For many reasons, a once loving and softhearted husband can gradually become hardhearted, leaving you, the wife, confused about what to do.
But the beauty of the situation is that, as a wife, you can take action to draw your husband’s heart to you and your family.
So you might want to ask what you need to do to soften your husband’s heart, and to answer you, I will tell you the best way is to pray! Yes, I mean prayers.
God tells us in his word that “whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” (Mark 11:24). That simply tells you that if you want to soften your husband’s heart, ask God in prayer. You may now want to know what prayers to ask to soften my husband’s heart.
I will share with you 15 Prayer to soften my husband’s heart—I mean, simple prayers that changed my husband’s heart overnight. Now let’s get to work.
15 Simple Prayers That Changed My Husband’s Heart Overnight
1. Prayers of thanksgiving
O Lord, my father, I come before you with a grateful heart. Thank you for keeping my husband and me together despite all the challenges.
Thank you, Lord, for the plans you have for my husband and me. I am grateful because I know all things work together for my husband and me.
Thank you, Father, because you created my husband, and you will soften his heart towards me. Thank you for this and many more things you will do in my relationship. Thank you, Lord. (Philippians 4:6).
2. Prayer of mercy
O God of heavens, the merciful one, I come before you this moment seeking your mercy over my husband; your word says you are plenteous in mercy. Show my husband mercy in all his doing and help him to see the beauty of showing love and care to people around him.
O Lord, by your mercy, don’t let him get destroyed by an arrogant and hardened heart but show him mercy to repent from his ways. Amen. (Psalm 103:8)
3. Prayer of healing
Father, in heaven, the great healer, I bring before you my husband to heal his broken heart so he can open up and learn to love once again.
Cause your healing grace and balm to surge through his heart and heal him of every past trauma and pain that has caused him to harden up his heart, Amen. (Psalm 147:3)
4. Prayers of salvation
Father, the lover of our soul, I lift the man you have made to be the crown of my head to your hands, Lord, with your saving grace, save him from the part of destruction.
Keep him in your salvation and lead him to the part of salvation to keep him from the dangers of a hardened heart. Amen. (Acts 2:21)
5. Prayers for the help of the Spirit
Arise, Spirit of the living God, for our help, send help to my husband in all his endeavors. Spirit of God, help my husband in his daily ambition as he seeks to be perfect; help him know he can rely on his family and not bear weight all alone. Send help to him, Lord, so he can open his heart once again. Amen
6. Prayers for a humbled and repentant heart
Father, please give my man a humble and repentant heart; make his heart malleable to corrections and positive suggestions so we can build our home with love.
Turn his heart towards me, lord, give him a change of heart so that he will stop hurting me and our marriage with his hardened heart. Amen. (Philippians 2:3)
7. Prayers for peace of mind
You are the giver of peace that passes human understanding, God; lavishly pour out your peace on my husband. Give him peace from all his troubles and let him enjoy your presence even in difficult times so that he would know he is not alone, and you have placed me by his side to accompany and bring comfort to his heart even when it seems as if he is drowning. Amen. (John 16:33)
8. Prayers to love unconditionally
Oh Lord, help my husband to love me unconditionally regardless of the situation, so he can open up to me out of his abundant love. Please, Lord, teach him how to love again and help him receive love from others no matter the traumas he has experienced in the past. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
9. Prayers of a broken and contrite heart
Give my man a broken and contrite heart, and he will start bringing joy and not concerns or bitterness to our relationship. Spirit of the living God works on his heart until he becomes broken and softhearted, even to people around him. Amen
10. Prayers for provision
Great provider, your word says you will supply all our needs according to your riches in glory. Please make provision for my husband as he strives to make ends meet.
Father, bless all the works of his hands so he doesn’t get carried away in his pursuit to meet the financial needs of our marriage and forget how to meet the emotional and other needs of the relationship with his hardened heart. Amen. (Philippians 4:19)
11. Prayers of hope
Restore hope to my husband once again, O God. Give him hope even when it seems as if all hope is lost, and let him know that all will be well again.
Strengthen his heart with hope so he can see the beauty of the people surrounding him and I will give you praise Amen. (Jeremiah 29 v 11).
12. Prayers for favour
Show us your favor, O Lord, for in your favor there is life. Let my husband find favor with you and with men, that he won’t go the hard way to make meaning out of his life, thereby hardening up his heart. Cause lines to fall in pleasant places for him and help him know joy. Amen. (Proverbs 8:35)
13. Prayer of growth
Help my husband keep growing in all areas of his life, Lord; help him outgrow a selfish heart and cause my prayers to soften his heart. Make him so mature that he will understand the need to be loveable and openhearted.
14. Prayer of Knowledge
Father, empower my husband with your divine wisdom; give him wisdom, knowledge, and an understanding heart to keep our marriage a healthy and successful one. Empower him with knowledge and power to know what he is losing by ignorantly living with a close heart. Amen. (James 3:17)
15. Prayer of unity
Let the spirit of unity rest upon my husband, so he can know the value of our relationship and work towards unity and togetherness even with a heart and we will return all glory to you, Amen.
Conclusion
These are prayers to soften my husband’s heart; no matter how hard and bitter his heart is, if you pray the prayer above with sincerity of heart to your Father in heaven, God will grant you your heart’s desire as long as you are his child.
Therefore, go on your knees now and talk to God about your husband and experience unprecedented change.