The Power of a Praying Wife
Friday, January 20, 2006
Took leave today so that I can clear my room.
I was taking a break and was surfing the blogs. I went to my favourite blog to read. As she does not have any new post on her main blog, I started exploring other parts of the blog and I came across this.
Attached is the post from her blog.
I was taking a break and was surfing the blogs. I went to my favourite blog to read. As she does not have any new post on her main blog, I started exploring other parts of the blog and I came across this.
Well, BF and I have been having several disagreements for the past one week - we get annoyed/irritated by each other behaviour. Though at times I pray that I will be more loving and patient and understanding and I seek His guidance in our relationship but I think what my favourite blogger had post in her blog really left an impact. Once again, it is God sending her to me to tell me such things about relationship. Though I am still not a wife yet, the prayer below still helps me to put things into perspective.
Attached is the post from her blog.
The Power of a Praying Wife
So often we pray about our husbands, "Lord, change HIM!" Yet, many times the Lord is calling us to pray, "Lord, change ME!" This is a much tougher prayer to embrace, but one that is necessary for the good of our marriages. It is also one, I believe, that ushers in the blessings of heaven in a mighty way.
So often we pray about our husbands, "Lord, change HIM!" Yet, many times the Lord is calling us to pray, "Lord, change ME!" This is a much tougher prayer to embrace, but one that is necessary for the good of our marriages. It is also one, I believe, that ushers in the blessings of heaven in a mighty way.
May I suggest that you pray this aloud and see how the Lord speaks to your heart?
"Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help.
Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness, long-suffering, and the willingness to bear all things.
Take my old emotional habits, mindsets, automatic reactions, rude assumptions, and self-protective stance, and make me patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle and self-controlled.
Take the hardness of my heart and break down the walls with Your battering ram of revelation. Give me a new heart and work in me Your love, peace and joy (Galatians 5:22,23).
I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment. Only You can transform me.
"Show me where there is sin in my heart, especially with regard to my husband. I confess the times I've been unloving, critical, angry, resentful, disrespectful, or unforgiving toward him. Help me to put aside any hurt, anger, or disappointment I feel and forgive him the way You do--totally and completely, no looking back.
Make me a tool of reconciliation, peace, and healing in this marriage.
Enable us to communicate well and rescue us from the threshold of separation where the realities of divorce begin.
"Make me my husband's helpmate, companion, champion, friend and support. Help me to create a peaceful, restful, safe place for him to come home to. Teach me how to take care of myself and stay attractive to him. Grow me into a creative and confident woman who is rich in mind, soul and spirit. Make me the kind of woman he can be proud to say is his wife."I lay all my expectations at Your cross. I release my husband from the burden of fulfilling me in areas where I should be looking to You. Help me to accept him the way he is and not try to change him. I realize that in some ways he may never change, but at the same time, I release him to change in ways I never thought he could. I leave any changing that needs to be done in Your hands, fully accepting that neither of us is perfect and never will be.
Only You, Lord, are perfect and I look to You to perfect us.
"Teach me how to pray for my husband and make my prayers a true language of love. Where love has died, create new love between us.
Show me what unconditional love really is and how to communicate it in a way he can clearly perceive. Bring unity between us so that we can be in agreement about everything (Amos 3:3). May the God of patience and comfort grant us to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus (Romans 15:5).
Make us a team, not pursuing separate, competitive, or independent lives, but working together, overlooking each other's faults and weaknesses for the greater good of the marriage.
Help us to pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another (Romans 14:19).
May we be "perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment" (1 Corinthians 1:10)."
I pray that our commitment to You and to one another will grow stronger and more passionate every day. Enable him to be the head of the home as You made him to be, and show me how to support and respect him as he rises to that place of leadership. Help me to understand his dreams and see things from his perspective. Reveal to me what he wants and needs and show me potential problems before they arise. Breathe Your life into this marriage."Make me a new person, Lord. Give me a fresh perspective, a positive outlook, and a renewed relationship with the man You've given me. Help me to see Him with new eyes, new appreciation, new love, new compassion, and new acceptance. Give my husband a new wife, and let it be me."~From The
Power of a Praying Wife, by Stormie Omartian
posted by Francesca Cecilia at 8:07 PM, | 
Seems you got a very powerful strike, share this faithful prayer with those in your same shoes.