How to Pray for Your Husband

As we moved through our series, “How to Pray for…“, we’ve looked at:

• How to Pray for Missionaries
• How to Pray for Your Kids
• How to Pray for Your Pastor

This week, I want to take a look at How to Pray for Your Husband. We all know that we should pray for our husbands, but actually knowing how to pray for him is sometimes a struggle. Some of you have husbands who are running hard after Jesus, encouraging you to run hard too. Others of you have husbands who are not walking with the Lord, leaving the spiritual health of your household in your hands. Regardless of where your husband stands with the Lord, as his wife, it is your responsibility to pray for him. I want to point you to some helpful resources that teach us how to pray for our husbands.

If you don’t already own a copy of Stormie Omartian’s book, The Power of a Praying Wife, I would highly recommend that you get a copy. This book was given to me as a wedding shower gift, and I have read it and used it over and over again in my five years of marriage. The book is broken down into 30 chapters, each focusing on an aspect of your husband’s life to pray over. Each chapter ends with a prayer and Scripture to pray over your husband. A few times a year, I add this book to my morning routine, praying a chapter a day for a month.

Another great resource is the prayer calendar provided by Revive Our Hearts. This ministry has put together a great resource, 31 Days of Prayers for Your Husband, that you could use to structure your daily prayer time for your husband. Each day focuses on a specific area of your husband’s life and provides you with a few Scripture verses to pray over him.

If you like to pray prayers that have already been written out for you, Andrew Case has a new book out, Prayers of an Excellent Wife. More than 200 pages of prayers written with Scripture as the core, this book is an excellent resource for learning to pray Scripture over your husband.

Not only do we need to pray over the character of our husbands, but we need to pray over their beings. This resource provides Scripture to pray over each part of his body.

Pamm’s House shares a weekly prayer calendar she found for praying for your husband:

• Sunday:
  • Pray that your husband might become a holy man, a man of prayer, mature in the Lord, growing in his knowledge of God. (I Thessalonians 5:23; Colossians 4:12; Ephesians 6:18, 1:18-19, 3:16-19).
  • Pray that your husband might daily seek God with all his heart, walking in the Spirit moment by moment, growing in his dependence on Him (Psalm 119:1-2, 27:4; Proverbs 3:5-6; John 15:5).
• Monday:
  • Pray that your husband might learn to take every thought captive, to not be conformed to the world’s thinking and to think Biblically. (Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 10:5).
  • Pray that your husband would learn to not depend on his circumstances for happiness but on God alone (Habakkuk 3:17-19).
• Tuesday:
  • Pray that your husband might have new strength in the midst of his busy schedule and that the Lord might infuse him with His strength (Isaiah 40:31; Ephesians 3:14-19).
  • Pray that your husband’s self-image might be a reflection of the Lord’s thoughts toward him (Ephesians 1:17-19; Romans 12:3; Psalm 139).
• Wednesday:
  • Pray that your husband might become not driven but a called man, with well thought-through and prayed-through goals in life (1 Corinthians 9:24-27).
  • Pray that the Lord might give your husband wisdom to lead his family physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually (Ephesians 1:17-19; James 1:5-7).
• Thursday:
  • Pray that your husband might stand firm against the schemes of the devil and resist Satan in all circumstances. (Ephesians 6:10-18; James 4:7).
  • Pray that your husband might not be deceived into unbelief or sin (Galatians 6:7).
• Friday:
  • That the fruit of the Spirit might be exhibited more and more in his life (Galatians 5:22-23).
  • That he might learn to love as God has commanded (1 Corinthians 13:4-7; Romans 12:8-10).
• Saturday:
  • That the Lord might protect your husband, guarding his course (Proverbs 2:8).
  • Pray that your husband might learn to manage his time well (Ephesians 5:15) .

How do you pray for your husband?

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