3 Ways to Change Your Husband – Biblical Strategies Guaranteed to Produce Results – Part 3

We’ve reached Part 3 of our series on how to change your husband! If you haven’t already read the first two strategies, you can find the first one here and the second one here. It is time for the third and final strategy. 

At the beginning of this series, I mentioned that the strategies I would present were not in a particular order and that it is best for them to be implemented simultaneously. If, however, I were to choose one that is the most important, this would be it.  Here goes … 

Strategy #3 – Pray 

Prayer is not in any way intended to be a “last resort.”  Sometimes we feel like prayer is a position of “inaction,” when in reality it is a powerful action we can take.  

Do you remember Ephesians 6, where Paul tells us to put on the armor of God?  He talks about all the various pieces with which we are to equip ourselves – the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, boots of preparation of the Gospel, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of His Word – and then he tells us exactly what we are to do once we are equipped (Ephesians 6:18) … 

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Paul describes the way that a Christian is to equip and prepare herself for spiritual battle and then gives us the ultimate mission … pray! Prayer is the most powerful way to use the armor and weaponry God has given us.  

If your husband is experiencing spiritual warfare and you want to see him win, the very best thing you can do is to join the battle on your knees.  

Experiencing Results

Now, in the title of this series and my opening paragraph I promised you results.  And I was being honest! Using the three strategies (here, here, and above) will absolutely produce change.  But there is a catch.  I cannot promise that the change will be in your husband.  I can only guarantee results because as you focus on doing what is right no matter what, move aside to allow the Holy Spirit to do His work, and commit to praying for your husband consistently, you will change.  There are plenty of biblical examples to suggest, however, that as you change and follow the leading of the Spirit in your own life, your marriage will only be better and richer as a result.  

Growing Together in Grace, Stephani