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She Finally Fell Asleep, and You Were Still Awake<\/h2>\n\n

The test results come back on Thursday. Or the job is gone. Or she has been carrying something for months that she will not quite name, and tonight she cried in the car and said it was nothing. Now she is asleep, and you are lying next to her in the dark wondering what you are even supposed to say to God about it.<\/p>\n\n

If you are looking for a prayer for my wife, there is one at the bottom of this page that you can pray tonight, word for word. But first, there is a husband in Genesis who prayed for his wife, and the way the Bible tells his story changes what that kind of prayer is.<\/p>\n\n

A Prayer for My Wife Starts With a Verse That Covers Twenty Years<\/h2>\n\n

Isaac is one of the quiet men of the Bible. When he marries Rebekah, Genesis says it plainly: “and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death”<\/em> (Genesis 24:67). A grieving man loved his wife, and she was a comfort to him.<\/p>\n\n

Then a hard thing arrives. They cannot have children. Here is the whole of what the Bible says about how Isaac answered it:<\/p>\n\n

“And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.”<\/em> (Genesis 25:21)<\/p>\n\n

It reads like a quick prayer and a quick answer. Look at the verses on either side of it, though. Verse 20 says “Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife.”<\/em> Verse 26 says “Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.”<\/em> Threescore is sixty.<\/p>\n\n

So that one short verse holds about twenty years. Twenty years of asking for the same thing for the same woman. Genesis does not tell us how many times he prayed, what he said, or how many years went by with no answer. It just folds two decades into a single sentence.<\/p>\n\n

That matters if you have been praying for your wife for a long time and nothing seems to move. Long waiting is not a sign that you are praying wrong. One of the first husbands in the Bible recorded praying for his wife waited a very long time too.<\/p>\n\n