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A practical prayer-book designed to help wives pray God's Word for their husbands consistently. 

"God sees when women kneel in prayer for their husbands, and 'Prayers of an Excellent Wife' provides the reader with all the scriptural principles and language needed to cover a man with powerful intercession-prayers so effective, they'll resonate throughout his life." 
-JONI EARECKSON TADA 

"'Prayers of an Excellent Wife' will inspire you to pray faithfully and fervently, and instruct you how to pray according to Scripture. I hope many wives will use these prayers to lavish their husbands with kindness." 
-CAROLYN MAHANEY, Author of "Feminine Appeal" 

"'Prayers of an Excellent Wife' provides a guide for humbly engaging in the joyful duty of intercession, petition and thanksgiving for our husbands. I am delighted to speak these prayers with and on behalf of Matt." 
-LAUREN CHANDLER

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After reading Justin Taylor's recent blog Why Are We So Busy? I feel a greater resolve to avoid this whiny, pathetic, mostly-untrue phrase in my interactions with others: "I'm really busy."  It seems to be one of the default responses to the question, "How have you been?"  Most of the time it is not true.  We have plenty of time.  But we waste most of it.  Waste.  If we give this answer as an excuse to avoid doing something, what we usually mean is, "I don't want to do that thing enough to make time for it."  You make time to do what you love.  Period.  For example, most people tell me that they are too busy too read this or that book.  That isn't true.  What they should say is, "I don't enjoy reading enough to make time for it" or "That subject doesn't interest me enough to make time for it" or "I don't respect your recommendation enough to make time to read that book." 

But what if it is true?  What if we really are too busy?  Shame on us.  We live in an age with more time-saving devices than history has ever known.

Here is one line from Blaise Pascal that it worthy of a lot of meditation, especially in The Age of Internet:

I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Mrs. Ichabod Spencer (from "Sermons of Ichabod Spencer" vol. 1):

In May, 1828, Dr. Spencer was married to Miss Hannah Magoffin, youngest daughter of John Magoffin, Esq., of Albany, N. Y. Mrs. Spencer survives her husband. Four children— two sons and two daughters—also survive their father—all of them old enough to appreciate the greatness of their loss. The light of that once happy and favored home has gone out. Earth seems desolate to them now. And none.will wonder at this who knew him in his own family.

This relation exerted a very decided and beneficial influence on the mind and character and future life of Dr. Spencer, and therefore deserves particular notice. His was a nature that peculiarly needed woman's cheerful presence and soothing influence. His heart was a deep fountain of love. He craved sympathy and social communion. His temperament was somewhat despondent. And in his case the proverb respecting " ministers' wives" did not hold true. The connection was both a blessing and a comfort to him personally. His dying testimony on this point is worthy of being pondered. There is no class of men on earth that so much need a wife's devoted, I had almost said exclusive, ministries, as our sensitive, over-worked and oft-dejected pastors. And yet, is it not true that the demands of the parish and of public charities upon her time and energy, almost deprive him of this homesolace and aid, so longed for and so indispensable to a healthy state of mind and body ? Mrs. Spencer believed that she owed her first and chief duty to her husband, and nothing was allowed to interfere with its discharge. He always felt that he could write better, having her with him in the study: and there in silence would she sit, long past the midnight hour, till his day's toil was ended. We have ventured to touch on this delicate point, that we might commend an example which, if emulated—if our congregations would suffer their pastors' wives to follow—would, we think, be mutually beneficial.