A Wife’s Journal of Prayer for Her Husband

By Sandy Willoughby

 

A prayer journal is an intimate thing… the words in a regular journal might bring a sense of relief and there may be many lessons to learn by reading over our own thoughts… but and yes, there is a "but" here~

The words in a prayer journal are different… they are words dedicated to God. The words in this kind of journal aren’t just from you and to you. They are every thought He gives you to record, words that signal your submitting spirit to Him… and a dialogue between a LORD… THE LORD… and you; His precious child.

When we think of journaling, prayer journals, and the like we tend to create images of writing down "diaries" of every thing we did for the day or a bunch of scribbling to take our mind off of things. This isn’t the kind of journal we want to build at this time… even though they are fine, too!

The kind of journal we want to delve into now is a Prayer Journal from a loving wife to her husband. It is a journal where a woman of God is taking the time out of each of her days or any time she can fit it in to make her requests known to God on the behalf of her husband.

There are some great words on this found in yet another grand book by Elizabeth George in "A Woman’s High Calling." She suggests setting up a "prayer book or prayer page" for your husband. She says you pray for everything in your husband’s life… gives some examples and suggests that you make your own list. She recommends making a page for each "concern and category". I thought this was a great idea to consider.

The point is not to feel you have to follow the exact same method someone else does but to make sure you find a way that suits your life to pray for your husband. God gives each wife the ability to choose a way that works for her.

You can help your husband in many ways and holding him up in prayer is one of them.

The Living Bible has this to say on a wife helping her husband: "If you can find a truly good wife, she is worth more than precious gems! Her husband can trust her, and she will richly satisfy his needs. She will not hinder him, but help him all her life." Proverbs 31:10-12

For ideas on what to pray for (and believe me… there are days when you are blocked on what to pray for or times when you feel you are repeating the same things over and over again)… Stormie Omartian gives the best resource on this I’ve seen yet in "The Power of a Praying Wife". There are 30 topics of prayer for a husband in this packed book and this can be done by choosing one thing for each day of the month OR choosing those areas you feel most led to pray on and going that route.

Your prayer journal/notebook can be anything you can keep together. A spiral notebook, 3-ring notebook in the size of your choice, 3x5 index cards on a spiral binding, or special journal.

The pages can be categorized with a sheet for each prayer topic, numbered for the days of the coming month, or any other way you choose to organize this. It is important that making this a part of your day (mornings during quiet times, evenings right before bed, waiting at appointments, or whenever you can fit this in to your daily schedule) be something with enough simplicity to actually use.

It is important to recognize the power of prayer.

When we go to God in prayer… we make a reverent petition to God. We share communion with God and we pour our heart out unto our Lord.

We seek Him and make supplication for our husband’s best… the very best.

Prayer is defined by Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary (online) describes prayer by explaining that it is acknowledging God’s "personal control of all things and of all of His creatures and all their actions."

When we pray for our husbands we can rest in the assurance that God is always in control. Our husbands and our prayers aren’t left in a wilderness or abandoned by our Lord… ever. He is always there and always in complete command of everything. No problem, situation, or circumstance can take God off of the throne in mighty power!

If JESUS CHRIST was your husband… what would your daily prayers for Him look like? Sound like? Feel as? Taste like?

Surely they would look like the most precious form of worship imaginable? Surely they would sound like songs of the spirit… they would feel like a hedge of protection and they would taste as much like heaven as was ever dreamed…

Ponder this and remember that we are to treat others as if we could see the face of Jesus in their faces… the eyes of our Lord in their eyes… and as if we could feel the love God has for them as He loves.

May we go deeper inside our souls than is usually the case… may we allow awareness during our prayers for husbands. Awareness of what? Of every emotion good or bad… of every smile and every sorrow ~ because when we allow ourselves to remain aware of who we are inside we learn to embrace ourselves with Christ. We, with humble hearts and deepest honesty can then trust our Lord to make our lives as wives bring glory to Him.

Love, Sandy

SandyWilloughby © 2001  A Woman Aware