Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Chapter 7: His Mind

1. Does your husband frequently experience fear, depression or anxiety? Explain.

2. Does your husband ever believe lies about himself? Explain.

3. Do you believe that God has given you all authority over the enemy on behalf of your husband? How then would you address the enemy regarding the lies he speaks to your husband's mind?

4. What are the two most powerful weapons against the attack of lies upon your husband's mind?

5. Read Hebrews 4:12 in your Bible and underline it. In light of this verse, how could speaking the Word of God over your husband in prayer help to reveal wrong thinking?

6. Read 2 Timothy 1:7 in your Bible and underline it. Write out how you might speak this verse inserting your husband's name and claiming it as his right.

7. When we praise God for the promises He gives us in His Worked, it paves the way for them to come to pass. Write out a praise to God for your husband's sound mind.

8. Read 1 Corinthians 2:16 in your Bible and underline it. Write out this verse as a prayer over your husband to help him bring every thought under God's control.

9. Read Mark 12:30 in your Bible and underline it. Write out this Scripture as a prayer, inserting your husband's name.



Chapter 6: His Temptations

1. Read Luke 22:40 in your Bible and underline it. What does Jesus specifically direct us to do in this Scripture?

2. Is there anything in your husband's life that is a temptation to him? What is that? Write a prayer asking God to free your husband from anything that tempts him away from God's perfect will for his life and to keep him from any temptation in the future.

3. Is there anything in your life that is a temptation? What is that? Write a prayer asking God to keep you from entering into anything that tempts you away from God's perfect will for our life.

4. Read James 1:12 in your Bible and underline it. If you sense that another person is becoming a temptation to your husband, pray for this individual to be taken out of your husband's life. Whether something like this has happened to him or not, write this Scriptures as a prayer over your husband, substituting his name for "the man" and for all pronouns.

5. Read James 1:13-15 in your Bible and underline it. How are we tempted? What do our own desires produce? What is the ultimate result?

6. Read Mark 14:38 in your Bible and underline it. Even if your husband is not habitually tempted by anything in particular, temptation is always a possibility for anyone, especially where our flesh is weakest. Does your husband have a weakness in the flesh that you feel could become a snare from the enemy? If so, what is it? If you are not aware of anything , ask God to reveal it to you. Write a prayer asking God to protect him in this area.

7. Does your husband have any godly men in his life to whom he can be accountable on a regular basis? List those men below and pray that they will be a blessing to your husband. If he doesn't have that kind of man in his life, write a prayer asking God to bring godly men to him and enable him to develop relationships of accountability with them.

8. Read Galatians 5:16-17 in your Bible and underline it. What does the flesh lust against? How can you keep from fulfilling the lust of the flesh? Write a prayer asking God to help you and your husband walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

9. If your husband were to fall into temptation even after you have been praying, what do you think your reaction might be? What do you pray your reaction would be?

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Chapter 5: His Affection

1. Read 1 Corinthians 7:3 in your Bible and underline it. Do you feel your husband is affectionate enough toward you. Explain.

2. Does your husband feel you are affectionate enough toward him? Are you sure? What could you do to improve that?

3.What does your husband feel is the best way for you to communicate love toward him? (Ask him if you are not certain.) Are you able to do that?

4. Do you have children? Do you feel you and your husband have modeled for them a marriage that is filled with an abundance or lack of affection? How do you think it will affect them in their own marriages? If you have modeled a lack of affection, would you both be willing to change?

5. Write a prayer asking God to help you and your husband demonstrate healthy affection toward one another so that your children will learn to do the same.

6. Have your or your husband taken one another for granted in any way that has eroded your tendency to be affectionate toward one another? Has one of you assumed incorrectly that the other one doesn't need affection ? Explain.

7. Have other distractions caused you or your husband to not take the time necessary to show affection toward one another? What could you do to change that?

8. Read 2 Corinthians 10:24 in your Bible and underline it. In what ways could you seek your husband's well-being over your own?

9. Is there some act of affection you could show toward your husband today that would pleasantly surprise and bless him? What is that? (If you can't think of anything, ask God to help you.) Are you willing to do t hat? Write down the results after you've done it.

Chapter 4: His Sexuality

1. Do you feel your sexual relationship with your husband is good, not good, or somewhere in between? Why? Regardless of what it is now, write a prayer asking God's covering over it and blessing on it.

2. How would you like to see your sexual relationship with your husband change? Explain. Write a prayers asking God to make it what you want it to be.

3.List the top 10 priorities in your life. These are the things that occupy your time, attention, and energy, such as children, work, friends, church activities and so on. In this list, where does your relationship with your husband fall? What does this list reveal to you about your priorities?

4. If your husband is at the top of your priority list under God )where he should be) , is the sexual aspect of that relationship a priority? If it hasn't been, what are the reasons for that )illness, marital strife, financial worry, emotional stress, lack of interest, busy schedule, children, exhaustion and so on)? Write a prayer asking God to help you make any changes necessary in order to make your sexual relationship with your husband the priority it should be.

5. Do you look forward to intimate times with your husband? Has your husband done anything that has turned you off to his physical advances? Explain. What do you believe would improve your physical relationship?

6. Read 1 Corinthians 7:4,5 in your Bible and underline it. Are you sexually available for your husband at his request? Is he available for you? Does the frequency of sex between the two of you usually depend solely upon him? Upon you? Is the frequency with which you come together mutually agreed upon? Have you ever kept yourself from being available to him, when you could have done otherwise? Write a prayer asking God to help both of you in complete unity about this aspect of your relationship. Confess any times you kept yourself from your husband when you could have done otherwise.

7. Do you ever sense frustration in your husband over your sexual relationship? What do you understand his frustration to be? What could you do to help alleviate that frustration? Write a prayer asking God to give you revelation about that and help you to do what is necessary to make your sexual relationship with your husband better.

8. Has your husband ever been tempted toward infidelity? Have you? Has that temptation ever been acted upon? If yes, how has this affected the way you relate to each other? If no, how do you keep yourselves from temptation? Write a prayer asking God to protect both of you from immorality.

9. Do  you keep yourself sexually attractive to your husband? Do you try to stay healthy, fit, clean, fragrant, attractively attired and rested? Is there anything you could do to improve yourself physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually? Write a prayer asking God to bless you with an inner an outer attractiveness to your husband that keeps him form being attracted to anyone else.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Chapter 3: His Finances

1. Is your husband a financially responsible person or is he sometimes irresponsible with money? How do  you feel about that? Explain.

2. Read Luke 12:29-31 in your Bible and underline it. Does your husband suffer from anxiety about finances? Describe. In light of this verse, what should he be doing about it? How could you pray about this?

3. Read Malachi 3:10 in your Bible and underline it. Goes your husband have a heart to give as God directs in this Scripture or does he need to move into this area of obedience to God? Explain. Write a prayer asking God to speak to him about this matter.

4. Is your husband miserly, overgenerous, or somewhere in between? Explain. How would you like to see that changed? Write a prayer asking God to give your husband a generous spirit controlled by the will of God.

5. Read Psalm 41:1-3 in your Bible and underline it. In light of this Scripture, the blessings that come from giving to the poor cannot be ignored. Are there any blessings you feel you are lacking because you or your husband are not giving to the poor? Explain. Remember that if your husband doesn't disapprove of your giving, this speaks well for his generosity, too.


Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Chapter 2: His Work




1.       Is your husband successful in his work? Does he need to find work? Does he need to find work that is more suitable for him? Explain. Write a prayer asking God to open up doors of opportunity for him to be successful in the work God created him to do.



2.       Is your husband a good provider? How could you better support his efforts to provide for his family? Explain. Write a prayer asking God to bless the work of your husband’s hand so that his work will increase and he will be rewarded accordingly.



3.       Read Proverbs 22:29 in your Bible and underline it. Has your husband been unable to excel in his work? Has he been properly recognized and appreciated for his work? Explain. Write a prayer asking God to enable your husband to excel in his work and be recognized for it.



4.        Is there a difficult person your husband has to work with or an unpleasant work relationship that could be depleting your husband’s strength and patience? Explain. Write a prayer asking God to transform this relationship or to change your husband’s perspective and enhance his patience.



5.       Is your husband living up to his potential? Are there gifts and talents in him that are not being used or are not being used to the glory of God? Explain. Does he know what his gifts and talents are? Explain. Write a prayer asking God to open up  doors for your husband which utilize the gifts God has placed in him.

Welcome Ladies to The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian..

We covered His Wife on 3/19/12.

The questions for for Monday are as follows:

1. Read Luke 10:19 in your Bible and underline it. You don't have authority over your husband, but whom do you have authority over?

2. Are there any places in your marriage where you feel hopeless? List them below. Bring them before the Lord and confess your hopelessness. Remember, confession is not to make you feel condemned; It's to help you acknowledge your error before God so He can free you from it, and so the devil can't paralyze you with it. Write a prayer asking God to give you faith you need to believe that He is your hope and will answer your prayers.

3. Read Joel 2:25 and underline it in your Bible. What things do you see depleting life out of your marriage? What does God promise He will do when things have been eaten away from our lives?

4. Read Matthew 12:25 and underline it in your Bible. Is there any issue over which you and your husband are seriously divided? How do you feel about it?