Who are the most important loves in my life? My first love is God. If my relationship with him is off then everything else is out of balance. If you want balance in your life then start here.

My second love is my husband Bryan. My responsibilty to Bryan is to submit to him. I am not supposed to nag him or criticize him. God didn’t call me to be Bryan’s Holy Spirit he called me to be a helper to him and a partner. Sometimes I have to be reminded what my function is as a wife. When life gets to me and I am frustrated with a circumstance I need to remember that the unity of the two of us is stronger than me on my own. I have to choose how I am going to react to circumstances and if I go ahead and choose then when things happen I will make the right choice.

My third love is my children. My children are a gift from God that he has entrusted to me.  It is my responsibility to pray over them and teach and train them. My heart is that all my children will serve God all the days of their lives. The Power of a Praying Parent helps me to pray prayers for my children.

Keeping my loves in right order is my responsibility. It is my responsibility to tend to these relationships and protect them. May I be diligent in all things.

Several years ago, I read the book “The Power of a Praying Wife” it is a powerful book. It changed my perspective on how to pray for my husband. It also changed my attitude on who I was to be and things God wanted to change in me.

The last several weeks, I have been praying for my husband a lot. As he has made the transisition to senior pastor, God has given clear direction on how to pray for Bryan. He has been in the ministry for 17 years, but never been the senior pastor. With this new responsiblity comes a new level of prayer for me.

Today I read a Holly Furtick’s post on How to pray. It was great! I know there are people that pray for my husband, myself and my family. I also know that I cannot rely on others to pray for my family. They are my first ministry.

Recently Jim Wideman wrote a post on Setting Priorities. After Christ, my husband should be my first priority. If I am praying for everyone else and not praying for him, or I am doing for everyone else and don’t have time to pray for him then I have my priorities messed up.

Constantly I must realign my priorities, so I keep them straight.