{Use these guided prayers to pray purposefully for your husband. Start with a prayer of praise, a prayer specifically for your husband, and follow it by praying for blessings and intercession in your husband’s life.}
‘But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!’ Galatians 5:22-23(NLT)
‘But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.’ 1 John 4:8(NLT)
Love Is the Greatest
‘If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.’ 1 Corinthians 13:1-13(NLT)
Heavenly Father, You are love. First John 4:8 tells us, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” Your essence and totality are made up of love. You embody the traits of love that we should live out—traits such as patience, kindness, gentleness, humility, and self-control (1 Corinthians 13). I praise You because of Your commitment to love me and to love my spouse in spite of the many ways we may have failed You. I praise You because Your love tempers Your anger toward us and we can appeal to Your faithful love when we need it the most. Your love enables us to experience Your forgiveness and blessing, along with Your mercy and favor. Thank You for Your love and for giving us the opportunity to model Your love to each other.
Share with the Lord your specific situation related to love. You may want to ask God to open your eyes to see where your spouse may need to grow with regard to loving Him and loving you more fully. Ask God to give you insight into the ways your husband is loving you but you may not be aware of. We all understand love through our own grids of perception. Ask God to help you recognize those times when your husband is showing you love that you may not be recognizing on your own, and ask Him to develop in you an appreciation for the ways your husband shows you love.
Gracious Lord, I ask that You bless my husband with a spirit of love. Bless his actions, thoughts, and words with Your love so that he reflects Your love to himself, to me, and to others. Help him to love You with all his heart, soul, and mind. Help him to love me more deeply, more passionately, and even more spontaneously. Revive and restore the “first love” he once felt for me when we began to date or started our relationship together. Expand his understanding of what true love looks like. Bless my husband with the ability to love himself purely as well.
In Christ’s name, amen.
from 7 Guided Prayers For Your Husband