You have asked with many words, and you have adorned your prayer with a garland of Scriptures, which is a good and noble thing. The Word of God is a treasure house, and you have drawn forth promises both for comfort and for intercession. Yet remember that the power of prayer rests not in the multitude of verses you can recite back to God, as though He needed reminding, but in the contrition of the heart that offers them and in the life that gives those words hands and feet through works of mercy.
You pray for the heart of a wife, that seeds planted might sprout, that kindness might lead her to repentance. This is a holy desire. But take heed that while you watch for God’s work in her, you do not neglect the field of your own soul. For you also must walk in a manner worthy of the calling, adorning the doctrine of Christ with humility, meekness, and longsuffering. You must put on, as the Apostle says, a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering, forbearing and forgiving, even as Christ forgave you. For no seed grows well in soil that is trampled down by the boots of an impatient or self-righteous husband.
You recall rightly that God’s kindness leads to repentance. But do not mistake the delay of judgment for an endorsement of sin. The same patience that tarries for her conversion also waits for yours, that you may be perfected in love. And that kindness is often shown through the very vessels of clay who plead for her. Let your own life be so fragrant with almsgiving, with sincere prayer, with contempt for worldly possessions, that she may taste and see that the Lord is good, not only in your words but in your deeds. For a good name is better than great riches, and a quiet spirit wins souls more than many arguments.
You speak of the prodigal coming to his senses, and of Hosea’s wife being hedged in until she returns. These are patterns of hope. But note well: the awakening came not solely through affliction, but through a deep and honest self-condemnation. True repentance begins when a man becomes his own accuser, declaring his sins without guile. It is not merely a sorrow for consequences, as Esau shed tears but found no place of repentance because his grief was not a hatred of the sin but a regret for losing the blessing. So you must pray not just for her circumstances to bring her back, but for that godly sorrow which works repentance unto salvation, a sorrow not to be repented of. This is a work of the Holy Spirit alone, and you wage a battle on your knees for a thing no human rhetoric can produce.
Be not anxious, therefore, as though the outcome depended on your strategems. The steps of all are in the hands of God. He who ordered Philip to the desert road and Ananias to the house of Judas can send laborers into her path that you have never met. Trust that the Word sown does not return void; it is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. But it often takes root quietly, long before the shoot appears above ground. Do not dig up the seed each day to examine it. Water it with your own tears of humility and cover it with the warmth of your consistent, unfeigned love.
And look not only to her, but to your whole household. You mention patriarchal and matriarchal figures, progeny and posterity. Scatter your alms like seed upon the waters; make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. For almsgiving is the heart of virtue; without it no one enters the Kingdom, as the foolish virgins learned. A faith that only prays and does not give is like a fountain that stagnates. Let your riches be consumed by acts of mercy, not kept until they canker and eat at your soul.
Above all, imitate the humility of the Canaanite woman, who when she was called a dog did not bristle but accepted the word and turned it into a claim. So when you see sin in your loved one, do not be stung by pride or self-pity, but say, “Truth, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the master’s table.” That posture obtains mercy. Continue then in fervent prayer, for it avails much. And give thanks in advance, not with a presumptuous claim, but with the confidence of a child who knows his Father’s heart. In all things, commit the matter to Him who perfoms great and mighty things beyond your asking or imagining, and be at peace.
Father, we thank You that Your Word does not return void, Isa 55:10, and that seeds have been planted, Mark 4:14, Mark 4:26, Mark 4:27, Mark 4:28, Mark 4:29. From You and through You and back to You be all glory, Rom 11:36. Please continue working on this "still current wife's heart" by bringing fresh truth, restraining evil and carrying any work You've begun on to completion until the day of Christ, Phil 1:6. Continue to bring others into her path to water seeds, speak truth and show the kindness of God, Rom 2:4, and across the paths of all who have heard the word from all time, especially the last several months, especially for our patriarchal and matriarchal figures, progeny and posterity. Since the steps of the righteous are ordered by You, Ps 37:23, as evidenced by the evangelist and the foreign official reading Isaiah 53 in Acts 8:26-31, the believer in Acts 9:10-11 who was told to go find the future Apostle to the Gentiles, and the Apostles directed to go help a certain man, Acts 16:6-10. You, being perfect AND patient, not willing any perish but rather that all come to repentance, 2 Pet 3:9, and desire all to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, even using prayer to that ends, 1 Tim 2:1-4.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
