Did you hear about my issue? That secret struggle I had for so long when it came respecting my husband. I confessed it all in my P31 devotion today. As I shared, I haven’t always been so good at following and trusting my man”s lead. BUT God has done an amazing work in me – and in my marriage – over the past 18 years.
I know marriage can be hard, and trusting someone to lead when there are things you struggle with together is really, really hard. But I also know God uses us in powerful ways to love our men like He does – unconditionally.
One of the best ways we can love our husbands is to pray for them. Praying for JJ has shown me all that he carried on his shoulders – at work, at home, at church, with our kids, etc. It’s also really helped me follow his lead. It assures me that he’s covered spiritually when I invite God to do His thing in JJ’s life.
Of course, it’s up to our husbands to respond to God’s work in their hearts but our part is not based on our husband’s response to God. It’s based on our surrendering and seeking God’s heart for our husbands – and trusting God to lead from there.
JJ has also told me that prayer is the best gift I can give him. Years ago I heard a concept about praying for our husbands – from head to toe. So, today I wanted to share some verses and prayers that fit with that concept:
Head
“Father, I ask that You would continually renew my husband’s mind, resulting in a transformed life. Help him bring every thought into captivity to Christ to make it obedient to You. Give him a greater understanding of Your Word. Help him to think on things that are pure and right and worthy of praise.” (Psalm 119:15, Rom 12:2, 2 Cor.10:5)
Eyes
“Lord, keep opening my husband’s eyes to deep spiritual truths. Help him to see things as You see them. Please guard his eyes from looking at worthless things. ” (Psalm 119:18, Psalm 119:37)
Ears
“Father, let my husband hear Your voice clearly. Help him to recognize your voice with certainty. Protect him from listening to anyone who is not seeking and walking with You. Help him not to be affected negatively by what others say and to discern between good and evil. Give him the ability to determine what is of You and what is not.” (Is 30:21, 1 Kings 3:9, 1 John 4:1)
Mouth
“Help my husband to speak the truth in love. Help him to be quick to listen and slow to speak. Give him the couraage to lovingly confront when necessary. Let the words he speaks be Yours, not his own. Help him speak words that bring grace and truth to the hearers. I also pray that you will help him to grow in his ability and desire to communicate with you and others.” (Psalm 19:14, 119:13, 41:3; Eph 4:15, 4:29; James 1:19)
Heart
“Give my husband a heart that seeks passionately after You. Teach him to guard his heart with diligence. Help him deal with anything in his heart that is not pleasing to You. Create in him a pure heart. Enable him to lead our family with integrity.” (Psalm 78:72, 119:10-11; Prov 4:23; 1 3:13)
Hands
“Lord, I pray that everything my husband does would be done with his whole heart, serving You rather than man. I pray that You will also help him to increase his skills and his abilities. Bless everything he puts his hands to.” (Psalm 24:3-4, Col 3:23)
Feet
I pray my husband would love Your Words and walk in Your ways. I pray He would be to walk in a manner that is worthy of You, bearing fruit in every good work. Jesus show him how to creatively share your truth with our kids as he does life with them each day. Father, when he walks through the valley of the shadow of doubt and difficulties, I pray he would fear no evil because He knows that you are with him. (Deut 6:7, 8:6, Col 1:10, Psalm 23:4)
I have seen prayer transform my marriage and my life. Whatever steps of faith God is calling you to take personally or with your husband, I want you to know that I am praying for you and your marriage today. We have an enemy set on destroying marriages and one of his tools is to pit husbands and wives against each other. I have experienced his efforts firsthand. What our husbands need most is our respect; what our marriages need most is prayer.
Let’s look for ways to build our husbands up – by giving them encouraging words and the gift of prayer – covering them from head to toe!
If you’d like a copy of my FREE Praying For Your Husband download to print with these prayers on it – click “Share Your Thoughts” and let me know. We’ll be happy to email it to you – although your email will not show in your comment. This will be sent out next week after the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for this – it is so timely as we face a potential change in his job situation. Please send on the Praying For Your Husband download
Hello! Great Devotional today. Please send me the scriptures to pray over my husband.
thanks!
Thanks for today’s devotional. I think we often take our forget about the spiritual needs of our husbands.
This is great information to share with my newly married daughters.
I would love to be able to do this for my husband. I struggle a lot with this! I would love a copy to keep in my Bible. Thanks!!! God bless you and your families!
Hello Renee,
I have been so touched with today’s devotional. I would love a copy of praying for your husband download. I have been praying for my husband for a while about sacrificing. This past Sunday, the Lord let me see his make a sacrifice. 🙂
WoW!!!! What a beautiful article on “Praying for my husband: From head to toe”. Husbands are truly extra-special and really try to be “imitators” of Christ. I would love the free copy of “Prayer for my husband ” download sent to me!!
Thank you again for such inspiring and bible based devotions!!
God bless you and your ministry and your family!!!
Brenda
I would absolutely love a copy of Praying For Your Husband download.
Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this!! This is something I would love to start and my husband needs from me!! Its definitely not an easy thing to do!! I would greatly appreciate the download!!
Thanks again for sharing!!
God bless! 🙂
Renee
I really loved your devotional for today, to be honest I think almost every woman struggles with letting their man lead. Although we know this is the right thing to do, it is still so hard. This is an area in my life that I have some serious work to do. Please send me your free download of the Prayer for my husband.
Thanks so very much and Be Blessed
Elaine Hill
I love the thought of praying for my husband head to toe! I would love to receive an e-mail with the download. Thank you for encouraging women and helping us grow into confident godly women.
Renee, Thank you so much for this devotion. I too struggled, and still do, to respect my husband, but I have seen it work. Only if “today’s” women can just understand that concept. I will talk to my non-christian friends about submitting yourself to your husband and to respect him in all things. All I get is laughter. But in the end, I am all smiles because I know the truth, and that this little “secret” really does work miracles. I would love to have a copy so I can pray for my husband the way I should. Thank you again
Hello Renee , I sure needed this ..Thank You , and God-Bless
Veronica
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Thanks for the great reminder.
Thank you so much for sharing! I needed this today. Your words are very encouraging 🙂
Along with everybody else, this was for ME, TODAY. 🙂 Thank you so much. We are going through the whole role reversal thing right now — trying to reverse back to our God-intended roles. It’s so hard. But God can do it. Please do send me the prayer download. Thanks!
Thank you for this most wonderful devotion. I would like to have a copy of the downloadable prayers for our husbands. We are going through yet another rough situation – I sift through what is left of our broken vows and destroyed trust attempting to find something to respect about him. His lack of full disclosure and repentance is almost my undoing. Please pray.
This is something I needed to hear. Thank you so much for sharing. I would love to have the booklet to download so I can keep these reminders close at hand.
God Bless!
I don’t have a husband yet, but this is what I’ll be praying for the husband to come. I’d love a copy of the free download. Thank you.
Renee, thanks for this devotion- it comes at a time when it is hard for me to respect & follow my husband’s lead due to some bad decisions he has made in the last few years….(nothing too serious though!) I do love him and our marriage is rock solid, but I am a born leader, and very much Type A! It is hard for me to sit back and submit….thanks for these prayers and encouraging words! I have been spending time in prayer for specific things for him, but not telling HIM these things, so I will try to incorporates kind words into our days as well!
Hi Renee, Hope you and your family have a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving. Thank you for sharing yourself with us. Would you please email me the download? I really need to work on this one. Thanks
Would love the booklet Renee…thank you
WOW…..great devotion Renee. So nice ot hear I am NOT alone.
Blessings….
You have no idea how much I needed this today! I don’t know the man I’m married to anymore-he’s turned into a selfish, controlling person who want’s everything (including the housework) done his way or no way. He started a dog breeding business but not has given up on it and won’t get rid of any of the dogs (9) we bought for it. 3 of the dogs are in my house in crates and 1 is old and can’t hold it’s bladder or bowels very long anymore. I’m disabled, house cleaning, kennel cleaning with his hoarding issues are almost an impossibility! I’m embarrassed, hurt, and sometimes cry myself to sleep because of the way the house (his house, he makes it clear, not mine) looks.
He still goes to church on Sunday and does go out to minister to the homeless on Friday nights, but the “Christlike” life and spirit is not evident any more. He reads and listens to the word on his laptop, but it seems like none of the “love your wife as yourself” gets through anymore.
We’ve been married almost 15 years now and my disability and his hoarding has made it impossible to even invite my closest friend or pastor over. NEED SOME MIGHTY PRAYER SUPPORT FROM EVERYONE.
Will be praying for you Skeeter
I would like the booklet very much…..
Would love the download, thank you!!
I would love a copy of the booklet. Thanks.
May I please have a copy of this praying for your husband guideline? I could really use it.
Thanks
I would love a copy of prayers and scripture!! You bless is regularly!!!
Renee, I would love a copy of these prayers for my husband. Please email me. Thank you and God bless!
Please send me the prayer guide for our husbands. We are just rebuilding our marriage and God is softening my husband’s heart after years of hardness.
Awesome prayer!! I would love the download. Thank you for praying for my marriage as I will do same for your marriage. Continue to let God use you in the mighty way He has, is, and will continue to do. Thank you for being so transparent allowing others, like myself, to say if God did it for you, He will surely do it for me and my marriage.
Be blessed!
Thank you so much for today’s devotion. My husband lost his job in June and has been struggling so much with guilt, shame and fear of not providing for our family even though his job loss had nothing to do with his performance. I needed those scriptures to ward off all the negatives that have have been attacking him.
Thank You
can you send me copy of prayer for my husband please?
Thank you for sharing your story. I have been married for 25 yrs. and this has been a constant source of conflict in our marriage. God has shown me lately over and over again that prayer is powerful. Prayer is a priviledge. It will be a priviledge to pray for my husband.
Wonderful advice. I would love a downloadable copy, please. Thank you!
Thank you for this devotional . It was just what I needed to hear today.
Yes! I love this! Hubby and I are stuggling. I know I have difficulties with following his lead at times because he doesn’t exactly believe & practice faith on a regular basis, if at all. His decisions are usually ‘from the hip’ with little or no thought before them. Admittedly, this makes me nervous; but I’m thinking your prayers will help both of us. Thank you!
Hi Renee,
Thank you so much for sharing your heart with us today. Submitting to my husband’s leadership has been hard for me thoughout our marriage of 33 years. We were children when we got married at 19; I had been raised to be independent and my husband had been raised to be dependent which made for some difficult years in our marriage and kept me from wanting to be submissive. I am happy to say that about the time of our 10 year anniversary, the roles began to be reversed. My husband became more of a leader and I became more submissive. After all of this time, I still have lessons to learn in this area.
I would love the download of scriptural prayers to pray for my husband.
God Bless and Thank you for sharing your heart.
Thank you for this devotional I would love the down load thank you again
Thank you for sharing so honestly. I think that is my favorite aspect of P31 devotionals. I would love the download; to keep and to pass along. Thank you.
Great devotion today. I continue to work on that everyday but it seems to be a continuous struggle. If you could send me the printable version that would be great! Thanks so much for all your devotions.
Hi Renee,
Thank you for your devotional toady. Can you please send me a copy of the prayers that I can print out?
Be blessed.
What about living with an alcoholic husband who couldn’t hold a job? He continuously demanded respect from me and our teenagers but I couldn’t do it and neither could the kids. I had no respect for someone who couldn’t be accountable for his actions? Couldn’t be responsible for being the head of the family. I prayed and prayed for his healing (and ours). Instead God rescued me and my kids from him. We were married 22 years before he had an affair…that was the last straw. That was 3 years ago. It was not what I wanted from my marriage.
Thank you for being so truthful…I, too, have struggled with letting me husband lead. I cannot wait to start praying for a different part of him each day!
Renee, I love my husband very much but can’t express it the way i would like. Please send my the download so i too can pray for my husband the way God calls me to. And to love him the way a wife should love her husband and respect him.
Thank you for the p31 devotional. It is something that I struggle with. I would love the download.
Loved your blog today! Powerful. Convicting. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.
Thank you so much for being so transparent. This made me cry in conviction. You have really put your finger on exactly what I’ve done. Refused to submit, while criticizing my husband for not being decisive enough, for not leading enough. The guy can’t win. Lord and hubby please forgive me…and Lord I receive your grace and ask for your power and strength to receive what I need to change!!
Thank you for this amazing prayer God…them’s fighting words, in a good way, as we battle in prayer for our husbands. Happy Thanksgiving…thankful for you!
I am always looking for ways to build my hisband up. I also have two married daughters that I work to remind them of the importance of this as a wife. I would really enjoy a copy of your Praying for your Husband download, both to read and to share!
please send a printable version, many thanks!
Thank you! I needed to read this today!