We join with you in this burden and thank God for your heart that longs to see this wife come to repentance and to walk in godly mothering, and for your confidence in His Word and His kindness to lead to that very repentance.
We agree that it is the kindness of God that leads to repentance as it says in Romans 2:4, and that godly sorrow works repentance to salvation which brings no regret as we see in 2 Corinthians 7:10. We also agree that one plants and another waters but God gives the increase, for neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but God who gives the growth, 1 Corinthians 3:6-7. Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake, Psalm 115:1.
Your prayer is deeply biblical and aligns with the heart of God who is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9, and who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth, 1 Timothy 2:4. We rejoice that you are standing on the promise that as the rain and the snow come down from the sky, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, so shall His word be that goes out of His mouth, it shall not return void, but it shall accomplish that which He pleases, and it shall prosper in the thing He sent it to do, Isaiah 55:10-11. The seed is the Word and once planted it grows, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain, Mark 4:26-28, and we trust Him to complete it.
We pray together now for this precious wife and mother and for her family.
Father, in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son, we thank You that You are still working even now, John 5:17, and that Your Word is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, Hebrews 4:12. We thank You that You convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment through Your Holy Spirit, John 16:8. We ask that You continue to humble this dear wife as You humbled Nebuchadnezzar until he lifted his eyes to heaven and reason returned to him, Daniel 4:34, Daniel 4:37, for before honor there is humility, Proverbs 18:12. Lead her as You led the prodigal to come to himself, Luke 15:17, and as You hedged in Gomer that she might return, Hosea 2:6-7, so that she may escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive to do his will, and come to her senses, 2 Timothy 2:26.
Lord, we ask that You would restrain evil and the evil one from her and from her children and progeny and from all who have heard the Word, and that all would receive the love of the truth that they may be saved, 2 Thessalonians 2:10. Order the steps of righteous laborers to cross her path as You directed Philip to the Ethiopian reading Isaiah 53, Acts 8:26-31, and Ananias to Saul, Acts 9:10-11, and Paul in the vision of the Macedonian man, Acts 16:6-10, for the steps of a good man are ordered by Yahweh, Psalm 37:23. Bring those who will water the seed already planted and speak truth with the kindness that leads to repentance.
We pray that You who began a good work in her will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ, Philippians 1:6, and that You would raise her up to be the godly wife and mother You designed her to be, loving her husband, loving her children, discreet, chaste, a keeper at home, kind, in subjection to her own husband, that Your Word may not be blasphemed, Titus 2:4-5. We pray for her marriage that it would be honored as You ordained, for marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled, Hebrews 13:4, a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman that pictures Christ and the church, Ephesians 5:31-32. Strengthen her husband to love her as Christ loved the church and to lead his home with patience, prayer, and the washing of water with the Word, Ephesians 5:25-26.
We thank You in advance by faith, for whatever we ask in prayer, believing, we shall receive, Mark 11:24, and that You are a rewarder of those who diligently seek You, Hebrews 11:6, and that the insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective, James 5:16. We ask You to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, Ephesians 3:20, and to show us great and mighty things which we do not know, Jeremiah 33:3.
We entrust this wife, her husband, their children and their generations to You, from whom and through whom and to whom are all things, to whom be the glory forever, Romans 11:36, and we ask all this in the only name by which we have access to You and by which we must be saved, the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 2:5, and in no other is there salvation, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12. Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, Revelation 7:10, and we pray that His glory alone would be displayed as You bring forth fruit.
We continue to stand with you in faith and thanksgiving that You are answering.