The Power of a Praying Wife Devotional (22 page)

Where depression has come upon either of us because of depressing circumstances, I pray You would break its power in our lives. Enable us to rise above our situation and the sadness it has brought and refuse to let it control or grip us. Give each of us the ability to possess our own souls and refuse anything that attempts to influence us other than Your Spirit (Luke 21:19). Enable us to walk wisely so that we will be delivered (Proverbs 28:26). Bring us up from the pit and set us on the rock. Put Your song in our hearts (Psalm 40:1-3). Heal my husband’s soul and mine, and lead us on the path of wholeness You have for us (Psalm 23:3).

In Jesus’ name I pray.

40

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and lean not on your own understanding.

P
ROVERBS
3:5

H
AS YOUR HUSBAND
ever done something you feel has violated your trust in him? It doesn’t have to be anything as terrible as infidelity. It could be financial irresponsibility, or some kind of lie or deception, or hurtful treatment of you, or a confidence he shared with someone else. Whatever it is, you can find yourself wary—always suspecting he may do the same thing again. Yet there must be trust in your marriage relationship or you can never move forward.

Living in such a close relationship without trust is not living at all. It’s remarkably sad to not be able to trust the one we are supposed to trust the most. If this has happened to you, it must be remedied, rectified, and resolved. Only God can truly restore the kind of trust you need to have.

If your husband has done something to lose your trust, pray that God will lead him to complete repentance. Pray also that your heart will be willing to forgive him. This can be especially hard if he is a repeat offender, but it is not too hard for God to work forgiveness in your heart if you are willing. Ask God to set you free of all anger, frustration, disappointment, fear, and resentment. The most important thing to do after you have prayed for your husband’s repentance and your forgiveness is to pray you will trust God to work a miracle in your husband’s heart and yours as well. You have to first decide that You will trust God with all your heart and not lean on your own understanding. Then He will enable you to trust your husband again.

My Prayer to God

L
ORD
, I confess any time when I have lost faith in my husband and don’t have full trust in him. I know that is not the way You want me to live. Help us both to have faith in each other and not live in constant distrust, bracing ourselves for what violation of trust is going to happen next. Where my distrust is unfounded, I pray You would help me to see that and enable me to step out in trust of him again. Where my distrust is legitimate because he has truly violated that trust, I ask for a miracle of restoration.

First of all, I pray You would lead my husband to total repentance. Bring him to his knees before You in confession so he can be restored. I pray he will be sincerely apologetic to me as well. Second, help me to forgive him so completely that I can trust him fully without reservation again. And last, but most important of all, help me to trust You with all my heart to rectify this situation. Work powerfully in my husband to make him trustworthy, and do a work in me to make me trusting. Help me to not depend on my own reasoning, but rather to depend on Your ability to transform us both.

In Jesus’ name I pray.

41

Walk in the Spirit, and you shall
not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

G
ALATIANS
5:16

W
HATEVER SEEDS WE SOW
will determine what we reap in life. Anyone who “sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption,” but when we sow to the Spirit, we “reap everlasting life” (Galatians 6:8).

Too often what we are living out in our lives is in direct correlation to what we have sown. However, when you are married,
you
will
also
live in the harvest of what your husband has sown. And he will live in what you have sown as well. If he has sown seeds of irresponsibility and carelessness with finances, you will live in what that brings about in your life. If you have sown seeds of deception, then you
both
will experience the harvest that results from that. This is not to say if your husband has done something terrible or illegal that God won’t protect you in it. He will. But you do have to pray for that. Things don’t just automatically happen that way.

Sowing and reaping are a given—a sure thing. If your husband sows to the wind, you will both reap the whirlwind unless you pray for God to protect you from that. And even then, you can still be affected by it if there is not repentance on the part of the one who has sown poorly. Ask God to help you and your husband sow seeds of whatever you both want to reap in your life. Pray that God will help you do what is necessary to reap a life of peace, happiness, purpose, abundance, and love. Ask God to enable you both to walk in the Holy Spirit so you will not fulfill the lust of your flesh.

My Prayer to God

L
ORD
, I pray You will help my husband to always sow good seeds that will positively affect our lives together. Help him to sow good seeds in his work and his finances so we can reap financial security and stability. Help him to plant good seeds in his relationships and in his words and actions so that he reaps the respect and appreciation of others. You have said that if we will “not grow weary while doing good” that “in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart” (Galatians 6:9). Strengthen him to never grow weary of doing what is right. Give him the understanding that he does not have to take things into his own hands, but it is better to always do things
Your
way so that his reward will be a harvest of good. Help him to learn well that doing things
his
way, without Your leading, never works.