Pray For Your Wife: 31 Day Challenge—Day Twenty-Six

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Day Twenty-Six: That her husband would provide for her

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8

Men, we must have a hear to provide for our families. I know that various stages of life will make providing difficult. Some men are hindered by disabilities. The issue is really the heart. God knows if we are being lazy or if we are truly working hard to provide. As men we need to do hard things. If we do not care to provide for our families this means that we are worse than an unbeliever. Men, let’s passionately pursue nurturing and caring for our wife and children (if applicable). May we provide for them financially, spiritually, physically, emotionally, and any other way that we are called to provide.

Father, you are the Great Provider. You own the cattle on a thousand hills. You have all resources at your disposal. Lord, stir up in my heart a passion to work hard…really hard, for the sake of my wife. You have the heart of a Provider. You make certain that your children do not lack any good thing. Help me to live out of this same heart. May I look to their needs before my own. Help me to make changes that might be necessary to provide for her better. In Jesus name, Amen.

FREE Pray For Your Wife eBOOK

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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!

Today in Blogworld 08.26.13

Mike Leake

I’ve taken a break from the TiB feature for awhile. So I’m catching up this week.

Wilkin and Schreiner on the Role of Works at the Final Judgment

This looks like a book that will be a good one for my library. You can buy the 4 Views book here. Or read a snippet here.

Indispensible

If you aren’t familiar with Greg Lucas you need to be. This is another great story. Greg has also written a great book on the lessons God has taught him being the father of an autistic son.

Seminary Wives: 10 Encouragements for the Journey

I think my wife needs a number 11. Keep in mind that your husband might be in seminary for a couple decades.

All the Radical I Can Manage

Great stuff from Barnabas Piper, “…sometimes faith isn’t radical; sometimes it’s just holding on. It’s not intellectual in the slightest and neither is it particularly well-argued. It doesn’t seek to change the world or do anything dynamic. It is not on any mission and it’s not a unique use of gifts. It is just holding on tight because that’s all it can do at the time.”

This is really why I don’t do altar calls…I’d do something like this:

Pray For Your Wife: 31 Day Challenge—Day Twenty-Five

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Day Twenty-Five: That she would be in awe of God

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. –Isaiah 66:2

Brothers, our wives must be in awe of God. The one to whom God will look is the one that trembles in awe of His majesty. Our God is awesome and worthy of us being absolutely dumbfounded in His presence. Let us pray today that our wives would be awestruck by His glory. May the sight of Him humble her, cause her to be contrite before Him, and to tremble at His word. He is glorious, brothers, may our wives know this with ever fiber of their being.

Lord, would you cause awe to spring up in the heart of my wife. Cause her to tremble at your word. I pray that she is enamored with all of your glory. Rescue her—rescue me—from a foolish sense of familiarity with you that no longer inspires awe. Help us to see that you are inexhaustible. We know that mountains melt like wax before You. Melt our hearts before you, oh God. Awe us for you are awesome. Amen.