Before We Start

Before I blog about week one of the book I figured I'd share some stuff out of the book that you may find helpful if you don't have the book and you just want to use the scripture I post along with the questions and prayers in my personal answers and thoughts. This book isn't about how to fix your husband I'll probably say this over and over again, and I don't do this repetitively to be silly or a pain I just do this because if someone happens to step in in the middle of all my blogs I just want them to know this isn't a users guide on how to fix your husband. I do urge everyone to buy the book and to buy the study guide and if you can get a group of other wives together and maybe go through it together cause you never know where someone might have something that is valuable to share with you. If nothing else you could have each other to lean on.This book basically is a 30 week plan so your going to have to make a 30 week commitment to first and foremost God, yourself, your husband and your marriage. In the book it talks about praying scripture over your husband and if your like me your thinking how on earth do I pray scripture over my husband. So I will post the example in the book right here so you can see how the author worded her's.

The scripture that the author used was Ephesians 1:17,18  this is how the scripture reads:17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.

Now the sample prayer that was shown in the book goes as following:

Lord, I pray that you, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, will give to ***** the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You, so that the eyes of ****'s understanding will be enlightened: so that ***** will know what is the hope of his calling, that **** will know what are the riches of the glory of your inheritance in the saints. ( of course where the **** you'd insert your spouses name but that's just an example). As I said I put this in here because I knew when I heard the term praying scripture over someone I had no clue how to or where to start. Granted there is no set formula for prayer. My husband does believe in God he goes to church with me and the family yet I know he hasn't given his heart to the Lord, I know he isn't leading the Godly life I'd like to see him lead, granted I fall short many times. I worried though about this but 1 Corinthians 7:14 tells us: For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. The book also reminds us that most important prayer as well go through this book is the one that our husband's eyes be opened to the truth of God and he be led to receive Jesus as his Savior. Our roles as wives are to become our husbands intercessor and pray for him.      

About Me

Hi my name is Lori, this is my blog. I do have another blog on here but however I am working through this book called The Power of a Praying Wife so I figured I might share my journey through this book in hopes to get some feed back from other wives, other Christians, or just share and to help others who are going through this book. Anyways some background information on me, I am 37 years old and I am on my second marriage. I have five beautiful children that I love dearly and they all live with me three are from my first marriage and two are from my current marriage. While looking back on the failure of my first marriage I see there were many issues some were mine some were his. I own my mistakes and I forgive him for his. I think it would have went differently if we both were Christians. My current marriage would have been different as well. In 2 Corinthians 6:14 Paul says this, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Now this may not strictly pertain to marriage cause Paul was speaking to the church this however gives you something to think about when it comes to marriage and relationships. If we are married to believers true believer's in Christ things still will be rough from time to time but the mutual faith can help you overcome anything at least that's how I feel. Being in a marriage and having been in a marriage where we were and are unevenly yoked well it's hard at times very hard. You struggle, you argue you fuss you fight and there is no common ground you search for it but you can't find it. It tests your faith especially when you aren't that strong cause it gets so lonely. You want your spouse to believe the way you do you want him to help you raise your children and train them up to be Godly women and men...yet you can't get him to be the Godly man you want him to be. Then what? What do you do?? I'm at that point in my life with my husband. I want him to be a Godly man, I want him to be an example to our children I want to lead a good life and be an example to my children but it's hard when you have a husband that doesn't believe the same as you or does but doesn't lead by a good example. My friend recently suggested a book to me The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian and I'm working on reading it and using the study guide and I'm going to work some of it out here on this blog. If you want to join along feel free to. This book is pretty good I think so far, no it is NOT a how to guide on how to fix your spouse oh contrary you will see that there are many things about yourself that you thought was perfect but isn't. This is going to be interesting,eye opening and hopefully marriage saving/fixing.