The Power of a Praying Wife

Have you ever been so angry at your husband that the last thing you wanted to do was pray for him? This is not so uncommon in many marriages. I have experienced it and I know some are experiencing it now or may have experienced it. It’s hard to pray for someone when you’re angry at that person.

God asks us to pray for our enemies! How much more must we pray for a person or someone we have become one with or claim to love.

The praying wife is a godly woman who values her marriage above any other thing and who would do whatever is required in ensuring that the joy and peace of God continually dwells in her home.

Qualities of a Praying Wife

A praying wife consistently prays for her husband regardless of whether she feels like it or not. She knows the importance of prayer and prays at all times with a joyful heart. (see 1 Thessalonians, 5:16-17).

The praying wife loves God and loves her husband. She wants the best for her husband and her home. She is submissive, kind hearted and caring.

Why should a Wife pray for her Husband?

• As a wife, you have a spiritual responsibility to stand in the gap for your husband in prayers. As a legally married wife, you are operating under the will of God for your life and for your husband. Genesis 2:24 says, “A man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife and they shall become one”.
• It shows an act of true and genuine love for your husband. The greatest way of showing love to your husband is not by buying expensive gifts and other material things. There is no greater way of showing one’s love to one’s husband than to pray for him regularly.
• The wife is a partner to the husband, and both are working together to achieve a common goal.
• It is part of reverencing Jesus Christ when a wife prays for the well-being of her husband.
• Praying for the husband brings God’s presence into the marriage. As a wife, you recognize that you need God’s grace and power to build a lasting marriage.
• The wife serves as a protective defense and intercessor for the husband. The husband may be too busy – occupied with work to fully devote as much time into prayer, but the wife fills that gap. His life is enriched by God when the wife prays for him.
• Praying for your husband brings him good and not evil. (see Proverbs 31:11-12).
• If it happens that the husband is an unbeliever or living an ungodly life, the wife can win him back to the LORD through her prayers.

The Benefits of Praying for your Husband.

• It brings peace and happiness into the home. (see 1 Timothy 2:1-2).
• The wife gains the trust of the husband. (see Proverbs 31:28).
• The husband feels loved and honored when he is aware that you as the wife is interceding on his behalf. He knows he can depend on you to lift him up in prayers whenever he is spiritually weak.
• The husband connects to you on a spiritual level.
• The wife through prayer gets to have a prior knowledge of God’s hand at work in the life of her husband.

What to pray for in your Husband’s life.

A wise woman knows that, whatsoever that affects her husband also affects the marriage. For this reason, she knows it is important to pray for him concerning every area of his life according to the leading of the Holy Spirit. There are so many things to pray for, including:

• God’s calling upon his life.
• To be an effective leader in the home as the head, his place of work, his extended family and his ministry.
• Praying for his spiritual growth and his relationship with God. (see 2 Peter 3:18, Colossians 1:9-10).
• For him to hold sacred his vow to you as his wife. To be faithful to the marriage and for God to keep him away from lusting after strange women. (see Hebrews 13:4, Proverbs 6:32)
• To continually be the head, which the LORD has destined him to be and not a tail.
• For him to be able to provide for the family and to be a role model and an excellent father to his children.
• To excel in his job, business and career in general.
• For God to use him to speak words of encouragement and wisdom that will build you up to be an excellent wife and mother for him and your children.
• For him to be a man of integrity, credibility, honor and humility.
• To live a purpose-driven life. If he fails, the marriage has failed, especially when you are slack in prayers.
• To have a perfect health and enjoy the fruits of his labor
• To put God first in everything he does. Although God has made him the head in the home, he also has a superior head over him.

How do you pray for your Husband when he has hurt you?

Beloved Sisters, I can authoritatively confess to you that as a wife that the desire and thought of praying for my husband doesn’t arise whenever there is a quarrel between us. But whenever the word of God comes to mind that we should pray for our enemies, I have a change of heart. If God has commanded us to pray for our enemies in Matthew 5:44, how much more praying the person we have taken the decision to share our lives together with as one.

Bearing grudges gives the enemy the opportunity to come into our homes. Do not give him the chance to take hold of your marriage. By doing this, you are leading yourself into sin with your words or actions.

No one is perfect and we should know that our husbands are mortal and have a tendency to hurt us. Therefore, no matter how disappointed you may be, you should never cease pray for him. (see 1 Thessalonians 5:17). Instead of dwelling on the hurt, learn to report him to God; the one who has made him the Head over you. Having grudges with him will only deepen the hurt.

As a wife, you should know the dominion God has given to you. The man is the head quite alright, but we should realize that whether directly or indirectly, we are in charge of our home. Whatever you want your marriage to be, is what it would become: if you speak positively or negatively over your marriage, you will have the result of what you say.

Learn to go the LORD in prayer and pour your heart out — look unto him for healing, and the Prince of peace will work on your behalf to restore peace into your home as long as you have done your part to let go of the anger and bitterness in you. Forgive your husband and let God take charge of the situation.

Finally, the wife that prays is a tool in the LORD’s hands to safeguard her marriage against all the devices of the wicked. I urge you to choose today to be a tool in the hands of God. There is a saying that behind every successful man, there is a strong woman, but I also say to you that, behind every successful man, there is a praying wife.

The word that comes out of your mouth has power to change and transform your marriage. By praying for your husband according to God’s will, he shall be guarded in the right path and not go down the wrong path. The praying woman never gets tired. She is available round the clock. She is observant, vigilant and always alert whenever the need to pray arises.

I urge you today to ask God to empower you each day to be a “The Praying Wife” in your marriage. I urge you to purchase the book by Stormie Omartian on “The Praying Wife” and the LORD will continue to strengthen and equip you as you make the commitment today, in Jesus name.