Praying with Your Spouse
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Faith on Friday, February 27, 2009 3:00 PM
Last night at Bible study one of the other women brought up a question.
How many of us, she asked, pray with our husbands? Just the two of us, on a regular basis?
All of the married women there also have small children, and as we talked about it we realized that none of us actually does pray alone with her husband with any sort of regularity.
We all have family prayer time with our kids - and we laughed as we shared stories about the struggles of getting kids to pray - but none of us has managed to schedule prayer with our spouses into our lives.
I’m sure the reasons for this are numerous and vary from person to person, but I think that “why don’t we do it?” is not the important question. The important questions are:
1) Should we be doing it? and
2) How do we make it happen?
As I see it, the answer to question #1 is clear. We should pray with our spouses, in order to receive more grace for our selves and our marriages and to strengthen our families.
For me, it’s easy to make praying with our daughter a priority, since her spiritual development is Bryan’s and my parental responsibility. What I forget is that praying with each other is also in a certain way related to parenting, since having a strong, loving marriage is one of the most important gifts we can give our children.
So answering question #2 is the real challenge. How do we make room in our lives for prayer with our spouses?
Obviously the first step is making the prayer time a priority. But no matter how much we want to pray, the logistics of making it happen can sometimes be quite an obstacle.
So I’m tossing this one to you, our readers. How successful have you been at making prayer with your spouse a part of your lives? And if you have managed it and you have any special tips that helped you do it, please share!
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