The greatest gift you can give your husband is PRAYING FOR HIM!

     I really love this love dare. Each day, I begin to realize more and more about myself and God, and about my husband and God. Since I started the love dare challenge, I have been doing nothing but PRAYING for our marriage and for my husband. And for myself as well. That's right myself. Praying for yourself isn't selfish. I think we tend to pray for others before we pray for our own lives. This love dare is teaching me to start praying more for my own marriage and my life with my husband. I still pray for others, that's what the bible tells us to do, as well as pray for our marriage.
     My husband is the best thing that has happened in my life. When I was a kid, I only used to pray for a husband that would be just like Bert. Hence, God worked over time in my prayers and found the right one. When I placed my first post, I prayed to God, that our love be a success story from the Love Dare. This is such a great book. It's not meant just for marriages with troubles, it's meant to show you that marriages can work. And work together and pray together.
     I pray that God continues to work in our marriage. I read online that a bride treats her wedding dress that same way. After wearing it on the day we get married, I covered it up, and protected it. Then I set it aside from everything else in my closet. You won't catch me in it when I'm working and doing chores in the house or a night out on town. My wedding gown is a value all on it's own. It's holy and sacred to me. Just like my marriage.
     I want to protect our marriage and wrap it up with prayers for God. I want our marriage to be ours and different from anyone elses. (Different in our special way.)  The only way it will be different is knowing how to pray for each other in our marriage to God. The Love Dare tells us to pray for his heart, pray for our attitudes, pray for our responsibilities before God, pray for a genuine break through in our marriage.
     I will admit, I found today's dare easy! One I didn't have to think outside the  box for. The greatest gift you can give your husband is the gift of lifting his name and his needs before the throne of God. Prayer for your husband releases the energies of God, prayer is asking God to do what you cannot do. "Elizabeth George"
      Praying for my husband did not feel foreign to me at all. When we started this love dare, I began looking for scriptures to read that Bert would be just as interested in this love dare as I am. And I've been doing that every day since. It's wonderful that this dare is in this book. I wonder how many marriages quit the book because of hectic schedules and don't even get to dare 16. And I wonder how many marriages end because people are to quick to not want to take the time and let God do the work for them. Like I said, praying for yourself, and your marriage is not selfish.