The Power of a Praying® Wife

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Inside this Book – I wish I could say that I’ve been regularly praying for my husband from the beginning of our marriage until now. I haven’t. At least not like I’m suggesting in this book. Oh, I prayed. The prayers were short: “Protect him, Lord.” They were to the point: “Save our marriage.” But most commonly they were my favorite three-word prayer: “Change him, Lord.” When we were first married, I was a new believer coming out of a life of great bondage and error and had much to learn about the delivering and restoring power of God. I thought I had married a man who was close to perfect, and what wasn’t perfect was cute. As time went on, cute became irritating and perfect became driving perfectionism. I decided that what irritated me most about him had to be changed and then everything would be fine. It took a number of years for me to realize my husband was never going to conform to my image. The Power of a Praying Wife PDF PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Power_of_a_Praying_Wife_Devotional_-_Stormie_Omartian.pdf, The_Power_of_a_Praying_Wife_Devotional_-_Stormie_Omartian.epub Stormie: Yes. That’s when I would say, “God, I don’t feel like praying for him. I want lightning to strike and convict him of the way he is.” I would just confess that to the Lord and say, “God, I don’t feel like praying. So help me, God, to have the kind of attitude I need to make this thing happen.” And God would do that. Stormie Omartian: It means you have got to surrender yourself to the Lord and say, “God, I’ll do what it takes to be a good wife, to be the kind of wife you want me to be.” That’s a hard decision to make, especially if you’ve had a lot of hurt and… you’ve had a lot of disappointments, anger, and unforgiveness. I have been a Christian the whole time I have been married, so I thought I was a forgiving person. I was working on that all the time, but I realized when I came to an impasse in my marriage that I wasn’t as forgiving as I thought. I will not allow confusion, miscommunication, wrong attitudes, and bad choices to erode what we are trying to build together.

A wife’s prayers have more power than anybody else’s. I always say, “Sorry, moms.” Even a mom’s prayers for her son are not as powerful as a wife’s for her husband, because God has made them one. So when a wife prays, it affects the husband so powerfully, because she’s in effect praying for herself too. I think that’s really important for a wife to realize. Whether you feel like it or not, it’s a ministry that you do to the Lord. You’re doing what God’s asking you to do.STORMIE OMARTIAN es la autora de la serie de éxitos de librería «El poder de la Oración»®, (más de 32 millones de libros vendidos) la cual incluye El Poder de la Esposa que Ora, El Poder del Esposo que Ora y El Poder de los Padres que Oran. Chapter 1: "I don't care how liberated you are, when you are married there will always be two areas that will ultimately be your responsibility: home and children. Even if you are the only one working and your husband stays home to keep the house and tend the kids, you will still be expected to see that the heart of your home is a peaceful sanctuary- a source of contentment, acceptance, rejuvenation, nurturing, rest, and love for your family. On top of this, you will also be expected to be sexually appealing, a good cook, a great mother, and physically, emotionally, and spiritually fit." Even if you're the breadwinner these are the expectations that she's placing on you. She's saying EVEN IF YOU HAVE A STAY AT HOME HUSBAND, you're supposed to do all this. And I can't for the life of me find the quote in her book about how husbands just aren't as good as cleaning, but I could have sworn I read something about that in there. And also, men can be in charge of the cooking, it's not a gender based thing. Chapter 10: "If your husband is not a full-time fool, so to speak but he does occasionally engage in foolish behavior, don't try to fix him. God is the only one who can do that." And maybe lovingly correct him and try to point out the error of his ways? Chapter 6: "God wants us to get through temptation because He wants to bless us. But He needs to see if we can be trusted to choose His ways over our fleshly desires." Let me state this clearly. God is infinite, perfect, all knowing, and all powerful. He doesn't need to see anything about us, he already knows. He does not need anything from us. I confess right now that there was a time when I considered separation or divorce. This is an embarrassing disclosure because I don’t believe either of those options is the best answer to a troubled marriage. I believe in God’s position on divorce. He says it’s not right and it grieves Him. The last thing I want to do is grieve God. But I know what it’s like to feel the kind of despair that paralyzes good decision making. I’ve experienced the degree of hopelessness that causes a person to give up on trying to do what’s right. I understand the torture of loneliness that leaves you longing for anyone who will look into your soul and see you. I’ve felt pain so bad that the fear of dying from it propelled me to seek out the only immediately foreseeable means of survival: escape from the source of agony. I know what it’s like to contemplate acts of desperation because you see no future. I’ve experienced such a buildup of negative emotions day after day that separation and divorce seemed like nothing more than the promise of pleasant relief.

It took a few years beyond that to understand I couldn’t make him change in any way. In fact, it wasn’t until I started going to God with what bothered me that I began to see any difference at all. And then it didn’t happen the way I thought it would. I was the one God worked on first. I was the one who began to change. My heart had to be softened, humbled, pummeled, molded, and reconstructed before He even started working on my husband. I had to learn to see things according to the way God saw them—not how I thought they should be. Gradually I realized it’s impossible to truly give yourself in prayer for your husband without first examining your own heart. Review – The Power of a Praying Wife PDF

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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 cannot 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. There is a time for everything, as it says in the Bible. That’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. Pray Rather Than Say In the foreword, by Omartian's husband, Michael mentions this, claiming it as a "joke in the household"- "It's been twenty-five wonderful years of marriage for me and twenty-five miserable years for you." Wow, what a real knee-slapper. Twenty-five miserable years of an abusive relationship for Stormie Omartian (and their children). What a reliable narrative to advise for my marriage.