The Power of a Praying® Wife
by Stormie Omartian
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Kirsten Strawn
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After a year of unemployment I prayed for a Christian man to come alongside my husband to encourage him to put together his resume. God answered my prayer. Within one week I met the same woman three times. Our daughters were in the same class, we were in the same Bible study, and we both attended a mom's prayer group.
When I asked the women in my Bible study to pray for my husband this woman insisted that her husband could meet with Mark. Her husband brought along three other Christian men to encourage my husband. My husband was ready to go back to work after taking off a year, but these men stood along side him in the process.
God did not need me to nag my husband about working. He just needed me to pray for the specific needs of my husband.
Surrendering Materialism and Pride
With only one months mortgage left in the bank, I surrendered to the fact that we might have to sell our house. I needed to stop worshiping the idols that surrounded me, my material possessions. God had to deal with my pride of losing everything. I finally realized the house was unimportant compared to family unity, peace, and a loving marriage.
Mark applied to two companies. He was offered a management job with an on-line gambling company. Tempted by the offer to make a great salary, Mark prayed about the position. God clearly directed him to turn down the offer, although we only had one more house payment left in the retirement account. We trusted that God would provide as long as we were obedient.
Mark interviewed for an engineering position, but the company turned him down. The interview team decided Mark was over qualified, since his experience was in management. Mark strongly sensed that this was the company where God wanted him to work. After praying Mark boldly asked the hiring team to please reconsider their decision.
Mark explained that he re-evaluated his priorities making God first, his family second and then his career. With honesty he admitted to the personnel manager that an engineering job would allow him to keep his priorities straight. Mark feared that he would once again make work his God.
Mark went to his knees, begging God for the engineering position, yet surrendering to wherever God wanted Mark to work. God honored my husband's honesty, integrity, and humility as he surrendered to God's will. Through his surrender God provided. Mark was hired by this wonderful company that supported us six months later through our son's battle with leukemia.
Many blessings came from the year my husband was unemployed. I learned to trust God, to seek God with all my heart, to love Him above all else, to go to him with all my needs, to wait on Him with patient endurance, to be honest in my relationships, and to know beyond any doubt that God is faithful.
After a year of unemployment I prayed for a Christian man to come alongside my husband to encourage him to put together his resume. God answered my prayer. Within one week I met the same woman three times. Our daughters were in the same class, we were in the same Bible study, and we both attended a mom's prayer group.
When I asked the women in my Bible study to pray for my husband this woman insisted that her husband could meet with Mark. Her husband brought along three other Christian men to encourage my husband. My husband was ready to go back to work after taking off a year, but these men stood along side him in the process.
God did not need me to nag my husband about working. He just needed me to pray for the specific needs of my husband.
Surrendering Materialism and Pride
With only one months mortgage left in the bank, I surrendered to the fact that we might have to sell our house. I needed to stop worshiping the idols that surrounded me, my material possessions. God had to deal with my pride of losing everything. I finally realized the house was unimportant compared to family unity, peace, and a loving marriage.
Mark applied to two companies. He was offered a management job with an on-line gambling company. Tempted by the offer to make a great salary, Mark prayed about the position. God clearly directed him to turn down the offer, although we only had one more house payment left in the retirement account. We trusted that God would provide as long as we were obedient.
Mark interviewed for an engineering position, but the company turned him down. The interview team decided Mark was over qualified, since his experience was in management. Mark strongly sensed that this was the company where God wanted him to work. After praying Mark boldly asked the hiring team to please reconsider their decision.
Mark explained that he re-evaluated his priorities making God first, his family second and then his career. With honesty he admitted to the personnel manager that an engineering job would allow him to keep his priorities straight. Mark feared that he would once again make work his God.
Mark went to his knees, begging God for the engineering position, yet surrendering to wherever God wanted Mark to work. God honored my husband's honesty, integrity, and humility as he surrendered to God's will. Through his surrender God provided. Mark was hired by this wonderful company that supported us six months later through our son's battle with leukemia.
Many blessings came from the year my husband was unemployed. I learned to trust God, to seek God with all my heart, to love Him above all else, to go to him with all my needs, to wait on Him with patient endurance, to be honest in my relationships, and to know beyond any doubt that God is faithful.
God's Word To Live By:
Proverbs 3:5,6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight.
Psalm 139:23,24
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts; See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Proverbs 3:5,6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will make your paths straight.
Psalm 139:23,24
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts; See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Matthew 5:37
Jesus said, "Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. "
