I am just about to conclude that if women did not share their life struggles, we would never know how to pray for men.
Just the other day, I received ed a prayer request from a sweet Christian lady. She said, and I paraphrase, that they were going through so many impossible situations at the moment that she had no idea where to begin asking for prayer support.
Here’s the thing, I speak with her husband with reasonable frequency. He always approaches with a smile and speaks with a quiet sort of confidence. If he has situations that he views as impossible, or if he is concerned about those impossible situations, he certainly does not communicate those concerns around myself or any of those he and I hang around.
I get it that men tend to be much more private than women are. I counsel women quite regularly to learn the skill of discretion.[2]
Guys, come on! When your wife senses situations that she feels are so impossible and so numerable that she, who regularly asks for prayer, can’t find a place to begin to pray, she needs you to pray. You will help her more, not by taking the bull by the horns and handling things, but by asking for prayer from your male circle too. Can’t you see how she would find comfort and support knowing that you will enlist men to pray?
I’m not suggesting you have to reach into your innermost being and share all that is in your heart with your peers and “besties.” I’m just telling you could use some prayer support too.
[2] Titus 2:3-5 (KJV)
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
