This week we will complete the 31 Day Pray For Your Wife Challenge. It has been an amazing experience to dedicate an entire month to pray for my wife. I believe other men have been blessed as well. I’ve been taken aback by the way that God has answered prayers in the life of these men.
Many have asked how they could continue praying for their wives. I know I intend to keep praying for my wife as well.
To help men continue to pray for their wives, and to extend this beyond the initial group, I’ve decided to make available a free eBook for all those that participated in the prayer challenge. (Even if you didn’t participate you can still sign up to receive the book).
When you submit your email address in the space below you will receive a free eBook and a few other resources to assist you in praying for your wife. You will receive your book once we complete Day 31. (RSS and email subscribers may need to click through)
A special thanks goes to Lore Ferguson for helping me put together the free eBook. She took it upon herself to do this without even being asked. Thanks, Lore!
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I would also mention, just by way of information, that my feed has updated. If you once followed Borrowed Light on your RSS, you’ll need to update.
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This has to be one of the strangest blog subject. I could not imagine not praying for my wife. I pray for her at least five times a day and have done so for nearly all of our years of marriage (it will be 44 years on Thursday, Sept.5th). The times I did not were those times spent in a hospital recovering from heart problems, and even then I managed to remember her at times.
James,
Some men simply don’t know how to pray for her. Others get distracted and don’t really pray but occasionally. This month has been to encourage men to do what ought to be done, to exhort some men to pray mre fervently, and to equip some men in how to pray the Scriotures over their wives.
Can I respectfully ask Mr. James a question? Did you teach your sons and grandsons to pray for their wives. As a young man, and now a young pastor, I wish an older man would take enough interest in me to teach me those kinds of things. I find the older generation either doesn’t understand or just doesn’t care that we need to be taught, even what may seem so basic to you. Please teach us. Please care enough about us that you teach us to leave a legacy of faith for our sons and grandsons.
Dear Tony: Our son and daughter were a part of our family devotions. He heard me pray for his mother. I don’t know that he prays for his wife and daughter, but I feel certain he does, My daughter is from a first marriage many years ago. Her mother left, saying, “”I don’t love you, and I don’t reckon I ever did.” Then she added, “If you get married again, I will give you —-(our daughter), if I think it is a good marriage.” And she did, signing her over in a court of law. Because I hated divorce so much, I almost committed suicide. But God helped me through that difficulty, and some folks introduced me to the lady who has been my wife for 44 years today (Sept.5). We ate dinner tonight with our two children (our son is our pastor, and he is 42), and we came home and had chocolate cake, fixed yesterday by our 12 year old grand daughter, following the instructions of her grandmother. During these 44 years, I spent about 24 years pastoring. During the first marriage about 4 years out of a marriage that lasted nearly 7 years, and, if I had had my way, it would still be going continuing.” But one does not always get to have his or her way. Anyway, I normally spend about 40 minutes to an hour nearly every day of the week in Bible reading, devotion, and prayer. My children have had my example all their lives of my praying for their mother, in my daughter’s case, the woman who stepped up to the plate and served as her mother for the 42 years (she came to live with us the same year our son was born). I remember reading Spurgeon’s devotions in our devotion and prayer time, when the children were home. Our son has devotions in the morning. My daughter has daily devotions too, although she does not go to church regularly (a grief to me). Our son has a wife who has been instrumental in encouraging a goodly number of people to come to church and some of them have joined (in fact I know of about 10). I suspect that he prays for her just as I prayed for his mother, when he was home. Both of my children know that I pray for them.
Well, Brother Tony, I will try for the third time to respond to your question (my computer tells me my current page has expired and does not post). Our son learned by example. He heard me pray in family devotions for his mother and him and his sister. He is our pastor, and has been pastor of this church which we joined in June for 14 years. His wife teaches nursing and she has reached perhaps 10-15 of her students and encouraged them to come. I think at least ten have joined. I am sure he prays for his wife and daughter. My wife and I celebrated our 44th anniversary tonight with our children at a local eating place. Our son said the blessing, thanking God for our marriage.