Prayers for My Husband–9 Daily Prayers Every Wife Should Pray
As wives, it can be easy to assume our household’s daily responsibilities, while neglecting our husbands’ spiritual needs. Daily prayers for my husband, not only does something good for his spiritual health but also invest in our relationship and marriage as a whole.
By lifting up your husband before God’s throne every single day with these 9 powerful prayers, you will be encouraging the man He has placed in your life in a way that goes beyond physical needs or wants.
Whether you have been married for years or are newlywed, praying for your husband regularly is one of the most beautiful and powerful ways to nurture strength in your marriage.
Why Prayers for Husbands Really Matter
When it comes to asking for help, I ask my husband far more often than he asks me. He’s got the muscles, long arms, and faster legs…and in most cases, he has the brains, too.
It’s me who needs someone to get the heavy pot from the top shelf, put the star on the top of the tree, or throw away the stinky leftovers that got lost in the back of the fridge.
My strong husband very rarely asks me to help him, even if he needs it. But our husbands need our prayers–although they may rarely ask.
A strong man is more likely to carry his burdens in silence because he sees that as his job as the head of the household.
God created a wife to be the helper a man needs. And sometimes the only way we can be a helper is to lift him up in prayer.
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How to Pray for My Husband
No one knows your husband better than you. You are fully aware of his weaknesses and struggles. But you’re also aware of his strengths. You know his dreams and goals.
But what you may not be aware of is the spiritual warfare he is fighting every day. As the leader of your home, the devil is fighting your husband every single day.
Your husband needs you to fight for him in your prayer closet in ways he can’t fight for himself.
Proverbs 14:1 says, “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”
The most important thing we can do to build our homes is to honor our husbands by praying for them daily.
Prayer for My Husband in Difficult Times
If you’ve been married any length of time, you have probably gone through some hard times with your spouse. Sickness, the death of family members, financial difficulties, and uncertainty about the future are just a few hardships we often face in marriage.
When we are struggling ourselves, it’s sometimes hard to remember that our husband is struggling, too. And your husband may not tell you how much he’s hurting.
Praying for your husband in difficult times is a powerful way to bless and encourage him. He will feel the strength and encouragement from your prayers, even if he doesn’t know it.
Daily Prayer for My Husband
There are many, many prayers you can pray over the man your love. Some will be very specific for problems you know he’s facing.
But a good morning prayer for husbands can include these 9 simple things to cover his day, and all the situations he might face. Call out his name to God every day, and watch God help him and strengthen your marriage.
Prayers for his spiritual life and walk with God.
Since our spiritual life isn’t necessarily something we can see, it’s easy to think it doesn’t matter. But it’s actually the most important part of life.
Spiritual warfare prayer is so vital for the battles your husband faces each day. It’s even more important if your husband is not a Christian.
If your husband doesn’t know Christ, he needs you to pray that he will hear the Gospel and be saved. The Bible tells us that a wife can win her husband to the Lord (1 Peter 3:1,) but that will not happen without faithful, fervent prayer.
If your husband is a saved man, he still needs your prayers as he strives to live a life that honors God each day.
Prayer: Dear Lord, I ask You today to bless my husband in his walk with You and follow You. I pray that he will hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, that he will follow You, and that he will have the strength to overcome whatever battles he faces. I pray that he will come to know You in a more personal, more powerful way today and that he will see You working in his life.
Prayers for a husband to have wisdom in leadership
While it’s not a popular concept in our modern society, the Bible tells us that the husband is the head of the home. Ultimately, he bears the responsibility for everything that happens in his home.
This is not to say that wives don’t have a voice, or shouldn’t make any decisions. It does mean that we should trust our husbands’ guidance and respect his God-given authority.
Instead of bemoaning this fact, we should embrace our husband’s leadership role, and pray that God will give him the wisdom to make the best decisions for our family. After all, a wise husband is a blessing to the whole family.
Heavenly Father, I ask You to give my husband wisdom. Please help him to make wise decisions that will influence me and our children to follow and obey You in all things. Give him a heart that desires to serve You, and the strength to do what You say.
Prayer for my husband’s protection.
Although it sounds more than a little bit dramatic, danger is everywhere. And not just physical danger, but emotional and spiritual as well.
As women who often spend most of our time at home, we may not even be aware of all that our husbands face in a day. Satan desires to hurt him in any way possible. Your prayers for his protection really matter.
Prayer: God, I ask You today to protect my husband. Protect him from physical danger that he can see, as well as spiritual or emotional danger that he can’t see. Lord, bless his life today and let him feel Your presence and protection.
Prayers for my husband to be a good father.
Our society is in a lot of trouble today, and much of it stems from the fact that so many boys are missing a good, strong father in their lives. Studies have shown that fathers are key to the development of a child.
Pray that God will give your husband the strength and wisdom to be a good father to your children. Ask God to strengthen and grow the relationship between your kids and their dad.
Prayer: Lord, I know that You are the ultimate Father, and You love us even at our worst. I pray today for my husband as he follows Your example of fatherhood. Give him the wisdom to lead, and give me and our children the faith and understanding to follow. Grow our faith and trust in You as he leads us.
Healing prayer for my husband.
I don’t know about your house, but when my hubby is sick, nothing goes as it should in mine! Thankfully, my husband has never been faced with serious, or long-term illnesses.
If we were to face a health issue, I know that God would give us grace and strength to face it, but my prayer is that God will bless my husband with health and long life.
So many Christian husbands are true servants of God, even if they aren’t in the ministry. Much of what husbands do goes unnoticed–until he can’t do it anymore!
Praying for his health is a great way to serve your husband, as he serves God and your family.
Prayer: God, I pray that You will bless my husband’s health. Help him to be strong, fight off sickness, and heal from injuries or issues he may be facing.
Praying for my husband’s job.
We live in a world where many men do not work–for whatever reason. So, if you have a husband who is willing to work, and has a job, you should be thankful!
Some men go to work a job every day that they hate. That is not a fun life, but, again, these are great men who are willing to make sacrifices for their families.
If your husband has a job that he does not enjoy, pray for God to give him grace. This is a situation where prayer for wisdom and protection is especially important.
Even if your husband loves his work, he needs your prayers. His job probably comes with stress and hardships that he may or may not tell you about.
Prayers for your husband should include praying that God bless him in his job.
Prayer: Jesus, today I pray a prayer for my husband’s success. I pray that he will have the health and ability to work hard in his job. Please help him to find favor with his fellow employees and his bosses. Give him wisdom and strength at work to do the things he needs to do.
A prayer for my husband’s goals and dreams.
What does your husband want to do with his life? What are his hopes and dreams for the future?
As a woman, I like to think and plan for the future. I like to make lists and goals and talk about them. My husband–not so much.
Men don’t think about things like we do. They may not always be willing to share their innermost desires with others.
If you have never talked with your husband about where you’re headed in life, now is a great time to do it! Ecclesiastes 4:1 says, “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”
Working together towards a common goal is a beautiful part of marriage. When you know what your husband dreams of doing, you can come alongside him in that goal.
Not only can you help him reach his goal, but you can also take his desires to God. Ask God to give your husband his dreams in the right time and the right way.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, today I bring You the goals my husband has for himself, and for our family. I pray that You will bless him to accomplish all the things he wants to do. I pray that he will be patient and trust You and that You will give him the desires of his heart in Your time.
Praying for my husband to have courage.
Being a man of God has never been easy. But it’s even harder in our modern world when not only Christians, but manhood is under attack.
Our husbands need us to pray that God will give them the courage to stand up for what’s right, even when it’s hard.
Being a provider takes courage. Taking care of a family, working a job, leading a household–all of these things take courage. Pray that God will give your husband the courage he needs to be the man God has called him to be.
Prayer: God, thank You for giving me a husband who wants to follow and serve You. I pray today that You will give him the courage to do what’s right. Help him to stand up to temptation, to be strong and faithful. Help him to honor You today in all that he does.
A prayer for my husband’s wife.
My husband and I are one flesh in the eyes of God. When God blesses my man, it’s a blessing to me also.
But I know that my husband needs me to be some things for him, too. God put us together and designed us to serve one another in love.
My blessing prayer for my husband should include a prayer that I can be what he needs me to be. That my words and actions should bless him, respect him, and follow his leadership.
Prayer: Lord, I pray today for myself as I serve my husband and family. Help me to be the wife and helper that he needs. Help me to show him the love and respect that he needs. Help me to follow him, trust him and create the peaceful home he needs. Strengthen our love for one another and bless our family as we serve You together.
Powerful Scriptures to Pray for Your Husband
Many times in the Bible, we read prayers that include Bible verses from other portions of the Scripture, including when Jesus faced temptation from Satan in Matthew 4.
Praying the Scriptures is a powerful way to pray for your husband. Here are # Bible verses you can use in a husband prayer.
Numbers 6:24-26–The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Deuteronomy 30:9–And the Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
Joshua 1:9–Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Psalm 5:12–For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Psalm 31:24–Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
Psalm 37:4–Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
Psalm 37:23–The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalm 37:39-40–But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
Psalm 107:9–For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Psalm 121-7-8–The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Proverbs 3:5-6–Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
John 14:27–Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 16:33–These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Romans 8:28–And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
1 Corinthians 16:13–Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Ephesians 3:17-19–That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ephesians 6:4–And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Philippians 4:7–And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:18-19–Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
2 Timothy 1:7–For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
1 Peter 3:7–Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
2 Peter 1:5-7—And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
James 1:5– If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
A Short Prayer for Husbands
All of these ideas for prayer for a husband with Scripture are wonderful, and it’s great to challenge yourself to pray intentional, focused prayers.
But what if you need a quick, short prayer that you can say every day for God’s blessing on your husband? Here is an example of a simple morning prayer for my husband that I use often.
Dear Lord, I pray that You will bless _______ today. Please, keep him safe while he is at work. Protect him spiritually, mentally, physically, and emotionally in whatever he may face. I pray that You will help him to grow in his walk with You. Give him the wisdom to lead our family, make the right decisions and follow You. You know that he has the desire to __________, and I pray that you will help that dream to come true in Your time. Give him patience as he waits. Help me to love him, serve him, and honor him. Have Your will in his life today. In Jesus’ name, amen.
I hope these prayers encourage you and help you to fight for your marriage by praying for your husband daily. God will bless you as you seek to do His will by praying for your husband!
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