Pray For Your Husband

This week our prayer for our husband is that he would be accessible--being a friend to believers, strangers and foreigners.
Luke 6:32 "If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you?  Even sinners to that."

When I think of accessibility, an iphone or iPad or some electronic device comes to mind.  In our world we are attached at the hip to our electronics and social media at times like a drug. It can be challenging to step away and see a world that we are literally walking past as we multi-task and text as we walk and run erands. How much harder we are making it on ourselves to have connections with real, live people face to face. Also, isn't it just so much easier to befriend someone you really like verses someone who is inconveniencing you or someone who you find annoying or someone who is rude or mean or smells bad, but that is not consistent with the character of the God living within us. Part of the problem is that we tend to elevate ourselves, somehow thinking we are better than another. What gives? It warms my heart to no end when I witness my husband being "inconvenienced" because of the Spirit in him causing him to behave in such a way. My socially apt husband could make friends with a brick wall. His personality shines as I watch him talking to perfect strangers as though he has known them his whole life. I could use more of that. I also remember a time we were driving down the road and a man in a wheelchair was having a hard time crossing the street, and he pulled over and got out of the car to help this man. I could be more like that. I think what I may love most of all is when I have gone with my husband to visit strangers in the hospital--strangers who are awake on ventilators (as he once was). We go to take Jesus to a hospital unit where depression prevails and few leave alive. I watch as he allows Jesus to speak through him giving hope to shut-ins and praying over them in the name of our beloved Jesus. I want others to see Jesus in me that way.
You see, when we pray to the Father on behalf of our husband, our husband changes to become more like Jesus and because of the God-created order of life, we in turn observe the change and implement it in our own lives. When your husband becomes more like Christ so will you.