I came across this prayer guide a few years ago. It helps to give you a method to follow as you pray for your spouse. It is particularly helpful when you are on a trip or a long drive.
1 Samuel 12:23 (NASB95)
23 “Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.
- PRAY FOR HIS OR HER SPIRIT
Father, because Jesus is her Savior and Lord, Your Holy Spirit abides in my wife/husband, according to Eze. 36:26-27, “I will put my Spirit in you.” By Your gracious Spirit, grow in his/her life Your abundant fruit, “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Gal. 5:22-23),” as he/she dedicates himself/herself to being filled, daily with Your Spirit.
Father, please speak to him/her as he/she seeks you in prayer and bible study. Guide them in their daily activities.
Lord, open his/her mind to see You in the scriptures and receive Your truth (Luke 24:45). By Your work in him/her, he/she is made new in the attitude of his/her mind. I pray that he/she will choose to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness (Eph. 4:23-24). I pray that he/she will not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by renewing her mind, so that he/she will be able to discern and accept Your good, pleasing, and perfect will (Rom. 12:2).
I pray that my husband/wife will personally know You as her Lord with real certainty and devotion.
May he/she seek You alone, the source of all wisdom and knowledge (Col. 2:2-3). May he/she make it a priority to grow in being intimately acquainted with You and all Your ways (Phil. 3:8-10). May he/she obey You with her every thought (2 Cor. 10:5). May he/she be not carnally minded which is death, but control his/her thoughts by Your Spirit, which is life and peace (Rom. 8:6, 9).
I pray that he/she will remember what You taught, and let Your words enrich his/her life (Col. 3:16).
Fix his/her mind on heaven’s perspective, so she does not worry about things on earth (Col. 3:1-3). Cause his/her thoughts to dwell on what is true, good, right, pure, lovely, and admirable in her circumstances and in others. Remind him/her to think about everything he/she has to praise You for in all things (Phil. 4:8).
Keep his/her eyes firmly fixed on You, Lord (Heb. 12:2). Open his/her eyes that he/she may see spiritual truth (Psa. 119:18, 2 Kings 6:17). You are the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6).
May he/she keep his/her eyes open for spiritual danger, be spiritually alert, stand firm in the faith, and be courageous and strong (1 Cor. 16:13). Help him/her to watch out for sly attacks from the enemy (1 Pet. 5:8). Keep his/her spiritual senses tuned to desire and expect Your presence in his/her life continuously (2 Cor, 11:3). Keep him/her looking into Your perfect word that gives freedom, doing what he/she reads there, so that You may bless him/her (Jam. 1:25). May he/she clearly discern what is best, so that she may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ (Phi, 1:9-11). Grant him/her the Spirit of wisdom and revelation to enlighten his/her heart, so that he/she may ‘know You better, understand Your glorious inheritance in her, and experience Your great power . daily in practical ways (Eph. 1:17-19).
Dear Father, faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by Your word (Rom. 10:17). I pray that my husband/wife will receive Your instruction (Psa. 78:1). May he/she be sensitive to Your gentlest whisper of guidance (Isa. 30:21). Awaken him/her morning by morning to listen You. When You speak to him/her, I pray he/she will not be rebellious or draw back from following You fully (Isa. 50:4-5). May he/she receive your discipline (Deu. 4:36) to warn him/her of the penalties of sin, to turn him/her from wrongdoing, and to keep him/her from pride (Job 33:17).
- PRAY FOR HIS OR HER MOUTH
Let his/her words and her thoughts be pleasing in Your sight (Psa. 19:14). Give his/her Your words so that he/she may know how to encourage the weary or misguided ones (Isa. 50:4). Open his/her mouth in godly wisdom and faithful instruction (Pro. 31:26).
Grant him/her boldness for You (Acts 4:29, Eph, 6:19). Open many doors for him/her to share the good news of Jesus, and give him/her Your words freely, fully, and clearly. May he/she make the most of every opportunity as your ambassador (2 Cor. 5:20). May his/her words always be gracious, so that he/she may know how to answer everyone (Col. 4:3-6). Whatever he/she does or says, let it be as an expression of the love, grace, and humility of Jesus (Col. 3:17).
Help his/her to stay her heart on You, so that he/she will not complain or argue (Phil. 2:14). Set a guard over his/her mouth (Psa. 141:3). Remind him/her not to say hurtful or judgmental things about others, but to say only what is wholesome and helpful for building others up according to their needs (Eph. 4:29). I pray that we will talk to each other much about You, quoting psalms, singing songs, making music in our hearts to You (Eph. 5:19).
- PRAY FOR HIS OR HER BONES
May my husband/wife not be wise in his/her own eyes, but fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to his/her body and nourishment to his/her bones (Pro. 3:7-8). Satisfy him/her and strengthen her body, so that she will be like a well-watered garden, like an unfailing spring (Isa. 58:11).
- PRAY FOR HIS OR HER HEART
May my husband/wife worship You with wholehearted devotion and a willing spirit, for You, Lord, search the heart and understand every motive (1 Chron. 18:9). Enable him/her to obey Your command to love You with all his/her heart and with all her soul and with all her strength and with all his/her mind (Luke 10:27). Draw him/her close to Your heart, so that his/her heart will be filled with You alone to make her pure and true (Jam. 4:8),
Thank You for Your promise: “I will give you a new heart. I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and cause you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws (Eze. 36:26-27).” Create in my husband/wife that new, clean heart, 0 God, filled with clean thoughts and right desires (Psa. 51:10). You desire him/her to have a teachable heart, so warn him/her not to harden his/her heart toward You (Psa. 95:7-8).
Help him/her to guard his/her heart with all diligence, for it is the wellspring of life (Pro. 4:23). Cause him/her to speak good words from Your goodness stored up in her heart, not speaking evil from evil stored up in his/her heart. Empower Your goodness in her heart to overflow to others continually and in increasing measure (Luke 6:45).
I pray he/she will trust in You, Lord, with all his/her heart, to acknowledge You in all his/her ways, and not to lean to her own understanding. Thereby You promise to direct him/her in wise choices (Pro. 3:5-6). I pray that he/she will let Your peace rule his/her heart as Your word dwells in him/her, so that by the example of her confidence in You, he/she may teach others with all wisdom and with gratitude in his/her heart to You (Col. 3:15-16). I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in his/her heart as she trusts in You. May his/her foundation be established deep in Your marvelous love. Enable him/her to understand and experience how wide and long and high and deep Your love really is, although it is so great we can never get to the end of it, so that he/she may be filled up with all the fullness of God (Eph. 3:17-19). See to it, Lord, that no root of bitterness grows in his/her heart and causes trouble in her relationships (Heb. 12:15).
Make her arms strong for the tasks You give him/her (Pro. 31:17). Cause him/her to look to Your grace for her strength every morning, her salvation in time of distress (Isa. 33:2). Remind him/her that you say, “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert. But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit (Jer. 17,’5-S).” May he/she never fail to bear fruit in every good work, drawing from Your eternal fruitfulness (Col. 1:10).
At Your direction, may he/she open her arms and extend her his/hands to the poor and needy (Pro. 31:20). ‘ Arm him/her with strength for Your spiritual battles and make his/her way perfect in obedience to You (Psa. 18:32, 39).
- PRAY FOR HIS OR HER HANDS
I pray that he/she will continue to bless You, Lord, as long as she lives, lifting up his/her hands to You in prayer (Psa. 63:4). Train his/her hands for prayer warfare, subject to You as his/her Commander in Chief (Psa. 18:34). Cause him/her to be a strong soldier of the cross in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and keep his/her from entanglements that would hinder him/her from carrying out all service that is pleasing to You (2 Tim. 2:1, 3-4).
May he/she use all Your armor to resist the enemy whenever he attacks, so that he/she may stand strong in You (Eph. 6:10-11, 13). Help him/her to lay aside every weight and the sins that would trip him/her up, , so she can run with patience the race that You have set before him/her, not looking to the left nor the right (Heb. 12:1). Enlighten him/her to recognize the counsel of the ungodly, so that she will not walk in it. Instead, cause her to delight in Your truth, knowing that You promise to watch over the way of the righteous (Psa. 1:1-2, 6).
Help him/her to walk by faith, and not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). Teach him/her to hope in You, as You promised in Isaiah 40:31—’Those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
May his/her walk with You consistently glorify You. Fill him/her with all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that he/she may walk worthy of Your name and please You in every way, growing in knowing You, being strengthened with all power according to Your glorious might, so that she may have great endurance, patience, joy, and gratitude to the Father (Col. 1:9-12).
Thank You for lifting him/her out of discouragement when things get tough and he/she is tempted to despair. Thank You, too, for setting his/her feet on a firm, sure path (Psa. 40:2). Continue to make him/her steadfast as he/she walks along with You (Psa. 66:9). Thank You that You delight in each step he/she takes and You direct her confidently (Psa. 37:23). Thank You for giving him/her power to tread on all the power of the enemy and to overcome him in all things (Luke 10:19).
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If you haven’t already done so, it’s time to grab your significant other, go to a coffee shop, break out the calendars and plan the last month of the year. Remember as Zig Ziglar said, “to fail to plan is to plan to fail”. I have found that if I am unwilling to take the time to plan my month that others will be glad to plan it for me. So be proactive, take initiative and end the year with purpose.
