A praying man is a powerful man. A man who touches the heart of God is desirable to a woman. His relationship with God is evident in the sensitivity he exhibits toward her. The sense of protection she feels under his prayerful care cannot be articulated.
Only through prayer will a man fully know how to meet his wife's needs. She will never be able to vocalize all that she needs from him, and at times, she herself will not even know her own needs But through his interaction with God and instruction from the Holy Spirit, he will be equipped to respond to the secret desires of her heart. This will not occur if he merely goes through the motions and prays formularized monologues. Real prayer involves a transparency of the heart and an openness to Gods response.
No matter how great your marriage is, God wants it to be better.
The good thing about prayer—or the problem with prayer, depending on your perspective—is that we have to go to God to do it. This means we can’t get away with anything. It means that any negative thoughts, bad attitudes, hardness of heart, or selfish motives are going to be revealed by the Lord. Fervent and honest prayer causes the depths of our hearts to be exposed. That can be uncomfortable. Even downright miserable.
If there is one thing I have learned about prayer, it’s that if we have any unforgiveness, bitterness, selfishness, pride, anger, irritation, or resentment in our hearts, our prayers will not be answered. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear” (Psalm 66:18). Our hearts have to be right when we pray. We all—men and women alike—jeopardize our own prayers when we don’t pray them from a right heart.
What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That’s why, when we come before Him to pray, God asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn’t be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him. Your wife's most fervent desire for you is that you become the man God created you to be. It must be your desire also. God has given you strength, brilliance, power, authority, and the wonderful and admirable traits that come with being a man. Ask God to help you use them well and to His Glory. Ask God to make you everything He created you to be so you and your wife will always be a winning team.
Prayer Power
Lord, create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me (Psalm 51:10). Show me where my attitude and thoughts are not what You would have them to be, especially toward my wife. Convict me when I am being unforgiving. Help me to let go of any anger, so that confusion will not have a place in my mind. If there is behavior in me that needs to change, enable me to make changes that last. Whatever You reveal to me, I will confess to You as sin.
The good thing about prayer—or the problem with prayer, depending on your perspective—is that we have to go to God to do it. This means we can’t get away with anything. It means that any negative thoughts, bad attitudes, hardness of heart, or selfish motives are going to be revealed by the Lord. Fervent and honest prayer causes the depths of our hearts to be exposed. That can be uncomfortable. Even downright miserable.
If there is one thing I have learned about prayer, it’s that if we have any unforgiveness, bitterness, selfishness, pride, anger, irritation, or resentment in our hearts, our prayers will not be answered. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear” (Psalm 66:18). Our hearts have to be right when we pray. We all—men and women alike—jeopardize our own prayers when we don’t pray them from a right heart.
What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That’s why, when we come before Him to pray, God asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn’t be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him. Your wife's most fervent desire for you is that you become the man God created you to be. It must be your desire also. God has given you strength, brilliance, power, authority, and the wonderful and admirable traits that come with being a man. Ask God to help you use them well and to His Glory. Ask God to make you everything He created you to be so you and your wife will always be a winning team.
Prayer Power
Lord, create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me (Psalm 51:10). Show me where my attitude and thoughts are not what You would have them to be, especially toward my wife. Convict me when I am being unforgiving. Help me to let go of any anger, so that confusion will not have a place in my mind. If there is behavior in me that needs to change, enable me to make changes that last. Whatever You reveal to me, I will confess to You as sin.
Make me a man after Your own heart. Enable me to be the head of my home and family that You created me to be.
excerpts from: The Power of a praying Husband
Stormie Omartian
A prayerful man is a powerful man and a man every women wants to be with.. That is the kinda man am grooming myself to be..
ReplyDeleteNice and well articulated post oye, keep the good work up, well you have said it all, once again for me one of the things that can make me love a man is when i see the level of his love for God, a praying man is an asset to any woman
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