As husbands, we are the Spiritual leaders of our family. Just as Jesus prayed for His disciples in the garden we should pray over our wife. There are several subjects in this prayer and there are days that God leads me to just one. I have started asking Dianne if there is anything specific she wants me to pray about for her. If what she asks about is not in this prayer, God leads me in how to pray for her that day. If you are not up to asking this question yet, just ask God and He will lead you in what to pray about for your bride on that day. This prayer is from "The Power of a Praying Husband" by Stormie Omartian. I want to thank her for helping me stay focused about praying for Dianne, my bride.
Lord, create in me a clean heart
and renew a right spirit within me. Show me where my attitude and thoughts are
not what you would have them to be, especially toward Dianne. Convict me when I am being unforgiving. Help me to let go of any anger that confusion
will not have a place in my mind. If
there is behavior in me that needs to change, enable me to make changes that
last. Whatever you reveal to me, I will
confess to you as sin. Make me a man
after your own heart. Enable me to be
the head of my home and family that you created me to be. Lord, show me how to really cover Dianne in
prayer. Enable me to love her the way
that you do. Convict my heart when I
don’t live your way.
Lord, as much as I love Dianne, I
know you love her more. I pray that you
will give Dianne the fulfillment of knowing you in a deeper and richer way than
she ever has before. Help her to be
diligent and steadfast in her walk with you, never doubting or wavering. Make her strong in spirit and give her an
ever-increasing faith that always believes that you will answer her
prayers. Help her to increase her
knowledge of you. Give her discernment
and revelation and enable her to hear your voice instructing her. I pray that Dianne will find new life in you
today and enjoy your blessings poured out upon her. Help her to trust you with all her heart and
not depend on her own understanding.
Lord, protect Dianne from the
author of lies and help her to cast down “every high thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ.” Give her
discernment about what she receives into her mind. I pray she will quickly identify lies about
herself, her life or her future. May she
turn to you rather than give place to negative, upsetting, evil or disturbing
thoughts. Help me not to react
inappropriately or withdraw from my wife emotionally when I don’t understand
her. Please restore her soul, heal her
broken heartedness, and bind up her wounds.
Make her to be secure in your love and mine. Take away all fear, doubt, and
discouragement, and give her clarity, joy and peace.
Lord, I pray that you will help
Dianne to be the best mother to our children that she can be. Guide her as she makes decisions regarding
each child. By the authority you have
given me, as a believer as well as a husband and father, I ask you to break any
rebellion or area of disobedience that would erect a stronghold in our
children. Lord, I know we cannot
successfully raise our children without you.
So I ask that you would take the burden of raising them from us and
partner with us to bring them up. Give Dianne
and me patience, strength and your knowledge to train, teach, discipline and
care for each child. Establish an
environment where our Christian beliefs are on constant display before our
children. Help us to better schedule our
time with our children. Give us
discernment about what we allow into our home through TV, books, movies, video
games, magazines and computer activities.
I also ask you for the gifts of intelligence, strength, talent and
godliness to be in our children. Keep
them safe from any accident, disease or evil influence. I pray that Dianne will find fulfillment,
contentment and joy as a mother and wife, while never loosing sight of who she
is in you.
Lord, I pray for Dianne and ask
that you would calm her spirit, soothe her soul and give her peace today. Where there is error in her thinking, I pray you
would reveal it to her and set her back on course. Balance her body perfectly so that she is not
carried up and down like a roller coaster.
Give her inner tranquility that prevails no matter what is going on
around her. Show me how to convince her that
I love her, and help me to be able to demonstrate it in ways she can perceive. Lord, I know that you have “called us to
peace”. Help us both hear that call and
live in the peace that passes all understanding.
Lord, I pray that you would
establish in me and Dianne bonds of love that cannot be broken. Show me how to love her in an ever-deepening
way that she can clearly perceive. I ask
that you give Dianne and me agape love for each other. May we have mutual respect and admiration for
each other so that we become and remain one another’s greatest friend, champion
and unwavering supporter. Where love has
been diminished, lost, destroyed or buried under hurt and disappointment, put
it back in our hearts. Enable Dianne and
me to forgive each other quickly and completely. Help us to be kind to one another,
tenderhearted and forgiving, the way you are to us. Where we are in disagreement and this has
caused strife, I pray you would draw us together on the issues. Make our communication open and honest so
that we would avoid misunderstandings.
Teach us to seek each other’s well-being first. I pray that we will not live two separate
lives, but will instead walk together as a team. Lord, protect our marriage from anything that
would destroy it. Take out of our lives
anyone who would come between us or temp us.
Help us to immediately recognize and resist temptation when it presents
itself. Sever all unholy ties in both of
our lives. May there never be any
adultery or divorce in our future to destroy what You, Lord, have put together.
Lord, I submit myself to you
today. Lead me as I lead my family. Help me to make all decisions based on your
revelation and guidance. As I submit my
leadership to you, enable Dianne to fully trust that you are leading me. Help us to understand the kind of submission you
want from us. Enable me to be the leader
you want me to be. Help me to love her
the way you love me, so that I will gain her complete respect and love. Help us to submit to one another in your
fear. Lord, help us to also use our
testimony to share our relationship with you and bring others to you.
Lord, I pray for Dianne to have
good, strong, healthy relationships with godly women. Take away any relationship that will not bear
good fruit. I also pray for good
relationships with our entire family. I
pray for resolution of any in-law relationships for either of us. Lord, please protect our parents and extended
family. Show me what I can do to make a
positive difference. Lord, I pray that
Dianne will always be a forgiving person.
Even if she doesn’t feel like it at the moment, help her to forgive out
of obedience to you. Show her that
forgiveness doesn’t make the other person right, it makes her free. I especially pray that here would be no
unforgiveness between us. Enable us to
forgive each other quickly and completely.
Lord, I lift up to Dianne to you
today and ask that you would be in charge of her life. Show her how to seek you first in all things,
and to make time with you her first priority every day. Show her how to find balance between being a
wife, mother, running our home, working, serving in your church and finding
time for herself so that she can be rested and refreshed. Lord, I pray that you would help Dianne to
make our home a peaceful sanctuary.
Regardless of our financial state, give her the knowledge, energy,
strength, vision and clarity of mind to transform our home into a beautiful
place of refuge that brings joy to each of us.
I ask you to lift her from the burden of caring for our home and give
her peace about it. Show me how I can
encourage and help her in that. Holy
Spirit, I invite you to fill our home with your peace, truth, love and unity.
Lord, I pray that you would give
Dianne the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious
in your sight. Help her to appreciate
the beauty you have put in her. Help me
to remember to encourage her and speak words that will make her feel
beautiful. Where anyone in her past has
convinced her that she is unattractive and less than you made her to be, I pray
that you would replace those lies with your truth. Convince her of how valuable she is to you;
so that I will be better able to convince her of how valuable she is to me. Help me to always have Dianne as the standard
of beauty and to stay passionate about her.
Make Dianne beautiful in every way, and may everyone else see the beauty
of your image reflected in her.
Lord, I pray that you would bless
Dianne today, and especially bless our marriage and our sexual
relationship. Help us to be unselfish
and understanding toward each other.
Teach us to show affection to each other in ways that keep romance and
desire alive between us. Show me if I
ever hurt her, and help me to apologize in a way that will cause her to forgive
me completely. Any time we have an
argument or a breakdown in communication, enable us to get over it quickly and
come back together physically so no room is made for the devil to work. Make our sexual relationship fulfilling,
enjoyable, freeing and refreshing for both of us. May our intimacy bond the two of us together
and connect our hearts and emotions as well as our bodies. Keep our hearts always faithful. Take out of our lives anyone or anything that
would cause temptation. Lord, give Dianne
and me the strength to remain sexually pure in your eyes. Where there has been unfaithfulness in thought
or deed on the part of either of us, I pray for full repentance, cleansing and
release from it. Keep us free from anything that would cause
us to neglect this vital area of our lives.
Renew and revitalize our sexual relationship, and make it all you
created it to be.
Lord, I pray that you would help Dianne
be anxious for nothing. Set her free
from any fear and comfort her today.
Teach me to recognize the ploy of the enemy every time he tries to steal
life from her by bringing fear to torment her.
I stand against any enemy attacks targeted at my wife, and I say that a
spirit of fear will have no place in her life.
Strengthen her faith in You, Lord, to be her Defender. Enable Dianne to rise up and say, “The Lord
is my light and salvation; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Help her to separate herself from that which
tempts her. I say to Dianne that “no
temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God if
faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but
with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to
bear it.” Lord, enable my wife to endure
temptation and receive the crown of life which you have promised to those who
love you. Help her to wait upon you
instead of waiting for things to change.
Lord, I know that you have placed
within Dianne special gifts and talents that are to be used for your purpose
and your glory. Show her what they are,
and show me too, Lord, that I may encourage her. I pray that you would give her understanding
that your plan for her life has a specific and perfect timing. Lord, I pray that Dianne will be the wife you
have called her to be and the wife I need her to be. Bring her into alignment with your ultimate
purpose for her life, and may she be fulfilled in it. Lord, grant my wife according to her heart’s
desire, and fulfill her purpose.
Lord, I pray that you would give Dianne
the ability to trust me in all things.
Most of all, I want her to trust Your Holy Spirit working in and through
me. Where I have not been trustworthy or
have violated her trust, show me, and I will confess that before you as
sin. Help me to not conduct myself that
way anymore. Where she has lost trust in
me unjustly, I pray that you would help her to see the truth. If she doesn’t trust me because of something
someone else has done to her, help her forgive that person so she can be
free. In any place where we have broken
trust with each other, help us to establish it as strong. Break any unholy bonds or soul ties between
us and any other person. Help us to
fully repent of all relationships outside of our own that were not glorified to
you. Lord, I pray that you would deepen
my trust and love of Dianne. I pray that
she will always be a trustworthy person and that I will be able to trust her
completely. I say this day on behalf of
my wife and me that you are our refuge and our fortress. You are our God, and in you will we
trust.
Lord, I pray that you would
surround Dianne with Your hand of protection.
Keep her safe from any accidents, diseases or evil influences. Protect her in cars, planes or wherever she
is. Protect her from the plans of evil
people. I pray that Dianne will make her
refuge “in the shadow of your wings” until “these calamities have passed
by”. Lord, I pray that you would help Dianne
to truly see that her body is your dwelling place. May she acknowledge you in all her ways –
including the care of her body – so that you can direct her paths. Let no weapon formed against my wife be able
to prosper. Keep her at all times under
the umbrella of your protection, and deliver her from the enemy’s hand so no
evil comes near her. Thank you, Lord,
that this day You will cover Dianne and help her to lie down in peace, and
sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make her to dwell in safety.
Lord, I pray that you would touch
Dianne this day and fulfill her deepest desires. Help her to surrender her dreams to you so that
you can bring to life the ones you have placed in her heart. Lord, I pray that in the midst of all my wife
has to do; there would be time for what she enjoys most. Show me how to encourage her to prioritize
her time for the things she enjoys. I
pray we will have common interests we can enjoy together. Lord, I know that you would not give us
dreams that are not compatible. I pray
that the desires of our hearts will be perfectly knitted together.
Lord, I pray that you would help Dianne
to be successful in her work. No matter
what her work is at any given time, establish it, and help her to find
favor. Continue to reveal, develop and
refine those gifts and talents you have given to her, and use them for your
purpose. Help us to build one another up
and not forget that we are on the same team.
Lord, your word says when we commit our work to you; the financial
blessing we receive will not bring misery along with it. I pray that Dianne will be rewarded well for
her work and that it will bless us, our family and others. Enable her to accomplish great things so that
you are glorified.
Lord, I pray that you would set Dianne
free from anything that holds her other than you. Deliver her from any memory of the past that
has the power to control her or keep her trapped in its grip. Help her to forgive any person who has hurt
her so that unforgiveness will not be able to hold her captive. Help her to
live in your presence so that she can be made totally whole. In the name of Jesus I pull down any strong
holds the enemy has erected around Dianne.
I pray she will walk with wisdom and find full deliverance. Show me how to love and support her well in
the process.
Lord, I pray that you would
enable Dianne to live in total obedience to your laws and your ways. Help her to see where her thoughts and
actions are not lined up with your directions and as to how she is to
live. Remind her to confess any error
quickly, and enable her to take the steps of obedience she needs to take. Keep my wife from doing anything that
separates her from the fullness of your presence and your love. Bless her mind, emotions and will as she
takes steps of obedience. Give her the
confidence that comes from knowing she has just obeyed you. Lord, your word says, “No good thing will He
withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
I pray that my wife will walk uprightly and that you will pour your
blessings upon her.
Lord, I pray for Dianne to have
total peace about the past, present and future of her life. Give her a vision for her future that makes
her certain she is safe in your hands.
Keep her, and the people she loves, protected from the plans of the evil
one. Help her to see her future from your
perspective and not believe any lies of the enemy. Give her confidence that the future is
something she never has to fear. When
she has to make any decision, I pray that You, Holy Spirit, will guide
her. Bless Dianne with the discernment
to distinguish the truth from a lie. May
the fruit of her life be seen every year and even into old age may she be fresh
and flourishing. Bless her with a long
life, and when she comes to the end of her life, may it not be one moment
before your chosen time. Let the
transition also be attended with peace and joy, and the absence of
suffering. Let it be said of Dianne that
she was your light to the world around her.
I am confident that “He who has begun a good work in you will complete
it until the day of Jesus Christ”.
In Your Holy Son’s name, Jesus
Christ, Amen.
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