Chuckie’s “Song Of The Day” A very real personal song…
on August 6th, 2007 at 12:31 am
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I had this friend…we’ll call him Viceroy …get use to the name…get use to the friend. He was at this cross road…a couple of times as a matter of fact during his marriage. Most of his closets friends couldn’t understand based on what he was going through how he managed to hold out…but he did. He could’ve very well justified it in his mind but he had to hold on and be strong. I encourage you too, hold on…be strong…one way or another the situation WILL rectify itself and I pray you look back as he (Viceroy) can now and say “Job well done”…it is finished…
Had he rung the doorbell…today the guilt would probably still be haunting him. To long for a song…but perfect for a book…coming EOY 2007 “The Profile”.
Wives…love your husbands…protect them, cover them… There is a book called the “The Power of A Praying Wife”…Doesn’t cost much. …I’m just saying…Putting everything else aside, there is nothing you can do for your husband that is as important as praying for him. This book gives you the inspiration and practical help to do just that. Every woman who desires a closer relationship with her husband will appreciate this refreshing look at the power of prayer in marriage, as discussed in this book. Along with real-life illustrations. Stormie also includes sample prayers and “power tools” —verses that inspire and encourage—to help wives rest in the assurance of God’s wonderful promises of restoration, renewal, and growth in marriage.
The below article came from the book, “The Power of a Praying Wife” by Stormie Omartian. It was published in 1997 by Harvest House Publishers www.harvesthousepublishers.com, ISBN 1-56507-572-2. As Stormie said it so well: “I can think of no better way to truly love your husband than by lifting him up in prayer on a consistent basis. It is a priceless gift that helps him experience God’s blessings and grace.”
AN EXCERPT
I Don’t Even Like Him—How Can I Pray for Him?
Have you ever been so mad at your husband that the last thing you wanted to do was pray for him? So have I. It’s hard to pray for someone when you’re angry or he’s hurt you. But that’s exactly what God wants us to do. If He asks us to pray for our enemies, how much more should we be praying for the person with whom we have become one and are supposed to love? But how do we get past the unforgiveness and critical attitude?
The first thing to do is be completely honest with God. In order to break down the walls in our hearts and smash the barriers that stop communication, we have to be totally up front with the Lord about our feelings. We don’t have to “pretty it up” for Him. He already knows the truth. He just wants to see if we’re willing to admit it and confess it as disobedience to His ways. If so, He then has a heart with which He can work.
If you’re angry at your husband, tell God. Don’t let it become a cancer that grows with each passing day. Don’t say, “I’m going to live my life and let him live his.” There’s a price to pay when we act entirely independently of one another. “Neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:11).
Instead say:
“Lord, nothing in me wants to pray for this man. I confess my anger, hurt, unforgiveness, disappointment, resentment, and hardness of heart toward him. Forgive me and create in me a clean heart and right spirit before You. Give me a new, positive, joyful, loving, forgiving attitude toward him. Where he has erred, reveal it to him and convict his heart about it. Lead him through the paths of repentance and deliverance. Help me not to hold myself apart from him emotionally, mentally, or physically because of unforgiveness. Where either of us needs to ask forgiveness of the other, help us to do so.
If there is something I’m not seeing that’s adding to this problem, reveal it to me and help me to understand it. Remove any wedge of confusion that has created misunderstanding or miscommunication. Where there is behavior that needs to change in either of us, I pray You would enable that change to happen. As much as I want to hang on to my anger toward him because I feel it’s justified, I want to do what You want. I release all those feelings to You. Give me a renewed sense of love for him and words to heal this situation.”
If you feel you’re able, try this little experiment and see what happens. Pray for your husband every day for a month using each one of the 30 areas of prayer I’ve included in this book. Pray a chapter a day. Ask God to pour out His blessings on him and fill you both with His love. See if your heart doesn’t soften toward him. Notice if his attitude toward you doesn’t change as well. Observe whether your relationship isn’t running more smoothly.
If you have trouble making that kind of prayer commitment, think of it from the Lord’s perspective. Seeing your husband through God’s eyes—not just as your husband, but as God’s child, a son whom the Lord loves—can be a great revelation. If someone called and asked you to pray for his or her son, you would do it, wouldn’t you? Well, God is asking.
There is a time for everything, it says in the Bible. and it ‘s never more true than in marriage, especially when it comes to the words we say. There is a time to speak and a time not to speak, and happy is the man whose wife can discern between the two.
Anyone who has been married for any length of time realizes that there are things that are better left unsaid. A wife has the ability to hurt her husband more deeply than anyone else can, and he can do the same to her. No matter how much apology, the words can not be erased. They can only be forgiven and that’s not always easy. Sometimes anything we say will only hinder the flow of what God wants to do, so it’s best to, well, shut up and pray.
Good morning she has has whole series of books that come together in a case. I agree with the power of prayer changing things and I love all her books on the power of a praying parent as well it is just ny opinion that her teaching on the power of a praying wife go back to the Proverb 31 woman we must be an example to our young daughters how to be that praying wife and again this is only my opinion but I feel that as GODLY women we lost our salt when a lot of this womens lib came out as a younglady going up in the sixties when “I am woman hear me Roar” came to be a national song for women we somewhere down the road we lost the principle and values of our place in GODS order and what I mean by that before anyone jump on me it was not for women to take on the role of having to heading a house hold because instead of lifting that man that God has blessed you with some women toar them down and belittle there character as a man but I can recall back when my grandparents were helping to raise me the women knew how to go in to their secert prayer closet with out anyone knowing and all of a suddend things had change or at least my grandfather had a different opinion. All I am saying is that when we as women and even men because she has a book as well on the power of a praying husband learn to go to that seceret closet with out having to roar to show your strength more marriages will be able to weather some storms.Be Blessed and please forgive my spelling if I have incorrectly spelled some words I am at work and just had to add my comment right quick.
A wonderful inspiring book.
I LOVED that book. It taught me alot. Yolanda you are so right. Women need to study Proverbs 31. My friends laugh at me when I say I would rather stay home when I do get married. He can go to work and I be at home making sure everything was cleaned, clothes washed and mended if needed, bath tub filled with hot water and bubbles when he walks through the front door (yes there are alot of men who like bubble baths and not afraid to admit it), then dinner will be ready AND on the table dont play.
Now if I do have to work it wont be a problem either, but I rather stay home.