Prayer for Good Relationship with Husband

Whenever two lives come together to commit themselves to a life-long relationship, God blesses their marriage. God opens the door for the couple to have a loving relationship with His anointing. In this article we will look at prayer for Good Relationship with Husband

Married couples embark on the journey toward a marital relationship with happiness, growth, and beneficial togetherness in mind. This good relationship can happen with the help of prayer. Constantly praying to God for His grace in marriage will make the relationship blossom and grow strong.

Prayer for a good relationship with your husband

Dear Heavenly Father, You are indeed the author of love and marriage. Thank You for letting me be married. Thank You for blessing me with a responsible husband. Thank You for showing us that love and marriage are possible for two different people. Please bless our marriage. We depend on You. Guide us according to Your love. Help me be the best wife I can be, and let my husband be the best family man he can be. Bless our conversations. Help us communicate with gentleness and kindness. Help us share the respect that You want us to give each other. And when mistakes or offenses come, please help us to be considerate and compassionate toward each other and let forgiveness and healing flow. Father, let trust and honesty be in our relationship always. 

Help me and my husband be good friends, dependent on and supportive of each other. Make us always see the good side and actions of each other and help us appreciate them. Bless us as we grow in our faith in You, not forgetting to help others with the kindness that You have shown us. And if we begin to focus on the dark side of each other, help us to remember that You have created us wonderfully. Help us to seek counsel when we need it. Protect us from temptation and any evil forces that may harm our marriage. Father, please continue to bless our marriage, making it stronger as the days pass. I pray all these things in Jesus’s name. Amen.

How do you pray for a strong relationship?

You can pray for God to strengthen your relationship by thinking of your marriage’s needs. You may list them and pray fervently to God. Here are seven prayer points that you can pray about:

• Show respect

A good way to strengthen your relationship is by showing respect to each other. Respect your husband’s ideas, especially his goals and plans for his career and your family. Respect his opinion on certain matters. Respect does not mean you have to put aside your interests or your own opinion. Respect means you are taking into consideration the views of your husband. Respect is understanding and not forcing your husband to side with your thoughts. 

Peter taught the believers to respect each other. [1 Peter 2:17 (NIV)]. Pray for you and your husband to respect each other. Ask God for both of you to agree to disagree when faced with differing opinions. Request God to make you both bonded and at peace with each other despite contrasting views. 

• Effective communication

Effective communication is at the heart of a strong relationship. All successful marriages have one good key to success—good communication.

Solomon said that kind words are beneficial [Proverbs 16:24 (NLT)]. Ask God for you both to have effective communication in your relationship. Pray that you will have conversations graced with gentleness, tact, and kindness. Request for God to bless your communication so that it will lead to understanding, peace, harmony, and a deeper relationship.

• Forgive

You and your husband may differ in values, preferences, and ways of doing certain things. As you live together, you and your husband may discover new things about each other. Both of you may do things that may offend, hurt, or annoy each other without the intention of causing harm.

Paul taught the Christians to forgive others [Ephesians 4:32 (NIV)]. Pray for God to open your hearts to forgive each other because you are not sinless. Ask God for you and your husband to be considerate and compassionate toward each other.

• Be good friends

Friendship is a blessing that God gives to a couple in marriage. You are not only a wife to your husband but also a friend to him, as he is a friend to you.

Solomon wrote that friends should always love each other [Proverbs 17:17 (NIV)]. Friends love each other no matter what circumstance they are in. Pray for God to help you and your husband grow in your friendship. Request God to bless your friendship so that you are able to meet each other’s needs and help each other grow by supporting each other.

• Trust

One of the pillars of a strong relationship is for the wife and husband to have and maintain trust in each other. 

The Bible teaches that Christians should not lie to one another [Colossians 3:9 (NIV)]. Thus, he implies that believers should speak the truth. Pray that you and your husband will trust each other and believe in the truth. Ask God for both of you to be honest in your relationship, keeping no secrets and living transparent lives before each other. 

• Words of appreciation

Words are powerful. Words have the ability to encourage and, on the other hand, the power to discourage. Good words are needed for a strong relationship.

Paul wrote that Christians should encourage each other [1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV)]. One of the ways of encouraging others is by expressing your appreciation and gratitude. Pray for God to bless you and your husband with an appreciating heart. This blesses each other with words of appreciation that will make each other glad, encouraged, empowered, and special.

• Apply 1 Corinthians 13 to your marriage

The Bible defines true love as what is described in 1 Corinthians 13. That is how you should love your husband. That is how you both should love each other. Apply the love chapter to your marriage.

Love your husband with all patience, gentleness, selflessness, trust, hope, and perseverance, among other things [1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)]. Love unconditionally. When you love that way, you will see the fruits of that love in your marriage.

How do I strengthen a good relationship with my husband?

Strengthening a good relationship requires the efforts of both parties. You, as a wife, can contribute to making the relationship with your husband better in the following ways:

• Spend time together

God, the author of love, has put you and your husband together. You both need time to be together as a couple. Togetherness paves the way to more intimacy and bonding.

Jesus said that the disciples should love each other [John 13:34 (NIV)]. Loving your spouse means spending time with him. Look for similar interests that you have with your spouse and spend time doing them together. You may enjoy hobbies together, like cooking, watching videos, listening to music, etc. Have regular dates like going out to watch a movie, dining in a new restaurant, fishing, playing a board game, taking a trip or a day tour, and many others. You can search for dating ideas online. You do not have to spend a lot of money on a good date. 

• Get closer to God

To strengthen a good relationship with your husband is to fortify your relationship with God. Strengthen your faith in the Lord.

God said that Jeremiah will be able to find God when he seeks God with his whole heart [Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)]. Seek and learn to love God first, above each other. Loving God above all else, you are laying a firm foundation and building a stronghold for your marriage. When you put God first, you seek the protection of God for your marriage. Pray for your husband and you as a couple. When you get closer to God, you get to truly love your husband the way God blesses you to love. 

• Grow in faith together

You and your husband need to worship; this will please God. Go to church together. Read the word of God together and share what you have learned about how God has been working in your life. Peter taught the believers to grow in the Lord [2 Peter 3:18 (NIV)]. The more you grow in faith, the more you grow in your relationship together.

Encourage each other because this will strengthen you both. Encourage each other for that is the will of God. Serve God together. Serve by using your talents and gifts. Serving God makes you and your husband grow more in faith.

• Ask God to change you and your spouse

You and your husband are not perfect. You both have some character flaws to change. You both need to alter some behaviors. However, you do not need to allow such behaviors to damage your relationship.

Paul wrote that believers should have their minds renewed [Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)]. Good changes happen when a husband and wife are renewed. Pray for God to make the necessary changes in your and your husband’s behavior or character. Ask God for you to be more willing and have the discipline to change.

• Remember that your spouse is wonderful

You and your husband are different in character and ways. You both grew up uniquely.

Remember that he was also wonderfully created by God. He is a masterpiece, and God loves him despite his mistakes or character blemishes. Remember that, just like you, he is still in the process of growing and becoming mature.

David had written that he was created amazingly by God [Psalm 139:14 (NIV)]. As God has welcomed your husband, do the same and welcome him because that is how God has loved you. God wants you to be considerate of your husband and to accept him for who he is.

• Seek counsel 

You and your husband do not know everything about making marriage work. You are both on a journey of loving and caring for each other in the best way you know how. When you do not know what to do or when you are encountering some challenges in your marriage, do not worry because there is help. You can seek help when needed.

Solomon wrote that a man of wisdom listens to counsel [Proverbs 12:15 (NIV)]. You can find help from others. You can seek the help of wise people such as older couples, counselors, pastors, and others. Seek their support, for God has given them wisdom, and they will give you sound advice.

• Help others

God has been kind to you and your husband. He wants you to be kind to others as well. Being kind to others pleases God. You can be an extension of the kindness of God by sharing what you know or what you have with others. 

Remember the Shunammite woman and her husband, who had been kind to the prophet Elisha by giving the prophet a guest room. Later, the woman was blessed with a son because of her and her husband’s kindness [2 Kings 4:8-17 (NIV)].

Conclusion

For you to have a good marriage, along with other blessings, God has blessed you with the grace and privilege to come to Him in prayer. So, confidently approach God in prayer, and He will listen to you and work with you and your husband for your relationship to be wonderful.