4 Benefits of Praying With Your Spouse

 
Guest Writer: Nikki Walker
 
The scriptures state that God designed and created marriage as a good thing.  It is a beautiful, priceless gift.  God uses marriage to help us multiply our effectiveness, establish families, raise children, enjoy life, and reap the blessings of relational intimacy. God also designed marriage for couples to pray together, establishing tender moments that are created in prayer, helping couples to grow in love and intimacy in their relationship.
 
When married couples pray big for their marriage together, their relationship deepens with God’s fingerprints on their lives.  Wonderful things can happen in a marriage that is built on prayer! Here are 4 benefits that come from praying big prayers for your marriage:
 
1. Prayer Humbles Couples
Prayer changes couples that pray together.  Holy moments spent before God in prayer helps to place couples and their marriage desires in proper perspective. Prayer has an awesome ability to reduce egos and adjust attitudes.
 
2. Prayer Guides Couples
When God is the center of a  marriage, He becomes a built in compass and guide.  God gives direction and helps couples that pray together to stay together. God speaks, teaches, and imparts His wisdom through prayer. Prayer also illuminates God’s Word for couples. When couples pray together, they are better able to maneuver through marital issues and decisions with God’s wisdom.
 
3. Prayer Helps Couples See Each Other Differently
In 2 Corinthians 5, the apostle Paul shared how Christ had changed his perspective on people.  Apostle Paul states “So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view.  At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view.  How differently we know him now!  This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.  The old life is gone; a new life has begun (vv. 16-17 NLT).”  Apostle Paul confessed that while he used to judge others based on human standards, he had stopped doing so because his love for Jesus had given him a different perspective on seeing people. As couples pray together, their view of each other will change.  Husbands and wives will learn to see each other through Jesus’ eyes, giving couples the ability to love each other how He does.
 
4. Prayer Equips Couples
The scriptures clearly define the husband and wive’s roles in marriage.  Husbands are called to love their wives just as Jesus loves them.  Wives are called to live for their husbands as they would live for Christ.  Neither of these roles comes naturally.  This is why prayer is essential in marriage.  When couples engage in prayer, God will give couples a vision for their marriage and equip them with grace to walk the vision out.
 
 
The connection that develops and grows when couples pray together deepens their love and bond with one another.  Great marriages, used mightily of God, can be made great by praying big prayers, flowing in intimacy, and yielding to one another. Regular prayer together creates a marriage that is indeed a blessing to others and God!
 
 

I am a happily married wife and mother of two beautiful daughters. I have a heart for God’s people and sharing His love. My passion is writing and seeing God’s people live a life of fullness through the power of Jesus Christ.