Prayer for My Husband

Lord, I lay all my expectations at Your cross. I release my future husband from the burden of fulfilling me in areas where I should be looking to You. Give me words to affirm his strengths and gifts. Let me be quick to encourage and slow to criticize. Let my heart towards him be full of grace and show me how I can show him, verbally and with my actions, that I respect him as a man and leader. Help me to accept him the way he is and not try to change him, but at the same time, I release him to change in ways I never thought he could. I leave any changing that needs to be done in Your hands, fully accepting that neither of us is perfect and never will be. Only You, Lord, are perfect, and I look to You to conform us into the image of Christ. May we be "joined together in the same mind." (1 Corinthians 1:10)

In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. 

"Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as Christ forgave you." Ephesians 4:32 

*adapted from The Power of a Praying Wife