STEP 1

THE PRAYER

Jesus, help me love my family and lead them with integrity and wisdom. Amen.

STEP 2

THE prayer MODEL

Pray
Pause
Listen
(until the Spirit is finished)

STEP 3

THE response

An intentional method for responding to Holy Spirit woven into the dialogue and heart of prayer. Use the blank space below each question to chronicle your journey.

Go back to Step 1 and repeat the prayer. Repeat this process until you sense the Spirit’s release from this prayer.

STEP 4

THE BIBLE

New International Version (NIV)

James 1:5

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

Psalm 32:8

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

Ephesians 5:21-33

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

STEP 5

THE NEXT STEP in the journey

Tell each member of your immediate family or friend group what you love about them and reassure your commitment to care for them.