How To Pray For Your Husband

A simple list of 10 ways that we can faithfully pray for our husband.

The Importance of Prayer

God is so gracious in His sweet rebukes.

I was recently convicted by the lack of time and effort I spend in prayer for my husband and our marriage. My husband is an incredible blessing and I DO pray for him, but not with the devotion that I should.

I often find myself pouring all of my energy and efforts into caring and praying for our energetic and sweet, but VERY strong willed children… All the while neglecting to pray for my best friend with the same passion and commitment.

But here’s the thing, our marriages must be healthy if we are to raise our children for God’s glory. Our parenting is a direct correlation to our faithful example as husband and wife. And even further- our relationship with our Savior must be central if we are to grow in our relationship with our spouse.

All of that to simply say that we’re living in a day and age where our hearts and minds are a constant battleground.

Our enemy wants nothing more than to destroy our marriages and families. He delights to keep us busy and distracted. He deceives us into thinking that we’ve got it all under control. It is in these unsuspecting moments that we give him a foot into the door of our hearts.

Please be faithful to pray for your spouse.

Praying the Scriptures for Your Spouse

A few years ago I was given a book about praying the Scriptures for our children. Up until that point in my life I had never really thought of literally reading a piece of Scripture and then praying those very words with my children in mind.

The Bible clearly says, however, that if we pray in faith asking anything according to God’s will, He hears us. So it makes complete sense to pray the inspired words of God over our children and our spouse and see God work.

I think it’s important to also remember that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are much higher than our own (Isaiah 55:8). So even though we may be praying in faith in a specific area it doesn’t guarantee that God will answer in the way that we desire. Remember we must pray according to His will and not our own.

Marriage Difficulties

Over the years I have learned that He will sometimes allow us to go through trials to reveal to us His truths more clearly, or even to reveal some sin hiding in our own hearts. Just as a plant needs pruning to grow, our faith needs pruning to thrive.

If you are in a difficult season in your marriage please do not give up hope.

Faithfully pray.

Be a Christ-like example to your spouse.

Patiently wait.

And pray some more.

We serve an incredible God who delights to give good gifts to His children. He sees you and He hears you. He knows the plans He has for you. Please trust Him.

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10 Ways To Pray For Your Husband

Obviously our spouses each have unique needs and situations that we can be praying for, but we can also pray for our husband’s overall character and for his faith to be continually strengthened.

We can pray that he will…

1. Take His Thoughts Captive

We are constantly bombarded with images and voices trying to lead us astray each day. This is especially true for our visually stimulated husbands. We can pray for our husband to be prepared when the temptations arise and push away the unhealthy thoughts through God’s strength and the truths of His Word.

“For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ…” (2 Corinthians 10:5)

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?” Job 31:1

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 2. Guard His Heart

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in marriage, it’s that men don’t share as much as women do. But stresses of life affect them just the same. However, they often try to conceal their exhaustion, fear, and worry. We can pray the he will guard his heart and not allow the hardships to result in anger, frustration, or pulling away.

“Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.” (Proverbs 4:23)

3. Be Convicted of Sin

Yes, God gave us a conscience to know right from wrong. BUT we can easily sear it when it goes against the desires of our sinful flesh. We can pray for our spouse to have a tender conscience towards sin and the heart to repent. That he will desire to restore a right relationship with his Savior.

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)

4. Desire Humility

If you really think about it almost every type of sin we commit can be rooted in some form of pride. As much as I hate to admit it I still struggle with this too.

Pride is foolishly believing that I can handle things on my own. Pride is the way I can somehow see the spec in someone else’s eye while neglecting the log in my own. Pride is making assumptions about others when I don’t know the full story.

I think it’s safe to say that in their desire to provide for and lead their families men struggle with pride too, many times to an even greater extent. We can pray for our husband to humbly submit to God’s leading and recognize His gifts and goodness. We can pray that he will put God first and then place others above himself.

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8)

5. Be Faithful in His Daily Walk With God

It takes intentional effort to stay focused in this area. So many noises and distractions will attempt to drown out the importance of faithfully studying God’s Word and spending time in prayer. Pray that your husband will be refreshed and strengthened as he pursues His Creator. That God will create within him the desire to be a man after His own heart.

“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” (James 4:8)

6. Meet the Needs of His Children

God created us with unique roles as mother and father. Although the mother is typically the one known for her teaching and nurturing abilities, children desperately still need their father. Study after study indicates childhood misbehavior (that often even flows into adulthood) almost always stems from an absent father (whether physically or emotionally).

Ladies, our husbands play such a vital role in the development of our children. Please pray that your husband will have eyes to see the needs of your children and then continually meet those needs with patience and grace.

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)

7. Have Wisdom in Leading His Family

As women we seem to struggle with the desire to be in control of situations. And we just so happen to have some powerful emotions. Although these emotions can be healthy, they are never meant to lead us.

Our husbands, on the other hand, were gifted with the ability to make calculated decisions a bit easier, which comes in handy in their God given responsibility to lead our families. We can pray for them to seek God’s guidance when making these decisions instead of relying on their own inclinations or preferences.

“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.” (James 3:17)

8. Be a Diligent Worker

This isn’t always one that we think upon too often, but we’re told several times in Scripture how God desires us to be diligent workers in the tasks that He’s called us to. We can pray that our husband will honor God in his work by performing both the trivial or important jobs with joy and gratitude.

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” (Colossians 3:23)

9. Develop Godly Friendships

We know that peers and companions have an enormous impact on our children’s character. Well, not all that much changes as we grow into adulthood. Those we spend the most time with and seek advice from still have a tremendous impact on us whether we realize it or not.

We can pray for our husband to develop godly friendships with men that have a genuine desire to encourage each other and point one another to Christ.

“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” (Proverbs 27:17)

10. Find Joy in His Wife

Ladies, this one is for us! We can also pray that we will graciously do our part in meeting our husband’s needs, encouraging him, respecting him, and loving him the way he needs to be loved.

Let’s be faithful to pray for our husband and thank God for the sweet gift of marriage.