Meaningful Prayer for your Future Wife!

If you want to have a beautiful marriage and live it out the way that God intended, it is going to take prayer, lots of prayer and that prayer should start now.  If you would like to be married someday, but you are not sure who that person is, you can start supporting her in prayer now.

Marriage prayer is spiritual warfare prayer.  When God joins two to become one flesh and emphatically states “let no one tear apart what God has joined together”, that makes your marriage a target.  The enemy roams about like a roaring lion seeking who he can devour and he will devour you and your wife if you do not put on the full armor of God.

When you pray, you should pray for a growing faith, spiritual stamina, physical health, emotional resilience and mental strength.  There are many things to pray for in regards to her.  This is not a wish list for what you want, but this is truly for her to blessed before you and after you.

To follow is not a verbatim prayer, but some of the things that I bring to God in prayer when thinking about my future wife.  So here it goes:

Father God,

As she goes through today, please draw her close to You and help her to be mindful of Your presence (Psalm 139).  If she does not know you yet, please reveal Yourself to her and prepare her heart for the seed of the gospel (Ephesians 2:4-5).  If she already walks with You, please guide her to walk in a manner worthy of the calling(Ephesians 4:1). 

Please giver her a holy confidence in her identity as Your daughter (Romans 8:15-17) and help her to cultivate an eternal perspective in daily life and amidst any hardship that happens upon her (Romans 8:18).

Lord, please preserve her and keep her sexually pure (1Corinthians 6:18).  Give her the strength and resolve to flee temptation (1Corinthians 10:13) and to trust that Your plan for her is best(Jeremiah 29:11).  I ask that she would be mindful of Your presence and seek to honor You in all that she does (Psalm 90:8). 

Lord, I pray that she would put on the breastplate of righteousness and the helmet of salvation to guard her heart and mind against the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Lord, for whatever past grief or regret she has, please show her the fullness of your grace in letting go of past mistakes or poor judgment.  I ask that she would have full assurance that her sin has been removed from her as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12). 

Lord, I ask that she would grow strong in faith and lean not on her own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6) but to faithfully seek You and trust You when things don’t make sense. 

Lord, I ask for contentment in her heart to patiently wait for You (and for me).  I pray that she will rest in Your presence and to understand that You are doing many things she is unaware of so that she can experience great blessings. 

Lord I ask that she would  not be anxious, but that she would be discipline to pray and that You would give her peace according to the kind intentions of Your will (Philippians 4:6-7).

Lord, I ask that the Peace of Christ rule in her heart that she would grow in faith (Colossians 3:15), and cast all her cares on You (1Peter 5:7).  Please give her the peace that transcends understanding and be free from the worldly peace that changes with every situation.

Father God, I ask that she would be free from fear (Psalm 4:4; 23:4).  I pray she would have the grace to overcome whatever may be hindering her.  Lord, I ask that she would be sensitive to your Spirits leading and begin taking the steps that will bring her into my path.

Lord, plant Your Word deep in her heart and that her convictions would be grounded in your Word(John 8:31-32).  I pray that she make You priority one in her life to read and to pray and to listen daily to Your Spirits leading (Isaiah 30:21).

Lord, I ask that she would hunger and thirst for Your word (John 6:35) and that she would grow up to be a true worshipper who worships you in Spirit and Truth (John 4:23 – 24).

Father God, I ask that you guard her coming and her going (Psalm 121:8), to keep her safe, keep her warm and meet her every need.  Give her health and strength (Psalm 103:3) and the discipline to care for her body as well as her soul (1Corinthians 6:20).

And Lord, I ask that You give her wisdom beyond her years, to make wise choices, to pour into others, to guard what you have entrusted to her, and that she will have a heart to lovingly raise the children You have given or will gift to her!

What you have just read are ideas on what type of prayer may looks like.  Whether you are currently courting her or waiting for her to show up, this will be a good model to pray for your  wife now and in the future!