On September 03, 2008, my husband Terry and I will celebrate 32 years of marriage together. I would like to share with all of you a prayer that I wrote for him on July 7, 2006. Marriage is something that many people do not take seriously in our present society today. However, God changes not and He has always held marriage to be a blessed and sacred union.
Marraige
As I have shared with you, we are in our wilderness place. We have really, really experienced first hand just how fierce the enemy can come against God’s people. Remember that our warfare is “not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers against rulers of darkness in this present world”. My husband and I know this because of all the things that have happened to us and have come against us. I have gotten to the point that I can see with Spirit eyes and discern just what is at work behind every conversation and thing that happens in mine and my husband’s life. I pray that you will seek His will and His ways to be able to do the same thing in your own lives and marriages. What He does for us, He will do for you. Only ask and believe. “…According to your faith and trust and reliance on the power invested in Me, be it done to you.” Matt. 9:29
God has always had a plan. That plan has not changed. The enemy of our soul has been so successful in diverting our attention down through time that most of us don’t realize just what that plan really is. If we can just “get it” and get a hold on His plan for unity between a husband and a wife, there is no stopping God’s plan through them. The enemy of our soul knows this; he just doesn’t want people to realize and know this. I get it. It is my heart’s desire for everyone else to get it, too. God is working on me to write a book in the future about His plan for unity and oneness between a husband and a wife. There is power in this union and oneness. Please pray for me that this book will be completed in God’s timing. Please pray for Terry and me that our marriage will be strong and God’s hand of protection remain around us.
I encourage you to print this prayer and substitute your spouse’s name in place of my husband’s name. If you will truly give God your mate and pray for them and for yourself the way He intended for us to do, incredible results will happen.
For My Husband Terry
Terry, I pray for God’s protection upon your heart- the one that beats and the one that feels, your life, health, finances, your soul and your mind. That He will shield you from the lies of the enemy or our soul and that you can clearly discern between God’s voice and any other voice.
Sweetheart, it is my heart’s desire that you will be able to see yourself as I see you and as God sees you. You have been given so many unique qualities and gifts that make up your personality. I appreciate them so much and pray that you will appreciate them the way that I do. Know that I trust you and I have trusted God completely with you and only hope that you will come to have as much confidence in yourself as I have in you.
I pray that God will open doors for you that no man can shut; that the work of your hands will be blessed and bring prosperity and great fulfillment as God has promised. “Be confident of this very thing, that He which has begun a good work in you will complete it” Phil. 1:6.
Honey, please remember the scripture that the Lord personally gave you on April 13, 2006: “Behold, I (Christ) have given you authority and power…and physical and mental strength and ability over all the power that the enemy possesses, and nothing shall in any way harm you” Luke 10:19.
By that power and authority, I command that all thoughts from the enemy be removed from my husband’s mind because Terry Goodwin has the mind of Christ. May Terry constantly live in clarity with absolutely no confusion in his mind, because God is not the author of confusion but of power, love and a sound mind. Lord, help Terry to see the power that you offer him access to and help him to learn how to use it just like you are showing me how to use it.
Lord, make Terry strong where the enemy perceives weakness and help him to rise above and conquer anything that erects itself as a stronghold in his life. Establish a wall of protection around, above and below him. Continue to set Your angels charge over his care as You have promised in Your Word (Ps. 91). Fill Terry up so full of Your Spirit that there is no room for anything that is not of you.
You have said to call upon You in our trouble and You will deliver us (Ps. 50:15). I call upon You now to work deliverance in my husband’s life. Deliver Terry from anything that binds him. Deliver him from depression, anxiety, fear, the enemy of his soul, temptation, financial problems, hurts from the past, stress, health problems and anything else that may ever try to bind him in any way.
Lord, I pray that You would protect our marriage from anything that would harm or destroy it. Shield our marriage from the evil plans and desires of others, from dangerous situations, from financial ruin, or anything else that poses a threat to our marriage. May there never be any thoughts of divorce or separation in either of our hearts. Give us a passion and an unquenchable desire for each other that is stronger than it has ever been. Please set us free from anything from the past-whether it be hurts, bad memories, financial mistakes, or anything else that would dampen or hinder our future.
God, let absolutely nothing be allowed to come into our hearts or our lives that would threaten our marriage in any way. I pray that we will be so committed to Your ways, Lord, that our commitment to each other will not waver, no matter what comes against us; that we will only cling tighter to one another. I pray that our love for each other will only grow stronger with each passing day. Continue to help me, Lord, to be the wife that Terry needs. Show me how to communicate love to him in ways that he needs it. Please keep teaching me when to speak, what to say and when to just shut up and leave it with You, Lord. Bring more and more unity between us, making us one in everything we do; not separate or independent in any way. This prevents the enemy of our souls from ever driving a wedge between us again.
I claim Deuteronomy 28 over our lives: that we will be will be blessed when we come in and when we go out, everything that we set our hands to do will prosper, our enemies (anyone that is against us) will be defeated before us and will flee before us 7 different ways, that we will be a holy people set apart for You, we will be the head and not the tail, we will always have a bounty of food and things to eat, your blessings will chase us down and overtake us, our barns (our bank accounts and other storage places) will be filled, we will lend and not borrow all the rest of the days of our lives, that our children and grandchildren will be blessed.
I claim Psalm 91, Your words of protection, over Terry and his household. Raise Terry Goodwin up to take his rightful place as the mighty man that you have planned for him to be and as the wise head of his household. Restore seven fold the years the locusts have eaten. Let him know that he is, has been and will continue to be a wonderful Dad that is very loved by his children.
Dear Lord, I am so thankful and know that I am the most blessed woman alive because You have loved me enough to have given me the privilege of being Terry Goodwin’s wife and his mate. I thank you, God, for giving me this opportunity and giving me this as my reward and my portion in this life.
This is my prayer, in Jesus’ Name,
AMEN.
Terry, I am your loving wife for all eternity, Love, Robbie
In His Service,
Robbie Goodwin