Every year, our pastor has the student seniors on stage and tells them "Show me your friends and I'll show you your future". Our friendships have the power to steer our lives towards Christ or away from him. Today, we're praying for life giving friendships for our husbands. We're praying for friendship where iron that sharpens iron, both outside and within our marriage. If this is a tender area in your marriage, keep praying. Rekindling your friendship is possible!

Praying with you,

Ashley

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On some level, we all long for more peace. Our world and its distractions make us hope for the day when Jesus comes and sets all things right. Today we're praying for our husbands to know peace, not just to experience it once in a while but to be deeply acquainted with the one who is peace.

Praying with you,

Ashley

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We live in a world where being a "Christian" can mean a lot of different things. Today we pray for your husband's integrity and that he would be a man of strong moral and Biblical convictions.

Remember our focus with fasting this season, to not be complaining but instead considering what you can be thankful to God about regarding your husband.

Do you notice when your husband is honest, seeks to be held accountable, is humble, shows compassion, demonstrates reliability, acts fairly, seeks justice, or speaks out for the oppressed? Take time to consider how your husband demonstrates integrity, and thank the Lord. Take it one step further, and let your husband know you notice and are thankful God created him with that quality.

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Praying with you, Ashley

Today we're praying for your husbands rest. I know so many of you will scoff and throw up your hands at this and think to yourself, "I don't want to pray for his rest". These prayers are in no particular order and I've kept them that way because so often they hit exactly what we need to hear when we need to hear it.

If you bristle at the idea of praying for your husbands rest, can I encourage you? As someone who struggles to fight the productivity monster every day, I had to look inward and see why I was so angry when my husband rested. I realized this was a me issue. I had to learn that choosing to not rest wasn't a free pass to be angry at him for choosing rest. While that may not be the situation for you, I hope you can join me in praying for your husbands rest today.

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Welcome to Season 8 of the Husband Prayer Challenge

This is still a basic and stripped down podcast, nothing fancy. I'm just a wife praying for her husband and asking other women to join me for accountability!

Here's what's new this season:

• 40 Days of Prayer instead of 30: the extra 10 days are inspired by prayer requests sent in by wives of season 8
• Prayer and Fasting: we're choosing to fast from complaining about our husbands
• Replace complaining with thanksgiving: build an altar of thanksgiving to the Lord for your husband
• Smaller community groups participating in text groups

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The most important relationship for your husband is here. Everything in his life should be overflow from his relationship with the Lord. We know there are countless distractions to keep our husbands from pursuing his relationship with God. Today we are the persistent widow from scripture that keeps asking. Let us remember, when circumstances feel desperate and it feels hopeless, we can ALWAYS pray. Praying with you, Ashley

Family, can be such a sensitive topic depending on the person. Today, we're praying for our husband and his immediate family which includes you, his wife. It also includes your children. However, there is also his extended family for which those people (mother, father, brothers, sisters, etc) may have been a part of his life for much longer than you so far, for better or worse. Today we're praying for your husband's family.

A challenging task for each of us, especially if we're not focused on Christ the moment we start our day. Keeping our priorities in their proper order is full of temptations and opportunities to get distracted, one of the enemy's main tactics. Today we're praying for our husband to be able to use wisdom and discernment and daily reorient to keep his priorities in check.

We have the opportunity to use the story of our life to point others to Christ. Today we're praying for our husband's story, that he would have the boldness and wisdom to clearly articulate his testimony, and for divine appointments to do so.

The modern church can be a sensitive subject for outsiders as well as those within the church. As Christ followers, we have the opportunity to serve and spread the gospel with our unique gifts and talents. As wives, we can pray for our husbands to hear from the Lord as to what their gifts and talents are and how they can serve the church with a humble heart.