Husband Prayer Challenge

What a gift to be able to prepare to enter Heaven's gates one day and meet our Savior and look back to remember how the Lord used our marriages to prepare us for that moment.  How our Heavenly Father, lovingly gave us a brother in Christ to join in convenant with and in turn prepare our hearts for our heavenly home. Today, our final day, we're praying for our sanctification in our marriages. It's...

It's the linchpin of the gospel, and I can personally admit that I could do a much better job at forgiving my husband.  It's not even necessarily the big things I hold on to, but it's all the little things I stack up and allow in like little foxes that threaten to destroy my marriage. Today, we pray for the softening of the Holy Spirit and the opportunity to forgive our husband and allow the Lord...

Lord, if we ever needed your grace, it's now.  Grow us in loving patience. Today is day 38 and we're praying to have this fruit of the spirit in abundance. May we seek the Lord in scripture and be reminded of his faithful patience, and be humbled to reflect this in our marriage. Praying with you, Ashley

What a blessing to trust an unknown future to an intimately known God. Today, we're praying for our future while also holding the weight of knowning that our days are numbered and we're not promised tomorrow.  We're praying for the wisdom and opportunity to dream while also living the full life here in the present. I'm praying as you dream you can have hands open in surrender to a God who has wond...

Each day has countless opportunities for us to seek wisdom from the Lord and scriptures regarding how we are to speak, respond, parent, love, and live out Matthew 6:33. Today, we're praying for our wisdom and patience as we wait. I hope the Lord brings people into your life and marriage that will bless you with wise council, even if and when it may be hard to hear. I'm praying we can all be obedie...

Our hope comes from one place. Today, we're praying for our hope to be built on the foundation of God's faithfulness, love, and goodness. God's word is full of scripture, and if you're struggling to have hope in your marriage can I gently encourage you to go there.  I promise it's the best place to run to for hope and encouragement. I'm praying with you, Ashley

Today's prayer is for our waiting.  It's hard for me to think of something more productive in our Christian walk than waiting.  The emotions that come with a season of waiting can be excruciating, but the season also has the potential to produce a depth in us that not many other things can. Whether you're praying for a diagnosis, a baby, a job, a new home, a breakthrough, an emotional healing, or...

"Catch the foxes for us, the littel foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vinyards are in blossom". Song of Solomon 2:15 You are not alone. A long list of women have prayed for connection this season, to be more emotionally and physically connected to their husband.  The list is long of "foxes" that can get into our marriage and cause division, apathy, and disconnect. Truthfully, some of the thi...

Joel 2:25, "I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten".  Scripture is full of redemption stories, and if we throw ourselves into His word we will be encouraged by the truth, hope, and power of His ability to redeem and restore broken relationships, terrifying diagnoses, shattered dreams, or a lost sense of purpose after life derails you. Today, we're praying for our restor...

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh." Genesis 2:24. I think of my wedding ceremony nearly 16 years ago, we poured two different colors of sand into a single container signifiying our unity because it would be humanly impossible to separate all the individual pieces of sand back to their original color containers. ...

Another area we have to surrender to God because we cannot do this for our husbands.  We can encourage and support but this is a choice he has to make. Today we're praying for your husband's relationship with the Lord, that he would pursue it above all else.  I'm praying for you as a wife, because I know so many of you long to see a husband actively pursuing the Lord.  Today, for you and for me, I...

When we get married and enter into each other's families, but also have to learn to leave our families and cleave to one another. Whew, what a wild ride. Today, we're praying for your husband's family and all that brings with it to a marriage. We're also praying for him to be the leader within your own nuclear family and we're praying for the mission field that IS your family, whether you're raisi...

Our time and what we give our attention to can quickly spiral out of control. Our hearts and minds are so quickly distracted towards what we think we want. Staying focused with our time and attention proves, in countless marriages, to be a sore subject. Today we're praying for your husband's priorities and his attention to be focused on Christ first, trusting in God for the wisdom for what's next....

Our lives tell a living story of God working out good plans.  We have a Heavenly Father that uses our story to bring Him glory, what a gift we get to live this life.  Our stories can also be used to encourage other people in their faith. Today, we're praying for our husband's testimony. 

1 Corinthians 12:14, "For the body does not consist of one member but of many". Today's Christian church can be an amazing sight to behold.  However, it can often be full of flaws and sadly turn people away from Jesus. Today, we're praying for your husband's role within the church. Whether he is visibly in service, is serving behind the scenes, or taking a sabbatical we're praying for his heart to...

Today we're praying for your husband's purity, namely as it relates to sexual sin. When something is purified, it's often put in the fire, the temperature raised to very high heat in order for the worthless impurities to rise to the top - called the dross - to then be scraped away by the craftsman. Today we're praying for your husband's purity and your strength to stand by him in the fire, the san...

I read something recently that struck me and it was along these lines, deep raw connection with God will always cost us something. If we want to treat prayer with God as a lifeline instead of a call to a cosmic genie, we will have to lay some things down to enter into prayer with Him. Today, we're praying for your husband's prayer life and his opportunity to connect with and grow in depth of his p...

You may be praying this challenge because your husband has not yet surrendered to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. WE are all praying with you for the Holy Spirit to bring him to his knees in surrender today!  We're also praying for the husband who is holding on to sin, addiction, worry, fear, control, jealousy, unforgiveness, or anything else that would keep him from the full life...

Pain has a multifaceted way of working itself out in our lives.  While it may lay dormant for years, it can also come to the surface with the most benign of experiences and flood our hearts and minds completely. Past pain has a way, especially for men, of growing deep roots that hide in dark and undiscoverable places. Today we're praying for your husband's past hurts. We're praying for complete su...

We would be lying if we said we didn't want to feel extravagenly loved within our marriages.  Today we're praying for your husband's love for his wife, you. We're praying that this love would be an overflow from the love he has in his heart and relationship with Christ. Through various seasons of your marriage, how you express and receive love may change, but we pray for a sacrificial and God hono...

There's no doubt that financial stress and strain is one of the top reasons people choose to end their marriages. Wrapped up in money can be deception, insecurity, hurtful communication, and sinful addictions. The love of money can lead to negative patterns, evil choices, and a destructive wake which can affect generations. Conversations about income, tithe, giving, spending patterns, etc. are HAR...

"The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit."  – Proverbs 18:21 "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen."  – Ephesians 4:29 One area I believe Christ following people seem to neglect is what comes out of our mouths.  Maybe we fea...

Matthew 7:16 says "YOu will recognize them by their fruits.  Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?". What comes out of our mouths, mind, and life is a direct reflection of our heart and who we're choosing to worship. I will be the first person to warn against works based religious Christianity, but the Bible is pretty clear that our lives will tell the story. Today, we're pr...

Sometimes, I think we forget the power available to us as followers of Christ with whom the Holy Spirit dwells. Today, we're praying for your husband's armor - that he would remember to put it on and walk in confidence of the protection and power of God. Ephesians 6:10-20 reminds us to put on the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, shoes as readiness by the gospel of peace, the shielf...

"It is inconsistent to not spend time with God and yet expect to spend eternity with Him". Author unknown, but I don't think I will ever be the same after reading that.  Today, we're praying for our husband and his time with the Lord. I pray that in a month, 6 months, and even a year from now, our husbands will be a different man due to the time he spends with God. Consider how the Lord is asking...