The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian
Week 2: Chapter 1 — His Wife
Read Chapter 1 of The Power of a Praying Wife. Key passages: 1 Peter 3:1–2; Ephesians 5:33.
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Stormie begins not with your husband but with you — because the first prayer a wife must pray is about her own heart, her own attitudes, and her own role in the marriage.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.It may seem surprising that a book about praying for your husband opens with a chapter about *being* his wife. Why do you think Stormie starts here? What would be lost if she had jumped straight to praying for his spiritual walk or his work?
2.Stormie is candid about the resentments and walls she had built up in her own heart toward Michael. She had to ask God to help her love her husband the way God loved him. Have you ever needed to pray that prayer — asking God for a love you didn't naturally feel? What happened?
3.She writes about releasing control — choosing to stop trying to manage her husband and instead placing him in God's hands. What does 'releasing control' look like in a marriage practically? What makes it so difficult?