Show Him Some Love....14 Days is Here Again!

WIVES....You have been invited to 14 DAYS of VALENTINES LOVE is a decision. When we marry, we have committed to continue to choose US every day for the rest of our lives. And not only do we choose us every day, but we fight for us with everything we've got, because what God unites, Satan wants to divide. We commit from the bottom of our hearts to work out every detail that seeks to destroy us. We have chosen US....until death do we part. This is a great time of year to show your husband you'd choose HIM all over again. Even if you're in a season where this might seem too difficult, this 14 days is for you! You CAN turn things around! Commit to pray for Him for 14 days. That's it! Encourage your married girlfriends to do the same and spur one another on toward love and good deeds...(Hebrews10:23-24) You may also want to BLESS your husband daily with small gifts or encouraging notes starting February 1st through February 14th. Be creative!! Tell him how much you love him and thank God for him! Here are some ideas: 1) Have someone/several others at his job or in his daily life help you leave cards on his desk for him to find. 2) Cards at the Dollar stores are usually 2/$1, get a box of valentines or just hand-write your own. Think of 14 different reasons you love him, and write one on each. 3) Leave his favorite candy or treat with a little message on it. (Pop Rocks: You ROCK my world, OR a Bottle of Orange Crush: "I still have a CRUSH on you!) I think you get the idea. ;) 4) Take him lunch from his favorite takeout and have a carpet picnic in his office! 5) Plan a date night with a theme that revolves around HIS favorite movie. I'm sure you have other creative ideas or links to creative ideas, so leave a comment! Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. Eph. 5:22 MSG Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. Mark 10:9 NIV

VALENTINES DAY....Praying for Our Marriage

Lord, I pray You would protect our marriage from anything that would harm or destroy it.  Shield it from our own selfishness and neglect, from the evil plans and desires of others, and from unhealthy or dangerous situations.  May there be no thoughts of divorce or infidelity in our hearts, and none in our future.  Set us free from past hurts, memories, and ties from previous relationships, and unrealistic expectations of one another.  I pray that there be no jealousy in either of us, or the low self-esteem that precedes that.  Let nothing come into our hearts and habits that would threaten the marriage in any way, especially influences like alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, lust or obsessions.  Unite us in a bond of friendship, commitment, generosity, and understanding.  Eliminate our immaturity, hostility, or feelings of inadequacy.  Help us to make time for one another alone, to nurture and renew the marriage and remind ourselves of the reasons we were married in the first place.  I  pray that [my husband] will be so committed to You, Lord, that his commitment to me will not waiver, no matters what storms come.  I pray that our love for each other will grow stronger every day, so that we will never leave a legacy of divorce to our children.

Amen and Happy Valentines Day.

For more wonderful prayers to pray over your husband and your marriage, check out The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian.

Day 13....Praying for His Future

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian....


None of us can live without a vision for our future.  If we don't have one, we flounder aimlessly.  Without it, life seems pointless and we die a little every day.  "Where there is no vision, the people perish." (Proverbs 29:18)


Lord, I pray that You would give [my husband] a vision for his future.  Help him to understand that Your plans for him are for good and not evil- to give him a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11).  Fill him with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that he may have a walk worthy of You, fully pleasing You, being fruitful in every good work and increasing the knowledge of You (Colossians 1:9-10).  May he live with leading from the Holy Spirit and not walk in doubt and fear of what may happen.  Help him to mature and grow in You daily, submitting to You all his dreams and desires.  Give him God-ordained goals and show him how to conduct himself in a way that always invests in his future. I pray that he would be active in service for You all the days of his life.  Keep him from losing his sense of purpose and fill him with hope for his future as an "anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast." (Hebrews 6:19).  

Day 12...Praying for His Faith

Lord, I pray that you will give [my husband] an added measure of faith today.  Enlarge his ability to believe in You, Your word, Your promises, Your ways, and Your power.  Put a longing in His heart to talk with You and hear Your voice.  Give him an understanding of what it means to bask in Your presence.  May he seek You, rely totally upon You, be led by You, put You first, and acknowledge You in everything he does.  
Lord, you've said that "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17).  Feed his soul with Your Word so that his faith grows big enough to believe that with You all things are possible (Matthew 19:26).  Make his faith a shield of protection.  Put it into action to move mountains in his life. Your Word says, "the just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17); I pray that he will live the kind of faith-filled life You've called us all to experience.

Amen.

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 11...Praying for His Obedience

Today's prayer was posted before the 14 Days of Valentines came about....it's one of my favorites!

I think women often forget the power of prayer and resort to the "power of nagging".  Am I right, guys?  I know I've had to remind myself in the past that I am NOT Brad's Holy Spirit!  ;)

Here is a great word from this particular chapter on "His Obedience" from Stormie Omartian...

If you clearly observe your husband walking down a wrong path, should you say something?  If so, how much should you say and when is the right time to say it?  The best way I've found to proceed is to take it to God first and weigh it on His scales.  He may instruct you to just be quiet and pray... But if He does direct you to speak to your husband about the matter, there will be a far greater chance of him hearing God's voice somewhere in Your words if you've prayed before you speak.  Anything perceived as nagging will be counterproductive and better left unsaid.  Praying that his eyes be opened to the truth and his heart convicted will be far more effective than you telling him what to do.  You can encourage him to do what's right and pray for him to do what's right, but ultimately it's God's voice that will have the greatest impact.

My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands; for length of days and long life and peace they will add to you.  Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.  Proverbs 3:1-3

Day 10.... Praying for His Self-Image

Lord, I pray that [my husband] will find his identity in You.  Help him to understand his worth through Your eyes and by Your standards.  May he recognize the unique qualities You've placed in him and be able to appreciate them.  Enable him to see himself the way You see him... Quiet the voices that tell him otherwise and give him ears to hear Your voice telling him that it will not be his perfection that gets him through life successfully, it will be Yours.  Reveal to him that "he is the image and glory of God" (1 Cor. 11:7), and he is "complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power" (Col.2:10).  Give him the peace and security of knowing that he is accepted, not rejected by You.  Free him from the self-focus and self-consciousness that can imprison his soul.  Help him to see who You really are so he'll know who he really is.  May his true self-image be the image of Christ stamped on his soul.

We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.  2 Corinthians 3:18

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 9... Praying for His Mind

Lord, I pray for Your protection on my husband's mind.  Shield him from the lies of the enemy.  Help him to clearly discern between Your voice and any other, and show him how to take every thought captive as You have instructed us to do.  May he thirst for Your Word and hunger for Your truth so that he can recognize wrong thinking.  Give him strength to resist lying thoughts.  Remind him that he has the mind of Christ.  Where the enemy's lies have already invaded his thoughts, I push them back by inviting the power of the Holy Spirit to cleanse his mind.  Lord, You have given me authority "over all the power of the enemy" (Luke 10:19).  By that authority given to me in Jesus Christ, I command all lying spirits away from my husband's mind.  I proclaim that God has given [my husband] a sound mind.  Whatever things are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, having virtue, or anything praiseworthy, let him think on these things (Philippians 4:8).

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.  Mark 12:30

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 8....Praying for His Trials

Lord, You alone know the depth of the burden my husband carries.  I may understand the specifics, but You have measured the weight of it on his shoulders.  I've not come to minimize what You are doing in his life, for I know You work great things in the midst of trials.  Nor am I trying to protect him from what he must face.  I only want to support him so that he will get through this battle as the winner.  God, You are our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1).  You have invited us to "come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:16).  I come before Your throne and ask for grace for my husband.  Strengthen his heart for this battle and give him patience to wait on You (Psalm 27:1-4).  Build him up so that no matter what happens he will be able to stand strong through it.  May he learn to wait on You because "those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." (Isaiah 40:31).  I pray that he will find strength in You as he cries out to You, You will hear him and save him out of all his troubles. (Psalm 34:6)

Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.  Psalm 55:22

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 7....Praying for His Talk

Lord, I pray Your Holy Spirit would guard my husband's mouth so that he will speak only words that edify and bring life.  Fill him with Your love so that out of the overflow of his heart will come words that build up and not tear down.  Work that in my heart as well.  May Your Spirit of love reign in the words we speak so that we don't miscommunicate or wound one another.  Help us to show each other respect, speak words that encourage, share our feelings openly, and come to mutual agreements without strife.  Lord, You've said in Your Word that when two agree, You are in their midst.  I pray that the reverse be true as well--that You will be in our midst so that we two can agree.  Let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, our strength and our Redeemer (Psalm 19:14)

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 6...Praying for His Walk

O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps" (Jeremiah 10:23).  Therefore, Lord, I pray that You would direct my husband's steps.  Lead him in Your light, teach him Your way, so he will walk in Your truth.  I pray he would have a deeper walk with You and an ever progressing hunger for Your Word.  May Your presence be like a delicacy he never ceases to crave.  Lead him on Your path and make him quick to confess when he strays from it.  Reveal to him any hidden sin that would hinder him from walking rightly before You.   May he experience deep repentance when he doesn't live in obedience to Your laws.  Create in him a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within him. (Psalm 51:10)  I pray that You will enable [my husband] to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh and thereby keep himself "from the paths of the destroyer" (Psalm 17:4).  As he walks in the Spirit, may he bear the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22,23).


Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 5...Praying for His Integrity

Lord, I pray that You would make my husband a man of integrity, according to Your standards.  Enable him to stand for what he knows is right and not waver under pressure from the world.  Give him...a teachable spirit that is willing to listen to the voice of wisdom and grow in Your ways.  Make him a man who lives by Truth.  Help him to walk with Your spirit of truth at all times (John 16:13).  Don't let him be deceived.  Don't let him live a lie in any way.  Bind mercy and truth around his neck and write them on the tablet of his heart so he will find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man. (Proverbs 3:3,4)

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for You.  Psalm 25:21

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 4... Praying for His Priorities

God, I proclaim You Lord over my life.  Help me to seek You first every day and set my priorities in perfect order.  Reveal to me how to properly put my husband before children, work, family, friends, activities, and interests.  Show me what I can do right now to demonstrate to him that he has this position in my heart.  Mend the times I've caused him to doubt that.  Tell me how to prioritize everything so that whatever steals life away, or has no lasting purpose will not occupy my time.  I pray for my husband's priorities to be in perfect order as well.  Be Lord and Ruler over his heart.  Help him to choose a simplicity of life that will allow him to have time alone with You, Lord, a place to be quiet in Your presence every day.  Speak to him about making You Word, prayer, and praise a priority.  Enable him to place me and our children in greater prominence in his heart than career, friends, and activities. I pray he will seek You first and submit his all to You, for when he does I know the other pieces of his life will fit together perfectly.

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.  Matthew 6:33

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 3...Praying for His Finances

Since this is one of the top reasons that couples fight, I think this prayer is of vital importance....

Lord, I commit our finances to You.  Be in charge of them and use them for Your purposes.  May we both be good stewards of all that You give us, and walk in total agreement as to how it is to be dispersed.  I pray that we will learn to live free of burdensome debt.  Where we have not been wise, bring restoration and give us guidance.  Show me how I can help increase our finances and not decrease them unwisely.  Help us to remember that all we have belongs to You, and to be grateful for it.  I pray that [my husband] will not be anxious about finances, but will seek Your kingdom first, knowing that as he does, we will have all we need. (Luke 12:31)

Amen.

Brad & I recently changed some things financially after the Lord's leading, and have been so blessed.  I look to my husband now with more respect than ever.  He takes care of our finances so well and I'm so grateful that he does.

My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

Day 2... Praying for His Purpose

Lord, I pray that my husband will clearly hear the call You have on his life.  Help him to realize who he is in Christ and give him certainty that he was created for a high purpose.  Lord, when You call us, You also enable us.  Enable him to walk worthy of his calling and become the man of God You made him to be.  I pray that the desires of his heart will not be in conflict with the desires of Yours.  May he seek You for direction, and hear when You speak to his soul.

May He grant you according to your heart's desire, and fulfill all your purpose.  Psalm 20:4

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

14 Days of Valentines continues...

Day 1...Praying for His Wife (that's me!) ;)

Lord, help me to be a good wife.  I fully realize that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help.  Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness, long-suffering and the willingness to bear all things.  Give me a new heart and work in me Your love, peace and joy (Gal.5:22,23).  Make me a tool of reconciliation, peace and healing in this marriage.  Make me the kind of woman he can be proud to say is his wife.  Show me what unconditional love really is and how to communicate it in a way he can clearly perceive.  I pray that our commitment to You and to one another will grow stronger and more passionate every day.  Breathe Your life into this marriage.  Give me a fresh perspective, a positive outlook, and a renewed relationship with the man You've given me.  Help me see him with new eyes, new appreciation, new love, new compassion and new acceptance.  Give my husband a new wife, and let it be me.

Taken from The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian

14 Days of Valentines

For Wives Only!!! 
Want to make your marriage RED HOT and indivisible with loveyness & happiness for all? Join me in 14 DAYS OF VALENTINES!!!

Bless your husband daily with small gifts or cards every day starting February 1st through February 14th. Be creative!! Tell him how much you love him and thank God for him! 
Here are some ideas:

1) Have someone/several others at his job or in his daily life help you leave cards on his desk for him to find.
2) Cards at the Dollar stores are usually 2/$1, get a box of valentines or just hand write your own. Think of 14 different reasons you love him, and write one on each.
3) Leave his favorite candy with a little message on it. (Snickers: "You make me snicker. Thank you for making me laugh!) or (Peanut M&Ms: I'm NUTS about you!) :) I think you get the idea.
4) Take him lunch from his favorite takeout and have a carpet picnic in his office or plan a date night!
5) Write a love note on a sticky note and put up for him to find in his car/mirror while getting ready in the morning/anywhere he'll find it.

If you have other creative ideas, leave a comment on our event page to help other wives out!

Please feel free to invite other wives and let's strengthen marriages together!

Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. Eph. 5:22 MSG

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. Mark 10:9 NIV