Hungry for Love

 

I am so excited about the Hungry for Love tour coming to Panama City on Saturday, October 30.  My husband (Chad) and I are going to celebrate our 2 year anniversary!  I absolutely love the song "Lead Me" by Sanctus Real.  It sums up so many conversations I have had with Chad.  While I struggle with being the wife that God has called me to be, Chad also struggles with being the husband God has called him to be.

You've got to go look at these Lead Me Prayers I found on the Sanctus Real website.   I have made the prayer for wives my prayer.  I taped it beside my bathroom mirror so when I'm getting ready in the mornings I will be reminded of my role in my marriage.  One of the most important things I have learned from being married is that LOVE IS A CHOICE!  Seeing this prayer and praying it in the mornings is my CHOICE to honor my commitment to God and my husband.  (That's a whole other topic for another post... marriage is first and foremost a commitment to God!) Here is the wife's prayer:

"Heavenly Father, you have called me to honor and serve my husband in grace, humility, and love, and yet I so often let worry, insecurity, and fear overshadow that calling.  Unburden my heart from worry and expectations.  Teach me to relinquish control of my life and marriage to you, for only you are strong enough to carry and sustain it.

Lead me to a place of deep trust and intimacy with you, so that I would seek no emotional fulfillment elsewhere, but would bring to my relationship with my husband a rich overflow of confidence and strength, making of our home and marriage a peaceful, restful haven.  Show me how best to love my husband, supporting and respecting him, praying for and trusting the work of your Spirit in his heart and life.

Give me the wisdom to value what is eternal, so that I might be truly content with my present circumstances, and not fretful or anxious over family decisions and finances.  Teach me to be beautiful as you define beauty.  Let me be a creative and enjoyable friend and companion for my husband, gracious and kind, gentle in disagreement, and quick to forgive.

Only as you lead me will I become the woman and wife that my husband needs.  So lead me, O Lord. Amen." (Copyright 2010 EMI CMG Label Group)

Please make this your prayer too! I have been so amazed by how much it has affected my marriage already!  Being in the right mindset makes for a much more peaceful home.  Another one of my secrets about my prayer life is, I pray for my husband!  I finally realized that begging for him to LEAD ME was not going to work and the most effective thing I can do is PRAY FOR HIM.

I'm also praying for YOU! Yep, that's right! I'm praying that the women reading this will get something, ANYthing out of this.  I'm praying that you will be a woman after God's heart!