The Power of a Praying Wife Devotional (3 page)

L
ORD
, I pray You would help me to be persistent in prayer—to ask and keep asking for what I believe is Your will. I know anything less than love, selflessness, kindness, peace, and generosity of soul is not Your will in my relationship with my husband. Help me to persist in praying for nothing less than the high standard You have for our marriage. Give me a vision of how You want me to pray. Show me the way You want our marriage to be and help me to pray accordingly so that it becomes all that.

I know I cannot force my husband’s will to be anything other than what it is, but You can touch his heart and turn it toward You. I pray You would do that. May he welcome Your Lordship in his life. Help me to pray consistently and passionately, and to persevere no matter what is happening. I thank You in advance for the great things You are going to do in both of us and in our marriage.

In Jesus’ name I pray.

2

I am the vine, you are the branches.
He who abides in Me, and I in him,
bears much fruit; for without
Me you can do nothing.

J
OHN
15:5

H
AVE YOU EVER OBSERVED
your husband becoming so busy or preoccupied that he seems to be drifting away from the things and ways of the Lord? It can easily happen to anyone if they are not careful to stay in God’s Word and in constant communication with the Lord in prayer and worship. If you ever see this happening to your husband, pray for him to recognize that Jesus is the vine he must be plugged into or he will not bear fruit. Pray he will come to a clear understanding that he cannot accomplish anything lasting without Jesus in his life. Pray he recognizes that God wants to be glorified by the fruitfulness of his life (John 15:8). Pray the same thing for yourself as well. You need to be plugged into Jesus too so that you are living in Him and He is living in you. You cannot bear the fruit you want to see in your life if you don’t have that deep abiding walk with Him every day and night.

If your husband does not yet have a walk with Jesus, continue to pray for that. Ask God to draw him closer to Himself, so that one day the Giver of fruitfulness will enable both of you to bear fruit together beyond what you ever dreamed possible. There isn’t a husband on earth who couldn’t benefit from his wife’s prayers for him to have a closer walk with the Lord. And your happiness together will be greatly affected by it.

My Prayer to God

L
ORD
, I pray my husband will be drawn into a closer walk with You. No matter how busy he becomes, I pray You will remind him that he cannot go off on his own without acknowledging You as the source of all that is good in his life. Give him the wisdom and discernment to see when he is becoming distracted by other things and neglecting his relationship with You. Give him a desire for more of You and Your Word. Enable him to see clearly that without You he can do nothing worthwhile or lasting. Give him a desire to plug into You in a deeper way, so that his connection with You produces great fruit in his life. Show me how to encourage and support him in that. Only You know what will speak to his heart.

I pray the same for me, that I will abide in You—my true vine—and You in me so that my life will bear much fruit in every way. Enable my husband and me to be fruitful together. Flow Your life through us in such a way that others see it and recognize You as the source of all that is good in our lives. May they will know us by our fruit and praise You for it.

In Jesus’ name I pray.

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Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
for brethren to dwell together in unity!

P
SALM
133:1

A
FTER THE FLOOD
, Noah’s descendents grew greatly in numbers, and they had only one language. They decided to build a city with a tower that would rise up to heaven. The Lord saw what they were doing and said, “Indeed
the people are one and they all have one language,
and this is what they begin to do;
now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them”
(Genesis 11:6, emphasis added). So God confused their language, scattered them over the earth, and caused them to stop building the city—which was called Babel.

From this story we can see the power of unity and speaking the same language. Because the people of Babel were in unity, they could accomplish anything they wanted to. But the negative consequences of their unity happened because they were not doing what
God
wanted them to do, and so He had to stop them. It’s different in a marriage. Having unity is what keeps a marriage together, and that
is
what God wants. It is
His will
that you be in
unity
with your husband, and that you
speak the same language,
and
be on the same page,
for then you are fulfilling the purpose for which He joined you together.

Pray that you and your husband will be in unity with regard to your goals, attitudes, intentions, methods, and actions. Jesus said, “If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven” (Matthew 18:19). Pray you will agree on what you are praying about and wanting. When you do, you will see powerful answers to your prayers. Nothing will stand in your way when the two of you are united in God’s purpose for your lives.

My Prayer to God