Everyone has a purpose. It's the reason we exist. It's our life's mission, objective or plan. Generally, we're here to glorify God and do His will. How that specifically translates in our lives is unique to each of us. Your husband needs to know the reason he exists. He needs to be sure his life is not just an accident, but that he's here by design. He must be certain he was created for a great purpose. When he discovers that purpose, and is doing what he was created to do, becoming what he was created to be, he will find fulfillment. This can only contribute to your happiness as well.
Your husband is "predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will" (Ephesians 1:11,12). But you still need to pray that he hears God's call, so that who he is and what he does lines up with God's purpose for his life. Whatever God has called your husband to be or do, He has also called you to support it and be a part of it, if in no other way than to pray, encourage and help in whatever way possible. For some women that means creating a good home, raising the children, being there for him, and offering prayer support. Other women may take an active role by becoming a partner or helper. In either case, God does not ask you to deny your own personhood in the process. Good has called you to something, too. But it will fit in conflict with it. God is not the author of confusion, strife or unworkable situations. He is a God of perfect timing. There is a time for everything, the Bible says. The timing to do what God has called each of you to do will work out perfectly, if it's submitted to God.
If your husband is already moving in the purpose for which God has called him, you can count on the enemy of his soul coming to cast doubt, especially if he hasn't yet seen anything close to the finished picture or realised the success he had envisioned. Your prayers can help cast away discouragement and keep it from taking hold. It can help your husband to hear and cling to God's revelation. It can cause him to live his life on purpose.
PRAYER
Lord, I pray that (husbands name) will clearly hear the call you have on his life. Help him to realize who he is in Christ and give him certainly that he was created for a high purpose. May the eyes of his understanding be enlightened so that he will know what is the ho
pe of your calling (Ephesians 1:18).
Lord, when you call us, you always enable us. Enable him to walk worthy of his calling and become the man of God you made him to be. Continue to remind him of what you've called him to and don't let him get sidetracked with things that are unessential to your purpose. Strike down discouragement so that it will not defeat him. Lift his eyes above the circumstances of the moment so he can see purpose for which you created him. Give him patience to wait for your perfect timing. I pray that he desires of his heart will not be in conflict with the desires of yours. May he seek you for direction, and hear when you speak to his soul.
Amen.
Amen.
SCRIPTURES FOR MEDITATION
1 Corinthians 7:7
Each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
1 Corinthians 7 :17
As God has disturbed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk.
2 Thessalonians 1:11
We also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of his calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power.
Ephesians 1:17 -19
The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, . . . give to you the the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are he riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power.
Psalm 20:4
May he grant you according to your heart's desire, and fulfill all your purpose.
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*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Wife(2006)
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