Outsourcing Your Authority?

In a marriage, it is a myth that the husband can shut the door to his wife's prosperity, promotion or advancement in life spiritually.
He can do this by causing her all sorts of discomfort and sabotage physically, but not spiritually.
The same applies to the husband; his wife has no spiritual power or authority over him to the degree that he has to appease her for his prayer to be answered.
A lot of unhappy wives and unhappy husbands will testify that in the season of their unhappiness, their partners prospered, travelled the world, and made huge deals that led to financial independence for them.
Believing in myths that somehow hand off some spiritual responsibility for your own life and destiny to your spouse as a husband or as a wife will only lead you down the wrong path in life and destiny.
I have seen many wives who will say from the moment they stopped praying for their husbands, he stopped prospering, and I have seen many husbands say the same about their wives.
When you check it out, you will notice that the husband or wife affected this way does not really pray or believe in God for himself or herself.
The partner of such a fellow then took over the spiritual space over the family through intercession, and when he or she got hurt or felt undervalued by the partner, he or she stopped praying, and the flow of intercession stopped.
Had the person been someone who knows God for himself or herself, nothing of such would have happened.
I have seen wives complaining that their husbands are not playing the role of a priest over the family, and this is why the family is not prospering
This is nothing but a myth and finding excuses instead of working hard and getting blessed.
The spiritual blessings attached to having a praying husband and father over the family have nothing to do with financial prosperity.
A father who acts as a priest over the family but does not work hard will be poor, and the one who works hard and does not act as a priest over the family will prosper.
Millions of examples abound of this.
Eli was a priest, but his children didn't turn out right
Jesse was a shepherd, his children turned out right
There is more to life than religious roles and myths

A good father is an example to his children both spiritually and in discharging all his responsibilities as a father.
You cannot do one and neglect the other.
A husband has a duty to do everything in his power to make his wife happy, and a wife has the same duty towards her husband
This duty is not spiritual
It is emotional as it is material, but there is nothing spiritual about it
Of course, there are many books written by Christians talking about the power of a praying wife and the power of a praying husband.
Let us be very clear, those titles were sensational and a bit misleading.
There is nothing like a praying husband or a praying wife in the true sense of it. What we really must have is a praying Christian.
If every believer prays as they ought to, none would need the prayer of the other to the degree that if that person does not pray, things will then go south.
Your spiritual substance is so important as a Christian that prayer should not be outsourced or contracted out to anyone.

I know wives who claimed that they were the ones who prayed that their husbands must remain poor because if they became rich, they suspect their husbands would start seeing other women or sleeping around.
The reason they felt their prayer worked was that their husbands were not serious Christians who prayed for themselves.
No man or woman assumes spiritual authority over their partner through marriage.
In the true sense of it, the husband was placed in a better position to influence the wife in life and destiny if he knew what he was doing
The woman being the one whose prayers men are coveting today merely reveals how spiritually irresponsible and lazy the husbands have become in this modern world.
It is good for a husband to pray for his wife and for the wife to pray for her husband
It is equally good for the couple and indeed the family to pray together
This builds their bond and strengthens the cord of love between them, but it gives neither an advantage over the other spiritually.
Salvation and spiritual growth have always and will always be a personal thing, he or she who has an ear will take heed to do the right thing for his or her destiny.