Prayer is vital to a loving and peaceful relationship with your wife. If prayer is not a daily and purposeful part of your marriage, you’re loving your wife poorly. Here are several ways that husbands need to step up and lead their wives well in the area of prayer.

You might need to put on your big-boy pants and turn off the video games tonight. You have more important responsibilities now.

Poor or selfish accountability will greatly hurt you in the long run. In the here-and-now, it will drive a wedge between you and your wife.

Phones have a special way of making your wife feel like she’s the distraction to your life. It should be the other way around.

When we communicate apathy about our wife’s passions, convictions or decisions, we communicate a lack of care, love and respect towards her.

As believers and as a children of God, we are all instructed to follow Christ’s example of servanthood. Ephesians emphasizes this mind of Christ – this position of servanthood – for husbands. Do you love your wife as Christ loved the church?