of love for him and words to heal this situation.”
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