7 Prayers for a Husband Struggling with Alcoholism

Discover powerful prayers for when your husband is struggling with alcoholism. Pray for deliverance, healing, and complete transformation by the grace of God.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 

Ephesians 6:12 KJV

A Prayer for Your Husband to Overcome the Struggles Leading to Alcoholism 

Dear Lord, please reveal the reason for my husband’s alcoholism and help him overcome it. Give him the strength and power to overcome every obstacle that leads him to overdrink. Give him the desire and will to resist temptation and help him look to You for strength. If our marriage or family is the cause, I pray that You help us resolve these issues. Help us forgive one another and work towards reconciliation. Give me wisdom as his wife and show me how to support him, in Jesus’ name, Amen. 

A prayer for your husband’s deliverance from alcoholism 

Father, You know the impact alcoholism has had on my husband’s life. Today I submit this issue into Your hands and plead the blood of Jesus over him. Breakdown every stronghold that allows this alcohol abuse to continue and set him free in the name of Jesus. Revoke any access that the accuser has against my husband, for Your mercies are new every morning. I pray that You break every alcoholism stronghold, down to cravings and the desire to drink. Transform my husband from an alcoholic by renewing his thought pattern and habits to become a healthy, God-fearing man. In Jesus’s name 

A Prayer For Your Husband’s physical and mental health when he is struggling with alcoholism 

Heavenly Father, I pray that You heal my husband’s body from the damage alcohol has done to him. Balance his brain chemicals and declare him healed in Jesus’ name. Take away any anxious and paranoid thoughts and replace them with Your peace. Bring down every stronghold against his mind, whether it be insomnia, depression, or negative thought patterns. Forgive him of his sins and even his father’s sins and set him free from generational sins. Help him desire to consume only that which is healthy for his body and protect him from relapse in Jesus’ name, Amen. 

A Prayer for your wisdom when your husband has alcoholism.  

Dear Lord, I submit every pain and struggle brought about by my husband’s alcoholism. Please guide me and instruct me on the path I should take. Show me the best way to pray for and support my husband. Give me the strength and will to forgive my husband for anything I hold against him. Help him also forgive me where He feels hurt and broken. Whatever the plans the enemy has against me or my marriage, I pray for Your defence and protection. Fight for me in this war, and restore peace, sobriety, health, and love in our marriage in the name of Jesus Christ. 

A wife’s prayer for her children when their father is an alcoholic 

Father in Heaven,  I submit our children into Your hands and ask that You protect them from their Father’s alcoholism. Strengthen them so that they don’t adopt any sinful habits from him. Guide them in their relationship with their father and help them honour him. 

A Prayer for your husband’s work when he struggles with alcoholism 

Dear Lord, I pray that you give my husband a desire to work and provide for his family. Give him motivation and satisfaction in his work, and help him be grateful and content with the work You have given him. Where alcoholism has interfered with his work performance, I pray for your mercy and forgiveness. Help him overcome his struggle with alcohol and work his best as if working for the Lord. Give him wisdom and the necessary skills to excel, and bless the work of his hands. Let your hand be with him, to guide him and protect him in all he does.

A Prayer for your husband’s finances when he struggles with alcoholism 

Lord, I commit my husband’s finances into Your hands and ask that You forgive him where he has mismanaged due to alcohol. Remind him that You are his provider and he is the manager of all that you give him. Let him not squander all his earnings on alcohol or any other ungodly stuff but steward it in a way that pleases You. Provide for him and help him meet his family’s needs. Help him recover from financial losses or mismanagement and teach him to be thankful and diligent moving forward.

A prayer for your husband’s relationships when he is struggling with alcoholism.

Dear Lord, please remove any relationships, friends, or colleagues who enable my husband’s alcohol abuse. Give him the strength and courage to keep away from bad company. Provide him with friends and the company of wise God-fearing people. Restore any relationships that my husband’s alcoholism has severed and bring complete healing and restoration. Provide him with the support system that he needs in his recovery and help him accept the support.

A prayer for your husband’s transformation when struggling with alcoholism 

Dear lord, I pray that You renew my husband’s mind when he is struggling with alcohol addiction. Help him surrender his flesh and desires to You. Give him a deep desire to obey You and help him have the fear of God. May you take the first place in his life and may Your word be his lamp, now and forever more.

Bible Verses to Pray for Your Alcoholic Husband

Proverbs 20:1 NIV

Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Psalms 34:18 NIV

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psalms 34:22 NIV

The Lord will rescue his servants; no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 NIV

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 

James 4:7 NIV

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

Ephesians 6:10-12 NIV

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the whole armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 

Romans 12:2 NIV

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing, and perfect will.