Women tell us they long for spiritual closeness: a heart partner who can share the deep places of prayer with them. Men have told us that after a busy day of being teacher, counselor, and friend of sinners, as well as being the listening and leaning post all day—they don’t want to begin again as soon as they walk in their own home. They need an oasis.
I learned not to be the wife waiting to drain the last drop out of my man as he walks in the door, but rather to nurture my own spiritual life in order to give him a charge instead! I believe the best way both of us can recharge our relationship and develop true spiritual companionship is by meeting in the throne room every day.
Why would two people who love each other not be drawn closer still, by listening to the praise of angels? By asking God for a wayward child and finding the Spirits comfort or just sitting in silence before the Lord?
Link up with a mission agency. Get informed. Choose a prayer project just you two and Jesus share. Praying for others develops a common interest and deep soul bonding.
Make sure you never go to sleep without praying together, and don’t limit it to just morning or evening. Anytime you are together and a troubling phone call comes, stop and talk to the Lord together about it—even if it has to be on the phone.
Praying together is spiritual art. Like all arts it must be practiced. There are elements of both discipline and delight about the exercise. Many ministry marriages have been freshened and strengthened and not a few saved, by working out our differences on our knees.
