This oldie but goodie is a classic for our married and betrothed gals.
Every marriage passes through seasons. There are times when we look across the breakfast table and cringe as our hubby slurps his coffee and ignores the piece of egg precariously dangling from his chin, and we wonder what we ever saw in him. And there are times when we gaze across that same table at that same man with stars in our eyes at the line of his jaw, the half grin that appears when he’s amused and the cute way his Adam’s apple bobs when he swallows. Whether annoyed or enamored with him, our husband is the man we chose to walk this life with and it’s our responsibility, nay privilege, to cover him in prayer.
This is exactly what Stormie Omartian’s The Power of a Praying Wife encourages. Through this 30-day devotional, wives are challenged to lift the many aspects of their husband’s life in prayer. Each chapter focuses on a different area, such as his health, purpose, attitude, sexuality, work, integrity, marriage and even his wife.
Here’s the bonus: An amazing thing happens when we truly raise our husbands in prayer. God changes our hearts!
Stormie Omartian touches on this in the beginning of the book as she shares a time of great frustration in her marriage. From her perspective, her husband was the problem. In asking God to change him, the Holy Spirit revealed places in her own heart that needed to change. Ouch!
By accepting our part in the equation, we begin to view our husbands through a different filter than the cloudy gray one we’d adopted. This frees us to remember why we first fell in love with him and cherish the beautiful gift that he is.
If you haven’t yet read The Power of a Praying Wife, please add it to the top of your reading list. It’s good soul medicine for those frustrating marital seasons and a resource you’ll refer to time and again through the years.
The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian can be purchased at amazon.com or Christianbook.com.
