The Power of a Praying® Wife

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Shallow. This could’ve been a great, deep book on prayer, but it was so shallow and poorly executed. Negatives: Oh boy. Where to start... •Omartian puts too much of an emphasis on WHO is praying and not enough on

Chapter 1: "My husband will not do something he doesn't want to do. And if he ends up doing something he doesn't want to do, his immediate family members will pay for it. I've learned to pray about it until I have God's peace in my heart before I ask." Let me put a huge disclaimer on this and say, if any of the lovely women who did this with me for a prayer group see this, I was so encouraged and uplifted by our discussions and prayers, and I believe we got some good things out of this book. My critique of this book is in no way a critique of our group or the talks we had, and I was so happy to do it with you all. There is some good stuff in this book, and I've rethought how I pray for my husband through it. But enough of the content worries me that I'd hesitate to recommend it to anyone.As I said, I don’t like devotionals, I don’t like cheesy conservative books aimed at women that pretend to be one size fits all and are aimed at a very specific lifestyle The Power of a Praying Wife Devotional is a book close to bestselling author Stormie Omartian’s heart, and she is eager to share it with you. This latest edition, with its new cover, will inspire you to experience comes the transforming power of prayer in your marriage. More than 100 devotions, prayers, and supporting Scriptures encourage and support your desire to lift up your husband, yourself, and your marriage to God’s care. Stormie’s godly wisdom and relevant insights bring deeper understanding of God’s will for you and your future strength for the trials and for your marriage’s every need peace in knowing God’s voice, faithfulness, and purpose hope to fill your marriage and home with joy prayers to keep you in tune with the Holy Spirit’s leading Join Stormie for this amazing adventure of talking to God and seeking His presence in every part of your life. The Power of a Praying Wife Devotional: Fresh Insights for You and Your Marriage by Stormie Omartian – eBook Details There is a joke in our household when I refer to the number of years Stormie and I have been married. I always say, “It’s been forty wonderful years for me and forty miserable years for her.” After forty years of marriage to Stormie, there aren’t any phases of my complex personality left for her to discover. She has seen me triumph, fail, struggle, be fearful and depressed, and doubt my competency as a husband, father, and musician. She has seen me angry at God because He wouldn’t jump when I asked Him to. The Power of a Praying Wife PDF I have put it down and left it on the shelf for several months at a time. The only reason I finished it is that I don’t like to leave books unfinished. Lord, I pray that You would enable (husband’s name) to let go of his past completely. Deliver him from any hold it has on him. Help him to put off his former conduct and habitual ways of thinking about it and be renewed in his mind (Ephesians 4:22-23). Enlarge his understanding to know that You make all things new (Revelation 21:5). Show him a fresh, Holy Spirit–inspired way of relating to negative things that have happened. Give him the mind of Christ so that he can clearly discern Your voice from the voices of the past. When he hears those old voices, enable him to rise up and shut them down with the truth of Your Word. Where he has formerly experienced rejection or pain, I pray he not allow them to color what he sees and hears now. Pour forgiveness into his heart so that bitterness, resentment, revenge, and unforgiveness will have no place there. May he regard the past as only a history lesson and not a guide for his daily life. Wherever his past has become an unpleasant memory, I pray You would redeem it and bring life out of it. Bind up his wounds (Psalm 147:3). Restore his soul (Psalm 23:3). Help him to release the past so that he will not live in it, but learn from it, break out of”

Every day I would pray, “God, give him the desire to do this; give him the desire to take care of his body. Give him a vision for what it’s going to be like if he doesn’t.” And I remember one time I was in prayer and I heard this roaring upstairs, and I thought, what in the world is that noise? Come to find out, it was him on the treadmill. Of course, I did everything to resist saying, “I told you so.” I know it was just an answer to prayer. Aleisha, I’m so sorry that your husband spoke to you in such toxic, horrible ways. It should never be. He was wrong for doing this. It’s not what any spouse should do to another. But please know that it’s never right to use children against a spouse –no matter how “mean” his words are. Kids are not pawns to be shoved around to accommodate a parent’s agenda for or against anyone –especially another parent. Deal with your husband… yes! But to use your children… to take them away from their other parent is absolutely wrong. Those children don’t deserve to be abusively used like this. Don’t allow yourself to believe the lie that because you hurt so badly because of what your husband has said to you, solutions to do that which you should not, are acceptable. They are not. Wrong is still wrong. Despite your feelings towards how your husband did wrong against you, please don’t punish them by denying them their father. 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.My desire is to see my husband have an intimate relationship with Christ. This year alone has been a very tough year. We have only been married for 5 years. He is not abusive mentally and I truly feel like he does not mean to make me feel rejected or unwanted but he does. He has no problem looking into my eyes and telling me a lie one minute and he loves me the next as if he thinks those words take the pain away; it doesn’t and I know it will only be through Christ that I will truly learn to trust him. I know in my heart God can touch the heart of my husband. The focus of each devotional is different and it would’ve been helpful to break them down into a categorized table of contents for people who don’t actually want to read one a day and hope that it works out. In the opening introduction she says "You can ask him [to pray for you], and you can pray for him to pray for you, but you can't demand it of him. Regardless whether he does or doesn't is not your concern, it's God's. So release him from that obligation." You should expect your Christian husband to be trying to build you up spiritually. I feel like that's not an obligation you place on him, but one that God does. Which means you have no right to release him from it. 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.