5 Things to Pray for Your Spouse: Prayers That Change and Strengthen Your Marriage (Biblical Ideas for Praying For Your Husband or Wife)

Good book

Glory to God for this resource! It helped me focus during prayer for my spouse. Bible based prayer that I did every morning while giving my baby a bottle!

5 Things to Pray for Your Spouse by Michael and Melissa Kruger is a short book consisting of prayer prompts derived from various Scripture passages. 5 Things to Pray for Your Spouse is divided into 4 sections each with its own subsections that include multiple prayer prompts. Some of the prompts are for your spouse individually and some are for you as a couple. For example, prompt 5 on page 13 is derived from 1 Corinthians 1:8. It is titled Grace to Persevere and reads, "He will also keep you firm to the end (v 8). The Christian life is not easy. It's a long race in which we feel tired or even exhausted, and ready to give up. The only way we make it to the finish line is by God's grace (Hebrews 12 v 1-2). Pray that God would grant endurance and perseverance to your spouse so that they may run the Christian race with joy and faithfulness and not give in to despair and discouragement."Things to Pray for Your Spouse has been a sweet blessing to my marriage. Only in recent years have I learned the importance of praying for my husband and praying for him faithfully has produced sweet fruit. We are currently in a season with a newborn and two other young children and with taking care of them, I haven't felt that I have much to contribute to my marriage. 5 Things to Pray for Your Spouse has been a huge help in that it's directed me to the Word and helped me think of things to pray for that I probably wouldn't have thought of on my own. I'm really thankful for this incredibly helpful resource and I'm pleased to give it my highest recommendation.

5 Things to Pray for your Spouse: Prayers that Change and Strengthen your Marriage provides guided prayer topics based on Scripture to grow your affections and relationship in marriage through intentional prayer. Michael and Melissa Kruger introduce a short topic that you pray for each day. Your marriage and your spouse should be prayed for everyday. Marriage is not easy and takes work but yields a lifetime of growth and joy.around. Prayer not only petitions God to change your spouse, but also changes your own heart towards your spouse. It can be easy to focus on your spouses problems and miss out on the beauty of the person God gave you. When we focus too much on the problem we forget about all the blessing of marriage. Praying gets our eyes off of our own needs and rightly directs them to serving and caring for others.If you are like me, you may find yourself stuck in a rut, praying the same things for my spouse over and over; that's if you even remember to pray for them at all. Or you find yourself praying for the negative aspects of your spouse to change, but neglect to pray for their faith, fruit, and growth. The Kruger's book is a great resource to break free of this monotony. Each day you are given specific, biblical ways to pray for your spouse. The book is more than just 5 things to pray, it is 21 specific areas each with different ways to pray. You may choose to pray through the five things every day for three weeks, or you can pray through one thing for five days out of the week for 21 weeks. There are section on praying during difficult times, such as praying when we are in conflict with one another, that can be referenced time and time again to guide our prayers when we don't want to pray. However you end up using this resource, your heart and prayers for you spouse will greatly benefit as well as your relationship.This book is perfect for all marriages to guide and shape our prayers and affections for our spouses. It would make a perfect wedding gift to start the marriage off right. It is also a good tool for couples experiencing problems in their marriage that feel hopeless or stuck or a homework assignment within biblical counseling. However you use this book, it will certainly bring about fruit in your marriage.

Of course we pray for our spouses but how specific do we get? What scriptures are we clinging to for them, for our marriage? Sometimes it can be hard to know where to start.This little book is so helpful in taking the guesswork out of praying for your spouse.It covers 21 prayer themes, with each one including five prayer prompts from a particular passage of Scripture. There is even space to write out your prayers (but you could also put your prayers on flash cards then hole punch them and place them on a binder ring)The prayers include so many different areas such as: spiritual maturity, finances, our work and facing trials and celebrating triumphs together.You can implement this into your own devotional time or during prayer time with your spouse.Do you know a couple getting married soon? This would make the perfect gift for a wedding or bridal shower!