Last August we launched the Pray For Your Wife challenge, last October we completed the Pray For Your Son challenge. On January 1st we began 31 days of praying for our daughters. In March we partnered with Tim Challies to provide the 31 Days of Purity.
Several people have asked for a Pray For Your Husband Challenge. Being a husband myself, I knew that I’d need to hand the reigns over to my wife on this one. Since she was one of the people asking for a P4H challenge, she joyously agreed to dedicate August to praying for husbands.
Just as with the other challenges this will help our prayers to have a FACE:
- Focus—Women need to know what specifically to pray for my husband or they’ll just keep praying the same things over and over again.
- Accountability—Ladies need a group of people to keep them accountable and remind them daily to passionately pray for their husbands.
- Challenge—Wives need to be challenged to go deeper in the way that they pray for their husbands. A community of others praying will help shape our prayers.
- Encouragement—Sometimes we pray for things and God’s answer is slower than we like. We need encouragement to keep praying.
If you also need these things and want to pray for your husband, here are steps to join.
First, join the Pray For Your Husband: 31 Day Challenge Facebook group. It is a closed group so you’ll have to ask for an invite. If you have any problems email me ( mike [at] fbjasper [dot] org ) or my wife ( nikkileake [at] yahoo [dot] com )
Secondly, get the word out. Retweet this post. Like it on Facebook. Do whatever you can to involve more and more women.
Lastly, volunteer. My wife will be writing some of these prayers but she will not be writing all of these prayers. That is were you come in. If you want to help write a few prayers for your husband, then sign up.
How Will it Work?
Every day my wife will post a particular focus for our prayers along with a sample prayer. You can comment with your own prayers, etc. Also you will be challenged to “like” that status if you prayed for your daughter that day, as a means of accountability. My hope is that we create a little community where wives pray for their husbands, share their concerns, pray for one another as wives, etc.
I also would love to share testimonies of what the Lord does through your prayers for your husband.
Will you join us?
Thank you, Mike and Nikki!