30 days of Praying for you and your husband! Day 13

Day 13

Pray for Work

We always split up Work life and Personal Life, but the truth is we have only one thing called “LIFE”. We have been told that it’s about balancing both. When we hear the word balancing I see a picture of me, juggling everything, trying to keep things on the air. What a stress! it’s like being a clown wearing a fake smile outside and crying inside worrying about all the juggling.
If balancing is all about juggling how will we even enjoy life?
It’s about setting limits, where we ought to be sincere at work and sincere to family without becoming lazy or stretchy at work nor become a workaholic and put all the family burden on the spouse. While I still have to work on many aspects of “Enjoying fullness of life”. One thing I learnt is to keep track of time
and become a little faster at work and at home and chuck off some unwanted time stealers.
I started off with a chart that I prepared to check what all am I doing each day and where are the time stealers. It made me clear, on what all am I taking more time. Not to forget that I was not active on social media when I calculated
the time even without social media we have other time stealers too, for example, not setting up time limit to tasks and stretching our way into it is the biggest time stealer. The below are the five main things I decided.
– Learning to say ‘No’ to unwanted tasks or non-feasible deadlines.
– Up-skilling or Learning continuously so that the job is secure.
– Delegating work in office with colleagues and openly sharing concerns.
– Planning household work day before including individual steps to avoid stress.
– Dividing weekend work and spreading it across the whole week so that weekend can be peaceful.
– Having a time for relaxation and peace in the morning when I read Bible and pray.

Let’s pray!

For You

• Lord! I pray for my work, be it house hold work or professional work, may I be planted in the place you want me to be. Guide me towards your will,
  to move towards your will. May I make my work(official/homemaking) related decisions under your guidance. I declare that your grace that is new each morning will strengthen me and you will bless the work of my hands and make it successful!
• Lord! I pray that you help me plan each day well and commit my plans to you. Even if I plan each day may your plans supersede them all. Teach me to be prudent, vigilant and wise in all the plans that I make.
• Lord! I pray that I sharpen my skill each day in whatever my hands find to do. Help me to give excellent results. May I never worry about jealous people nor become jealous of others. I trust in you for all the growth in my career, you are the lifter of my head.
• Lord! My I never wait for someone to push me to do something. I pray that I learn to be a diligent worker and not a lousy worker. May I be self motivated and God-confident in everything my hands find to do.
• Lord! Teach me ways to enjoy what I do, even the things that are boring. Anoint me with wisdom and creativity that is needed for me to think differently and always focus on the solutions.

For your Husband

• Lord! I pray that all the stress that my husband goes through at work and the constant stress that he feels being in a position of bread winner be cast on you. May he take up the responsibility of being the bread winner without being stressed about it. I pray that you will give him the wisdom in making the right decisions in earning and spending the resources.
• Lord! I pronounce success over his work and I pray that he sets a good example to his superiors and sub-ordinates. May he work
  with kindness, humility and excellence. May he never play the blame-game but be a problem solver and a peace maker.
• Lord! I pray that you lift him up in due time and bless him according to your riches and glory. I pray that my husband waits for your will to unfold.
• Lord! I pray that my husband makes his career decisions only after hearing from you. Teach my husband to wait upon you, wait for you and I pray that my husband talks with me about his work burden and painful situation he goes through at work.
• Lord! May the family time be a time that my husband feels relieved from work stress. May the house provide him peace that relieves him from all the worries of work. I pronounce peace within the premises of the house in Jesus’ name.

Amen!

Today’s Promise: 

The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

Deuteronomy 28:12

Today’s Command:

Whose delight is in the law of the Lord and who meditates on his law day and night, that person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither whatever they do prospers.

Psalm 1:2,3