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Andrew Case
February 1, 2011
A little over two years ago I published a book called Water of the Word how to order Prednisone online without prescription, which is essentially a no rx Accutane tool to help husbands pray the words of Scripture consistently for no rx Accutane their wives. I also made the book available for free in its entirety online. Many of us men (and I know this from my own heart) are stupid and lazy when it comes to prayer. Stupid, because we neglect it, pray wrongly (James 4:3), or ignore the example and guidance of Scripture. Lazy, because we procrastinate, fail to make it a discipline, and subsequently miss out on delight. I don’t want to be a stupid, lazy pray-er. That’s why I wrote that book; it helps me, and I hope it will help others. Furthermore, without prayer at the no rx Accutane heart of a marriage, affections, fidelity, and grace wane and waver. Are we so stupid as to think for one moment that we can keep such a ludicrous, heavenly covenant by our own power? Who has bewitched us? The insanity of it!
Insane, lazy people like me often need training wheels to no rx Accutane get started on the road to reality and beauty. As Bonhoeffer wrote, “The richness of the no rx Accutane Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart” (Psalms, 1970, p 15). But what happens when we are so lazy that we won’t even take the no rx Accutane training wheels of Scripture offered to us on a silver platter?
A year after I published Water, the book had met with mediocre success. Many women has requested a version for wives, so I released Prayers of an Excellent Wife. The race to pray was on.
Now, to be fair, I knew Prayers was going to have a couple advantages. First, the cover is far too pretty. Second, Joni Eareckson Tada endorsed it. But then again, who was going to buy a book for wives written by a no-name man? That alone nearly cancels out any advantages. Although my general impression had no rx Accutane been that women usually excel men in prayer, I did not quite expect Prayers to sell more in 2 months than Water had in an entire year. But it did. Since then the wives’ book has consistently sold 4-5 times more than the husbands’ book.
Keep in mind that the books are no rx Accutane the same price, and both are made available as cheaply as possible through a whatever-you-can-afford policy. To add to these statistics, the free PDF downloads exemplify nearly the same pattern. Women are downloading 2-3 times as many copies as the men are.
In reviewing these statistics I am not so naïve to think that most men already are passionate, disciplined, biblical pray-ers, and thus need no book, etc., to help them. No. It seems to no rx Accutane me that there is a general laziness and stupidity about prayer in husbands much more than in wives. Although I don’t want to jump to drastic conclusions, the evidence is embarrassing, and I think, indicting.
Have you become like Eli, a spiritual leader who no rx Accutane is not even able to recognize prayer, needing a woman to explain it to you (1 Sam 1:12-16)? The Psalms were not written by women, but where are the men like David? The biblical precedent is crystal clear that men should lead the church and their homes spiritually, which includes prayer. Jesus Christ initiates prayer for His Bride (John 17, Rom 8:34, Heb 7:25).
Honestly, I know that many books are purchased/downloaded with good intentions, but never used. Sadly, these statistics suggest that even good intentions are lacking rather pathetically in men. If I were Mark Driscoll I might remark that if you’re not leading in prayer for and with your wife, you’re a joke. Jesus might say something even more searing.
Whether men end up using Water of the Word or their own Bibles matters little to me. Both involve Scripture and both are freely available. My sincere hope is no rx Accutane that the statistics are warped or wrong about the general climate of men and prayer. But if they are not, let this be a challenge to you as a man.
At the end of the day, men and no rx Accutane women alike need the power of the Gospel in their lives to no rx Accutane enable them to be mighty on their knees. We pray because through Christ we are empowered, cleansed, transformed, and made increasingly aware of our desperate need of Him in our lives and leadership. We pray because we love Him and delight to commune with Him. We pray because we want Him for our wives. We want Him to be magnified in our marriages. May God be no rx Accutane merciful to turn the tide so that the Deborahs and Jaels are no longer picking up the slack of the Baraks (Judges 4).
