31 Days of Praying For My Husband--Day 1

I will not post my prayers publicly every day, as they will be private prayers at times. But when I feel it appropriate, and just to make sure we are all on track, I will post a prayer. For day one of praying for our husbands....here we go!

Day 1

Pray that your husband will grow spiritually and consider his accountability before the Lord. Pray that he will guard his heart by developing spiritual disciplines—Bible reading and study, prayer, meditation, scripture memorization, etc. (2 Pet. 3:18; Prov. 4:23)

Father in Heaven, I come before You today on behalf of my husband. God, as I submit to Kyle, I ask that he find his accountability before You. As he submits to You, and as I submit to him, may our whole family fall in line with Your will. I know there are days where he struggles to make time to be consistent in Your word, but that is the only way he will strengthen his accountability before You. Give him a hunger for the things of Your word, a hunger to be in Your presence through the gift of prayer, and applying always the hiding of Your words in his heart that he might not sin against You (Ps. 119:11). Help him to guard his heart diligently, for You have designed our hearts to be a source of life (Prov. 4:23).

But [help Kyle to] grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (2 Pet. 3:18)

31 Days of Prayer

If you are a wife who wants to bless her husband, you want to do whatever it takes to encourage him to become the best leader, provider, husband, and father he can be. If we are honest, our men have tough jobs. They must submit to the Lord and lead their families spiritually, financially, physically, and also be involved in participating in the church as well. I'm glad I'm not a man! Sometimes my job as a mama is overwhelming, and I am not even leading a family! That being said, how often do we as wives forget to bathe our husbands in prayer? I know I do.

What would happen if we stopped complaining about our husbands, and started praying for them? What if we turned our words into prayers and bowed before God for our men?

 I discovered this challenge recently, and I am taking it.

http://www.reviveourhearts.com/static/uploads/pdf/articles/31DaysPrayingHusband.pdf

This is a guide to 31 days of praying for your husband. These are specific prayer requests--everything from his spiritual walk to his work and interaction with people. With each day of prayer are verses to accompany what you are praying for over your husband.

As I go through this, I will post about the journey for both myself, and my husband. He doesn't know I am taking this challenge, but I want to be diligent in bathing him daily. I look forward to seeing what God does in a month of my daily prayers.

If you are joining in the challenge, please comment below and let's get started in praying for our husbands!

Happy-Internet-Free-Days

Our internet has been out for three days. The reason? Our lab puppy decided to chew through the line on the outside of the house. Of course, we didn't discover the reason it was out until we called for a repairman to come.

Sigh.

Our child isn't even old enough to break things--but our puppy is getting us ready for the day he is!

Anyway.

It was hard being out of internet at some points! But what Kyle and I realized during those three days was how much we overused internet. We used it to look up things we wanted, things we were interested in, and it had become a distraction from actual life.

Without internet we cuddled and talked. We watched old movies we haven't touched in a long time. I talked more to my son. We went on a date and celebrated our anniversary. We hosted a lunch at our house for our mothers on Mothers Day. We drove in the neighborhood of where our new home will be (more to come later). We walked the mall. Kyle bought me a new pair of running shoes. I washed a lot of diapers. We.....lived.....

Being without internet was amazing! I found I didn't miss Facebook. I didn't miss Twitter. I really only missed my blog and reading blogs. I loved being PRESENT in my life rather than socially advertising it. It is nice to have internet again to update the blog and take care of bills and emails, but I plan to use it more wisely and sparingly.

It is a shame when internet takes away from how often I kiss my baby during our sweet moments or how many songs I sing to him while he eats. It is intended to be a TOOL....not a place to live a virtual life. Let's face it, I have an awesome life to live LITERALLY.

So I guess instead of thinking of ways to get rid of our puppy, I owe her one for chewing through the cord.

Unless I get a big bill for the repair.