This is the second time I have sat down to try to type something for this week. I guess I feel like Amos is pretty healthy and fit. He does seem to want to be stronger and faster. He doesn't eat unhealthy, but he's not a nut about healthy food either. I do try to get him to run when he's home and we go on family bike rides and walks. Encouraging and supporting a healthy lifestyle is important too. Praying for my husband's health has never really seemed like a top priority for me. I guess I pray more for his safety, and just kind of throw the health part in as a side note. But I don't think I pray for either of these areas very much.
And now I feel like a bad wife because my husband is on his way home from training today with burns on his ears. Him and another guy had to go to the hospital today for the burns they received while training in the burn room today. I guess I categorize health and safety in the same area because of my husband's job. If he is not healthy and fit he could be putting himself and others in danger. Although that has nothing to do with today's injury, it was just a serious reminder to me to be praying for the health and safety of our husbands. So many of us have husbands in dangerous fields and I don't ever want to take for granted that my husband is in the Lord's hands.
Lord, thank you for the safety and health of my husband. I pray that taking care of himself would be a priority to him knowing what an important part he is to our family. Help me to remember to pray for him in this area. Please also help him to keep himself physically fit for his job. Give him the motivation and discipline it takes to be a good steward of his body. Help me to create an atmosphere that supports his health and overall well being.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Chapter 10- His choices
"If you husband is not a full time fool..." that cracked me up. Thankfully my husband is not a full time fool, nor do I think any of our husbands are. Making good choice is such a big deal to me because I have had the experience and consequence of so many poor ones. A wise woman told me that there will be times in my marriage where I will be right, but my husband will not listen to me. She encouraged me to remember, at those times, to trust in the Lord. He loves us each individually and is our great protector.
It is often times the choice that our husbands make that we submit to that drive us the most crazy. Sometimes we don't want to admit that we just wanted it our way, even if what they wanted wasn't really the end of the world. Sometimes we can't understand what they are thinking. But if we want our husbands to lead we have to trust them to make the choices, even when they are wrong, knowing that the Lord will show them their error if there is one. The truth stings a little, doesn't it?!
Lord, help me pray for the choices that my husband makes, for himself and for our family. Help me to trust that he has a relationship with You and know that You will reveal mistakes to him in your timing. Help me to not question my husbands choices or leadership, but to give my opinions out of love and encouragement. Help my husband to seek Your will for his life, especially in the details. Help the choices he's making be pleasing in your sight. I pray that he would never be wise in his own eyes. I pray that he would always love and embrace wisdom and instruction. I pray that he would love knowledge and seek Your counsel above all else. Help him to surround himself with wise people who can encourage him to make godly choices. I pray that he will be a wise man who hears and increases learning. May he become a man of understanding who always seeks wise counsel. Thank you Father for your desire for us to be wise. Let us seek after wisdom with our whole hearts.
It is often times the choice that our husbands make that we submit to that drive us the most crazy. Sometimes we don't want to admit that we just wanted it our way, even if what they wanted wasn't really the end of the world. Sometimes we can't understand what they are thinking. But if we want our husbands to lead we have to trust them to make the choices, even when they are wrong, knowing that the Lord will show them their error if there is one. The truth stings a little, doesn't it?!
Lord, help me pray for the choices that my husband makes, for himself and for our family. Help me to trust that he has a relationship with You and know that You will reveal mistakes to him in your timing. Help me to not question my husbands choices or leadership, but to give my opinions out of love and encouragement. Help my husband to seek Your will for his life, especially in the details. Help the choices he's making be pleasing in your sight. I pray that he would never be wise in his own eyes. I pray that he would always love and embrace wisdom and instruction. I pray that he would love knowledge and seek Your counsel above all else. Help him to surround himself with wise people who can encourage him to make godly choices. I pray that he will be a wise man who hears and increases learning. May he become a man of understanding who always seeks wise counsel. Thank you Father for your desire for us to be wise. Let us seek after wisdom with our whole hearts.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Chapter 9 His Purpose
My husband has wanted to be a firefighter ever since he can remember. Even when he joined the Marine Corps. it was only to physically prepare him for becoming a firefighter. How funny that he starts a new fire job tomorrow and I read about and prayed for his purpose today. As far as a profession goes, Amos feels he is right where he is supposed to be. God has done great things and in perfect timing for all the experience Amos has acquired over these last few years. He feels this department he is starting with tomorrow will be the place he retires from. My heart is happy knowing my husband feels secure in his purpose for his profession. A woman administrator for a local fire department once told me how great the need was for godly men in the fire service. There are so many lost souls and it is nice to know that my husband serves the Lord, even in his profession, and I pray that God will use him in mighty ways at his new job. There is a mighty need for godly men in every profession. We need to be praying that our husband's lights are not dim when they go out into the world.
As far as any other purpose God has for my husband, I don't know. I'm not sure Amos even thinks about what God has for him outside of his job. I'll be praying this week that the Lord would reveal any purpose to my husband that He has. I will be praying for our husbands that they would not be discouraged in their work, that God would reveal their purpose to them and that they would see past circumstance to the purpose they were created to achieve.
Lord please guide our husbands, in and toward their purpose. Let their heart be aligned with your perfect will for their lives. Thank you for the men that we love. Help us to be the kind of wives who encourage our husbands even when it is difficult, especially when it is difficult. Lord our husbands the strength they need to be everything that you created them to be. Do not let us hinder them in any way. Thank you, Father.
As far as any other purpose God has for my husband, I don't know. I'm not sure Amos even thinks about what God has for him outside of his job. I'll be praying this week that the Lord would reveal any purpose to my husband that He has. I will be praying for our husbands that they would not be discouraged in their work, that God would reveal their purpose to them and that they would see past circumstance to the purpose they were created to achieve.
Lord please guide our husbands, in and toward their purpose. Let their heart be aligned with your perfect will for their lives. Thank you for the men that we love. Help us to be the kind of wives who encourage our husbands even when it is difficult, especially when it is difficult. Lord our husbands the strength they need to be everything that you created them to be. Do not let us hinder them in any way. Thank you, Father.
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