I was attending a Ladies’ Weekend for members of the Armed Forces’ Christian Union at Amport.
The speaker that weekend had brought some books with her to hand out as prizes for a fun competition. I won a book for being the person in the gathering who had served in the Army for longest.
As my prize, I chose Stormie Omartian’s ‘The power of the praying wife’. The book is divided into chapters giving the reader different aspects to pray for, such as health, finance, job, friendships, etc.
My husband was going through a dark time spiritually at the time, and I prayed one of the 30 prayers every day for a month. Then I started again and prayed for the next month, and the next…
One day, I was praying early in the morning, and my husband came downstairs and asked what I was doing. I told him I was praying for him and invited him to sit next to me while I prayed over him.
That was a real turning point for him, and each evening after that for several months I would pray over him, then he would take the book and pray over me. Our relationship, as well as my husband’s spiritual health, improved out of all recognition.
Praise God for our speaker, for the book that she brought with her, and for the amazing, answered prayer in my husband’s life and our marriage.
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