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Pray For Your Husband to Grow Spiritually

By Dena Ivie

1 Corinthians 13:6, "[Love] does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth."

How many of us truly pray for our husbands, as we should? How many times do we feel: "We know how our husbands should change and grow"?  But do we really know better than God? Certainly not! Therefore, we should pray earnestly and continually for our husbands to grow as God desires, to grow spiritually.

The scriptures themselves contain prayers that we can pray for our husbands (and ourselves) to grow spiritually. Here are just a few examples:

"For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light." (Colossians 1:9-12)

Ephesians 1:15-19, "Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power."

"For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height -- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen." (Ephesians 3:14-21)

Let us all increase our prayers for our husbands, for ourselves and for others to grow spiritually.

1. Who knows better what spiritual growth is needed in your husband – you or God?

2. List reasons why spiritual growth is needed. Give scriptures to prove the reasons.

3. Study the three prayer examples given in this devotional. Choose one of these prayers and list the spiritual growth mentioned in the prayer.

4. Give the scripture reference of another prayer for spiritual growth.

5. Besides praying for spiritual growth, is there anything an individual must do to attain spiritual growth within himself or herself?