Empowering Your Marriage: 3 Powerful Prayers for Your Husband

Posted on Dec 07, 2023 Topic : Inspirational/Devotional, Women's Christian Living
Posted by : Stormie Omartian

Excerpted from the Introduction to The Power of a Praying Wife Book of Prayers by Stormie Omartian.

When I wrote the book The Power of a Praying Wife, I received countless letters filled with testimonies of restored marriages and changed lives. I was deeply touched by the hearts of women who were willing to do anything to see their marriages become all God wanted them to be. Included in many of the letters were requests to have the prayers in this book made available separately.

In the midst of our busy lives, it’s often hard to know how to pray beyond the immediate or urgent. That’s why praying from this book will set your mind at peace, knowing that when you have prayed each prayer, you will have covered your husband and your marriage thoroughly. Not only will he be blessed, but the rewards will be great for you, too. There are blessings that will come to you from God simply because you are praying.

Don’t be overwhelmed by the many ways there are to pray for your husband. You don’t have to do it all in one day, one week, or even one month. Just pick a prayer, any prayer, and let the Holy Spirit lead you from there. And don’t worry about the answers. As long as you look to God as the source of all you want to see happen in your husband and your marriage, you don’t have to be concerned about how it will happen. It’s your job to pray. It’s God’s work to answer. Leave it in His hands.

– Stormie Omartian –

Here are three prayers from the book to get you started!

His Wife

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, longsuffering, and the willingness to bear all things.

Take my old emotional habits, mind-sets, automatic reactions, rude assumptions, and self- protectiveness, and make me patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled.

Take the hardness of my heart and break down the walls with Your battering ram of revelation. Give me a new heart and work in me Your love, peace, and joy (Galatians 5:22-23). I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment. Only You can transform me.

In Jesus’ name I pray.

Whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:24-25

His Choices

Lord, fill my husband with the fear of the Lord and give him wisdom for every decision he makes. May he reverence You and Your ways and seek to know Your truth. Give him discernment to make decisions based on Your revelation. Help him to make godly choices and keep him from doing anything foolish.

I pray that he will listen to godly counselors and not be a man who is unteachable. Instruct him even as he is sleeping (Psalm 16:7), and in the morning, I pray he will do what’s right rather than follow the leading of his own flesh. May he not buy into the foolishness of this world, but keep his eyes on You and have ears to hear Your voice.

In Jesus’ name I pray.

A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. Proverbs 1:5

His Past

Lord, I pray that wherever my husband has experienced rejection in his past, he would not allow that to color what he sees and hears now. Pour forgiveness into his heart so that bitterness, resentment, revenge, and unforgiveness will have no place there. May he regard the past as only a history lesson and not a guide for his daily life.

Wherever his past has become an unpleasant memory, I pray You would redeem it and bring life out of it. Bind up his wounds (Psalm 147:3). Restore his soul (Psalm 23:3).

Help him to release the past so that he will not live in it, but learn from it, break out of it, and move into the future You have for him.

In Jesus’ name I pray.

Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19

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For more prayers like these, check out Stormie Omartian’s The Power of a Praying Wife Book of Prayers, available now.