Elijah Prayer Project

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Have you ever considered that the times when you really don’t want to pray for your husband are the times you need to the most?

Sometimes, after a particularly trying day, or after an argument, or when I’m hurt or angry, I really don’t want to pray for my husband.

Or if I do, it sounds something like, “Lord, strike his heart with repentance and bring him to his senses. And then bring him to me on his knees begging for forgiveness!”

Sounds righteous, but my heart is far from pure.

I gave up the notion that my husband was going to be perfect a long time ago. But sometimes I have to be reminded that I’m not either.

Perhaps, just perhaps, instead of being quick to ask the Lord to change my husband’s heart, I should be more concerned about the state of my own.

Anger, fear, bitterness, jealousy…am I praying from a heart fill with these things? If so, my prayer should look something like this;

“Lord, please help me to choose to love my husband in spite of his shortcomings. Help me extend grace in this situation and represent You well as I handle my emotions and fears. Please cleanse my hands and purify my heart so that I can be motivated by love, not revenge. Then, and only then Lord, show me what to do.”

Today, I’m praying Joshua 22:5 for my husband.

“Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and to cling to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Would you please pray for my husband to have peaceful rest over the next 7 days?

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