Prayers of an Excellent Wife
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ternal Source of all good, Please continue to restrain the wicked inclinations that remain in my husband’s heart. For if You do not, he will soon become haughty and walk with an outstretched neck, glancing wantonly with his eyes. Go on with Your work of making him holy, washing away his filth, and cleansing his bloodstains by a spirit of purging. Thank You for loving him as a choice vineyard, and planting him with choice vines on a fertile hill. Now let him yield grapes, and not wild grapes. O beloved, you are the LORD’s pleasant planting. Therefore, do not feast with tambourine and flute and wine, and disregard the deeds of the LORD, or turn a blind eye to the work of His hands. LORD of hosts, let him never be found lacking in the knowledge of You, so that he may not condemn himself to exile, hunger, and thirst. For before You man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low. But You are exalted in justice, and You show Yourself holy in righteousness (Isaiah 3, 4, 5).
V I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. ~Samuel Rutherford
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