Give my wife a new husband and let it be me.
Posted 04-25-2008 at 04:49 PM by totallyforgiven2
Give my wife a new husband and let it be me.
- Lord, help me to be a good husband. 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.
- Take my old emotional habits, mindsets, automatic reactions, rude assumptions, and self-protective stance, 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 (Galations 5:22,23). I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment. Only You can transform me.
- Show me where there is sin in my heart, especially with regard to my wife. I confess the times I've been unloving, critical, angry, resentful, disrespectful, or unforgiving toward her.
- Help me to put aside any hurt, anger, or disappointment I feel and forgive him the way You do---totally and completely, no looking back.
- Make me a tool of reconciliation, peace, and healing in this marriage. Enable us to communicate well and rescue us from the threshold of separation where the realities of divorce begin.
- Make me my wife's helpmate, companion, champion, friend, and support. Help me to create a peaceful, restful, safe place for her to come home to. Teach me how to take care of myself and stay attractive to her. Grow me into a creative and confident man who is rich in mind, soul, and spirit. Make me the kind of man she can be proud to say is her husband.
- I lay all my expectations at Your cross. I release my wife from the burden of fulfilling me in areas where I should be looking to You.
- Help me to accept her the way she is and not try to change her. I realize that in some ways she may never change, but at the same time, I release her to change in ways I never thought she could. I leave any changing that needs to be done in Your hands, fully accepting that neither of us is perfect and never will be. Only You, Lord, are perfect and I look to You to perfect us.
- Teach me how to pray for my wife and make my prayers a true language of love. Where love has died, create new love between us.
- Show me what unconditional love really is and how to communicate it in a way she can clearly perceive. Bring unity between us so that we can be in agreement about everything (Amos 3:3).
- May the God of patience and comfort grant us to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus (Romans 15:5). Make us a team, not pursuing separate, competitive, or independent lives, but working together, overlooking each other's faults and weaknesses for the greater good of the marriage.
- Help us to pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another (Romans 14:19). May we be "perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment" (1 Corinthians 1:10).
- I pray that commitment to You and to one another will grow stronger and more pasionate every day.
- Help me to understand her dreams and see things from her perspective. Reveal to me what she wants and needs and show me potential problems before the arise. Breathe Your life into this marriage.
- Make me a new person, Lord. Give me a fresh perspective, a positive outlook, and a renewed relationship with the woman You've given me.
- Help me see her with new eyes, new appreciation, new love, new compassion, and new acceptance. Give my wife a new husband, and let it be me.
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