Words to Live By-Difficult People
by Norman Grubb

When someone asks me to pray with them for a loved one, maybe a husband or wife, I say briefly to her (supposing it’s a wife), "It isn’t your husband who is the problem. You are the problem. You as a daugh-ter of God have the right to speak the word of faith that God has your loved one saved or delivered." I give her the scriptures and the promis-es. Then I say, "I won’t pray for you more than this one time. But if you like-and you see that you have this right to believe-I will join you now in your word of faith." That is much more help to her than my just praying a prayer with her. It is helping her to be the wife of faith.