Are You Kidding Me?

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A young woman, whom I call one of my extras (someone I love like I love my own children), asked me to pray that God would make her a better wife. She shared she is blown away with the depth of love her husband showers over her even when she  becomes impatient, grumbling when he neglects to do small things like immediately put a trash bag in the can he's just emptied.   

She, being an introvert, had asked me to pray for her to be able to pray out loud. Challenging herself, she picked up Stormie Omartian's daily prayer guide The Power of a Praying Wife and prayed "Day One" out loud to her husband.

The next week when I saw her she, with tears dripping down her cheeks, she said, "Let me read this and show you what God did." 

Whew! Are you kidding me? Sometimes God's answers in very specific ways. Let's give Him the glory for the great things he does.

The prayer:

"Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help.

Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness, long suffering, and willingness to bear all things.

Take my old emotional habits, mind-sets, automatic reactions, rude assumptions, and self-protectiveness, and make me patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled.

Take the hardness of my heart and break down the walls with Your battering ram of revelation.  Give me a new heart and work in me Your love, peace, and joy (Galatians 5;22-23). I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment.  Only You can transform me.  In Jesus' name I pray. Amen."

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  Philippians 4:6

The Song

“For the Love of God” Andrew Ripp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbkYijXb5HQ



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