5 Prayers to Speak Over Your Wife Every Morning
She wakes up knowing the hours ahead of her hold the unexpected. Despite her best efforts the day before, she drags some unresolved pieces into the new day. Most of what unfolds will be out of her control, but her divine design as a woman and a wife motivates her to wrap it all, certain and uncertain, in a covering of hope once again.
A husband inhabits a place unlike anyone else in his wife's life. With the insights gained from doing life together, God positions him to pray over his wife with power and affection. He sees her for better and for worse, in sickness and in health. United with her, his commitment to lifting her heavenward daily has the potential to encourage and empower her in her life like no one else can. In all the world, the morning prayers a husband speaks over his wife can answer the covering of hope she uses to wrap each day.
1. Pray for Mercy
1. Pray for Mercy
We need God's fresh supply of compassion every day. These "mercies" will not fail us, despite unkind circumstances or unrelentless people who cross our path. God's love claims us and keeps us.
"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:22-23)
As a wife approaches a new day, she needs to know her status as the beloved of God is rock solid. Whatever awaits her while the sun rises or sets, she can be certain that the faithfulness of God holds her life and that of her family.
A woman wants to come to her husband and children with a compassionate heart posture. She loves her people. But it's not always quite so easy or natural to love herself. Pray for her to know that God's protective, great love is not only for her loved ones. His reliable mercy that's fresh every time she wakes is not only extended to the ones who may slumber while she starts her morning. That great love and mercy are also for her and to her every morning.
Faithful God, your love for my wife is great. It covers her with your protection. Your compassion won't let her down today. We praise you for the fresh deposit of mercy you extend to us as a couple and to our family this morning. Make her aware of your great faithfulness to her today.
2. Pray for Wisdom
2. Pray for Wisdom
In the first minutes of moving from sleep to awake, a wife may find her mind flooded with visions of what might happen in the hours ahead. Worry or anxiety may creep in. The stillness of the early hours may be broken by a cry, a question, a request, or the dreaded realization that she forgot an important appointment. Before her feet fill her slippers or the paste covers her toothbrush, she mentally sorts the day's options in what will be a parade of decisions to make.
A husband shares responsibility for many of those decisions, and he also shares the awareness of how the countless questions interlock in the life they share. "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." (Psalm 90:12)
Couples never know how many days God will give them together, but they can be sure they'll need His wisdom to carry them through every one. "How can a wife best use her life?" she wonders. "What are today's priorities?" she asks herself.
Needs have a way of colliding in married life, and the opinions of people in our world will weigh in regardless of our invitation. Decisions about how to approach finances, relationships, professions, children, spiritual matters, and family life must be made. Without question, a wife knows she needs wisdom. No one can pray for a wife about these matters she carries, and often shares, like a husband can.
Lord God, the two of us will face many decisions today. We need your wisdom as a couple and as individuals. I pray for my wife that you will help her know what to do with this day and what matters most. Help me support her in the priorities you show her. Would you give her a heart of wisdom and the confidence that comes with knowing you provide it?
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3. Pray for God's Presence
3. Pray for God's Presence
Most couples will not spend all day together. There are exceptions, but most of the time, a husband and wife go their own ways for hours a day. While God engineered a woman with the intent that she would provide companionship for her husband (Genesis 2:18), a husband and wife don't require constant companionship for health or happiness. What a wife needs most is God's constant presence in her life.
"In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly." (Psalm 5:3)
Pray over your wife, asking God to help enter the new day with a confident expectation that her Heavenly Father, the one who drew you together, hears her voice. She can lay all her heart's burdens, questions, and hopes before Him. He has the capacity for all of her words and emotions. He never tires of hearing her talk. The God who made the tongue (Exodus 4:11) values verbal processing and invites your wife to pour out her thoughts to Him.
Not only does He make Himself available to listen to her, but He wants to be her constant companion. Instead of trying to be your wife's savior, let God Himself be her ever-present Savior.
Romans 8:38-29 assures us that nothing can separate us from the steadfast love of God. Jesus reassured his followers that when he departed earth for heaven, the Spirit would come to be ever-present as the Helper we need. (John 14:16-17)
Father God, you hear my wife's voice. She can put all of her concerns before you. You're listening, and you'll be with her every hour of this day. Even when we're apart, you will be ever-present with us both. We wait expectantly to experience your presence while we're apart and when we come back together.
4. Pray for Contentment
4. Pray for Contentment
When we first say our vows, we may feel like we have all we need for life together, even if our worldly possessions are few. It doesn't take long for a steady stream of comparisons to suggest that we've actually started out in a life of scarcity. We think we're living on Not Enough Street in the town of Make More.
It may show up in how we see one another, how we see the family God does or doesn't give us, how we see our possessions, or even how we look at our faith community. Somewhere along the way, we may start believing we should have or be more or that we simply want or need something different.
To counter this self-criticism of our life together, a daily covering of prayer for contentment helps to shape our perspective. The Psalm writer gives us concise and clear language to pray for a united heart of satisfaction. "Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." (Psalm 90:14)
Each day, so much will press in on the way a wife sees her world. A simple errand at the grocery store or a quick check of social media exposes today's woman to a heap of new versions to replace old ones, strong opinions to challenge convictions, and suggestions to stir doubt into discontent.
Lord who knows all our days, would you give my wife a heart of satisfaction as the day begins? Give us a united heart of contentment. While the morning is fresh, would you plant in her heart the kind of deep contentment that only comes from you? We gratefully receive the plan you created for the life you gave us. Teach us both to be joyful about what you do and don't give us in our life as one. May our satisfaction be fresh in the morning and last all day.
5. Trust
5. Trust
Sometimes daybreak arrives bringing with it reminders of God's unfailing love, but the world around us works to rob us of our trust in that love. We need to trust it, because our life depends on it. We look to the perfect Lover to show us how to live life together as a family. Before the moon fades in the sky, we can put our one flesh life into God's hands and face the day.
Knowing this, a husband has the privilege of praying for his wife's heart and mind to be filled with trust. Her confidence in God's perfect love will point her in the direction she needs to take. Whether she's in the playroom, the boardroom, the bedroom, or the laundry room, her trust in God's care can keep her throughout a day she can't fully forecast or foreknow.
"Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life." (Psalm 143:8)
Trust in God acts like a shield to help and protect us (Psalm 28:7). In her role as a wife and possibly a mom, a woman needs this protective shield of assistance. Hearing her husband call out to God for heaven-sourced help and protection on her behalf stirs up strength and clarity for her day.
A specific prayer for a covering of trust over her heart and life catalyzes the confidence of a woman who knows her loved status is secure. She can put her whole life past, present, and future in the hands of the one who made the morning, noon, and night. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding," the Psalmist invites, "in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." (Proverbs 3:5-6)
Without trusting in God's certain love, a woman's paths would be anything but straight. A marriage and a family would consume her available understanding. But God invites her to put her whole self and family into his hands. Hearing this called out in prayer is a relief. The petition works like a balm to what could otherwise feel like a heavy heart before the day even starts.
God we trust, your love for my wife is not going to fail her. We trust you for our life as one and the family you give us. Please make our paths straight and show us how to live together in this world. I trust you for the protection and help my wife and our family need. Together, we trust you.
No other person on earth has the power to pray for a wife like her husband does. His heavenward words in the morning are the anointing she longs to hear and hold on to each hour. His petitions send her off into her day full of mercy, wisdom, God's presence, contentment, and trust.
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Originally published July 01, 2025.
