How can I possibly recap the first twenty-eight days of #PrayerDare? God is at work, y’all. He’s using #PrayerDare to build a generation of women who seek Him, who speak to Him, and who revel in the knowledge that they can approach the throne of grace with boldness and thanksgiving.
During the first month of #PrayerDare:
- I sometimes missed a day. But grace abounds, and I am thankful for the quiet prompting and gentle leading of the Holy Spirit.
- There were a few days that I did pray intentionally and specifically for The Professor, but I ignored the prayer cards completely.
- I feel like I failed when it comes to online accountability. There were several days I did not check in, and I didn’t even look to see if anyone else had checked in or not.
- It was sometimes evident that the Enemy was on the attack – battling against me as I prayed for my husband.
- I had the opportunity to share #PrayerDare on a radio station in Denver, CO.
- We had a request to translate #PrayerDare cards into Spanish. February’s are almost complete, thanks to the sacrificial efforts of Jelli and her husband. We still need translators for March.
- I worked with an amazing team of Godly women, and we are almost ready to launch March’s #PrayerDare. The prayer prompt cards will be available for download tomorrow!
Did you participate in #PrayerDare this month? If so, will you consider sharing a brief recap of what the Lord taught you during 28 days of praying for your husband? Let’s encourage one another!
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I loved this month’s #PrayerDare and can’t wait for the next. I wrote about my experience this month here – http://www.eatenjoylive.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/man-oh-man.html
Amanda, I’m so thankful for your initiative on this! I had a wonderful experience & I’m so excited to continue on in March to see what God has in store!
you can read my recap here!
http://shannon-goodday.blogspot.com/2013/02/prayerdare-february-recap.html
I didn’t participate but saw so much on social media about it and will definitely be joining in for March! can’t wait to see the cards!
my heart has been so blessed in praying for my husband each day in february! I wrote a post on my blog this morning about why praying for your husband makes a difference.
aaaand the link didn’t work. here it is again: http://rowsofgrey.blogspot.ca/2013/02/why-praying-for-your-husband-makes.html
I am very thankful for this reminder to pray each day for my husband. I especially appreciate how specific the cards were, they helped me too avoid my too-often very generic “Please bless my husband” prayer. Of course, I know that God hears that prayer as well, but I was helped by dwelling on very specific requests, and, in many cases being brought to a sense of thankfulness that the trait I was asking to be brought out in my husband was one that he was already doing a pretty good job of displaying. I don’t know if it was just me being more appreciative, and noticing more, but it did seem that he did some “extra” things this month. He has a client based business (massage therapy), so if he has no clients that day, he is at home. Some days are better than others when it comes to household chores getting done (true for me too!), but there is always the struggle of avoiding the “you were home all day, what on earth did you do?” type of thinking. I was also grateful for the specific prayers relating to his business and work, as we are working very hard to grow his business…..and again, some days/weeks are better than others. I don’t want to fall into the trap of thinking that these prayers are some kind of magic formula, and if I just say them, the business will be wildly successful…but I will say that he did gain some new clients this month. What I did NOT do so well was participate in the twitter aspect of this. I’d like to blame it on the fact that I don’t have a phone capable of interacting with twitter, so I could only check in using my computer. That certainly makes it a bit more difficult, but not impossible. I hope to do better next month.
While I am looking forward to March’s cards, I intend to continue to pray the February cards as well on the appropriate dates. If I remember correctly, March isn’t necessarily about husbands, right? Wow, what a long post….. : ) Again, many thanks to you for pulling this all together, and to everyone in the community who I know was supporting me in this endeavor, event though I wasn’t the greatest at interacting with all of you! Have a great week everyone!