“Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.”
I didn’t call this prayer group Dirty 30 because it was catchy. No, it’s because these prayers will be anything but tidy and sweet. They will be real, raw and messy. We are going to intercede for our spouses and ask the Lord for the things that’s been on their hearts but won’t say. Or maybe to prideful to talk about or too hurt to even utter the words.
We all have things that have hurt us so deeply, we think we may never recover from. The only kind of healing that will ease those wounds comes from a God who says, “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds,” Psalm 147:3. If time could heal our hurts, it would. But we buy into those false words. In time maybe hurts may ease, but its our God who can heal us. Not just partially, but heals us whole! What a good God! Our husbands may have dealt with the unspeakable in their childhood and has a trauma that haunts them. Maybe they have suffered silently in your marriage unable or unwilling to talk about it because they were told, “boys don’t cry.” Maybe they have huge regrets that changed the trajectory of their adult life. Today, ask God to heal them.
Prayer Prompts:
Pray the Lord will fully heal your husbands wounds, emotionally and physically.
Lord, your word says intercessions be made for all people (1 Timothy 2:1-2). I’m interceding for my husband and asking you to heal the places of his heart, mind and body where he has been wounded deeply. I pray that even when he doesn’t know or have the words to say or to ask you, that your Holy Spirit would intercede for him when his hurts are too deep for words (Romans 8:26).
Pray your husband will draw near to God and not turn to the world to satisfy his hurts.
Lord, this world is filled with temporary satisfaction that can only bandaid what my husband hurts from. I pray He turns to you and asks you for healing that will bind up his wounds forever. I pray that my husband knows he is worthy of being made whole. I pray that I would always be an ear when he finds the courage to talk about his inner most wounds and have the opportunity to pray over him on his behalf. Lord, I bind every attack of the enemy and Satans schemes to use his hurts as weapons against him, in the mighty name of Jesus!
Do you know of a specific hurt? Childhood trauma, death of someone close, painful regrets or mistakes? Ask the Lord to heal him of it, in Jesus name!
Challenge-Write 3 things you admire about your husband on a piece of paper and stick it somewhere he will find it. On his dashboard, on his mirror, on the toilet seat 😉 Anywhere he will find it.