Pray for his future
We will finish up by looking forward.
Press into praying for your man’s future; everything God has in store after this very minute. So many things that will happen for you and your man will be far greater than you can currently conjure up. We serve a God that does not have his hands tied. He is mighty!
Our focus:
· Protect him.
· Bless his health.
· Guard his mind.
· Hold fast to his heart.
· Go before him.
· Be his counselor, his confidante, his help and his refuge.
· Surround him with people who will speak life into him.
· Be his shield and his firm foundation.
· Light his way and give him hope.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Day 9
Pray for his time in the Word
Anyone still trucking with me? When you say pray for ten days, it seems a small feat. Yet, when you put ten days of hard-core praying to the test, it doesn’t seem so small does it? I am confident that our dudes will reap from our diligent, loving efforts.
Spending time with the Lord. A statement, a question, a request….
Whether or not you know that your husband spends daily, quality time with the Lord or not, let’s seek this for him.
As we go through our day today, let us really just press into this topic for our man. Pray for your future husband, that God would do these things in his heart this very day and that God would develop discipline in him now, rather than later. May we all step closer to the Lord as we take this cry of our heart to Him.
Our focus:
· Draw him into an intimate time of worship.
· Call him away to a quiet place.
· Drown out life.
· Speak with clarity.
· Reveal yourself.
· Love him.
· Give life to Your Word.
· Pour out revelation.
· Grant him accountability in his journey of following Christ.
· Shape him into a man of integrity, character, and self-discipline.
Anyone still trucking with me? When you say pray for ten days, it seems a small feat. Yet, when you put ten days of hard-core praying to the test, it doesn’t seem so small does it? I am confident that our dudes will reap from our diligent, loving efforts.
Spending time with the Lord. A statement, a question, a request….
Whether or not you know that your husband spends daily, quality time with the Lord or not, let’s seek this for him.
As we go through our day today, let us really just press into this topic for our man. Pray for your future husband, that God would do these things in his heart this very day and that God would develop discipline in him now, rather than later. May we all step closer to the Lord as we take this cry of our heart to Him.
Our focus:
· Draw him into an intimate time of worship.
· Call him away to a quiet place.
· Drown out life.
· Speak with clarity.
· Reveal yourself.
· Love him.
· Give life to Your Word.
· Pour out revelation.
· Grant him accountability in his journey of following Christ.
· Shape him into a man of integrity, character, and self-discipline.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Day 8
Praying for his past
Long before you knew your man and even early on in your relationship, there were many events and much life that took place. Just as our past has much responsibility for determining who we are on this day, so does our man’s.
Let’s pray for our guys life, before today. We want life before today to be an encouragement for his present and his future. Though we cannot change the past, we can learn from it, grow through it and become mature because of it. When our man may not think to pray for his past, let us take that responsibility on ourselves. As we pray for his past, let us ask Jesus to reconcile it. May we also thank the Lord for developing him into the man he is today.
Our focus:
· Seek forgiveness for yourself if there are any areas in his past that you have yet to forgive or have developed bitter roots.
· Ask that he would have full forgiveness of himself for who he used to be.
· Allow his past to be used to encourage him in his future.
· May he learn from past triumphs, successes, failures, and sins.
· Would he be able to use each part of who he is as a testimony to Christ and His faithfulness. · Pray that his past is not where his thoughts dwell. Give him eyes to see that God is doing a new thing.
Long before you knew your man and even early on in your relationship, there were many events and much life that took place. Just as our past has much responsibility for determining who we are on this day, so does our man’s.
Let’s pray for our guys life, before today. We want life before today to be an encouragement for his present and his future. Though we cannot change the past, we can learn from it, grow through it and become mature because of it. When our man may not think to pray for his past, let us take that responsibility on ourselves. As we pray for his past, let us ask Jesus to reconcile it. May we also thank the Lord for developing him into the man he is today.
Our focus:
· Seek forgiveness for yourself if there are any areas in his past that you have yet to forgive or have developed bitter roots.
· Ask that he would have full forgiveness of himself for who he used to be.
· Allow his past to be used to encourage him in his future.
· May he learn from past triumphs, successes, failures, and sins.
· Would he be able to use each part of who he is as a testimony to Christ and His faithfulness. · Pray that his past is not where his thoughts dwell. Give him eyes to see that God is doing a new thing.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Day 7
Pray for family
I really think it would be meaningful to spend one day focused on your husband’s family. If you are married, this is now your family as well, but these are the people that knew him and loved him long before you did.
I realize that families can be a very ’sticky’ situation in some cases. I ask you to put opinions, disagreements and past hurts aside today. No matter the family circumstance, the Lord used family blessings and trials in your man’s life to develop him into the guy you are so crazy about. As easy or difficult as it may be, spend today focused on your man’s family, taking them before the Lord.
Our focus:
· Thank Jesus for a family that brought such a wonderful man into the world.
· Pray for mended family relationships (if needed).
· Petition that Jesus would make Himself real and known to his family; call each person out by name.
· Ask for protection to surround his family members.
· Pray for the health of his family members.
· Give wisdom to family members.
· Pray that your husband would be quick to honor his family.
· Seek out wisdom so that both you, and your man may know and agree on what family legacies to pass along and what God desires to break and rebuild in your family.
I really think it would be meaningful to spend one day focused on your husband’s family. If you are married, this is now your family as well, but these are the people that knew him and loved him long before you did.
I realize that families can be a very ’sticky’ situation in some cases. I ask you to put opinions, disagreements and past hurts aside today. No matter the family circumstance, the Lord used family blessings and trials in your man’s life to develop him into the guy you are so crazy about. As easy or difficult as it may be, spend today focused on your man’s family, taking them before the Lord.
Our focus:
· Thank Jesus for a family that brought such a wonderful man into the world.
· Pray for mended family relationships (if needed).
· Petition that Jesus would make Himself real and known to his family; call each person out by name.
· Ask for protection to surround his family members.
· Pray for the health of his family members.
· Give wisdom to family members.
· Pray that your husband would be quick to honor his family.
· Seek out wisdom so that both you, and your man may know and agree on what family legacies to pass along and what God desires to break and rebuild in your family.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Day 6
Pray for his friendships
Friendship. A word my man knows so, so well. I am ashamed to admit, but I am not always gun hoe when Brad wants to spend time with friends. I have been known to feel that they are competing for my quality time. I rarely take the time to acknowledge how beneficial Brad’s quality friend-time can be, nor do I give thanks for the great friends that my husband has.
Maybe some of you are on the opposite end of the spectrum, you desire for your husband to develop more friendships. If so, spend today requesting this from the Lord.
If your husband has many friends or few, let us be thankful for all of the men in his life whom he can be ‘real’ around. Be thankful if he returns home refreshed and a better husband and father after being around his friends.
Our focus:
· Give him wisdom in choosing men worthy of honest friendship.
· Thank Jesus for the friends that he has been given.
· Be specific, thanks Jesus for each friend that comes to mind. Call them out by name.
· Ask that he would be vulnerable with his friends.
· Pray that the vulnerability would grow to true accountability.
· Develop him into an authentic, giving, approachable friend.
· Increase integrity in friendships, making him worthy of great friends, in return.
Maybe he should get a guys night soon, away from the stresses of a job, the demands of a family, the requests of a wife and the expectations of those he leads. Just a thought…
Friendship. A word my man knows so, so well. I am ashamed to admit, but I am not always gun hoe when Brad wants to spend time with friends. I have been known to feel that they are competing for my quality time. I rarely take the time to acknowledge how beneficial Brad’s quality friend-time can be, nor do I give thanks for the great friends that my husband has.
Maybe some of you are on the opposite end of the spectrum, you desire for your husband to develop more friendships. If so, spend today requesting this from the Lord.
If your husband has many friends or few, let us be thankful for all of the men in his life whom he can be ‘real’ around. Be thankful if he returns home refreshed and a better husband and father after being around his friends.
Our focus:
· Give him wisdom in choosing men worthy of honest friendship.
· Thank Jesus for the friends that he has been given.
· Be specific, thanks Jesus for each friend that comes to mind. Call them out by name.
· Ask that he would be vulnerable with his friends.
· Pray that the vulnerability would grow to true accountability.
· Develop him into an authentic, giving, approachable friend.
· Increase integrity in friendships, making him worthy of great friends, in return.
Maybe he should get a guys night soon, away from the stresses of a job, the demands of a family, the requests of a wife and the expectations of those he leads. Just a thought…
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Day 4
Praying for his role as husband
Today, let’s focus on our husbands as just that, a husband. If you are not yet married, pray for your guy as he steps into the role of husband. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. Your husband, my husband, is the leader. Already. It’s settled. You don’t have to negotiate it or loose sleep over it, they are the head of the home. Christ appointed them to that role.
Our focus:
· Encourage him in his leadership of me, his wife.
· Continue to develop him into a man that always makes marriage a priority.
· Give him a deep love for me, his spouse.
· Give him a new revelation into your heart for marriage.
· Guard his eyes from satan’s attempts to steal his affection from me.
· May he be a model of submission as he submits to the Lord.
· Give him wisdom in leadership.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Day 3
Praying for his job
Today let’s pray for our husband’s job. Whatever it is that he does to ‘bring home the bacon,’ let’s ask that Jesus meet him there today.
We all know our husbands’ jobs well, so spend some time today personalizing your prayer in the way your husband needs them most. Try to take yourself out of the prayers. Don’t pray for what you would be pleased to see happen, but rather things that would bring growth to your dude.
Our focus:
· May his workplace be/become a place where he has freedom to show his creativity and use his gifts.
· That he would gain encouragement, specifically today, from his co-workers.
· That he would be effective.
· A thankful heart for a job that provides.
· Give clarity to any callings that the Lord may be placing in his heart.
· Professional growth.
Take a few extra moments to thank Jesus for giving your husband a job. For those of you who have the joy of staying at home with your kids make sure you have your heart right. Rather than comparing your life to the lives of others or wishing you had more to “show” for your life or sulking in the career you used to have, give thanks for a man who works so hard so that you can be a full-time mommy.
If your husband is between jobs right now, while your praying for direction, open doors, and new opportunity, also pray for his emotional state. That he would feel valuable, significant, and loved.
Today let’s pray for our husband’s job. Whatever it is that he does to ‘bring home the bacon,’ let’s ask that Jesus meet him there today.
We all know our husbands’ jobs well, so spend some time today personalizing your prayer in the way your husband needs them most. Try to take yourself out of the prayers. Don’t pray for what you would be pleased to see happen, but rather things that would bring growth to your dude.
Our focus:
· May his workplace be/become a place where he has freedom to show his creativity and use his gifts.
· That he would gain encouragement, specifically today, from his co-workers.
· That he would be effective.
· A thankful heart for a job that provides.
· Give clarity to any callings that the Lord may be placing in his heart.
· Professional growth.
Take a few extra moments to thank Jesus for giving your husband a job. For those of you who have the joy of staying at home with your kids make sure you have your heart right. Rather than comparing your life to the lives of others or wishing you had more to “show” for your life or sulking in the career you used to have, give thanks for a man who works so hard so that you can be a full-time mommy.
If your husband is between jobs right now, while your praying for direction, open doors, and new opportunity, also pray for his emotional state. That he would feel valuable, significant, and loved.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Day 2
Praying for his worship
Worship, as you know, is a matter of the heart. So, let’s begin by praying for his heart. I know what it feels like to have a heavy or burdened or uneasy heart. Don’t you? Let’s come together against this for our guys.
Our focus:
· Take the burdens from the heart of my husband.
· Replace them with freedom.
· In that freedom, begin to teach my husband what it truly means to worship You in spirit and in truth.
· Come and meet my husband where he is.
· Allow him to find rest in his home and in his current circumstances.
· Begin to lay new words and encouragement on the heart of my husband.
· Develop him into a man who is capable of being in a constant spirit of worship
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