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On Tuesday, I said your prayers can change your wife. I suspect some found that questionable.
I am not suggesting that God will force your wife to change because you ask Him to. But prayer can bring about change.
The best case scenario is that you are praying for a wife who wants to change and grow. This means you’re agreeing with her. You may pray something she would not because of her blind spots or fears, but if she’s really all about being who God called her to be, this can result in God convicting or challenging her.
The worst case is praying “God, whatever it takes for my wife to change”. Of course, that’s a very serious prayer, and not something to do lightly. You need to be sure you’ve done everything you can and should do first. If you try to sic God on your wife while you’re wronging her, God may come after you like a father protecting his precious daughter. The other thing to realise is that while this prayer sometimes works, it can also cause things to get far worse. If God puts your wife in a place to chose, she may make the wrong choice and that could harm or destroy your marriage.
As I suggested yesterday, when you pray about your marriage, or your wife, you need to be all about “God, your will, not mine, be done.”
Most of the time, I think we’re far better off asking our wife what she would like us to pray for. If you keep doing that, she may start to suggest some of the more difficult things she wants to change about herself as a wife. If she does that, don’t see it as a chance to tell her what you want or what you think she should do. Just take it to God in prayer.
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I spent a few years praying, “God, bind our hearts together” and he did. When I told her I’d been praying that she agreed that prayer is certainly God’s will for a marriage.