Do you ever feel as though you have no idea what your spouse is thinking? Do you ever feel like you are just not thinking along the same lines or as though you don’t have the same priorities? Let me ask you another question: Do you pray with your spouse?
In our busy lives it is often difficult to get five minutes alone with our husband to talk to him, much less pray with him. Our days are filled with taking care of our jobs, our homes and our children. Often when we finally have some time in which our kids aren’t around, we separate to work on individual projects. Sound familiar?
My husband and I have always had as a goal for our relationship to spend time in prayer together. This began early in our dating and continued into our marriage. We have not always been faithful about praying together. Often it goes in a pattern of praying together for several weeks or months and then we get busy or distracted and neglect praying together for the same length of time. I have noticed a direct link between the practice of praying together and our happiness as a couple.
Praying with your husband gives you an inside look at his true priorities. When Josh and I pray together I find out what is on his heart. Sometimes he’ll pray for a coworker or a family friend who has a need and I’ll think, “I didn’t even know that he was concerned about that.” Often he’ll pray that I’ll have wisdom and patience as I stay home with our children. This makes me realize that he is thinking about me and what I go through during the day. Oftentimes, things come up in our times of prayer together that we wouldn’t normally discuss in an average day. Our time of prayer becomes a time of growing spiritually in our walk with the Lord as well as growing together as a couple.
Though we don’t pray together every day, that is the goal which we work toward. Would you consider making prayer with your spouse a priority?