“Prayer” Links and Recommended Resources

The following are Prayer Links to web sites and descriptions of books that concern prayer with husbands and wives. We pray that they minister to your marriage.

• Femmesfaithful.wordpress.com This web site “is an international collective of female disciples of Christ and intercessors faithful to God and fatal to the plans of the enemy through the power of prayer. Femmes Faithful provides resources for women to positively impact their worship life.” They believe “the Bible is God’s holy Word and that Jesus Christ is Lord.” They believe “prayer is a means of communication to and with God in order to seek His purposes and plans for our lives. ‘The prayer of a godly person is powerful. It makes things happen.‘ (James 5:16 NIRV)

• GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. You don’t have to go through the grieving process alone. Thousands of groups meet weekly around the world. Visit or join a group at anytime. And attend as many meetings as you like. There are thousands of GriefShare grief recovery support groups meeting throughout the US, Canada, and in over 10 other countries. Also, you can sign up to receive an encouraging email message every day for a year. These short messages will inspire you and provide practical information as you grieve the loss of your loved one.

More Prayer Links:

• Hannah.org —Hannah’s Prayer Ministries provides Christian based support and encouragement to couples around the world who are struggling with the pain of fertility challenges including primary and secondary infertility, pregnancy loss, early infant death and adoption loss. Their outreach extends to those who become parents of living children through pregnancy, adoption and/or foster care. All of the staff members are unpaid volunteers who are proclaiming Christians (from a range of denominational backgrounds) and have personal experience with the heartache of fertility challenges.

• Rejoiceministries.org calls themselves “a spiritual trauma center for hurting marriages.” Their entire ministry, is designed to encourage and give hope to those who are standing in the gap believing God for a miracle in their marriages. They supply its reader’s more than a hundred pages of testimonies of restored marriages and pages where you’re able to read individual letters of praise to God for answers to prayer and testimonies of God’s faithfulness through the various difficulties they’ve encountered in their marriages and families.

• Sarahs-laughter.com This web site provides support for those who are struggling with infertility and/or the death of a baby. They recognize that the life changing devastations of infertility or the loss of a baby, is simply too hard for women to survive on their own. Sarah’s Laughter offers support to those that reach out to them through a variety venues, including having prayer teams pray over submitted prayer requests.

RESOURCE DESCRIPTIONS:

• A Marriage After God’s Own Heart –by David Clarke, published by Multnomah Publishers. This book teaches men and women in a committed relationship how to pray together, create “spiritual conversations,” read and study Scripture together, hold private worship sessions, and allow the Holy Spirit to guide them. It’s extremely practical counsel all couples need today. As the author, Christian psychologist Dr. David Clarke says, “Spiritual bonding is the process by which a couple cultivates the presence of God in their relationship, and it’s the only ‘glue’ that sustains relationships long-term.” Working with hundreds of couples, Clarke observes that when we take specific steps to keep God at the center of our relationships, every area of intimacy is energized.

• Moments Together For Couples -by Dennis and Barbara Rainey, published by Regal Books. This book has a year’s worth of inspiring daily devotionals that will re-energize your marriage and help you stay in close contact with God and your spouse. It touches on the issues that are central to your marriage, helping you and your spouse grow in love and friendship. It has 365 quick-reading, inspiring devotionals that take you straight into God’s heart for your marriage. It has discussion starters and prayer suggestions at the end of each reading to get you talking and praying with your spouse.

• The Power of a Praying® Husband -written and compiled by Stormie Omartian, published by Harvest House Publishers. In 20 short, easy-to-read chapters, Stormie Omartian shares how you can intercede for your wife in areas where she longs for your prayers—her emotions and moods, her spiritual walk, her motherhood, her priorities, her sexuality and more. There’s also advice and personal stories from well-known Christian men, prayer ideas, and words from Scripture that will help you shape your requests to God. and as you depend on Him in prayer, He will lead you and your wife into fruitfulness, fulfillment, and everyday happiness! Some of the contributors to this book are: Neil Anderson, Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael Goldstone, Michael Harriton, Jack Hayford, Michael Omartian and more.

• The Power of a Praying® Husband Book of Prayers -written by Stormie Omartian, published by Harvest House Publishers. This book has some of the most–loved prayers contained in the book, “The Power of a Praying Husband” in a small edition that men can keep on hand for quick conversations with God to lift up their wives in the areas of her: faith commitment, health, priorities, etc. These concise, heartfelt prayers serve as the good starting point in asking for God’s wisdom for and blessing on a marriage.

• The Power of a Praying Wife -written by Stormie Omartian, published by Harvest House Publishers. What a wonderful book this is! Stormie Omartian shares in this book how God has strengthened her own marriage since she began to pray for her husband concerning key areas of his life. Every woman who desires a closer relationship with her husband will appreciate this refreshing look at the power of prayer in marriage. Along with real-life illustrations Stormie also includes sample prayers and “power tools”—verses that inspire and encourage—to help wives rest in the assurance of God’s wonderful promises of restoration, renewal, and growth in marriage.

Something that Stormie says about this book is important to note. She says, it’s “not a means of gaining control over your husband. In fact, it is quite the opposite. It’s laying down all claim to power in and of yourself, and relying on God’s power to transform you, your husband, your circumstances, and your marriage. This power is not given to wield like a weapon in order to beat back an unruly beast. It’s a gentle tool of restoration appropriated through the prayers of a wife who longs to do right more than be right, and to give life more than get even. It’s a way to invite God’s power into your husband’s life for his greatest blessing, which is ultimately yours, too.” This is a terrific book that we highly recommend!

• The Power of a Praying Wife Prayer and Study Guide written by Stormie Omartian, published by Harvest House. This inspiring 16–week prayer and study guide will help women apply the life changing direction of Stormie Omartian’s bestselling The Power of a Praying® Wife. While lifting up their husband’s emotional, professional, sexual, and spiritual well–being to God in prayer, women will discover deeper intimacy in their marriages.

• The Power of a Praying® Wife Book of Prayers -written by Stormie Omartian, published by Harvest House Publishers. This book is “small enough to keep close at hand for quick conversations with God, lovely enough to give as a special gift to encourage friends or loved ones, this book will unlock the power of prayer in readers’ lives.” “Each chapter offers insight into areas that are especially important to men, followed by ‘power tools’ (inspiring, topical Scripture) to guide one’s prayer life and transform a woman’s mind with regard to her husband. This practical read will encourage women to trust God to change their spouse, and undoubtedly refocus one’s perspective on God’s power rather than one’s own personal predicament.”

• The Power of Prayer(TM) to Change Your Marriage -written by Stormie Omartian, published by Harvest House Publishers. This book helps husbands or wives pray to protect their relationship from 14 serious problems that can lead to unsatisfying marriages or even divorce. For those who are already struggling in these areas, this book will help them find healing and restoration. Readers will learn how to pray about everything from communication breakdown to struggles with finances and raising children, misplaced priorities to anger, unforgiveness, and sexual frustration, pornography and infidelity to depression and addictions

• When Couples Pray: The Little Known Secret to Lifelong Happiness in Marriage -by Cheri Fuller. Cheri is an inspirational speaker and the author of more than twenty-five books, including bestselling When Mothers Pray, and When Families Pray. She is a contributing editor for Today’s Christian Woman and writes regularly for Focus on the Family magazine. This book was published by Multnomah Publishers. Something that should inspire us from what Cheri says is:

“The reality is that half of all marriages today end in divorce, both for Christians and non-Christians. Studies show that simply attending church does not guarantee a happy marriage or divorce-proof a relationship. However, couples who pray together regularly report enjoying the most satisfying marriages of all —and the divorce rate for praying couples is less than 1 percent!” This should give us all the more incentive to bond together as a family unit in prayer.