No man can receive all God has for him if he is not living in obedience. Jesus, who was never one to beat around the bush, said, "if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matthew 19:17). He knew that nothing would give a man more peace and confidence than knowing he is doing what God wants him to do. God's Word promises that by obedient to His ways your husband will find mercy, peace, happiness, plenty, blessings and life. Not living in obedience brings harsh consequences, unanswered prayers and the inability to enter into great things God has for him.
Walking in obedience has to do not only with keeping God's commandments, but also with heeding God's specific instructions. For example, if God has instructed your husband to rest and he doesn't do it, that's disobedience. If He has told him to move to another place and he doesn't move, that's disobedience, too.
A man who does what God asks, build his house on a rock. When the rain, floods and wind come and beat on the house, it won't fall (Matthew 7:24-27). You don't want to witness the downfall of your house because of your husband's disobedience in any area. While it's not your place to be either his mother or the gestapo, it is your job to pray and speak after you've gotten your orders from God.
If your husband's disobedience to God's ways has already brought down your house in some manner, know that God will honour your obedience and He will see that you will not be destroyed. He will pour His blessings on you and restore what has been lost. Just keep praying that your husband not have a hearing problem when it comes to the voice of God, and that he has the strength, courage and motivation to act on what he hears.
PRAYER
Lord, You have said in Your Word that if we regard iniquity in our hearts, You will not hear (Psalm 66:18). I want You to hear my prayers, so i ask You to reveal where there is any disobedience in my life, especially with regard to my husband. Show me if i'm selfish, unloving, critical, angry, resentful, unforgiving, or bitter toward him. Show me where I have not obeyed You or lived Your way. I confess it as sin and ask for forgiveness.
I pray that You would give (husband's name) a desire to live in obedience to Your laws and Your ways. Reveal and uproot anything he willingly gives place to that is not of You. Help him to bring every thought and action under Your control. Remind him to do good, speak evil of no one, and be peaceable, gentle and humble (Titus 3:1,2). Teach him to embrace the stretching pain of discipline and discipleship. Reward him according to his righteousness and according to the cleanness of his hands (Psalm 18:20). Show him Your ways, O Lord; teach him Your paths. Lead him in Your truth, for You are the God of his salvation (Psalm 25: 4,5).
Make him a praising person, for I know that when we worship You we gain clear understanding, our lives are transformed, and we receive power to live Your way. Help him to hear Your specific instructions to him and enable him to obey them. Give him a heart that longs to do Your will and may he enjoy the peace that can only come from living i total obedience to Your commands.
SCRIPTURES FOR MEDITATION
Proverbs 3:1-3
My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart keep my commands; For length of days and long life
And peace they will add to you. Let not mercy and truth forsake you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,
Matthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Proverbs 28:9
One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.
Jeremiah 7:23
But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’
#inspired...ann #WiseQuotes
*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Wife(2006)
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