The Power of a Praying Wife

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Summary: The greatest pro-active tool for marriage.
Review: This book has had an incredible impact on my marriage. I learned so much about praying for my husband and it has deepen our relationship as well as my prayer life. I give it to all wifes!!! Especially newlyweds.

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Summary: Challenging to the Christian wife
Review: I found this book to be very down to earth. I have read this book when I was enaged and after I got married. I wanted to get as much insight as I could on how to overcome differences in a marriage and make it work. This book seeks to give a biblical guide to wives that want to make their marriage work, but just don't know how. This book helped me to be less prideful, to see past anger and emotion and to step up to the plate as a Christian wife, which is not at all wimpy, but strong and controlled. It does not encouarage staying in abusive relationships at all. The point is not to teach submissivenes so much as it is to provide spiritual focus for a frustrated wife. If arguing and fussing was the key to resolving conflicts then this book would seem to teach wimpiness. That is not the key, those that critisize this book must not understand the depths and the power of prayer and how it changes hearts, minds, perspectives and ultimately marriage.

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Summary: Life changing!
Review: Other than the bible, this is the most life changing book that I have read!! The prayers aren't only for couples that are in trouble, but for all couples that want to improve their relationship with each other and with God.


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Summary: God is changing him!!!
Review: This book has made my marriage everything I dreamed it could be. First, I waited on God, then He sent me my husband. Second, it wasn't perfect until my cousin loaned me this book (I forgot to return it). After reading the first chapter and praying the prayers with all faith in GOD. Things began to change. The sensless arguments ceased. And then a year later, I heard my first sincere and heartfelt apology from my husband. Two years later and the romance is hotter and he is wrapped around my finger in a good way. I give all the glory to God and thanks to Stormie.

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Summary: Awesome! Thank you Stormie!
Review: This book is fantastic! It has saved my marriage and I recommend it to anyone who is married. It is for anyone who wants to save their marriage or who wants to take their marriage to a deeper level. This book really spoke to me and I will give it to all my girlfriends who are married. This book gave me so many insights to my marriage. I have grown so much by reading it. Buy this book! You won't regret it. Thank you Stormie! Keep writing your books!

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Summary: What a great help!
Review: I bought this book after being married for six months. Unfortunately, I didn't read it then. Three years later, I am separated and I feel strongly that things would have been different in my marriage had I just read the book!

Nevertheless, I started praying the prayers in the book (I am still a wife, after all). In doing so, I saw a change in my husband. I also saw a change in myself and my attitudes toward what we were both going through.

Keep in mind that our prayers for another are not for our personal gain. In this instance praying for your husband (and in essence for yourself) is for your marriage.

Any resource, including this book that keeps us praying is a GREAT resource to have. And this book brings to mind so many areas of our lives that we may have forgotten.

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Summary: Terrible advice! Save your money and sanity!
Review: I couldn't finish a chapter without feeling outraged by this woman's mis-informed mind. While we as women should change ourselves to be more Christ-like, it doesn't mean giving up our lives for the sake of pleasing our husband's.

Early in the book, Omartian says that separation or divorce is not an option. God does not expect women (or men for that matter) to stay in an unhealthy marriage and sometimes separation is necessary for the life and safety of the woman and her children. By saying that women need to stay in abusive relationships further propels domestic abuse.

Later in the chapter she says not to pray with your partner because it will fail! How stupid! Praying with your partner doesn't have to be spilling your soul out to him, silent prayers, or structured prayers could be used. Praying with your spouse can bring much harmony to the marriage.

Omartian's chapter on sexuality is so skewed, I'm not sure why the editor didn't object to have it removed. Telling women that men's sexuality is a need is grossly wrong and disturbing to the mind. No wonder there are so many men out there who think women are sex-objects! She encourages it! Especially sad is when she says "if your husband desires sex more frequently....change your ways." What the heck?! For the person with a sexually additive husband this does NOTHING to help with the problem only gives more fuel to the fire!! Men are NOT ANIMALS! THEY HAVE SELF-CONTROL!

I could go on, but I won't. Don't spend the money on this book.

I recommend Woman of Grace, A Bible Study for married women, by Michaelann Martin a lovely women's study that I've enjoyed reading. Beautiful for the Catholic wife, or wife-to-be.

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Summary: Powerful book, Powerful Prayer
Review: I got this book thinking it would help my marriage, make me feel like a better wife. In reality, it helped me to focus on me, what I needed and what I needed to turn over to God, what I needed to change in me, and once I did that, the changes I saw in my family life, things I had prayed for for years, were suddenly happening when i changed me.
It was a wonderful book, and I have read it through a number of times. I do the prayers for a month, then I wil lgo back a month or two later and start it again, espically when I feel that I am not "doing it right". i have also went back over specific chapets and prayed them over and over abotu certain areas that were important.
It is great. I recommend it for every wife!

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Summary: Need to read further...
Review: I only gave the book 4 stars because I have only read the first couple of chapters thoroughly, although I have skimmed through all of the other chapters. I just wanted to address the fact that some readers felt that this book is only for divorcing women-especially the new bride who wrote that once she saw the caption "I don't even like him-how can I pray for him?" she decided that this was not the book for her. On the contrary, this book, like ANY book, has parts that may apply to you and others that may not. It is between you and God to decide which is which. My marriage is FAR from falling apart. However, if you read just the chapter TITLES you will see that this book addresses many areas in which everyone, not just men, often struggles and seeks to help you learn how to pray more effectively for those areas-for example, his work. Additionally, some women see this book as advocating abuse. However, my take on it from what I have read is that Mrs. Omartian does not feel that women should stay in dangerous situations-in fact, she says if you are in emotional or physical danger, you should get yourself and your children away to a safe place and pray from there. Hopefully this prayer will help him to change. She doesn't say it always works or that you should not consider divorce even if it doesn't change. She simply says that prayer, not divorce, should be our first line of defense. And in defense of her assertion that we should be willing to change first, I believe that she is merely saying that many women pray for change that is UNNECESSARY just because they don't agree with something that is not necessarily ungodly but just not what they want. In those cases, we do need to be willing to change. Women are not ALWAYS right, but God is.

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Summary: Challenging to the Christian wife
Review: I found this book to be very down to earth. I have read this book when I was enaged and after I got married. I wanted to get as much insight as I could on how to overcome differences in a marriage and make it work. This book seeks to give a biblical guide to wives that want to make their marriage work, but just don't know how. This book helped me to be less prideful, to see past anger and emotion and to step up to the plate as a Christian wife, which is not at all wimpy, but strong and controlled. It does not encouarage staying in abusive relationships at all. The point is not to teach submissivenes so much as it is to provide spiritual focus for a frustrated wife. If arguing and fussing was the key to resolving conflicts then this book would seem to teach wimpiness. That is not the key, those that critisize this book must not understand the depths and the power of prayer and how it changes hearts, minds, perspectives and ultimately marriage.