Praying For Your Husband

Are you a Christian wife struggling to pray for your husband? My Sister in the faith, our Father in heaven, wants to hear from us! Things happen when women pray.

Prayer is a vital part of a successful marriage. Scripture explains how important it is to pray.

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Don’t be confused; our prayer does not turn God into your magic genie. Our prayer does not necessarily ‘position’ the Lord where we want him to be. We pray to position or reposition ourselves to receive what the Lord has promised us. Scripture is replete, sisters. 

Examples of How Prayer Works. 

The book of James tells that the “effective prayer of the righteous man can accomplish much.” Our prayer can accomplish and help bring things to pass in our husbands’ lives. 

Your successful prayer determines the success of your home. How often do you pray for your man? We need to ponder this question because there must be earthly permission before God would intervene. 

The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth He hath given to the children of men. Psalm 115:16.

God doesn’t contradict His words. The integrity of His Word is what makes Him almighty. Before God would intervene in any matter, there must be earthly permission. Why? Because He has Willed the earth to you and me, the only channel through which God would come to any matter is by prayer.

What is Prayer? 

Prayer is earthly permission for heavenly interference. It is a channel through which we invite God into our matter. It is best explained in the book of Ezekiel.

And I look for a man in their midst, that might make up the path, and to stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Ezekiel 22:30 

Why did God seek a man that would stand in the gap? It was because a man that would stand in the gap has given God a reason not to destroy the land. God is waiting for you to stand in place of prayer for your husband and your family as well.

How Can I Pray for My Husband?

Pray with a thankful heart.

Start your prayer with thanksgiving concerning your husband and the household God has been so gracious to give. Thank God for his kindness in your husband’s work.

Prayer: LORD, I thank You for my husband’s health. Thank You for creating him in Your image, designing him for greatness and strength. Thank you, oh Lord, for the precious gift of life and for your blessing that is sufficient for us. Thank you for where we were coming from, where we are, and our future.

Pray to God to forgive his wrongdoing.

Sin affects us of an entrance into the favor of God; that is why it is necessary to seek the forgiveness of his sins.

Prayer: O Lord, forgive my husband of his sins because of the bloodshed for the remission of sin. Give him awareness when he does wrong that he may turn from sin and desire your will in his life.

Pray to God to direct his path. 

Only the Spirit of God can show and direct us in the way we should walk. When his path is directed, it would be easier for him to know how to walk in the call of God over his life. 

Prayer: Heavenly Father, I pray that you direct my husband’s path to teach him the way he should go.

Pray against every satanic attack.

Satan may attack at any time; he always does that when he sees he has the chance. We see his tricks, time and time again, in the Scriptures. That is why it is necessary to resist him in place of prayer.

Prayer: According to thy Word, “the righteous cry and the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.” Oh Lord, protect my husband against every satanic force.

Pray for abundance.

Abundance is frequently described as a gift from God to those who put their faith in Him. According to Scripture, people who “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness” will have an abundant life.

Prayer: According to your Word in Deu 28:12, Lord, you have promised to open the sky, the storehouse of your bounty, and bring rain in season on the land, blessing all our labor. 

Pray for wisdom and understanding over his life.

Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. (Proverbs 1:5 & 7)

Prayer: O Lord, grant my husband wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to cope with the issues of life and run the matters of our home.

What Does the Bible say concerning praying for Your Husband?

The source of every true prayer originates from the heart of love towards your husband. An attitude of prayerlessness defines how much we have derailed out of our divine cause. The idea behind our existence as a woman is to help our husbands become what God intends for them. 

God teaches us in the Bible that we must ask to get what He promises. Our wants will coincide with His desires as we trust in Him and love His ways.

A magnificent story of submission and deliverance develops in 1 Samuel 25. Abigail is a Bible heroine who was married to a wealthy scoundrel. Abigail combined her wisdom with her wealth to appear before an approaching enemy to plead for the safety of her husband’s household. 

When Abigail saw David, she fell on her face before him, bowing herself to the ground without a word. Falling at his feet, Abigail delivered the most humble, heartfelt plea for David to spare her husband’s household. Her plea, however, was not made out of fear, nor was it made out of resentment toward her husband. 

Instead, she reassured David that his life was in God’s hands, even as she recognized that her husband was a horrible man. His enemies would be annihilated because of God’s justice, but his own home would be spared. In return, she just requested that David remember her when God had fulfilled all of His promises.

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. Job 22:27

The Lord has promised to respond to our prayers anytime we call on Him. In Jesus’ name, if we pray according to God’s will, he will answer. 

This is the assurance of faith that we have. We believe he answers whenever we cry to God over any matter. Isaiah 65:24

Prayer has the power to change his heart. The prayer you pray as a wife has the potency to change your husband. When we pray for him, our heart softens and becomes more receptive to him; pray for God to transform, and He will do so.

He is honored with prayer. When your husband knows you’re praying for him regularly, he’ll have peace of mind knowing that not only is God on his side, but so are you. He’ll know you’re both keeping an eye on him and hoping for the best for him. “I’ll pray about that,” or “I’ve been praying about that,” you can say when something significant happens, or he comes to you with a concern, and he’ll know you care enough.

What if my husband doesn’t know God?

It is challenging to live with a spouse who doesn’t know God. It usually implies a marriage with opposing goals, driven by your faith and your spouse’s lack of biblical knowledge. 

These challenges can be difficult to overcome and generate major stress in a marriage (in addition to the “normal” stresses every marriage encounters). 

Despite these disparities, the believer is required to live in union with their spouse. The Bible provides plenty of guidance on how to approach the situation. 

It’s crucial to pay attention to what Paul says NOT to do! He tells a spouse who is married to an unbeliever not to leave. An unbeliever’s spouse can benefit from faithfulness. Because of Christ’s presence in you, they are “sanctified” (vs. 14) or made holy through you.

To put it another way, your connection with an unbelieving spouse does not save them, but it does help them. It can impact them and has the authority to do so. Your marriage provides an opportunity and environment for them to encounter God’s love, grace, and truth, gradually leading them closer to a saving relationship with Jesus through faith.

While this dynamic can be challenging, there is great hope for a Christian spouse married to a non-Christian.

Be a woman of prayer. 

In this kind of situation, you need o to be a woman of prayer that prays consistently, committing his life unto God for a change of heart.

Your spouse is loved by God much more than you are. Go to Him frequently with faith. Pray for a change of heart and that God should open his eyes to recognize Jesus for who they are. Pray for God to send individuals into their lives to impact them. 

Be purposeful.

God created marriage with a specific purpose in mind. If you’re a wife and your man isn’t a Christian, God wants you to love and appreciate him in the same manner that Christ loves the church (Ephesians 5:25-29). You must subject to him with love, serve him, treasure him and be faithful to him In the same way (! Peter 3:1:4).

Let the Spirit of God Direct you.

I heard of a story about a woman who caught her unbelieving husband with a lady, immediately the Holy Spirit whispered to her to go back home. She obeyed the voice of God when she got home; she prepared the best meal for her husband that night. The husband was so surprised to see such an attitude from the wife. He begged his wife and promised not to do such, and that was how the woman was able to win her husband’s heart for God. 

When you are prayerful and purposeful, the Holy Spirit will guide you on what to do, and when he does, you need to obey the voice of the Spirit of God.

Related: The 3 Differences Between a Good Marriage and a Great Marriage

7 Bible Verses About Praying for Each Other

James 5:16 — Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

1 Timothy 2:1 — First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people.

Matthew 5:44 — But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you

Matthew 18:19 — Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

Ephesians 6:18 — Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints

Job 42:10 — And the LORD brought to an And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Luke 6:27-28 — But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

Related: The Importance of Prayer and What Happens When We Don’t

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