What a concept right? If I spend time with God, it will help my marriage? Yep.  Here’s how:

Seek His presence for you.  Wives today flip more hats and transform into more roles than ever before.  Along with those roles comes pressure, stress, fatigue, loneliness (yes, even in marriage), heartache and the often the self-imposed image of being perfect.  Taking time to be still and to enter into the presence of your heavenly Father allows you the opportunity to just be you - no pressure to be anyone other than the “you” that He made.  In His presence we lay down our masks, our struggles, our worries and climb into the arms of comfort in God.  In the stillness of His presence is where our strength is made new, our joy is restored and our peace is guaranteed.  In order for us to pour ourselves out and be the helper for our husband, we must first sit in the presence of God and empty ourselves out so that we can be filled with more of Him. 

Seek His presence for your husband.  Many times throughout history we have seen the pictures of husbands leaving to go off to war with the wife waving as he leaves.  Believe it or not, every time your husband walks out the door, he is walking into a war zone.  Yes, there is the pressure from the job, the anxiety to get to the job, or the stress involved in determining which bill to pay that we all mentally walk through.  But your husband has the unique struggle of remaining pure in thought and action in a society that has endorsed the concept of using sex to sell everything from toothpaste to cars.  Believe me when I tell you that the enemy knows the weaknesses of your husband and the enemy knows that if he destroys your husband, the marriage and the family will go right behind him.  Seek God concerning your husband throughout the day.  Pray earnestly for your husband’s safety, for his prosperity in the workplace, for favor and influence and, yes, for protection from the devices of the enemy.  Listen closely to the voice of God and He will guide you in how to pray for your husband both on the job and in his ministry.  Some men will never tell you what they are struggling with because of pride or the fear of rejection.  But in God’s presence, He will give you insight and understanding that only comes from a loving Father.

Seek His presence for your marriage.  God created and ordained marriage, and therefore He blesses the covenant of marriage.  In the presence of God, all the concerns of your marriage become His concerns.  He will lead you in ways you may never understand, but He will show you how to build your marriage and how to not use your hands to tear it down.

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